Google Releases 52 Important SEO Changes
Google has issued a list of 52 (yes, fifty-two) "launches" it made to its in April. These include items such as categorizing paginated documents, country identification for Web pages, using more text from the beginning of the page in search snippets, smoother ranking changes for fresh results and exclusion of fresh content identified as particularly low-quality, more efficient generation of alternative titles, the finding of more authoritative content, and keyword stuffing classifier improvement (which decent content writers or Web editors shouldn't be doing in the first place). The list is an important one if you do any work (business personal or otherwise) on the Web.
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Stop and Hear the (Free) Music
If you're wondering — or perhaps even fearing — what changes 2012 will bring to your desktop, this may be a good time to take matters into your own hands and choose a system that puts you in control — Linux.
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Stop and Hear the (Free) Music
With no time to spare, hundreds of people missed a free Joshua Bell concert, which others had paid $100 to see. If we do not have a moment to stop and listen to one of the best musicians in the world playing the best music ever written, how many other things are we missing?
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7 Things That Are Easier to Do in Ubuntu Than in Windows
This article discusses a few of the many reasons why the Ubuntu version of Linux is much easier to use than Windows. Unfortunately, many people who tried Linux a decade ago seem to think it's the same operating. Wrong! In fact, I installed Ubuntu on my wife's laptop (she is far from being a computer guru) and she hardly even noticed. Anyway, check out the article, and some of the other great writings on the makeuseof.com site.
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The Book is Dead ... Long Live the Book!
In this first of a series on the future of books, John Barber says that the age of the e-reader has done nothing to kill our thirst for bloated blockbusters.
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Using Site Speed in Web Search Ranking
Google recently announced that page load time, or site speed, is now a factor in its ranking algorithm. Site speed reflects how quickly a website responds to web requests. This article, written by Amit Singhal and Matt Cutts, discusses several different methods, all free, to use to help increase page loading times.
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A Solution for Slow-Loading Pages
With Google's announcement regarding page load time being now a factor in its ranking algorithm, this article will provide one solution for your slow-loading pages that use JavaScript.[read the article]
Do You Know What the Country Origin Is for the URL Shortening Service You Use?
Eliot Van Buskirk has written a nice short piece on the originating countries for many URL shortening services. Quoting from the article:
"To help you navigate the mess, we put together an interactive map of the countries where today's URL shortening services registered their wacky domain names, the authority that registered them and a short political summary of each country. The results might surprise you. Bit.ly — the most popular URL shortener in the world — is registered in Libya, a dictatorship with historical ties to terrorism.
Check out the article for additional details. Or, you could just create your own service for your personal use (or public use, if you like).
