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 WebmasterWorld Highlighted Posts   May 18, 2012
Facebook Announces Pricing of Initial Public Offering
Posted in Facebook Marketing by bill

$38 ... read more ...

 

read story WebmasterWorld Weekly Roundup May 17
Posted in WebmasterWorld Supporters by engine

WebmasterWorld's weekly roundup of hot topics and discussions you may have missed in the last few days. (-Subscription required) ... read more ...

 

Pinterest Gets $100m Funding From Rakuten
Posted in Pinterest by brotherhood_of_LAN

Social networking service Pinterest is to receive $100m in funding from Japanese internet retailing giant Rakuten and existing investors.

Rakuten said the money would be used to improve Pinterest's service and expand its user base. ... read more ...

 

Google's Amit Singhal Introduces Knowledge Graph
Posted in Google SEO News and Discussion by engine

We've begun to gradually roll out this view of the Knowledge Graph to U.S. English users. ... read more ...

 

Hitwise: Bing Now Powers Over 30% Of U.S. Searches
Posted in Bing Search Engine News by Brett_Tabke

"...now account for 30.01% of all U.S. searches. By itself, Bing grew 16% year-over-year and 5% month-over-month and now accounted for 14.32% of all U.S. searches in April 2012." ... read more ...

 

Are Free Submission Directories Being Deindexed By Google
Posted in Google SEO News and Discussion by sunnyujjawal

WebmasterWorld Members are reporting deindexing of free submission directories. Is this a Panda or Penguin hit, or a routine purge. ... read more ...

 

Bing Dropping Some Pages?
Posted in Bing Search Engine News by SEOPTI

WebmasterWorld Members are reporting drops of indexed urls in Bing. ... read more ...

 

Understanding Google's Panda - Thin Content vs Low Interest Content
Posted in Google SEO News and Discussion by getcooking

WebmasterWorld Members discuss a content theory over Google Panda. ... read more ...

 

Facebook's Anticipated Share Price Raised From $28-$35 to $34-$38
Posted in Facebook Marketing by engine

A valuation at this level would make it worth more than the US corporate giants Disney, Ford and Kraft Foods. ... read more ...

 

Pirate Pay Torrent Disruptor Prevents Downloading of Pirated Content
Posted in Foo by engine

The tool poses as real bit torrent users but then "confuses" peer-to-peer networks, causing disconnections. ... read more ...

 

Google Penguin Recovery Tips
Posted in Google SEO News and Discussion by bostonyear

WebmasterWorld Members discuss Google Penguin recovery tips. ... read more ...

 

Yahoo chief executive steps down
Posted in Yahoo Corporate by bill

Yahoo has said that Ross Levinsohn will temporarily replace chief executive Scott Thompson, who has stepped down in the face of controversy about his allegedly inflated CV. ... read more ...

 

Facebook Testing Pay To Promote Post
Posted in Facebook Marketing by engine

"We're constantly testing new features across the site," said the spokesperson. "This particular test is simply to gauge people's interest in this method of sharing with their friends." ... read more ...

 

read story WebmasterWorld Weekly Roundup May 10
Posted in WebmasterWorld Supporters by engine

WebmasterWorld's weekly roundup of hot topics and discussions you may have missed in the last few days. (-Subscription required) ... read more ...

 

Facebook To Roll Out File Sharing For Groups
Posted in Facebook Marketing by engine

Users can upload most file types up to 25MB ... read more ...

 

The Benefits Of In-House SEO Compared To Outsourcing
Posted in Google SEO News and Discussion by internetheaven

WebmasterWorld Members discuss the pros and cons of in-house SEO over outsourcing. Are the outsourced SEOs good enough? ... read more ...

 

Bing Integrates Facebook Into SERPs in a New Column
Posted in Bing Search Engine News by engine

Microsoft attempts to deeply integrate Facebook into Bing search to gain some ground on arch-rival Google. ... read more ...

 

Firefox Banned From ARM-based Windows
Posted in Firefox Browser Usage and Support by incrediBILL

Mozilla's top lawyer warned that Microsoft is barring Firefox from forthcoming Windows 8 machines that use ARM processors. ... read more ...

 

Facebook App Center Launched
Posted in Facebook Marketing by engine

All developers should create an app detail page. The page is required for being listed in the App Center, and it will also become the new destination when non-users search for your app on Facebook. ... read more ...

 

Foursquare Plans Coupons For People That Check-In To Businesses
Posted in Foo by engine

"One of the most fun things about the Foursquare pitch is sitting down with merchants and you can show them a stats dashboard. It shows this is the time of day people come in, here is the breakdown of male and female, here is the list of your best customers, here are some customers that used to come here a lot and don't come anymore..." ... read more ...

 

AdSense Revenue Share Earnings Changes
Posted in Google AdSense by Sgt_Kickaxe

Site publishers discuss a negative change in AdSense Earnings coinciding with changes with the AdWords program. ... read more ...

 

Cleaning your Backlinks - Ideas and Suggestions
Posted in Google SEO News and Discussion by tedster

With all the "over-SEO" and "webspam updates" recently - and especially with the flood of WMT notifications about backlinks - a lot of webmasters have their attention on what they can do practically to make Google happier about their backlink profile. ... read more ...

 

US Jury Finds Google Infringed Oracle's Java Copyrights in Android
Posted in Google Finance, Govt, Policy and Business Issues by Sgt_Kickaxe

Oracle: "The overwhelming evidence demonstrated that Google knew it needed a license and that its unauthorized fork of Java in Android shattered Java's central write once run anywhere principle," ... read more ...

 

Google's 52 Search Quality Highlights For April
Posted in Google SEO News and Discussion by Donna

One of the big changes for me was our latest algorithm improvement to help you find more high-quality sites. But, that's not all we've been up to. As you may recall, a couple months back we shared uncut video discussion of a spelling related change, and now that's launched as well (see "More spell corrections for long queries"). Other highlights include changes in indexing, spelling, sitelinks, sports scores features and more. ... read more ...

 

Domain Name With No EU Trademark Should be Stripped From U.S. Entity
Posted in Domain Names by gpmgroup

An American eyewear company cannot take a dot-eu Internet address since its trademark is not established in the European Union, a high court adviser said Thursday. ... read more ...

 

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