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Month: March 2014

search engine market share
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comScore, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR) published a monthly analysis of the US search market for February 2014. Following are the key points and the figures correspond to the number of explicit core searches. • Google's sites topped the list with 67.5% (11.9 billion). • Microsoft scored 18.4 % (3.3 billion) • Yahoo sites' scored 10.3 % (1.8 billion). • Ask Network scored 2.4 % (431 million). • AOL, Inc. earned 1.3 % (235 million). In terms of change in points (when compared to January 2014), only Microsoft's sites showed a positive change (up 0.1 %). Google and Yahoo! had a negative change - 0.1 % each. Ask Network and AOL, Inc. showed no change. In terms of percentage change (when compared to January 2014), following were the scores – all had negative scores. • Google's sites: -10 % • Microsoft's sites: -9 % • Yahoo Sites: -10 % • Ask Network: -10 % • AOL, Inc.: -7 % According to comScore, an explicit search involves “user engagement with a search service with the intent to retrieve search results.” And “Explicit Core Search” does not take into consideration 'contextually driven searches'. Contextually driven searches do not reflect specific user intent to interact with the search results. As for organic search results, Google's score was 69.0 % of the total number of searches and Bing had 27.0 %. About comScore comScore, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR) is a global leader in digital measurement and analytics, presents insights on web, mobile and TV consumer behavior to help clients maximize the value of their digital investments. For more information, please visit www.comscore.com/companyinfo. Contact: Adam Lella comScore, Inc. +1 (312) 775-6474 press@comscore.com

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danger disavow links
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Google's “disavow links” is a useful tool. It helps you improve the ranking of your website in Google search results. However, there are exceptions: this tool can affect your search results adversely if you do not use it with proper caution. We have listed here a few things that you should know about Google's “disavow tools”. “Nofollow links” need not be disavowed Google's rankings of a website and other linked pages is not affected by nofollow links. Hence, there is no need for you to add these links in the disavow links file you send to Google. read_more This has been made clear by Google's John Mueller that we can avoid nofollow links. “You don't need to include any nofollow links [...] what happens with links that you submit as a disavow, when we recrawl them we treat them similarly to other nofollowed links.” Google Webmaster Tools still shows the disavowed links Google takes disavowed links as nofollow links. Thus, even the links are disavowed, they continue to be on display in Webmaster Tools. John Mueller of Google has admitted this in an interview and it is not a matter of concern if these links appear in Google webmaster tools. Google overlooks comments in “disavow file” The comments in the disavow file are for the own use of the user and Google ignores these comments. This has also been made clear bu John Mueller in an interview. “The disavow file is something that is processed completely automatically. If you put a lot of text in those comments in the disavow file, then nobody will be looking at them. Those comments are essentially for you, to help you understand the file a little bit better and those comments are not used by the webspam team.” Mind swings can be dear If you do not want a link to be disavowed, you remove that link from your disavow file and reupload the file. If you so do, the issue is Google considers the reavowed link unnatural. Google can penalize your site and harder than ever before they remove the penalty. John Mueller explains it thus: “Links are essentially only disavowed as long...

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rescue team
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It can take a lot of time to properly research a web host and there is still a certain probability that you may end up with a bad one. The servers may go offline, it may be hard to reach a human being there, they may let their server get overloaded causing it to slow down , or the company could be bought and sold. For those reasons and possibly many more, you might find yourself having to move your website to a good web host; for example 4GoodHosting. ; ) Wordpress is the most popular blogging platform, is is offered by most web hosts; although there a several other popular choices as well. When relocating your Wordpress blog, you will need to go through the following steps. These steps also serve as a general outline for other blogging scripts too: Make/download a backup of your site/blog, including: Theme directories/files Uploads directory Plugins directory read_more Database (you need to export this through mySQL using phpMyAdmin in your hosting account control panel ) Copy your database (“db”) You can do this manually or use a program like phpMyAdmin to explore the database and the import it into your new hosting account using phpMyAdmin in your hosting account control panel. Create an installation of WordPress in your new hosting account. Configure WordPress to use your imported database Upload theme files, uploads and plugins direct directories Test that everything is working correctly. Extra information: WordPress has a built-in export/import tool that you can try instead of this manual method. You will still need to copy your upload directory manually. Make sure you have the latest version of WordPress on both hosting account. Migrating from one version to a different version might cause errors, especially if it involves a major version jump. A bad web host can be a nightmare, but it is not one you have to endure. Find another host and move your blog as soon as you can. Dealing with a negligent web host can be a nightmare; but you don't need to suffer any more. Bring your or your friend's blog or website to 4GoodHosting. We offer free website transfers,...

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