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February 2014

Google Adds Full Restaurant Menus to Search Result Pages

Google Launches New Menu Feature Google launched a new feature recently that displays full restaurant menus right on the search result pages. The project was initially launched as an experiment, but the new change has been made live and accessible to users, though only available in the US so far. The feature comes up at …

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Google Gives $1 Million for Tech Upgrade

Google Chairman, Eric Schmidt, announced that he will be giving $1 million to help aid global problems when it comes to technology. After traveling all over the world, Schmidt saw that countries continue to have strong censorship on the internet to the public. Like China for example, block website content and monitor individuals Internet access. During …

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What is Klout? Should I care about my Klout Score?

Klout is a online influence measurement website formed back in 2008. The name is derived from the word “clout” meaning “influence” specifically in business or politics. Klout uses a score from 1 to 100 with 100 being the highest social influence. Every Twitter user has an already established Klout score. When you attach other social …

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Future of Search Moves to AI & Personal Virtual Assistants

A couple of weeks ago, Google dropped a cool $500 million on an Artificial Intelligence start-up company called Deep Mind. Deep Mind has been very successful in its first 3 years and has a promising future. It has been known to compete for employee talent with the Silicon Valley powerhouses like Google and Facebook. Not …

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Is a Mobile Website Duplicate Content?

Today, having a mobile website or a responsive website is important for both your SEO and the overall functionality of your site. With the growth in smart phone users over the past years, it has become a necessity to have a mobile/responsive website.  So now you have to choose, a responsive design or a mobile …

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Search Engine Optimization for Websites with Infinite Scroll

Infinite scroll is a trending feature on websites offering non-stop scrolling and viewing without having to click onto the next page. This kind of ease of access is a great user experience design element that keeps viewers browsing longer. It is not a new idea, but it is becoming a huge trend, sites like Facebook, …

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What’s the difference between search engines and browsers?

Even experienced computers users who spend time online everyday can have trouble telling the difference between a browser and a search engine.  It can get extremely confusing when the search engine and browser have the same “name” like Google and Google Chrome. Knowing the fundamental differences between the two will not only impress your friends, …

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How to add your wordpress.com to Google Webmasters Tools

Part 1 Go to https://google.com/webmasters/tools Click “Add a site” in the top right corner Enter your site name such as: example.wordpress.com Choose the HTML Tag option for verifying ownership of you site Copy the string of digits in quotations after the word content Example If your html tag is: <meta name=”google-site-verification” content=”MzA898RHENzQD198HGbitpf-DbGRTEom_a3uFSEZ5Dk” /> You would only …

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How to Remove Featured Image from Appearing in Blog Post in WordPress

The featured image feature on WordPress blog posts can be a very nice feature to help make you site look more aesthetically pleasing, especially when you are using the “recent posts” widget. Sometimes, however, some WordPress themes will include that featured image in the content of the blog post itself. In some themes, you may …

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Facebook and Pinterest: Strong Referral Traffic Sources

Another day, another new set of social media statistics.  According to Shareaholic, a content discovery and sharing platform used by 200,000+ websites  around the world,  20% of all visitors to sites across the web in December came through Facebook and Pinterest.  Those are pretty big numbers and considering that Pinterest is still a fairly new kid on …

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