Written by Ric The Industrial Revolution in the 1700s to 1800s changed the world with machines. Now, we are in yet another revolution – the industrial revolution of data. Welcome to the “Big Data” – a term coined by scientists and engineers to describe the phenomenon of overflowing data and information. At present, the world stores 295 exabytes (1 exabyte = 1 billion gigabyte) of data. Roughly, 13 layers of books over the whole area of US. Uploading, sharing Every minute, 48 hrs of video are being uploaded in Youtube. Each person on earth plays back 140 videos per day. Total number of played back videos – 1 trillion! Blogging is the new norm. WordPress has 70 million blog accounts, and 39 million for Tumblr. We just love photos. 4.5 million are being uploaded in Flickr per day, 60 million in Instagram (will greatly increase after Facebook bought the app). People still add some more to the 100 billion photos in Facebook. Of Twitter’s 250 million tweets per day, 42 percent have content-sharing links. On [...]

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The old issue of content duplication again comes to mind, especially during the post-Panda period. Because of the need for for high-quality and original content, there is an influx of blog articles being posted. Same with the case of all the other content available online. Lately, we post a lot Just imagine all of the posts online, especially the ones about economically-important topics like SEO-related ones. The number of blog accounts drastically rose since last 2011 – WordPress has more than 73 million blog accounts already while Tumblr has almost 53 million – and counting. Guest blogging and article submission is also becoming a trend now because of the demand for high quality articles. There are different ways to get published. Either you own a site and publish everything there or you submit somewhere, get published and get noticed. Content duplication If a content appears in more than one web page then that is already considered a duplicate content. Now the focus shifts towards blog article articles. They are becoming more of mainstays of most [...]

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Learning more strategies is one step in developing my link building instincts. When I received this video link about guest blogging strategies from my boss, I immediately checked it. Guest blogging is one aspect of link building that I need to focus on in the next few months. And for beginners like me this video will help you a lot. Why should we guest blog? Guest blogging is a form of social media, which is gaining more attention recently. I remembered this forecast which says that there will be an increase in spending for social media ads this 2012. We can already see that happening this first quarter of 2012. The evolution path of SEO is already converging with social media. As more and more people use it, its role is changing. As social media communities are getting more connected, having a high trust and credibility rating in one social media community will result to positive brand awareness, more links, and of course good relationships with other social media marketers. A summary of strategies in [...]

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Article by Michelle Grace Search engines get smarter as SEO plays a larger role in the online industry, and as people find ways to trick robots just to get high ranking for their websites. A few years back, Google and Yahoo launched Microformats that handle the ambiguity of a website structure. Some websites have unstructured data that make search engine robots confused – often miss out what the the site’s niche really is. It is a technical misunderstanding between search engine crawlers and the data structures of a website. Microformat is a markup code that is capable of understanding webpage attributes such as events, contact information, customer reviews, and geographic details. In this article, we’ll cover how to manage and set up rich snippet microformats for review ratings. Knowing how to use these codes will be of advantage to SEO. Webmasters should also learn these codes because they deal with mark up language most of the time. Recently, Google results show review ratings that are represented by stars. Results that show ratings can catch the [...]

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by Kharyn Not every smart mobile has the same application. What Iphone has may not have on Android. True, they all have their own tools, but not Instagram. What is Instagram? Instagram is a special photo sharing application where users can convert captured images into different filters. It is the most frequented application on iOS. Users can choose from normal to vintage look, and turn their boring photos into something extraordinary. The sad thing is, this application has only been limited to Iphone users. Android, Blackberry, and other non-Iphone users don’t get the chance to experience the amazing features of this Snap-Sharing tool. Instagram Curiosity Every time I browse Facebook and Twitter, I could see my friends’ pictures flooding on my newsfeed on Instagram arrangements. I got curious with these time-honored, classical-looking snapshots that make them look very special. The Instagram Prestige Acquiring an Instagram application gives someone an impression being a High-Maintenance. Instagram only existed on Iphones, and these phones are very expensive. This is why only the elites, and the well-to-do in life [...]

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