11 November 2011 / SEO
Quite recently, I have read an Italian article about Google+ failing. An interesting reading although I don't agree with the author's position, especially considering recently - last Monday - Google announced Pages, a new Google+ integrated service. Much like Facebook Pages, Google+ pages are dedicated to the business entities that would like to...
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29 October 2011 / SEO
As many of you know, a 301 redirect is the solution for many SEO issues. You may wonder the reason for this article then. Very recently, I provided support to a user in the Google Webmaster Forum claiming the 301 was not work correctly. Particularly, he was complaining on the GWT reporting some pages previously redirected having duplicate meta...
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28 October 2011 / SEO
Three days ago a group of German Hackers officially released a new DDoS tool]100 (Denial of Service) that exploit a weakness in the SSL protocol in an attempt to encourage the industry to reinforce the security standard adopted by the protocol and make citizens safe and secure again. This is quite interesting, especially considering that it is not...
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27 October 2011 / SEO
After CEO Carol Bartz has been brutally fired from the company, Yahoo! decline has definitely become more prominent than ever. Their profit share recorded a loss of 24%, which in numbers correspond to 1,22 billions (according to WSJ). Google is ready to buy, but other competitors are on his way. Microsoft, which attempted to buy the Sunnivale...
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21 October 2011 / SEO
Earlier this year, Google acquired the patents for a real time search engine called Wowd (whose development started in 2009). As opposed to other search engines, Wowd relies on the use of a plugin people need to install locally to help the engine to identify news, trends, popular topics and visited pages. The result of the acquisition is in a new...
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20 October 2011 / SEO
A big announcement by the Google Search team has made on the 18th of October 2011: Google is breaking the web. Well, the announcement wasn't exactly this; but by reporting that a signed-in user once visiting your site from an organic Google search, will continue to be recognized as a Google “organic” visitor but without passing the query terms, I...
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