The SEO community was up in arms recently, following some unwise comments by a new Google employee, who, in commenting on a discussion about the Google Search+ and privacy policy changes, claimed that SEO wasn’t good for internet users. Google Says Nothing Wrong With SEO Naturally this caused some confusion, as Matt Cutts, head of […]
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It’s the SEO activity which is the probably the most outsourced as it typically doesn’t require much creativity, just time and an eye for opportunity. But link building can be a very big influencer, in terms of your ranking and how Google perceives your website in general. The problem is that many websites build links […]
Coined in 2000 by a teams from the Carnegie Mellon University, the CAPTCHA, or Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart was designed as a challenge-response test that was intended to be easy enough for any human to solve, but obscure enough that computers and automated programs would be unable to […]
As we’ve described before, Google has taken the previously unprecedented step of releasing a monthly announcement, describing the changes that were made to its algorithm during the previous month. In keeping with Google’s policy of not revealing too much, the announcements are fairly general, but it’s still a good way of keeping track of what […]
The question of whether Google+ will be an effective competitor to Facebook’s already long established, 800 million strong social network is one that people have been considering ever since Google announced its latest foray into the social world. So far, they haven’t been that successful with previous attempts. However, the new Google+ might be the […]
We recently mentioned the Mocality scandal in which Google Kenya had been illegally accessing and using the database of a Kenyan firm in order to sell people into their GKBO offer to Kenyan businesses, as well as misrepresenting their association with that firm. Google responded quickly to the allegations by Mocality when they were first […]
Late last week Twitter announced that they were about to launch functionality that would allow them to censor tweets by blocking them for users in individual countries, ostensibly to allow them to avoid breaking any laws in those countries. Predictably, there has been some outspoken opposition to their plan, with many commentators concerned over the […]
When Google+ first launched, there was an 18 age restriction on having a Google+ account. Now that Google+ continues to expand, Google has reached out to the younger users that form a huge part of the potential social media demographic. Improved Privacy And Safety In what is almost certainly a dig at social media giant […]
Last week, Google announced the latest update to its algorithm on its Webmaster Central Blog, saying that this latest change looks at the layout of a web page, and takes note of the amount of content that is visible “above the fold.” According to the post by Matt Cutts, users have reported being unhappy if […]
In a bid to bring more businesses online, Google, in association with the Department of Trade and Industry, Vodacom, and the HRDC, is offering free websites to small and medium businesses who are looking for an online presence. All very noble and altruistic of course. However, a similar initiative, the “Get Kenyan Business Online” or […]
