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Posted by randfishWhen should you disallow search engines in your robots.txt file, and when should you use meta robots tags in a page header? What about nofollowing links? In today's Whiteboard Friday, Rand covers these tools and their appropriate use in four situations that SEOs commonly find themselves facing. For reference, here's a still of this week's whiteboard. Click on it to open a high resolution image in a new tab! Video transcriptionHowdy Moz fans, and welcome to another edition of Whiteboard Fri... →

Google today announced a sweet little update to its Inbox email client. Now you can snooze an email — to make it pop up again in the future — at a time that’s more convenient. For instance, if you get an email about a restaurant reservation, under the Someday section of the snooze menu you […]... →

We're guessing that AMD will continue its relationship with Nintendo in making chips for its game machines.... →

The Valley has come to terms with the fact that it has a lot to lose if things don't go its way in Washington.... →

You may think you know a lot about the inner-workings of your phone, but your phone may have an even better picture of your mental state. A new study published yesterday in the Journal of Medical Internet Research by researchers from Northwestern University details how GPS and usage sensors can determine whether or not a user is exhibiting signs of depression. The report detailed that… Read More... →

A common rule of thumb among early stage VCs is to reserve 2–3X dollars for every $1 initially invested in a startup. This is in order to maintain ownership levels in selected portfolio companies and to support them through good times and bad. Obviously, it’s not optimal to invest the same amount per company. Given the often binary returns within VC portfolios, there are usually… Read More... →

Sony's deal with the Dark Knight helped it have a big June.... →

Good St. bills itself as a way to change the world “one quarter at a time,” and now it’s offering a way to do that as a company. When you sign-up for Good St., you’re committing to donate as little as 25 cents each day. Then you’ll get a daily email describing two charities chosen by the Good St. team, and you can vote for the organization that you want to support. Read More... →

We just got the official word: Tesla is announcing something tomorrow. What is that “something”? We… actually have no idea, at the moment. I’d love to say “YEAH! GET HYPED! NEW ANNOUNCEMENTS THAT WILL BE SUPER INTERESTING!” for the sake of readership — but I can’t really do that, because Tesla is keeping details super sparse. Could it be that… Read More... →

Don’t tell my bosses, who much prefer me to write scoops and shit, but my favorite part of my job is hosting the TechCrunch Meetups in various cities across the country. And don’t tell all the people I work with who are from San Francisco, but my favorite city in the world is the one I live in, New York City. Normally I’m pretty good at keeping secrets. My job depends on it.… Read More... →

Consumer PC market was "decidedly weaker," says AMD chief Lisa Su.... →

Today the CEOs of Yelp, Yahoo, Twitter, TripAdvisor, Rackspace, Pinterest, LinkedIn, Google, Gilt, and Etsy wrote a letter to leaders of the House of Representatives, pressing the politicians to pass a patent-reform bill called the Innovation Act of 2015 “this summer.” The collection of companies are part of the Internet Association, an industry trade group. The list of signed… Read More... →

Website hosting seems like such an easy decision. But not all hosting is created equal. In this episode of Technology Translated, you'll learn what you need to know so you can make a better hosting decision for your business. John P. is the host of GeekBeat.TV and is a former telecom executive and CMO for the data center and hosting company Layered Technologies. Technology Translated host Scott Ellis has found no one better at explaining the nuances of hosting than John.... →

Groupon appears to be readying itself to expand into food delivery and take on services like GrubHub. Today, Groupon announced its acquisition of food delivery service OrderUp and detailed its plans to expand into the $70 billion food ordering and delivery sector. Founded in 2009, the Baltimore-based OrderUp is currently live in 40 cities across the country, many of which are college towns.… Read More... →

PS4 outsells Xbox One once again.... →

Holy shit, Netflix. After reporting strong subscription growth and better-than-expected second quarter profit, Netflix went on a tear today, spiking around 18 percent in regular trading. The company is also up after hours. Let’s do a chart, just for fun: That’s got to feel good. It’s been a very busy week for Netflix, which managed an earlier record high ahead of its stock… Read More... →

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. The post SearchCap: Search In Bing Maps, Google Patent Search & PPC On Mobile appeared first on Search Engine Land. Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.... →

Reddit CEO Steve Huffman wants to bring in a new set of speech restrictions to the platform, but what those rules will ultimately look like is far from concrete. On Thursday afternoon during an Ask Me Anything session, incoming Reddit CEO explained his vision for how content should exist on the platform going forward. “We’re considering a set […]... →

The online auction site has been cleaning house ahead of its move to split off PayPal, and it may have paid off.... →

And lo, volatility returned to the crypto-markets. It’s been a fun week in the bitcoin markets, having seen the price of the stuff break the emotionally important $300 mark, only to fall back underneath it. The mini rally was perhaps inspired in part by Grecian fever dreams. And then there was Litecoin, which cause a stir by showing something akin to life, before giving up the ghost in… Read More... →