What a great little infographic to help explain the myriad of changes made through Google's Panda Updates - and some tips on how to improve your sites performance in light of the changes. Thanks to the team at Singlegrain for creating the infographic.  

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A couple of weeks ago, Google launched "Search Plus Your World", a new feature that displays social information alongside regular data in Google's search results. The goal of SPYW is to further personalise search results to deliver the most relevant data for you, which is some cases may come from your personal network. Shortly after the ...

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I have to admit, I have neglected my LinkedIn profile and activity in the last few months. It certainly isn’t as exciting a network as Facebook or Twitter; but I guess that’s not really the point of it. Having recently started focusing my efforts back on LinkedIn again, I have discovered that it isn’t just a ...

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Eight years back when Mark Zuckerberg made the significant decision of launching his social networking website, little did he know that the decision was going to pay off in such a big way. According to several leading news reports, Facebook may be filing for a long-awaited IPO as early as today (Wednesday 1st February 2012 - ...

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When Bing passed Yahoo! to become the 2nd ranked search engine in the U.S last month it seems the company also got the confidence to shed its “decision engine” label and re-launch as an ad platform with a new tagline ‘Bing is for Doing’. The main aim for this change is the hope that it will ...

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Continuing its efforts to keep its search results more quality-oriented, Google recently announced a significant algorithmic change. The change looks at the layout and amount of content on a webpage, if the ads above the fold are excessive, your site can be penalized and downgraded in the search results. As Matt Cutts wrote on the Google Webmaster ...

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A warning to all Google users: the Internet giant is doing away with their 70 different privacy policies across Google properties and replacing them with one main privacy policy that will be much easier for users to read and comprehend. With this change Google plans to track users across its multiple products and features, so that ...

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While the majority of website owners use Google Analytics to measure their website’s success due to its ease of implementation and lack of cost, there are a few other great analytics options which are well worth checking out. Clicky It offers real-time stats, with a simple, but functional interface. The dashboard is nicely laid out so you ...

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We found this nifty little infographic this morning. The clever people over at Flowtown and Column Five have put it together. While it misses a few obvious networks (e.g Linkedin), it's a great primer for small business owners getting into social media. Enjoy.

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Chrome is quickly making up ground in the browser wars…and for good reason. It’s simple, fast and comes with some awesome extensions and add-ons. I made the move across from Firefox to Chrome about 12 months ago and haven’t looked back. If you’re a website owner, you might want to start using Chrome and these extensions ...

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