Although the term “bookmarking” may have started when discussing print novels and holding your place, it has since evolved to the Internet. There is now online bookmarking, sometimes referred to as social bookmarking, which allows you to save a link to the web as opposed to your browser. In other words, utilizing a bookmarking tool will help make it easy to refer back to a specific website. You don’t need to remember any information, and you don’t need to save the information directly to your browser.
Google may have started a bookmark phenomenon with Google bookmarks, but the most popular form of online bookmarking comes from social bookmarking sites such as Digg and Reddit. However, the recent Digg news leaves many to believe that social bookmarking just isn’t what it used to be. You can’t help but ask yourself: Is bookmarking dead? [Read more...]
Link Building Spammers Still Don’t Get It – Do You?
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In this post I’ll give a couple examples why link spam is still alive and how it is a threat to your blog. I guess I should toss in a couple of solutions for you as well.
Google added the Penguin updates with the primary goal of getting a handle on black hat techniques like spamdexing. Despite all of the media attention and how it seemed to dominate social media conversations for a while, at least in my circles, link spammers are still going after those links like cockroaches after crumbs in the dark. [Read more...]