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The History of Social Media in 33 Key Moments

Hootsuite

Unfortunately, the site’s spike in popularity in 2003 caught the company by surprise. Myspace: “A place for friends” (2003) Friendster rival Myspace (originally styled as MySpace) quickly became the go-to site for millions of hip teens. Demand was so high that Google eventually had to suspend them.

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How Google Finds and Penalizes Advertorials

Bill Hartzer

No website owner wants to log into Google Webmaster Tools and see an unnatural link warning from Google. From what I am seeing, many of these unnatural link warnings and manual penalties from Google are a result of having participated in advertorials. How Google Identifies Advertorials. First, a little background.

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Website Rejected From Google AdSense Program? No Problem!

Bill Hartzer

By now I am sure you have heard about the Google AdSense program. If you have a legitimate website with unique content and your website meets or exceeds Google’s Acceptable Guidelines for webmasters, then most likely you will be able to run Google Ads on your website and share a portion of the revenue with Google.

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Best Demonoid Alternatives

SocialFish

The Demonoid tracker first went online in 2003, when it was launched by an anonymous Serb known only by the pseudonyms “Deimos” and “Zajson” From the beginning, Demonoid set itself apart as a premier torrent indexer thanks to the excellent organization of the platform and its no-nonsense policy to spam and malware.

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Judge Confirms: You Have No Privacy. Get Over It.

Socialized

My old boss, Scott McNealy, former CEO of Sun Microsystems, said , in 2003, “You have no privacy. Google compromised user information with the launch of Buzz. Or, are Google and Facebook, with “populations&# greater than that of the United States, beyond the reach of any regulatory agency? Get over it.&#

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5 Creative Strategies for Link Building

Waxing UnLyrical

Google has gotten much more sophisticated over the years. Stuart McHenry has been an SEO since 2003 and is the founder of McKremie.com an SEO Company. Guest Post by Stuart McHenry. When it comes to SEO and building links to your website you can’t just go willy nilly. At least not if you want the link building strategy to work.

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8 Years With LinkedIn – Looking at the Growth [infographic]

Mindjumpers

Facebook, Flickr, YouTube, Twitter … none of them existed in May 2003. Google Headhunts Through LinkedIn – A Case Story. Neither did the iPhone or Android. Internet Explorer 6 ruled the Web, Safari was in beta, Firefox was still Firebird, and Chrome was a few years away. LinkedIn is the Login of Choice for B2B sites [infographic].

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