The SEO world is abuzz over more talk of data collection practices employed by a number of major networking sites once again. Facebook, Twitter and their smaller siblings have been called on the carpet for a number of practices that many feel have overstepped the boundaries of ethics and in some cases are violating regulations [...]
SEO NEWS: Tweets Bring 140 Character News from Afghanistan
February 23rd, 2012A big break in SEO news is that journalists in Afghanistan have begun using Twitter to share news at an unprecedented rate. Their use of Twitter isn’t merely to send out links to fuller stories, they are reporting the news as it happens in 140 characters or less to try to keep the Afghani people [...]
SEO NEWS: Wall Street Backs Content Mills?
February 23rd, 2012In SEO news concerning the continued struggles of content farm Demand Studios, losses were only reported as being $6.4 million last quarter compared to $7.6 million a year earlier. While some analysts are optimistic that Demand Studios is turning the corner and heading toward profitability, on a quarter to quarter basis at least, they are [...]
SEO NEWS: Zimbabwe Boy Caned for Facebook Tagging a Woman as a Prostitute
February 22nd, 2012An SEO story that has gained massive traction comes to us from Zimbabwe where a 17 year old boy was sentenced to be caned for a post he made on Facebook. The youth was found guilty of the charge of a criminal insult which could have carried a stiffer sentence were he of an adult [...]
SEO NEWS: Facebook Hacker Jailed
February 22nd, 2012In big SEO news, a software student that hacked Facebook has been sentenced to 8 months behind bars for his uninvited visit behind the wizard’s cloak of secrecy. Glenn Mangham, who pulled off what a Facebook spokesperson said could have been “utterly disastrous, has seen justice done to him in far swifter fashion than is [...]













