In December, Facebook altered its algorithm to hone in on “high quality content,” which means more news, events and engaging content. This impact has been huge on all pages and Facebook views have dropped significantly. Even business pages with thousands of connections have dropped to double digit views. According to Mashable, Facebook hopes to be…
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What is a Google Places Penalty? If your business has been ranking on the first page of Google in the local results 7-pack, and then suddenly disappears, it is possible that you may have been hit by a Google Places penalty. These penalties are distributed to Places pages, and their corresponding websites, when they’ve violated…
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This is a post to help people learn more about the Heartbleed bug. Please share this post and pass it on! Important Facts on Heartbleed What is it Heartbleed? The Heartbleed bug is major security flaw that has been discovered in OpenSSL, a popular open source data encryption software, that exposes massive amounts of private…
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March was an exciting month for Internet marketing. In this video, John Lincoln, President of SEO and Social Media at Ignite Visibility, covers the biggest changes. Internet Marketing News for March 2014 Changes in Internet Marketing in March 2014 Media servers gaining popularity Internet of things Yahoo Shows more Yelp Panda Update My Blog Guest…
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This is an important industry update. Google has decided to drop the crawl rate for news sites. You can see your Google crawl rate in the Webmaster Tools crawl rate report. Apparently, they have figured out a way that they do not need to crawl news websites as often. See tweets from Matt Cutts below….
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