Google Penguin Update Recovery Tips and Advice

Struggling to know what to do in the wake of Google’s Penguin Update? Judging from all the comments and forum discussions we’ve seen, plenty are. We’ve got a little initial advice from Google on the topic, mixed with our own.What Was Penguin?The Penguin Update launched on April 24. It was a change to Google’s search results that was designed to punish pages that have been spamming Google. If you’re not familiar with spam, it’s when people do things...

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The Penguin Update - Google’s Webspam Algorithm Gets Official Name

Move over Panda, there’s a new Google update in town: Penguin. That’s the official name Google has given to the webspam algorithm that it released on Tuesday, 24 April 2012.What’s An Update?For those unfamiliar with Google updates, I’d recommend reading my Why Google Panda Is More A Ranking Factor Than Algorithm Update post from last year. It explains how Google has a variety of algorithms used to rank pages.Google periodically changes these algorithms....

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Why Google Panda Is More A Ranking Factor Than Algorithm Update

With Google Panda Update 2.2 upon us, it’s worth revisiting what exactly Panda is and isn’t. Panda is a new ranking factor. Panda is not an entirely new overall ranking algorithm that’s employed by Google. The difference is important for anyone hit by Panda and hoping to recover from it.Google’s Ranking Algorithm & UpdatesLet’s start with search engine optimization 101. After search engines collect pages from across the web, they need to sort...

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YouTube Improves Audio Editing With New Interface And More Tracks

YouTube has updated the audio editing capabilities it offers users, with several important improvements including an extended library of more than 150,000 backing tracks.Other improvements include a new interface (pictured above), the ability to mix music into your video at different volume levels (from “soft background” to “completely replace”), and a choice of featured tracks that makes it easy to find a song that fits with your video’s mood.To...

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Yahoo India Launches Cricket App for Windows Phone Users

Yahoo India has launched a cricket app for Windows Phone users in India. The app, available for free on the Windows Marketplace allows users to follow live matches, and also keep a tab on the recent and upcoming ones.The app offers live scores, detailed ball-by-ball commentary which can be filtered by wickets, 4s and 6s; an interactive score card which allows the user to browse through the batting line up, fall of wickets and a complete chronology...

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New 'Affordable' BlackBerry Smartphone Launched in India

(Reuters) - Research in Motion (RIM) on Wednesday launched in India what it called its "most affordable" BlackBerry smartphone, part of an aggressive push in one of its few growing markets.The new Curve 9220 is priced in India at 10,990 rupees, higher than the price of Curve 8520, which is RIM's best-selling phone in India, and comes with an introductory offer to download free applications worth 2,500 rupees.RIM, which will start selling the new...

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What does Semantic Search mean for SEO?

Semantic search uses artificial intelligence in order to understand the searcher’s intent and the meaning of the query rather than parsing through keywords like a dictionary. When you search now, Google gives you results based solely on the text and the keywords that you put in that search. Essentially, Google gives you its best guess.When you use semantic search, Google will dive into the relationship between those words, how they work together,...

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Google's Algorithm Update to Penalize Over Optimized Sites

Few week during a SXSW panel, Matt Cutts, head of Google's search spam team, announced that Google has been working on a new tweak to its algorithm that will punish sites that are too optimized for SEO -- what he called "over-optimized" or "overly SEO'd," according to the recording of the announcement posted on Search Engine Land. Here's what you need to know about the new Google algorithm update, which has not been released yet but will go live...

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Google Analytics Social Media Reporting Launched

Google Analytics has been working on social media reporting for a long time.They started off with the Social tab under the Audience drop down. But this was limited, and it only relies on Google + Engagement, Actions or Pages +1ed by default. This wasn’t enough for Google and now they have launched an entirely new social media report that takes steps to prove how social contributes to conversions.How to Access Social Media Reporting?To access the...

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Top 3 Computer Security Practices for Businesses

It is very important for an enterprise to secure their security to evaluate their network.Microsoft has compiled a list of best practices for securing an enterprise from various threats.This list is meant to assess your infrastructure, not to replace your present infrastructure.1. Assess your enterprise Environment:To secure your network environment effectively one must be first familiar with all of its components. First of all assess your infrastructure...

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5 Things To Do If You’re A Wireless Broadband Internet Users

There are several ways by which you can access the internet and one great thing about the internet is that it is the best thing that has ever happened to the world. You should know that there are two major ways by which you can access the internet – these two ways can either be wired or wirelessly but in my own opinion the best way to access the internet is wirelessly.This article will be listing 5 things you should do if you’re a wireless internet...

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Best 5 WordPress Quiz Plugin

What makes WordPress stand alone among all blogging platforms is the rich library of plugins .With plugins you can do almost anything on a WordPress blog . If you wish to conduct quizzes or surveys on your blog , then here are the best WordPress plugin for you .Quiz WordPress Plugin lets you add quiz to your blog. This plugin is designed to be as easy to use as possible. Quizzes, questions and answers can be added from the admin side. This will appear...

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Best 5 WordPress SEO Plugins

WordPress is one the most popular tools for publishing content on the web. Everything from e-commerce Websites to blogs can be developed using WordPress.Additionally, the WordPress community has built up a huge offering of free themes and plugins to make it easy for newcomers to get content published on the web quickly and easily.There are lot of SEO plugins available for wordpress but these are the SEO plugins which are Must Have in any wordpress...

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Top 10 Free SEO Tools

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is a very important for your successful business in the world wide web . No matters whether you are a blogger or websites owner SEO is very important . There are lot of tricks and tips available for SEO , but SEO goes well beyond tips and tricks .There are lot of tools available for SEO some are free while some are not . Here I am listing some popular free available SEO tools , which you can use easily for a...

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Best Online SEO Tools

What is the best way to improve Search Engine Optimization or simply put, to boost your position is search engines? Which tools to be used to improve link popularity, quality of backlinks and rankings in Google? What keywords to be used? We give answers. Mentioned is the list of very useful SEO tools, which if used, will definitely help you in developing and optimizing your web site. For resources, we recommend the following very useful SEO...

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