Webcology

Following up on the major outage web hosting company GoDaddy suffered that took down its website, servers, and DNS infrastructure completely for several hours. We hear about some cyber security measures that you should apply with Carolyn Shelby, the Director of Search for Tribune Company and 435 Digital. We also preview the annual Digital World Expo in Las Vegas later this month with conference ch...

Jim and Dave host a Facebook Privacy Roundtable discussion, including third party apps and what they record, kids and privacy and the importance of privacy with the author of The Last Original Idea and the founding partner at Digital Always Media Alan K'necht and Michelle Stinson-Ross, the Founder and Principal Consultant at Firestarter Social Media. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.co...

RavenTools Revered for Helping Rehab Employee Recovering from an accident that resulted in a coma. Plus, Jim and Dave discuss some Social Media Hits and Misses, and how Samsung traded a new Galaxy phone for a cool dragon drawing. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Less than a week after launching a fundraising campaign to build a Tesla museum, comic website The Oatmeal has reached 850k in donations. Microsoft make a new logo change, and the words Search and Social avoid the trademark. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

SES San Francisco 2012 Recap; Evaluating The Value of Facebook as its stock price continues to drop; Twitter founders Twitter, Biz Stone and Evan Williams start new Medium social publishing site. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Google to pull Gmail information into search engine results; Google Plus and rationalization? Jim discusses these and more with guest co-host Thom Craver, Senior Technical SEO Manager at TopRank Online Marketing Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Facebook Click Fraud? Jim and guest host Miranda Miller from Search Engine Watch welcome Brian Carter for a discussion about Facebook advertising. Internet Law Center founder Bennett Kelley also joins us to discuss the state of cyberlaw. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Comparing Penguin and Panda: Drops in Rankings as Google rolls out the latest update to its Panda algorithm. Jim and Dave differentiate the significance of the drops in ranking that the Google Penguin and Panda algorithm have created. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Analyzing the Hire of New Yahoo CEO, Marissa Mayer, what kind of expectations will she need to meet, and how much time will she get to turn the Yahoo ship around. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Social Media Camp Victoria 2012 Recap with Motivational Speaker Fred Sarkari; 450000 Yahoo Voice passwords stolen in data breach; A Beloved and Respected Female Search Engine Industry Journalist is Threatened. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Jim and Dave speak with DuckDuckGo Founder Gabriel Weinberg. Named by Time Magazine as one of The 50 Best Websites of 2011, DuckDuckGo is a simple, straightforward search engine that is considered reminiscent of early Google. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

More Facebook Ranting; Microsoft launches Surface, a line of tablet computers running the Windows 8 Pro and Windows RT operating systems; Anatomy of an Internal Link. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Jim offers some SES Toronto 2012 Observations, including how SEOs should plan for Madison Avenue to look to them for help. Jim and Dave also discuss ICANN and the announcement of thousands of gTLDs revealed. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Webcology Reaches 200 Podcasts as Jim and Dave reflects on the news that spoke about during that span. Facebook is reportedly testing out controls that would allow users under the age of 13 to participate under parental supervision. LinkedIn Password Leak is Confirmed after it was reported that over 6.4 million LinkedIn passwords had been leaked onto the internet. Advertising Inquiries: https://re...

Infographics and Data Visualization and how much to use them over blog posts or videos; YouTube Comedy Videos discussed with Darryl Lecraw from Fox Hound Digital and SkitforBrains.tv. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Facebook fallout from Wall Street following its initial public offering, ,Jim and Dave analyze the past 7 days, plus they discuss an article titled Linking to Promote Keyword Clusters. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Microsoft plans to roll out a revised version of its Bing search engine that includes a way to involve Facebook friends in the search process. Plus, Micheline Maynard discusses a recent Forbes article on Whats The Real Problem: Facebooks Ads, Or GM Cars? Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Dave discusses his appearance on Ecom Experts and how ecommerce is being affected by the Penguin and Panda Updates. Also, the LinkedIn purchase of SlideShare otherwise referred to by Jim as Powerpoint in the Clouds for 118.8 million dollars. Plus, a look into the Facebook IPO Roadshow as the social network looks to pitch its initial public stock offering. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.c...

Jim and Dave discuss the Google Penguin and Panda Updates with Michael David, the author of WordPress 3.0 Search Engine Optimization. Plus Jim recaps the highlights from SMX Toronto 2012. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

We learn about the YummyMummyClub as we speak with journalist, TV personality, former MuchMusic VJ, writer and composer Erica Ehm. Headlines this week include Google Going After Parked Domain Pages? Watch Your Inbound Link Counts; Torontos Village Idiot Mayor Makes Boing Boing. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Facebook buys Instagram: Good or Bad to Buy Before for the IPO, and will they try to buy Pinterest. Jim and Dave also discusses the Yahoo Layoffs and what CEO Scott Thompson plans for reorganization. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Google Cracking Down on Unnatural Links, Deindexing Blog Networks; New Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson sweeps out 2,000 employees in purge; Breaking Down 50 New Google Search Changes. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Jim and Dave discuss Google and the Over Optimization Penalty that Matt Cutts announced to allegedly level the playing ground. They also discuss a Bill Slawski post on his SEO By The Sea blog about the Evolution of Google With Social Search. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Jim and Dave discuss how former Googler James Whittaker openly blogs about about how Google is now obsessed with harvesting peoples private information and saying their social media efforts with Google + have been a failure threatened by Facebook. Jim also serves an extensive Forbes rant. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Google has made a couple of changes involving the +1 buttons, including that the color scheme is changing to white and red, plus Signed-in Google users can now thank others for hitting the +1 button. Jim and Dave also discuss a Search Engine Journal post entitled Are We Putting Ourselves Out of Business With All These How To Blog Posts? Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy &...