I promise this is not another anti-facebook rant but is in fact some genuinely useful information. The Sophos team has released some very interesting information about poisoned links (otherwise known as rogue applications) on facebook; they are problematic and prolific. Have you ever seen this message? “OMG! I didn’t believe

It has been established that there are three types of links, editorial, manual suggestion and approval, and self-created/non-editorial. It has also been established that SEO’s before to do the basic Search Engine Placement have a hard job of working out what search engines consider important when it comes to active links

In the ever changing world of search engine algorithms, it is difficult  to figure out how a link is weighted. This post will explain what elements of a link are used by search engines and how the algorithms measure the quality of those link elements. The search engine algorithms are closely guarded secrets but SEO [...]

In this three part post Web and Rank will try to help small businesses and beginner SEO’s in creating a great set of links. By no means is this an easy job for SEO’s, in fact it is probably one of  the hardest. Links are the invisible bonds between web pages that show search engine [...]

As already reported on this blog web activism in the Middle East has been a major driving factor in political reform over the last few years. Countries like Tunisia, Egypt and Libya are those at the fore-front of web based revolution. A Iranian-German filmmaker has created an animated movie about the role of social media [...]

Yesterday a friend suggested reading an article in Time magazine. The magazine was the decade edition printed in December 2010 summing up how they felt about the last ten years and analysing articles written ten years ago to see if they were right or wrong. 

Page Ranking the SEO Hip Hop Ever heard a rapper talking about SEO? Now you can hear all about page rank, social media marketing and all the other SEO techniques broken down in a rap. This is a cool hip hop concept and funny too, however I don’t know how serious I can take it.

I recently came across these jokes, and I have to admit they are very funny.”An SEO copywriter walks into a bar, grill, pub, public house, Irish, bartender, drinks, beer, wine, whisky…”and”How many SEO copywriters does it take to change a lightbulb, light bulb, light, bulb, lamp, bulbs, flowers, flour”

Ever heard the terms Trojan horse, or keylogging? I thought so, here are two lists of malware, one of the more commonly known types and one of not so commonly known types. Commonly known malware Worm – these are the little viruses

Companies that don’t get to grips with social media in 2011 are at risk of being left behind.Just as the IT world thinks the Internet has settled into a stable existence something new comes along to change that. Search engines thought they had it all but then from out of nowhere the next