Facebook is using a sort of web page prerendering mechanism in it’s in-app browser for mobile users [see disclosure here]. It is used by Facebook’s in-app browser to speed up page rendering for web link content shared on Facebook. But it can cause serious headaches, and this post should explain how to mitigate it with Apache or nginx.
Read moreDo you or your client have a popular Facebook fanpage?! If so – this article might be interesting to you, but first – let’s start with definition of “hammering”, although the term is not unknown to webmasters…
Read moreBlackhat SEO branded keywords hijacking. Say whaaaat?! Oh, yes! Read about blackhat cloacking technique used mainly by scammers where your branded keywords are used to drive traffic to scam ecommerce sites.
Read moreThe Heartbleed Bug is a serious vulnerability recently discovered in the widely used OpenSSL cryptographic software library. Although OpenSSL is not directly used in Magento, it’s used on many web servers Magento is run on, providing support for secure (!) connections and transmission of sensitive data. In short – if your Magento website is properly configured, it’s very likely that your checkout process utilizes OpenSSL library at some point. Concerned?! You should be…
Read morePinterest can be a valuable inbound source for eCommerce sites dealing with visually appealing products.
Read moreGoogle today announced a change in clicks for all in-app image ad banners on smartphones.
Read moreFinally, Facebook EdgeRank explained using deductive reasoning and thorough analysis.
Read moreThere are many Magento robots.txt templates floating around, with tens of instructions for crawlers. Most of them deal with preventing crawlers to access some of many Magento’s directories. But sometimes these instructions can be too restrictive and might prevent Google from indexing your images.
Read moreLunaMetrics recently published very useful cheatsheet with image/photo dimensions for popular social media sites. Find out how to properly resize your pictures before using them as timeline covers, profile images, etc.
Read moreGoogle has launched disavow links tool.
Google sends message in Webmaster Tools about “unnatural links” pointing to a sitwhen they encounter paid links, link exchanges, or other link schemes that violate Google’s quality guidelines.
Read moreGoogle Tag Manager is a free tool that eliminates tedious code-editing tasks for your website. The easy-to-use web interface lets your marketing colleagues add and update their own website tags—including javascript code snippets for conversion tracking, site analytics, remarketing and more. They can do it all without bothering you, leaving you time to relax and focus on other important work. – says Google Tag Manager promo material.
Read moreWhile it has astonishing 950 millions users, Avinash Kaushik sees Facebook as completely different advertising story compared to other digital advertising channels. In his latest blogpost he criticizes Facebook ROI explanation given by a Facebook employee on a recent tech conference and in return gives completely different point of view.
Read moreThere are 100 new enterprise and 1000s new Magento Community Edition and Go retailers a month!
Read moreAn overwhelming majority (90 percent) dedicates time to networking online and 74 percent find networking online just as, if not more, valuable than networking in person
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