WordPress.org “blacking out” today
Many websites are blacked out today to protest proposed U.S. legislation that threatens internet freedom: the Stop Internet Piracy Act (SOPA) and the Protect IP Act (PIPA). In protest of the Congressional consideration of SOPA, the Stop Online Piracy Act, hundreds of websites protesting today.
From personal blogs to Wikipedia, sites all over the web include Google, Reddit, Mozilla/Firefox, and WordPress. The blackout will last for 24 hours on January 18 for most websites.
What are SOPA and PIPA?
SOPA and PIPA represent two bills in the United States House of Representatives and the United States Senate respectively. SOPA is short for the “Stop Online Piracy Act,” and PIPA is an acronym for the “Protect IP Act.” (“IP” stands for “intellectual property.”) In short, these bills are efforts to stop copyright infringement committed by foreign web sites, but, in our opinion, they do so in a way that actually infringes free expression while harming the Internet. Detailed information about these bills can be found in the Stop Online Piracy Act and PROTECT IP Act articles on Wikipedia, which are available during the blackout. GovTrack lets you follow both bills through the legislative process: SOPA on this page, and PIPA on this one. The Electronic Frontier Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to advocating for the public interest in the digital realm, has summarized why these bills are simply unacceptable in a world that values an open, secure, and free Internet.
You can watch the video below.
See a full list of sites on strike here
Make your web site faster with Google’s page speed
Earlier this year Google made official that website load time impacts Google Rank. It basically means the longer it takes your page to load, the lower rank you will receive from Google.Usin Google Page Speed Online webmasters can see which add-ons and elements are slowing their sites Test yours now!
Top 10 Search Queries In 2011
According to Searchengineland.com Facebook is number one search query of 2011.. They looked at the top 1,000 search queries of 2011 and found that Facebook topped the list for the third year in a row.
Total Facebook had 4 of the highest 10 search terms for 2011, the identical as in 2010. Nonetheless queries volume for the collection of Facebook terms grew 33 percent vs. last year.
Social networking-associated terms dominated the outcomes, accounting for 4.18 p.c of the highest 50 searches. This is a rise of 12 % compared with 2010.
Top search queries of 2010 and 2011
According to Hitwise, the top 10 websites visited in the US were the following:
Subdomains CO.CC – Welcome back To Google
Six months ago, Google delisted all sites on a co.cc domain name. They seem to have all returned today.Google saw a many sites on that subdomain to be “spammy or low-quality” and simply blocked the whole subdomain from showing up in Google’s results.
Whether this is intentional or a bug we dont know.We will see.
Previously (six months ago):
A search for [site:co.cc] currently returns 104,000,000 results.
Five Popular SEO myths
Over the years numbers of information’s and articles have been posted around the web by many people, regarding Search Engine Optimization. Here is a list of five popular SEO myths to show whether it’s true fact or not.
Anchor Text:
Anchor Text will be the hyperlinked text you see on a website page and when you click the text, you will be taken to another page. Example of Anchor Text is: Internet Marketing Company.
Anchor Text is really important factor for SEO since it will help be search engines to determine the rankings of website. Anchor text, will certainly increase your website rankings and authority.
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