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SEM Terminology Part 2

Feb 4th, 2008 | By Dave | Category: Commentary, Editors' Choice Awards, Features, Future Trends, General Information, Industry Experts, Marketing, News Bytes, Search Engine Marketing

This is the second and final part in our two parter on terminology for SEO. Through out the month we will be referring to the terminology listed here so read up and then we can get started.



Kicking Off SEM Month: Terminology

Feb 2nd, 2008 | By Dave | Category: Editors' Choice Awards, Features, General Information, Industry Experts, Marketing, News Bytes, Search Engine Marketing

Ok, so SEM month kicks off today and I want to start with the basics. I bet you all saw that one coming. This month we will go through what you need to do when building a site from the ground up and how to run SEM on a current site.



Privacy and Social Networking Sites

Sep 27th, 2007 | By Dave | Category: Commentary, Future Trends, General Information, News Bytes

A recent study documented that the majority of users for Facebook and MySpace do not mind trading privacy for features. The study also points to the fact that the majority of users post private and personal information.



Emboldened Hackers sell Hack Kits on eBay

Sep 19th, 2007 | By Dave | Category: In the News, Industry Experts, News Bytes

Tier-3, a behavioural analysis IT security company, spotted some interesting turn of events in the realm of hacking.



Online Fraudsters Bringing Down the Monster

Aug 27th, 2007 | By Dave | Category: News Bytes

A recently disclosed fraud involving hundreds of thousands of people on the Monster.com jobs Web site reveals the perils of leaving detailed personal information online, security analysts say.



Phishers Likely to Capitalize on Wells Fargo Computer Crash Woes

Aug 24th, 2007 | By Dave | Category: News Bytes

Following their widespread computer crash earlier this week Wells Fargo & Co. may have a new problem to deal with: online scammers and phishing schemes.



Blogger and Blogspot Rocked by Outage

Aug 23rd, 2007 | By Dave | Category: News Bytes

Blogger, Google?s own blog publishing brand, and Blogspot blog hosting services were knocked offline Wednesday, August 22. Among the companies that were affected by the outage was Google itself, which hosts its official company blog using Blogspot.



Cost of Cybercrime Tools Fall

Mar 5th, 2007 | By Dave | Category: In the News, News Bytes

At the RSA Conference 2007, Jens Hinrichsen, RSA’s product marketing manager for fraud action, showed several screenshots to illustrate the lowering of hacker tool pricing.



Lenovo recalls Extended-Life Laptop Batteries

Mar 3rd, 2007 | By Dave | Category: In the News, News Bytes

Lenovo voluntarily recalled several Sanyo Electric lithium ion extended-life batteries for use in their ThinkPad notebook computers.



Two Plead No Contest in MySpace Extortion Scam

Mar 1st, 2007 | By Dave | Category: General Information, In the News, News Bytes

Shaun Harrison and Saverio F Mondelli, both of New York, pleaded no contest to the single charge of unauthorized computer access stemming from a complicated extortion scheme that targeted popular social network, MySpace. Three other charges were dropped.