Статьи по тегу «internet»

Another UK parliamentary committee has weighed in on the government’s controversial plan to regulate Internet content with a broadbrush focus on ‘safety’. The Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) Committee, warned in detailed report today that it has “urgent concerns” the draft legislation “neither adequately protects freedom of expression nor is clear and robust enough […]... →

What is considered SEO-friendly content? This concept has changed a lot since SEO started. Have you been keeping up? How much content do we need for Google to “like” our pages? Whatever you do, don’t create “fluff” content, says Google’s John Mueller on Twitter, so Jim Boykin, CEO of Internet Marketing Ninjas, and Ann Smarty, IMN’s analyst got together to discuss “fluff” content: The post How to Identify and Avoid Fluff Content for Better Rankings in Google appeared first on Internet Marketing Ninjas Blog.... →

Google has encouraged website owners to use “nofollow” link attribute for years to mark self-serving, user-generated and paid links. Then in 2019, they added two more link attributes – rel=”sponsored” and rel=”ugc” – that would allow them to better understand link graphs. When introducing the two extra link attributes, Google also pointed out that they were changing their treatment of the nofollow attribute. Before then nofollow had been a strong... [Read More...] The post Nofollow, UGC Or Sponsored Link At... →

Moroccan B2B e-commerce and retail startup Chari confirmed to TechCrunch that it has secured a bridge round at a $100 million valuation. The bridge round welcomed new investors Khwarizmi Ventures, Air Angels and Afri Mobility, the venture capital arm of AKWA Group. They join existing investors (Y Combinator, Rocket Internet, Global Founders Capital, Plug n […]... →

There are many ways of spinning up a startup, but it takes a particularly brave set of founders to take on a deeply entrenched industry with a small number of incumbents who have the market all sown up. You’d have to be a special flavor of bold to take on internet search for example — […]... →

What a rollercoaster day for China’s tech industry. TikTok’s parent company ByteDance has dissolved its strategic investment team, sending worrying messages to other internet giants that have expanded aggressively by investing in other companies. At the beginning of this year, ByteDance reviewed its “businesses’ needs” and decided to “reduce investments in areas that are not […]... →

Ever since Google’s Panda, SEOs have had a continuous debate: Can low-quality pages of the site negatively impact high-quality content and drag their rankings down? Most websites have a bunch of older, thin, outdated content that may have no positive signals (in terms of backlinks and traffic). Can those pages be holding your key pages down and prevent them from ranking higher? How do we identify those lower quality pages?... [Read More...] The post Can Low-Quality Content Decrease Google Rankings of Your H... →

See the Full Jim and Ann discussion in the video below. Have you recently received a dreaded manual penalty notification alerting you of a manual action Google has taken on your site? If it is backlink-related, you are likely to see a huge drop in organic clicks once you are penalized by Google. Your next step would be cleaning up your links (if it’s link-related of course) and file a... [Read More...] The post Google Penalties Backlog and Mapping Your Backlinks to Known Link Sellers appeared first on Inter... →

Have you recently received a dreaded manual penalty notification alerting you of a manual action Google has had on your site? If it is backlink-related, you are likely to see a huge drop in organic clicks once you are penalized by Google. Your next step would be cleaning up your links (if it’s link-related of course) and file a reconsideration request with Google to get that penalty lifted and wait... [Read More...] The post You’d Better NOT Get Penalized by Google Today! appeared first on Internet Marketin... →

In 2020, Africa50, an infrastructure financier backed by the Africa Development Bank (AfDB) Group and a good number of African governments, hosted an innovation challenge that sought affordable and reliable solutions for last-mile internet connectivity across the continent. A proposal by Poa Internet, a Kenyan startup beat 673 others from across the world as a […]... →

Barry Schwartz from Search Engine Roundtable and Jim Boykin from Internet Marketing Ninjas have done a series of videos discussing important SEO topics and recent SEO trends. The post Barry Schwartz asks Jim Boykin on Link Building, Disavow, Domain Authority and More appeared first on Internet Marketing Ninjas Blog.... →

Halsey Minor has lived many lives. One of the founders of CNET, Minor entered tech media at a time when the closest thing most of us had to the web was a spider spinning cobwebs on an old NES. Born in Charlottesville, Virginia, Minor worked for Merrill Lynch during the rise of the internet in […]... →

Tencent has invested in Easy Transfer, a startup that aims to make tuition payments less stressful for hundreds of thousands of overseas Chinese students. Tencent declined to comment for the story, but Tony Gao, founder and CEO of Easy Transfer, told TechCrunch that the internet giant now owns about 5% of his company. The investment, […]... →

The internet loves an unlikely success story, and as we approached the new year, one came around the corner to delight us with a simple idea, and a short game to play it out: Wordle, where you guess a five-letter word in six tries, and then laugh and cry with others as you share your […]... →

Web3 is seen as the future of the internet because it allows people to control their own data and digital assets, but crypto developers have been learning from the past when it comes to onboarding new users. The current state of crypto onboarding is unwieldy and unnecessarily prolonged due to the seed phrase, a series […]... →

A brewing scandal over the alleged historical use of controversial mobile spyware by Poland’s ruling party against an opposition lawmaker is raising questions over the legitimacy of the country’s 2019 parliamentary elections. Internet watchdog Citizen Lab found that the NSO Group’s notorious spyware Pegasus was used to spy on three critics of the Polish government. […]... →

Fresh from raising a $244 million Series C (that valued the company then $1.7 billion) back in June, K12 online tutoring marketplace GoStudent has now raised a $340 million Series D round led by new investor Prosus, an Amsterdam-based investment firm best known for investing in Latin American and US-based LatinX internet properties. GoStudent expanded […]... →

Finalsite, an internet software house that provides school districts with website design, hosting, and content management solutions, has been hit by a ransomware attack. Earlier this week, school districts whose websites are hosted by Finalsite discovered that they were no longer accessible or displayed errors. While at the time Finalsite blamed the issues on “performance difficulties” […]... →

Chinese internet titan Tencent is divesting its vast portfolio. On Tuesday, the company announced plans to offload more than $3 billion worth of shares in Sea, a Singaporean internet conglomerate, trimming its stake in Sea from 21.3% to 18.7% and bringing its voting rights under 10%.  The move came less than a month after Tencent […]... →

Threat intelligence giant Recorded Future announced Tuesday that it has acquired SecurityTrails, an internet inventory startup that collects and banks current and historical domain and IP address data, for $65 million. Financial terms of the deal were not immediately disclosed. A spokesperson for Recorded Future confirmed the acquisition price. SecurityTrails collects and maintains vast amounts […]... →