The latest ‘SEOmoz’ blog post is titled “February Linkscape Update: 66 Billion URLs”. Rand Fishkin says, “After some wrestling with Amazon’s EC2 and the tragic loss of many hard disks therein, we’ve finally finished processing and have released the latest Linkscape update (previously scheduled for Feb. 14). This new index is, once again, quite large in comparison to our prior indices, and contains a mix of crawl data going back to the end of last year”. February Linkscape Update: 66 Billion URLs SEOmoz  [...]

The latest ‘SEOmoz’ blog post is titled “How Google Makes Liars Out of the Good Guys in SEO”. Wil Reynolds says, “This past week I gave the keynote presentation at Searchfest in Portland and I hit on a few themes that seemed to resonate with the audience, and Rand. So I wanted to share them here. It’s what I have been passionate about trumpeting for some time now”. How Google Makes Liars Out of the Good Guys in SEO SEOmoz  [...]

The latest ‘SEOmoz’ blog post is titled “92 Ways to Get (and Maximize) Press Coverage”. Chris Winfield says, “I love Ben Affleck’s first scene in the movie “Boiler Room.” I always felt that the quote above perfectly relates to companies and press coverage. The ones who don’t get coverage will quickly dismiss it as useless and a waste of time and money to pursue, while the ones who regularly get coverage just smile and hope that you keep thinking that way”. 92 Ways to Get (and Maximize) Press Coverage SEOmoz  [...]

The latest post on ‘ReadWriteWeb’ is titled “Did Yahoo Tip The Press To Force Facebook’s Hand In Patent Dispute?”. Dave Copeland says, “Yahoo is playing the press while trying to force Facebook into licensing between 10 and 20 of its patents. Yahoo is making fairly standard claims in Web tech circles: that a hotter, younger company is infringing on patents Yahoo registered years ago and now needs to cut the former Web behemoth in on some of the action”. Did Yahoo Tip The Press To Force Facebook’s Hand In Patent Dispute? ReadWriteWeb  [...]

The latest post on ‘ReadWriteWeb’ is titled “What Google+ Should Have Been: Bing’s Linked Pages”. Jon Mitchell says, “Bing launched Bing+ last week, it just skipped all the unnecessary stuff. (It’s not really called Bing+.) There’s a new feature called Linked Pages that allows Bing users (U.S. only, for now) to connect their various websites and profiles to their Bing identities, using Facebook for authentication. You can also link your Facebook friends to their pages”. What Google+ Should Have Been: Bing’s Linked Pages ReadWriteWeb  [...]

The latest post on ‘ReadWriteWeb’ is titled “How to Stay Safe on Pinterest”. Alicia Eler says, “Pinterest. It’s a free for all, the perfect place to find visually stimulating images and then perform fast, repining actions. Populate your online bulletin board (a.k.a. pinboard) with the inner visions of your mind. Just don’t forget that you’re probably frictionlessly sharing with Pinterest some of the same information you’re already posting to Facebook and Twitter”. How to Stay Safe on Pinterest ReadWriteWeb  [...]

The latest post on ‘ReadWriteWeb’ is titled “The Pirate Bay Switches from Torrents to Untraceable Magnet Links”. Jon Mitchell says, “The Pirate Bay will no longer link to .torrent files. It will use better technology instead. “Today marks the end of an era,” the Pirate Bay blog says. “Sort of.” The famed torrent site will now use magnet links. Magnet links don’t break as easily, and they’re more bandwidth-efficient for people who mirror the linked files”. The Pirate Bay Switches from Torrents to Untraceable Magnet Links ReadWriteWeb  [...]

The latest post on ‘ReadWriteWeb’ is titled “For Sale: Your Old Tweets”. Dave Copeland says, “Twitter is the latest social network to turn a buck with content you created. The company sold two years worth of old tweets to Datasift, a marketing data firm. Datasift will make the tweets and other data, including the locations of where people were when they used Twitter, available to its clients”. For Sale: Your Old Tweets ReadWriteWeb  [...]

The latest post on ‘Mashable’ is titled “Twitter Brings More Advertising to Mobile”. Lauren Indvik says, “Twitter is swiftly bringing more of its Promoted Products to its apps for iPhone, Android and the mobile web (m.twitter.com). The short-messaging service announced Tuesday that it has updated its iPhone and Android apps to display Promoted Accounts”. Twitter Brings More Advertising to Mobile Mashable.com  [...]

The latest post on ‘Mashable’ is titled “The Marketer’s Guide to Pinterest [INFOGRAPHIC]”. Zoe Fox says, “Pinterest, the darling digital pin board that’s turned the social media world upside down, is now a top traffic driverfor brands. That’s a good sign marketers should get their butts up to speed on the latest pinning tips and tricks. Fortunately for you, MDGadvertising has created an infographic explaining the nooks and crannies of the social network. Many brands — such as Etsy, Real Simple, Whole Foods and West Elm — are on board and have already... [...]