In this article we will be talking about what was labeled as “May Day” in the webmaster world – and we will also be taking a look at the more recent update, entitled after the engineer that designed it, named the “Panda” update. We will compare and contrast the two and draw conclusions on what we can learn from each and how to prevent a website from being susceptible to a potential algorithm update.

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What kind of people are most active on social media? James Barry gives some interesting insight into social media trends today. Enjoy the article.

The headline grabbing result from a new study commissioned by Child’s Play Communications and conducted by The NPD Group Inc. is that “79% of all moms in the U.S. with children under the age of 18 are active in social media.” The corollary to that impressive number is, of course, that 21 per cent of U.S. moms likely do not have the time to keep up with the burgeoning world of social media..

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This is a short article by Anna Johnson I thought was interesting.

Does Being on Twitter and Facebook Help You on Google and Bing?

Does being active on Twitter and Facebook help you get higher search engine rankings on Google and Bing? According to Danny Sullivan, who interviewed search engine executives from Google and Bing, your presence and activity on Twitter and Facebook DOES influence your search engine rankings. How? Read on…

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Cloud computing is commonly used for services that includes delivering hosted services over the internet. It has been divided into three categories (i) Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), (ii) Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) and (iii) Software-as-a-Service (SaaS). The services offered by cloud are different from that of traditional hosting. It is highly flexible as it can be sold depending on minute or hour. High speed internet and innovations has attracted the attention of the audience in cloud computing.

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