The Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA) H.R. 624. CISPA allows U.S. Federal Government to perform search and seizure without a warrant, without individuals even being aware they were being analyzed or knowing their data was taken and then, shared with various agencies.
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Google Panda Update Coming this Weekend
Google is releasing an update to their Panda webspam algorithm either this Friday (March 15th, 2013), or Monday (March 18th, 2013). Matt Cutts of Google confirmed this information this week at SMX. Also mentioned: Google will release a major, as in very large, Penguin update before the end of this year.
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Still Fighting Google EMD Update
It’s always frustrating when clients, employers, friends, etc. want quick SEO results… it takes weeks, sometimes months to see changes. And quality is king! The EMD (Exact Match Domain name) update caused a LOT of issues!
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Google EMD Update… Sinking Websites by the Dozen!
Google announced a new algorithm change last week that took effect over the weekend, it’s aimed at EMD (Exact Match Domain names, it’s punishing a lot of valid web sites and rewarding sites that should not rank as high as they do… so like Panda and Penguin, it misses the mark… unless, Google’s aim is to get more people BUYING ads
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Google Penguin = Pain…
There’s been a lot of yelling and cussing about Google’s “Penguin” update that was rolled out the last week or so of April 2012. And rightly so: it stinks! Panda (a previous Google update) didn’t affect me or my sites. Penguin has hit me hard. It’s hit in another way too: as a consumer I now find my searches on Google are much less useful.
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Conflicting Thought Patterns
I spent some time thinking about people I’d worked with in the past, and which ones had succeeded and which ones had not… and I tried to find something that was common to each group. I found this tidbit: people who cannot unplug, who cannot isolate, are more likely to fail over time than those able to turn off the phone, email, social media, other distractions, and focus. This also parallels not obsessing on what others think of you or your ideas.
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