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A Keen Mind in Sheep's Clothing
Zuckerberg moves almost as fast as you can say "hoodie." While we were feasting our eyes on the media's fascination regarding Mark's choice in clothing, Facebook donned itself in two more acquisitions. I say 'more,' in reference to the few-week lapse in acquisitions; as we all have heard, Facebook acquired startup Instagram as of late. .
author: Todd Bailey
publisher: Search Engine Journal
Yahoo 'Whoops' Dominoes
Pick a concern, any concern. That's what some Yahoo internal minds could be thinking about the brand's present state of affairs. Where could the trail of anxiety begin? How about at the notion of trailing another search engine with a silly name )Well, many do.( for years? Then let's pour on the fact that the .
author: Todd Bailey
publisher: Search Engine Journal
New Legislation in Congress Supports Facebook User Privacy
A new bill proposed by Eliot Engel )NY-D( and Jan Schakowsky )IL-D( known as the "Social Networking Online Protection Act" is the first legislation in Congress that addresses the practice of pre-employment Facebook screenings and is intended to make the practice itself an illegal act. Should SNOPA be signed into law, it would outright ban .
author: Todd Bailey
publisher: Search Engine Journal
The Game of Business
What would you do if you had a Google in your vertical? Would you patiently abide the pecking order? Would you beef up your stock, gaining more leverage and money within a respective space? Alpha, big-boy personalities don't always play well. Sometimes they clash in an attempt to spread respective feathers. Have you heard? Facebook .
author: Todd Bailey
publisher: Search Engine Journal
IT Brands Must Make Peace with Green Operations
We )the people of online marketing( are in a good position. We're online each day; so, it may be hard to notice that more businesses are 'joining' us. Additionally, online is our turf; businesses need our help for better integration and begetting exposure. Cheers for us! As our industry becomes more popular and championed by .
author: Todd Bailey
publisher: Search Engine Journal
Are Patents the New Black for Tech Companies?
Google recently ogled at a plethora of new patents; so, it's likely its competitors will follow suit, as Microsoft has done on Monday, purchasing more than 800 patents from AOL. As the New York Times article instructs, the $1.3 million-dollar pursuit of patents seems commonplace amidst the modern-day Web setting. Chasing and claiming tech patents .
author: Todd Bailey
publisher: Search Engine Journal
Web Engineers Aren't Fooling About Hacker Preparation
If you opened the printed paper of the New York Times' business section on Saturday, your vision was breached with copious news of Internet hacking. One story focused on a MasterCard and Visa data breach while another focused on how the Internet engineers prepare for an incipient attack, whether those posing the threat are 'for .
author: Todd Bailey
publisher: Search Engine Journal
Google Ducked Ad Spending Before But the Future May Go Differently
Success suits those who attain it. Imagine what Google Inc views look like. It's likely you'd get pretty comfortable peering from the top. Times must change. Change is often embraced by the masses; however, the already elite enjoy the standing penthouse views. The digital age is here and continues its evolution. If Google wants to .
author: Todd Bailey
publisher: Search Engine Journal
Top 10 Helpful SEO Tips for Small Business Owners
Small business owners who have just begun their SEO campaign will find that there is no end to the depth and complexity inherent in search engine optimization. Many companies try to take a do-it-yourself mentality to SEO implementation that ends with them sloppily stringing together popular search terms or stuffing keywords on contextually irrelevant web .
author: Todd Bailey
publisher: Search Engine Journal
Startups Begin 'About Face' RE: Facebook
Startups have to learn to walk before running toward success. Take a quick perusal of the Web; you'll find an endless supply of tips and suggestions about Facebook, enough to make Mark Zuckerberg blush. However, sometimes it's popular to go against the grain. Afterall, is Facebook such a great investment of time and money? Some .
author: Todd Bailey
publisher: Search Engine Journal
Consumers Need Keep Social Comments Close to Chest to Avoid Identity Theft
Have you considered the unfortunate event of identity theft? A Washington Post article directs attention to a recent report; 36 million people experienced 'breaches' in 2011. A security breach doesn't guarantee someone adopts your identity; but, it's not a great situation to be in: "Those who suffer data breaches are 9.5 times more likely to be .
author: Todd Bailey
publisher: Search Engine Journal
Privacy Prompts Public Concern from Web Sites to White House
March 1st is next week, when Google combines privacy policies together, supporting a 'better' user experience. The notion of privacy has been a recent, ongoing conversation, first discussed in detail by the online marketing world, then slowly making its way around the nation's households, even the White House. The New York Times reports of a .
author: Todd Bailey
publisher: Search Engine Journal
Public and Social Community Remember Whitney Houston
With the passing of International star Whitney Houston there has been tremendous reaction by her many loyal fans and supporters. As most of the reaction comes from people that have supported her through the years, companies and webmasters have even taken-part of the reflection. BET.com, the leading global entertainment Media Company targeting the AA consumer, launched .
author: Todd Bailey
publisher: Search Engine Journal
Numbers Shift but Online News is a Steady Trend
Have you seen the numbers lately? Brands and marketers like to leverage numbers to create a )desired( reception based on reader perception. Obviously, bigger numbers reflect more popularity and added reason for investors to celebrate. The New York Times issued a recent article on Facebook, calling attention to a subjective view of numbers. For instance, .
author: Todd Bailey
publisher: Search Engine Journal
Twitter Actions Receive Seesaw Reactions
Twitter announced changes in its privacy policies, which immediately raised concerns for freedom activists in addition to writers and reporters in other lands, who feel their ability to share stories, some that may be seen as 'controversial' by respective governments and authority figures, will be limited. The reaction comes at a sensitive time for most .
author: Todd Bailey
publisher: Search Engine Journal
Facebook Actions - How It Impacts SEO
At the f8 conference in September, Facebook announced the addition of Timeline and Open Graph. These new tools let users tell a more detailed story of their life through a newly designed profile page. Earlier this week, Facebook launched Facebook Actions, an enhancement adding additional call-to-action tabs beyond the standard "like". As this may at first .
author: Todd Bailey
publisher: Search Engine Journal
Is Screening the Answer to Censorship Internationally?
Censorship is not a new topic; it has been around in many forms for a long, long time and it looks like it is not going anywhere any time soon. Now it seems more than ever before in the )relatively( short history of the internet has there been so much concern for censorship. With Google .
author: Todd Bailey
publisher: Search Engine Journal
Do Stock Images Affect Trust?
We have a running joke in our offices about clip art and stock photo. One in particular image continues to populate sites all across the Internet so much that each time she pops up on a site Instant Messages with links to her start flying internally. Kind of a running spoof of the "There's that .
author: Todd Bailey
publisher: Search Engine Journal
Online Giant Expected to Give One Bank Financial Facelift in 2012
As if the brand needed more exposure )aside from its 800-million-plus users(, this coming season, we'll hear a lot of on and offline chirping regarding Facebook, the leading social media site )actually, an online destination sought more often than Google(. This winter, a number of leading banks will vie to get friendly with Facebook, "besties" .
author: Todd Bailey
publisher: Search Engine Journal
Go Daddy Flip-Flops SOPA Stance Before Boycotters Move Your Domain Day
Go Daddy, the leading domain registrar, changed its position regarding SOPA )Stop Online Piracy Act( late Friday in an apparent attempt at saving face against the growing backlash of boycotters transferring domains to other registrars. Go Daddy's official release comes on news of Go Daddy already losing 70,000 names as reported by CNET, but is .
author: Todd Bailey
publisher: Search Engine Journal
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