A recent survey by McAffee found that many small business owners felt their operations were too small to worry about cybercrime, yet a third of small and medium businesses in Northern America have been the target of cybercrims repeatedly over the past three years.
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Small biz owners ignoring security
India’s online population growth
Recent figures from ComScore show that more than 28 million people in the country went online during May - a 27 percent increase over just a year ago.
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PPC fraud statistics
The click fraud rate was 16.2 percent for Q2 2008, down a smidgen from the first quarter of this year, but still higher than the same period last year.
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Lulu now in Australia!
If you’re based in Australia, Southeast Asia or New Zealand and have considered self publishing, no doubt the cost made your head spin.
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Favorites icons
The importance of having a favorites icon for my sites was again driven home to me recently when setting up a new notebook.
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Aiming for single word rankings
If you’re selling cars, you’d love to score the no.1 ranking on the term “cars”, right? Would you ignore all your other SEO efforts if you thought you had a good chance of scoring it? It mightn’t be a good idea
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25% now accessing the Internet
It only seems like yesterday that most folks were saying “Interwho?”. This year, 25% of the world’s population will access the web.
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Anchor text, tokens and SEO
A patent granted to Yahoo last week relating to anchor text gives some further insight as to how this element may be used by the major engines in ranking.
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Skype “call me” links
Given how long this feature has been available for I’m likely the last person on the planet to have seen it; but in case I’m not and you’re a Skype user, here’s how to create links for your pages and emails which will put a call through to your Skype ID.
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The mighty digital pen
Large companies are now employing people specifically to watch for complaints that appear on blogs and social networks. They are learning that a single disgruntled consumer has enough power to do a great deal of damage to their brand.
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