Those of you who have a blog and didn’t do it yet, it is never too late.
Facebook had released a super easy API that allows you to add a LIKE button to any page on your site. You can put it in your blog, forum, pictures or any other page. Needless to say, these buttons are serious traffic boosters.
Go ahead, the instructions are here.
It looks like this:
Google reported yesterday that their Street View cars have been recorded all the traffic they could gather from open WIFI networks in their way.
This means that if you were there at the right time and the right place and didn’t use any service that will help you connect to Facebook in https, it is more than likely that Google has your Facebook password. Isn’t that cool?
Their statements end with an apology: “Google works hard to earn your trust—and we are acutely aware that we failed badly here. We are profoundly sorry for this error and are determined to learn all the lessons we can from our mistake.”
Remember the buzz apology? I have a feeling that sometime soon they will apologize again. This is not the last time that our privacy is trashed by Google.
Yesterday morning our Paypal account was blocked by Paypal. There was no prior notification, no questions were asked and no warnings were given. Just like that: No Soup For You!
Users that tried to signup to our service got this error message:
When we tried to sign in to our paypal account we got this error message.
Needless to say how shocked we were as nothing on our account was against the Paypal TOS, not even close to the gray zone. Lucky us we have just opened a new Paypal account and the old account is still active. We have switched back to the old account and got back to full service in just a few hours. We are still working on unblocking that new Paypal account, hopefully we will be able to save the money in the account and keep the subscriptions running.
It is pretty frustrating to build a business using a 3rd party pendor and get a punch in the face just like that without any prior notification. It has been just 3 months ago that my friend Hilit got her Gmail banned, and now it’s Paypal doing the exact same thing.
We have learned an important lesson here, and we’re working hard to add another billing vendor besides Paypal. Since some users trust Paypal more than others, we’ll leave it as a secondary payment method for users that ask for it. We have started integration with Authorize.net and I hope to have it up and running ASAP, hopefully early next week.
Google has just announced that faster websites will be ranked higher.
There are few tools like Page Speed and YSlow that you can use to optimize your site speed, and of course if you thought about a stronger platform for your website, now you have another reason to do so.
Question: How is that possible that I see different SERPS (Search Engine Result Pages) when I’m logged in to Gmail than the SERPS I saw when I was logged out?
Another Question: How is that possible that I see different SERPS when I use Firefo, Chrome or Internet Explorer?
The answer is Google Personalized Search.
Here is an excellent video that explains this issue - for dummies.
Google has announced that the love afair between Google and the Chinese government is over. Google has stpped censoring the internet and they are minutes before being blocked all over China. On the short run, this is a bad move for Google, since they are going to loose some money as of this move. In the long run, they proved that their Do No Evil policy is not just a slogan.
Internet users in China that want to access Google are welcome to try Securitales. It works from China without any problem.
The official Google post is here
Wordtracker blog has an excellent post about Long Tail Keywords.
I’m on my way to France for Ski so I don’t have time to write about it now. I’ll write about it more when I’m back.
See you soon!
Listen to the audio below.
The kid that says “Jet Blue 171, clear for takeoff” didn’t go to school that day, and instead went with his dad to work.
Isn’t that fun when your dad works in the JFK AIRPORT TOWER!