Posts Tagged: Google


9
Jun 10

BP Buys “Oil Spill” Keyword on Google and Yahoo! Search Results

Social Media News

BP Oil Spill is a huge disaster – and BP’s public image is in a huge disaster, too. That’s why BP recently buys the top Google and Yahoo! Search Result for the “oil spill” keyword.

BP’s PR problems are getting bigger and bigger on the world wide web. In social networking sites, there was a face Twitter account created by someone mocking up BP’s PR efforts (in a bad way) and over half million people joined the rally “boycott BP” Facebook page. Continue reading →


30
Apr 10

5 Simple Ways to Improve Loading Speed of Your Blog

Nowadays, the loading speed of your blog is very important. Why? Because it is one of the factors that affects your ranking in search results page in Google; because some of the people in the internet still uses slow-speed internet connection and they may visit your site. We need to consider these people who visits our blog. It is very important to make them feel comfortable whenever they are browsing our blogs.

So here’s the 5 Simple Ways to Improve Loading Speed of Your Blog:

  1. Install Super Cache Plug-in. I’ve read so many blog posts about the best plug-ins that can improve blog’s loading speed, and I noticed that Super Cache Plug-in is always on the list. I also use this on my blogs and I can say that this really helped my blogs to load faster. Download it here.
  2. Compress Your Images. One of the heaviest things you can put in your blog is image or picture. So always remember that before you post a picture on your blog, compress it first. And I personally recommend FastStone Photo Resizer which works very well and can batch-resize your photos. Continue reading →

19
Apr 10

Facebook Will Soon Use Your Web History Just Like What Google Did

Facebook Privacy Issue

Reports said that Facebook would improve their Facebook Ads by using our web activity. What does it mean? In Google, they used their “Web History” feature which tracks our web activity to improve the relevance of search results that we are searching for through their search engine. For example, if we frequently browse tech blogs, Google would put priority on those tech blogs when we searched something related to it through their search engine. And this is what Facebook wants to do to improve their own advertising program, Facebook Ads.

Facebook will use our web activity to increase the relevance of the ads that appear when we browse their social networking site. But unlike Google, Facebook will use our web activity in a new way. They will use “sharing buttons” (the icons you frequently see in various blogs and websites). Sharing buttons are buttons which you can use to share the content you just read or watched to your Facebook friends. And these sharing buttons will be distributed by Facebook to interested blogs and sites.

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