According to Google, this Tweet above is a video. According to Google, tweets that contain animated GIFs (very short videos, usually a few seconds long) are considered to be videos. In the search results, Google is showing a Tweet from someone. … [Continue reading]
The United States FTC (Federal Trade Commission), in coordination with the Better Business Bureau, has charged nine people and corporations based in Canada and the United States with operating a company that made unsolicited telephone calls to small … [Continue reading]
Google is putting a 3-pack of videos in the search results for certain local search queries. The videos that are showing up in the search results 3-pack do not appear to be from YouTube or Google videos. Here is an example of a search query that … [Continue reading]
The United States Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has charged three people and nine businesses with bilking over $125 million from thousands of consumers. The internet marketing scheme, called MOBE (My Online Business Education) aka My Own Business … [Continue reading]
The payments from the class action lawsuit Opperman v. Kong Technologies are being sent out. If you were a member of the class, and you opted to receive your payment in the form of an Amazon gift card, then you may have received or will receive the … [Continue reading]
It's not officially Summer yet, but it's June and my Summer has officially begun. We've opened our pool and have been enjoying the cooler water and shaded pool deck in these 90 degree days here in Texas. Spending hours in the pool and on the pool … [Continue reading]
As I'm sure you're aware by now, on May 25, 2018, the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) went into effect. There are still a lot of questions that US-based businesses have, including whether or not they have to comply with GDPR or not. I did … [Continue reading]
What happens in an internet minute in 2018? Well, a lot more that you or I would think. Every year, @LoriLewis and @OfficiallyChadd compile the numbers--and publish the graphic as seen above. … [Continue reading]
The social media network StumbleUpon is shutting down on June 30, 2018. StumbleUpon users are being encouraged to join Mix, another website by the makers of StumbleUpon. … [Continue reading]
Google has had enough when it comes to the Google My Business scammers. They're taking legal action against Kydia Inc. d/b/a BeyondMenu, Point Break Media, LLC (and affiliated entities), and Supreme Marketing Group, Inc. d/b/a Small Business … [Continue reading]
In an effort to fight revenge porn, Facebook announced a new pilot program to encourage us to upload photos that we suspect may be out in the public. They will take those photos that are uploaded to fingerprint them and use technology to identify … [Continue reading]
We all know that links are a must if you're going to get good search engine rankings. Google's algorithm has been centered around links to websites for years. In fact, since the beginning, links for ranking in Google have been important. And as Gary … [Continue reading]
Yes, I know the title of this post sounds harsh: should you use a dash or a hyphen in a domain name? But to be honest with you, that is my conclusion now that I have seen this. It's solid proof that the right keyword rich domain name will out-rank a … [Continue reading]
California's Attorney General Xavier Becerra has filed extortion and money laundering charges against the owners of MugShots.com, the website that gathers mugshots of people who have been arrested and posts them online. Mugshots.com charges the … [Continue reading]
Occasionally we all have something go awry with our websites. It could be something related to not closing a tag properly on your site, something wrong with the website's .CSS file, or even a WordPress plugin that's causing something else not to load … [Continue reading]
Klout, the site that gave us our social media Klout scores, is shutting down on May 25, 2018. This is the same day that the GDPR is going into effect, so I'm assuming that it has something to do with GDPR. If you don't know what GDPR is, and why it's … [Continue reading]
What exactly is GDPR, and if you have a US-based business with a website, why should you care about the upcoming deadline of May 25, 2018? I recently talked to a few businesses, and they didn't know anything about it. And, they've never heard of it. … [Continue reading]
A recent discussion about the best Domain Name industry Twitter accounts got me thinking--there are a lot more domain name influencers on Twitter than be put into one Tweet. Even though there are a lot of characters available in a Tweet now, I just … [Continue reading]
Due to an internal Twitter password bug, and the way Twitter stores passwords, Twitter is recommending that you immediately change your password. According to a Twitter blog post, Twitter said that they recently identified a bug that stored passwords … [Continue reading]
There have been three major flaws and exploits of the Google search algorithms recently, and they all involve negative SEO. The problem is that all of these three exploits (bugs or holes) in Google's organic search algorithms allows others to attack … [Continue reading]
