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What the separation between Apple and Google means for bloggers
Tablets and smartphones are the optimum ways for consuming web content, there’s no way around it. More and more people turn to mobile devices to get what they need on the web as smartphones and tablets become increasingly cheap and accessible. These devices are changing the very ways that we interact with the web—we’re no longer sitting at huge desktops browsing the web at our leisure; entrepreneurs now focus on offering online services that work for the web browser on the go.
A recent article in Forbes magazine explains how mobile devices have changed the way we browse and engage services on the web. According to the data in the article, the percentage of people using mobile devices for surfing the web increased from 4% to 26%. And those numbers are only getting bigger. For anyone in the web business, it seems like a smart move to start thinking mobile.
Nowadays bloggers and major social media players conduct much of their business from the comfort of their smartphones. Blogging platforms like Blogger, WordPress, and Tumblr have smartphone apps that are designed to accommodate the needs of the blogger on the go. Social media tools like Twitter are practically built for mobile devices.
Blogger Country-Specific URL : Google Blogger URL Redirects Censor International Users
By DAVID ANGOTTI at Search Engine Journal
When Twitter announced they were instituting anew censorship policy, the micro-blogging platform faced an immediate and severe backlash from the majority of the web community. Now, as a result of a previously announced change to the Blogger platform that was initially announced on January 9th, the Blogger platform has also come under scrutiny. The change, which deploys a country-specific URL to the Blogger platform, will allow Google to censor and remove content on a country-by-country basis similar to the new Twitter policy.
Why Blogging Is Still Important in 2012? : 7 Strong Reasons
By NEIL PATEL at Search Engine Journal
Some people would like you to think blogging as we know it is over.
They share the eye-popping numbers for Tumblr’s growth, for example: 355 million unique visitors per month, and 400 million pageviews per day. And it’s true that Twitter and Facebook have lead many people away from blogging.
But publishing content on a blog is superior to these platforms in many ways, like putting a human face on your brand, differentiating you from your competition and educating prospects and clients.
But I want to expand on seven areas that will prove essential in 2012.
Google and Future of SEO : Interview with SEO Book’s Aaron Wall
By DAVID ANGOTTI at Search Engine Journal.
Aaron Wall, an SEO consultant, book author, blogger, and the founder/owner of SEO Book, joins us today to discuss the future of SEO.
Search Engine Journal:
As long as I can remember, I have heard people saying this is the end of SEO. Do you truly feel that if SEOs do not stand up for themselves this could be the end of SEO as we know it?
Aaron Wall:
“I don’t think the industry sprouted up all at once & indeed there were articles about its imminent death years before I even got into the industry, so I don’t think the industry will die a quick death or die all at once. More likely is that people slowly get marginalized while their profits decline & they lose personal freedoms. There was a golden window of opportunity for about a half-decade…and the door is starting to close, but some will still do fine for years and years.
Many independent SEOs comfortably make high 5 to mid-6 figures working for themselves, while some of the most ambitious might do a magnitude greater than that. In the years to come many of those independent SEOs will become in-house SEOs making a fraction of what they used to. Certainly those who are learning how to pay for traffic & gaining expertise in brand building will have more longevity than people who are tightly focused exclusively on SEO.
