Google is regularly updating how its search engines rank and deliver websites to the world. Google SEO should be top of the list of priorities for any website that wants to generate traffic from searches.
Matt Cutts, who is seen in the SEO community as the Google SEO spokesman, this week posted a preview of the changes coming this summer on his blog. Here’s a summary of these changes and how they effect your website.
Have you ever seen a Facebook scam? Have you ever succumbed to one? Most of them are pretty obvious, at least if not at first certainly after you have given in and clicked.
Spotting a Facebook scam can be pretty easy, even humorous, once you know what to look for.
Responsive design, having a site designed so that it works well on any screen, can be a huge boost to your website’s Search Engine Optimization (SEO) compared to other solutions, such as having a separate mobile site or worse yet, no mobile site at all.
Just how does responsive design help your website’s SEO?
WordPress security is something every owner of a WordPress website should take seriously. WordPress is a very secure system, but only if you don’t leave doors open for hackers through misuse.
Attacks on websites with password protection, like those running WordPress, are ongoing. It is nothing to take personal. It’s just the reality of the Internet ecosystem.
“Brute force” attacks target your actual user name and password login system to try and get to the other side. Here are the basics of making your WordPress login hacker-proof. With no geekery required.
By far the most customizable feature of your Facebook Page is the Facebook cover image. It allows for a nice big chunk of screen to display just about anything you like.
Most people design a Facebook cover image, put it in play, and leave it alone from then on. Only if they change their logo or some other substantial design elements do they reconsider the cover image design.
But this approach is missing out on one of the main benefits of the Facebook cover image: flexibility!
If you are going to have a business presence on a given social media site, it is vital that you keep that presence alive with something more than automated posts that amount to little more than a stream of advertisements for your business. If you want your presence to be valued by others, social media for business is about more than spamming your brand to your fans.
What is it that we want from a business, or anyone for that matter, on social networks?
For those who love a bit of abstraction and art in each post they share with the world, Instagram is social networking at its best. And Instagram filters are just fun.
The default assortment of filters is certainly enough to give your photos that extra something special to make them pop, but after a while they do all start looking a bit like the same old same old. So here’s a collection of free apps that will add to your collection of Instagram filters and effects for your photos.
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If you are looking to make the most of social media for your business, then it can pay off to put some time into discovering when to post on Facebook, or any other social media sites you share on.
The best approach is of course to simply spend a ton of time on your chosen network(s) and find out for yourself when your connections are online. But what if you are looking for a way to streamline that discovery?
It seems like Facebook privacy is a constantly evolving issue. Facebook’s latest release, Graph Search, has stirred it all up again as people make mad dashes to clean up their timelines to protect themselves from appearing to be who they are, lol.
Though a lot of privacy issues have to do with protecting one’s self image, the darker side of privacy is the world of identity theft. Frank Abagnale, the famous con-artist of the 60′s (romanticized in the movie “Catch Me If You Can”), who has worked for the FBI for the last 40 years, recently had some things to say about protecting yourself on Facebook.
So what are the basics of Facebook identity protection?
