Posted by Dr. Pete If we’ve learned anything in 2012, it’s that Google isn’t letting up on low-value tactics. We’ve had the Penguin update, 13 Panda updates (so many that we needed a new naming scheme), and a crackdown on low-quality Exact Match Domains (EMDs), to name just a few. While I can’t tell you Google’s next move, I can tell you one thing with absolute certainty – there’s more to come. So, how can you protect what you’ve built in 2013? I was going to write a long list of suggestions, but I realized that they almost all boiled down to...

Nowadays, many people are using Pinterest to as a tool for promoting their ecommerce businesses. What makes Pinterest ideal for ecommerce is that it is a social media platform which is primarily visual. Since many people use photos to market their products, Pinterest offers a place where they can pin, link and share their photos. Using different pin boards, one can easily highlight different items. In addition, you can also post photos of future sales and products. The following are some guidelines for using Pinterest for ecommerce.   1. Appear professional Make sure your Pinterest account looks as professional as possible. Customize...

Posted by Cyrus Shepard It's no secret. When engineers built Google+, they constructed an SEO juggernaut to dominate search results above all other social platforms. Although Facebook and Twitter are essential to marketing efforts, both restrict Google from accessing much of their data. This limits their SEO effectiveness. Not so with Google+. Here’s an experiment: If you use Google+, perform a search for your name and check the domain distribution of first 100 results. The graph below shows what happens when searching my own name. Even though I use Twitter and Facebook far more often, Google+ dominates the search results. Google+ even beats SEOmoz...

This quick tip will introduce you to some of the powerful features available for testing & debugging apps with Xcode and the iOS Simulator.Tip #1: Go Anywhere with Custom CoordsFor years, developers struggled with debugging CoreLocation based applications in the simulator due to lack of built-in Simulator support for custom coordinates. While projects like FTLocationSimulator were a great help, many of us were still left envying Android developers who could easily set the location of the Android simulator using the bundled DDMS tools.Fortunately, those days of quiet envy have been gone for awhile. With the release of Xcode 4.2,...

Posted by Nick Sayers Whiteboard presentations are a great way to easily communicate advanced ideas and engage your audience. Sure kid, but what isn’t so great is lighting for whiteboard presentations. No bulls-eyeing womp rats here. In fact, sometimes filming a presentation on a whiteboard can be like listening to a self-entitled princess micromanaging your ship. Needless to say, we get a lot of people writing in and asking about our WBF gear, so here it is! (One caveat: I cannot take credit for the current WBF setup. The lighting was already professionally set up before I joined the Moz team.) Let's dive...