Google, it seems, is not contented with just giving people a view of almost any road in the world via their computers. As if that wasn’t amazing enough, Google has introduced an even more amazing feature, one that virtually allows users to travel back in time, so to speak. According to a report by Gizmag, Google announced a new feature that lets users see what a street looked like up to seven years ago.
The feature, which is indicated by a clock in the upper left-hand corner of an image, can be used with a simple click of that clock. A window will then pop up and present you with a slider that you can move to street scenes from as far back as 2007. The thumbnails of those scenes will change as you move the slider, and you can take a closer look at any given thumbnail by clicking on it.
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Lately we have been taking not a few clients who had previous SEO companies that engaged in techniques that hurt the client website’s rankings. So I thought today I’ll share a little bit about how to recover from bad links and get the Google penalty removed from your site.
If you’re one of those website owners who still haven’t decided to make their sites mobile-ready, maybe this bit of news from Jessica Lee for Search Engine Watch would finally push you towards making that move. According to the article by Lee, a recent study has found out that 80% of local searches on mobile phones convert.
Have you noticed something different with your Google Search Engine Results Pages (SERPs) lately? If you have, then welcome to the latest changes that Google has made with the SERPs, which means webmasters have to make little tweaks again to stay on top of the SERPs. Dr. Peter J. Meyers discusses these changes for The Moz Blog.
For an Internet marketer, it is an inherent goal for their posts, emails and other contents to be actively shared by readers and recipients with other people. These, however, have to contain certain emotions in order to be shared as actively as we want. This is the gist of an article written by Courtney Seiter for Buffer.
It’s just amazing how many highly successful people started small before they hit it big. In an article for Buffer, Joel Gascoigne relates how Dale Carnegie’s massive best-sellerHow to Win Friends and Influence People actually just started out as “a set of rules printed on a card no larger than a postcard”.
Most people don’t like making mistakes or failing at anything. Highly successful people, however, actually crave them, according to an article by Belle Beth Cooper for Buffer.
How safe are your passwords? Do you name them after your dog or “happy123”? Or do you have one password you keep using for 90% of logins? I guess I don’t have to tell you that such a practice is high risk. So here is some hopeful news for all people who use insecure or repeating passwords.
An A/B test conducted by a Finland-based hardware eCommerce store has shown that contrary to popular notion, removing social sharing buttons boosts conversions.