Although the hit game is no longer available, more than 50 million people who downloaded it are still generating millions, or billions, of ad impressions, and Dong Nguyen is still getting paid. Don’t worry folks, Flappy Bird developer Dong Nguyen is still getting paid. Big time. Over the past few days, there’s been a global outcry in the wake of Nguyen’s seemingly inexplicable decision to stop making the game available for download. On the one…
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Next Update Nobody knows when the next Google Pagerank update will happen, but it is expected in June or July of 2013. The last one was 4 February 2013. Last Updates Google updates Toolbar Pagerank every 3 or so months: 4 February 2013 – Confirmation here. 7 November 2012 2 August 2012 2 May 2012 7 February 2012 7 November 2011 1st Week August 2011 JULY 2011 JUNE 2011 JANUARY 2011 April 2010 Dec 31, 2009 30 October 2009…
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It’s almost Thanksgiving, a time when we reflect on the events of our lives and try to express gratitude for all that is good. A special Thanksgiving message….and thoughts about Google… When it comes to Google and the algorithm changes of the last 8 months, many of us can officially say that it hasn’t been the best of years. I am reminded of many of your comments from previous articles where some of your sites…
Read MoreWatch Out: Guest Blogging is on Google’s Radar
We all knew it would be a matter of time. The slew of aggressive algo updates that Google’s rolled out over the past year have rendered many an Internet marketer virtually impotent in the SERPs. The Penguin update in particular has wreaked havoc on the vast majority of link-building methods (not a bad thing, considering some of the more spammy techniques floating around out there). So, of course after the link blasting software was rendered…
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Making your website is not even a half of the work you are starting. Really, what is a website if no one is to see it? To do that, to drive traffic to your site it has to appear in search engines, those horrible services who have become so powerful that they behave as they own the world wide web. Have you ever wondered why is that? Why do these services, once free and useful…
Read MoreGoogle webmaster guidelines
Google webmaster guidelines. Imagine a drugstore with a lot of shelves, each shelve contains some articles (toilet paper, medicine, and everything else). Now the owner of that drugstore does not allow just any medicine to be on the shelves, but has developed a bunch of rules that one medicine has to follow in order to be on that shelve. The drugstore owner said: He who wants to sell his medicine in my store has to…
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