Here we go. Following on from my last post, it seems that Google has been including non-Google News posts in the “In the News” box for three years: Google has confirmed that new “In The News” box appearing in some…
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Fake New York Times story gets over 50,000 views
Fake New York Times story gets over 50,000 views And this, ladies and gentlemen, is why we need to teach critical thinking: A webpage that masqueraded as a New York Times article and claimed that Senator Elizabeth Warren of…
Will AuthorRank atomise your publishing brand into individual journalists?
I’ve just finished another session of my SEO for Journalists course, run via journalism.co.uk. I love running this course – not only do I get paid for it (always a good thing), but it gives me the chance…
Why I'm skeptical about Klout in one screenshot
Klout has a very strange idea of what I'm influential about…
Google+ Circle counts arrive in search results
Wow. If we had any doubt that Google+ was going to become a significant part of what Google does, I think we can abandon it now. Checking recent referrals to this blog, I stumbled across this search result: [![Circle counts]…
Authority is a Social Construct, Not An Objective One
I’d just like to draw people’s attention to a really excellent comment Olivier Amprimo of Headshift left on a earlier post about the relationship between authority, research and blogging: Blog reluctants don’t know how to filter informations…