Showing posts with label Internet. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Internet. Show all posts

Wednesday, February 12, 2014

'The Day We Fight Back' Campaign - February 11th 2014

What was "The Day We Fight Back Campaign against Mass Surveillance" all about?

Here's what a few media giants think about NSA and mass surveillance. Take a look.

Mass Surveillance

The NSA "has secretly broken into the main communications links that connect Yahoo and Google data centers around the world."
 - The New York Times

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The NSA collects the content and metadata of emails, web activity, chats, social networks, and everything else from fiber-optic cables "that carry much of the world's Internet and phone data."
 - Washington Post


We invite opinion from readers if they think 'mass surveillance is a violation of inalienable human rights'.

Friday, September 6, 2013

Google Plus over Facebook: which is more popular?

Never did Facebook – the social networking service provider know that Google will pitch Google Plus against its social networking site and win the Internet customers over.

Founded in 2004 by Mark, Eduardo, Andrew, Dustin and Chris - Facebook as of September 2012 (about a year ago) had over 1 billion active users. Of them, many were fake users [suggest media reports]? Facebook serves the global audience, including ‘under aged kids’ that normally violate the site’s terms of service.

One may want to know, which is more popular: Facebook that launched in 2004 or Google Plus which hit the Internet market two years ago, in 2011.

Just two weeks after the launch, Google Plus reported about 10 million active users and its user base continue to grow than that of Facebook.

Be it blog hosting service, social information processing, networking sites or other products/services of Google – everything with the ‘Google’ label sells like a hotcake.

Monday, August 12, 2013

Wonder why search engine ranking took a toll? Perhaps Google took a manual spam action

Not sure, whether your site is still in the Google Index? Perform a site search on Google with your website details (e.g. site:domain.com). If the site does not show up, this indicates that your website gets prohibited for breach of Google webmaster guidelines.

In a case, Google prohibited a website, businesses can request for ‘reconsideration’ after necessary corrections and updates (in accordance with rules and principles of Google) on their website.

After the latest Penguin 2.0 algorithm update, Google has started taking SEVERE actions against all SPAM links on the web, to keep the search engine a ‘less polluted’ and a ‘friendlier’ place for the Internet users.

If your website used to rank earlier and the rankings dropped all of a sudden after the Penguin update, then this is a ‘warning sign’ that Google took manual spam action against your website.

Wednesday, August 7, 2013

Google Matt Cutts video on Meta Tags

Meta tags to optimize your website for Internet search engines: to own a website is not enough, but to be seen and found out by people should be your primary concern.

This educational video from Matt Cutts (of Google) will help readers comprehend - how much time one should give to Meta tags and the ones that matter.



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Friday, August 2, 2013

Link schemes that Google detests and can land your online business in trouble

Know, what all can negatively impact your online business? Here are a few SEO tips from Web Listings Inc to alert businesses that practice unethical way to improve search engine ranking:
  • Do not sell or buy links to increase Page Rank. This includes exchange of money to post or include content that contain links.
  • Say no to excessive link exchange (cross-linking) programs with intent to create a win-win situation, for both parties.
  • Keep away from automated programs and services and the use of keyword-rich anchor text links during article marketing or guest blog post promotions.
Google forbids sites that manipulate links (incoming/outgoing) by any means. Beware!

Thursday, June 27, 2013

Google, occupied with Android Game Console

A top search engineer from Google feels strict EU regulations would harm innovation and affect the Internet search industry.

The grapevine is that the always innovative and resourceful Google is working on an Android game console, which would hit the market soon.

Google even plans to come up with the next generation Nexus Q (media streaming entertainment device).

The first-generation Nexus Q released on 27th June 2012. Hang around for Nexus Q sequel - time to see, if Google will recover from the past failure.

Watch this Web Listings Inc space for further updates.

Tuesday, May 28, 2013

Natural link building after Google Penguin 2.0

After Penguin 2.0 updates, everyone feels – link exchange is a BAD idea.

Link building online (virtual bonds) or real-life bonding with human beings works the same way.

As the adage goes - A person is KNOWN by the company he keeps. The concept is nothing different with Google and websites that link from one to the other.

One should build up links with websites that are relevant to one’s website. A wrong company or inappropriate website (with spam) will be of no use to anyone.

Google is not in opposition to natural link building, but SPAM websites. To solicit links through payment to increase page rank is illegal, and Google web-spam team may argue and take action against such websites.

On the other, if websites provide relevant content to the Internet users, and have natural inbound links from others (without any payment) then Google should have no problem with websites.

Matt and the web-spam team of Google are after unnatural and paid links. What do readers think about it?

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Thursday, May 23, 2013

Google Penguin 2.0 is out, to chase SPAMMERS

Google rolled out the latest Penguin 2.0 version on 22nd May 2013.

The web-spam team Head, Matt Cutts, said through the blog that this is not a data-refresh, but an algorithm update.

With the Penguin web spam algorithm, Matt looks forward to making Google a SPAM-FREE portal for the Internet users.

Now, everyone can report spam websites to Google, through the following form: Penguin Spam Report.

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