Matt Cutts: Can You Help A Brother Get A Lap Dance?
Autor admin | 28.05.2008 | Category SEO
Matt Cutts: Can You Help A Brother Get A Lap Dance?
Figured the title would get Matt’s attention. Okay Matt I need some help. I have been hired by an adult entertainment site to build their presence online - get better rankings etc.
I need to build their inbound links and want to make sure I am not wasting my time and their money. So before I started I did a search for your comments on directory submissions, paid links (well everyone knows that opinion), reciprocal links, bad neighborhoods (of the IP kind - not the seedy parts of towns where my clients businesses are located) and your example site review post.
So I began to think that I may not be able to do much for them.
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Orphaned User Accounts Run Wild in Enterprises
Autor admin | 28.05.2008 | Category SEO
When an employee leaves your company, do you make sure you shut down his or her user accounts at once? And do you check to confirm this has been done?
If not, you’re evidently not alone, according to a new study conducted by eMediaUSA for Symark International that found that too often, the accounts of ex-employees, contractors and suppliers are often left open and accessible after they leave.
Orphaned accounts are a “huge, huge issue, because you’re facing security breaches, compliance breaches [and] identity fraud, and it can lead to both internal and external data breaches,” Sally Hudson, research director at IDC, told InternetNews.com.
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Google Launches Google Earth API and Browser Plug-in
Autor admin | 28.05.2008 | Category SEO
Google Launches Google Earth API and Browser Plug-in In the escalating war over the planet Earth between Google and Microsoft, Google has opened up Google Earth for development. Today at the Google I/O developers conference, Google launched the Google Earth API and browser plug-in. The Google Earth API enables web developers to Web pages into 3D map apps. Google points to the rise of the Geoweb, a collection of user-generated content (UGCe.g. photos, videos) associated with a location. The Google Maps API, with over 150,000 developer sites, and the Google Earth client, with over 400 million downloads, promise to help users visualize this Geoweb of content. (Read the full post about ‘Google Launches Google Earth API and Browser Plug-in’…)
China Real Estate Search Engine Launches in English Before Beijing Olympics
Autor admin | 28.05.2008 | Category SEO
China Real Estate Search Engine Launches in English Before Beijing Olympics Jipingmi.com, a real estate search engine in China, officially launched an English version of the site yesterday. English.Jipingmi.com collects real estate property listings from a variety of English property listing sources and organizes the results into a single search platform. The sophistication of the search engine falls somewhere between Craigslist and Craigslist, with a 2-D Google Maps thrown in. Tremendous opportunity remains in the Chinese real estate market online. Since the launch of Jipingmi.com (Mandarin for “How many square meters?” or “A few square meters”) in late 2007, Jipingmi.com has become the stripped-down Zillow or Trulia of the Chinese real estate search engine market. (Read the full post about ‘China Real Estate Search Engine Launches in English Before Beijing Olympics’…)
SES San Jose: Speaker Deadlines
Autor admin | 28.05.2008 | Category SEO
SES San Jose: Speaker Deadlines
Search Engine Strategies San Jose is fast approaching, and as Kevin Ryan outlined earlier this month, the SES San Jose speaker deadlines are coming up:
Deadline for new session pitches: May 31, 2008.
Deadline for speaker pitches: June 15, 2008.
To submit your idea for a session, or your services as a speaker, use this online form. For more details, check out Kevin’s post to the Search Engine Strategies Blog.
Remember, even past speakers will need to submit a pitch, so if you’re sitting around waiting for your invitation, you’ll be left out in the cold.
Server Sales Remain Brisk in Q1: IDC
Autor admin | 28.05.2008 | Category SEO
Worldwide servers sales continue to grow in 2008, with international sales making up for U.S. softness while the once-looming threat of virtualization failed to dent server sales, according to IDC.
The company said that during the first quarter of 2008, worldwide server sales totaled $13.0 billion, a 3.5 percent gain from the first quarter of 2007. Unit sales topped two million, which, if annualized, means server unit sales will surpass last year’s total of eight million servers sold.
That’s a remarkable figure because many researchers last year, including IDC, had predicted that virtualization would diminish server sales. Instead, the opposite happened.
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South Africa Appeal Puts OOXML’s OK on Hold
Autor admin | 28.05.2008 | Category SEO
You didn’t really believe that the epic process of standardizing Microsoft’s Office file formats had ended, did you?
Last week, Martin Kuscus, CEO of the South African Bureau of Standards (SABS), formally appealed the International Organization for Standardization’s (ISO) ratification of Microsoft’s (NASDAQ: MSFT) Office Open XML (OOXML) as a standard for document interchange.
The appeal puts the format’s standards status on hold and possibly in jeopardy.
While unglamorous, getting a set of file formats — in this case, OOXML, which originated as the file formats for Microsoft Office 2007 — certified as an international standard can be worth billions of dollars in sales.
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Windows 7 Will Offer ‘Touch’
Autor admin | 28.05.2008 | Category SEO
CARLSBAD, CALIF. — Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) plans to give users of the next version of its Windows operating system touch screen controls as one option for controlling the software, its top executives said on Tuesday.
Chairman Bill Gates and Chief Executive Steve Ballmer showed off new Windows features based on software it calls “multitouch” that will be part of Windows 7, the next version of Windows, which Ballmer said was due out in late 2009.
The ability to use touch to give users fingertip control of their screens could help revolutionize how computer desktops and mobile phones are controlled and would be an alternative to existing mice, keyboard and pen-based user controls.
South Africa Appeal Puts OOXML’s OK on Hold
Autor admin | 28.05.2008 | Category SEO
You didn’t really believe that the epic process of standardizing Microsoft’s Office file formats had ended, did you?
Last week, Martin Kuscus, CEO of the South African Bureau of Standards (SABS), formally appealed the International Organization for Standardization’s (ISO) ratification of Microsoft’s (NASDAQ: MSFT) Office Open XML (OOXML) as a standard for document interchange.
The appeal puts the format’s standards status on hold and possibly in jeopardy.
While unglamorous, getting a set of file formats — in this case, OOXML, which originated as the file formats for Microsoft Office 2007 — certified as an international standard can be worth billions of dollars in sales.
(Read the full post about ‘South Africa Appeal Puts OOXML’s OK on Hold’…)
Yahoo Rolls Out Search Index Update
Autor admin | 28.05.2008 | Category SEO
Yahoo Rolls Out Search Index Update
If you’re seeing a shift in your Yahoo rankings, you’re not alone. Yahoo has announced that it is rolling out updates to its search index.
Writing on the Yahoo Search blog, Priyank Garg and Sharad Verma said, “We’ll be rolling out some changes to our crawling, indexing and ranking algorithms over the next few days, but expect the update will be completed soon. As you know, throughout this process you may see some ranking changes and page shuffling in the index.”
Have you noticed a difference? The last time website owners noticed a difference in Yahoo was the middle of April. Let us know what you’re seeing in the comments.