Facebook has made several additions to its apps insights allowing the developers to closely track unique users. Previously Insights showed the developers a number of details like the number of stories published from their apps through the different channels, and their associated click through rates. And now they can now their unique users too. Facebook
Google’s Penguin Update has been a hot topic in the SEO world for around three weeks now. With widespread reports of ranking penalties and false positives, Google’s Matt Cutts has chimed in on the debate labelling the Penguin Update a success. “It’s been a success from our standpoint”, Cutts said. When asked about the issues
Yesterday we brought you news that the 15-inch MacBook Pro might be getting a pretty significant refresh later this summer. The main features of this update were a thinner form factor, USB 3.0 technology, and, most notably, a retina display. It turns out, though, that the MacBook Pro isn’t the only Mac getting in on
It is really beneficial for you to claim the authorship of your online content. When your author information appears next to your content, it stands way too prominently and looks much more credible in search listings. And this results in you getting higher click through rates, for free! Google rolled out rel=author markup last year. If
Online retail giant Amazon just announced a new update which allows users to run Microsoft’s database and web programming platform ASP.NET, on its Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS). Amazon reveals that users can now use Microsoft tools they are accustomed to – to deploy, manage and scale SQL Server databases and ASP.NET applications. Amazon also
Last week Matt Cutts released a video titled “How Does Google Search Work?″ that explains how Google crawls, uses page rank, sets priorities, indexes, and filters in just 8 mins. Part history lesson, part education lesson; Cutts kicks off by explaining the journey that crawling has taken since he first started at Google. Actually when
Infection rates of the Flashback malware that was on over 650,000 Macs at the beginning of April have been in steep decline, according to the organization that discovered the malware in the first place. What’s more, thanks to the proliferation of detection and removal tools (including Apple’s), the rate of new infections has dropped almost to nothing.
Google has explained in a blog post how it indexes images. The search engine’s bots look at the textual content on the page, the page’s title and its body to judge the nature of the image. Google also refers to the image’s filename, anchor text pointing to it, the alt text and also the captions
Finding link building opportunities can be very time consuming, however there are many tools that can help, you just need to know which tools are right for you and which will be a waste of time. Using the right tools can save hours of banging your head against the desk trying to find quality websites
When I used to work on a Linux system, there was a utility we had that would let me take screen captures every 30 seconds while my computer was otherwise unattended, as a way to see if anyone else was using it or not. I liked it. Now I’d like to do the same on
