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SEO NEWS: Tweets Bring 140 Character News from Afghanistan

February 23rd, 2012

A 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: Twitter Supresses Tweeting!

February 1st, 2012

On the heels of Twitter announcing that they consent to country specific suppression of ideas expressed in content in order to spread their platform to new territory, Google has decided that suppression sounds like a good idea and jumped on the bandwagon behind them. Without so much as any notice to many users of their [...]

 
 

SEO NEWS: Twitter Censorship?

January 31st, 2012

A number of SEOs and SMMs participated in the January 28 blackout of Twitter, but for the most part, nobody else did or noticed anything different. The 28th was supposed to be the day that Twitter users were encouraged to go black on the network to protest Twitters agreement with several governments to censor or [...]

 
 

SEO NEWS: Employers Examine Social Networks

January 27th, 2012

As a new year is well underway, now is the perfect time for everyone from the top SEOs to the regular Joe hanging out on Twitter to Google them self. It’s not a matter of ego – well maybe a little bit, there is a practical reason that have many SEO’s on board with this [...]

 
 

SEO NEWS: Klout Failing as New Social Trust Indicator

January 26th, 2012

A number of members of the SEO and SMM community are calling out Klout long after their latest tweak still. Klout is a platform which is supposed to measure the value of your social networking influence, although it actually only measures what you do on Twitter at this time. The problem has been that the [...]