Archive for the ‘Information’ Category

Many peo­ple won­der why their stan­dard web­site is not doing for them what it used to. The main rea­son is that their page con­tent doesn’t change often enough. The Inter­net has evolved in the past few years. Today, inter-​​connectivity and fresh, ever chang­ing con­tent are king. The top search engines now give the high­est rank­ing in key­word searches to web­sites whose con­tent changes often.

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With national unem­ploy­ment at 9.8 per­cent, Amer­i­cans are look­ing for ways to make their job appli­ca­tions stand out.

How­ever, pep­per­ing résumés with tired or empty buzz­words prob­a­bly isn’t the recipe for becom­ing a stand­out job candidate.

LinkedIn, the social net­work­ing site for pro­fes­sion­als, has com­piled a list of the 10 most overused terms and phrases within the pro­files of its 85 mil­lion members.

“We wanted to reveal insights that help pro­fes­sion­als make bet­ter choices about how to posi­tion them­selves online,” DJ Patil, LinkedIn’s lead data ana­lyst, said in a statement.

The insights from CNN through LinkedIn.

DDoS cyber attack can harm you!

If you have been read­ing the papers this morn­ing you already know about Oper­a­tion Pay­back, a group look­ing to avenge what they con­sider attacks by the cor­po­rate world against Wik­iLeaks founder Julian Assange.

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Did I miss the SEO Boat?

Just got off the phone with a fast talk­ing sales rep from a com­pany that swore they were a Google part­ner and could “guar­an­tee” first page rank­ing in Google for my web­site. I must be crazy because after argu­ing with this guy for a half-​​hour I turned down his fan­tas­tic promises, unsub­stan­ti­ated guar­an­tees, and super dis­counts. He warned me mul­ti­ple times that I would miss the boat for­ever if I didn’t sign up immediately.

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