An exploit in a WordPress plug-in has resulted in the infection of over 100,000 WordPress websites since Sunday. And what is worse, because the plugin is bundled with many themes, many webmasters might be unaware that they use it and are not getting plugin update reminders for what has been termed as a Zero Day […]
Publishers in Spain Ask Government to Force Google News to Return & Force Google to Pay
Publishers in Spain want the Spanish government to force Google News to reopen their service in the country. Google made the decision to close Google News in Spain as well as to remove all Spanish publishers from all other editions of Google News. Because of the Spanish government’s new law, which comes into effect in […]
Facebook Drops Bing as Search Results Provider
Facebook has dropped Bing as their search partner on the social media platform, a move that went largely unnoticed. Facebook recently changed how their search functionality works, to allow users to be able to search for specific posts, rather than just finding specific people, groups are pages. However, no one seemed to notice that Bing […]
Google AdWords No Longer Allowing Credit Cards for Large Customer Sales Advertisers
Kirk Williams tweeted to the #ppcchat Twitter group an incredible change that is hitting the largest Google AdWords customers – they will no longer be able to use credit cards to pay their AdWords accounts, but must move to an invoicing system. It’s no secret that many people take advantage of cash back and air […]
Google to Close Engineering Offices in Russia Due To New Internet Data Laws
Google is planning to shut down their engineering offices in Russia by the end of the year, due to restrictive new data laws that come into effect in the new year. Earlier this year, Russia passed a variety of Internet laws, including some that governed the storage of data by Internet companies. Any company that […]
Bing Search Added to Microsoft Word Online as Insights for Office
Bing is expanding their search footprint by adding a new search functionality to Microsoft Office, also known as “Insights for Office”. Users can now search directly from a search box within Word Online. The search bar appears in the same line as the menu bars, complete with a yellow light bulb symbol. Interestingly though, it […]
Google To Close Google News in Spain & Remove Spanish Publishers from all Google News Versions
With many news publishers trying to get money out of Google for linking it to their content from Google News, Google has been playing hardball. When German publishers demanded that they get paid for the use of their thumbnails and snippets within Google News, Google simply linked to just the titles, and it only took […]
Amazon Testing “Make an Offer” Feature; Internet Retailers Should Be Worried
If you are an Internet retailer, you need to be very concerned about a new sales tactic that Amazon is currently testing out. Instead of simply purchasing an item for a cost the retailer chooses, a potential customer can now essentially bid, or make an offer, for the product instead. While this is great for […]
New Negative SEO Hurts Google Rankings… Without Using Backlinks
Bartosz Góralewicz recently posted a case study where two different sites seem to be impacted by negative SEO. But the big difference with these negative SEO attacks is they were done without the use of any backlinks. Something was seriously wrong with two of my clients’ sites. They weren’t suffering from Panda or Penguin issues. […]
Google Considering Alerts for CMS, Template & Plugin Vulnerabilities
Google webmaster tools is soliciting feedback from users who are using either a content management system or a template on the website, and if they would want an alert for issues related to these showing up in their Google Webmaster Tools account. They are giving multiple options for webmasters to choose from. That my CMS […]