Is Link Building Still Important?

Over the past few years there has been alternately a big crisis of faith in the traditional SEO model of link + content and dismissive reports claiming link building as still the crown prince of SEO (as content is, of course, king). Much has been said and written and a lot has changed over these years. Between Authorship bumps, co-citation social media linking and exact match keywords slowly going the way of the mammoth it might seem like there really is a problem with link building, or that at least there are newer, less spammy techniques for ranking high on SERPs. Yet SEO as an industry seems captivated by the mirage of the new, and the said new is often unperfected while simpler techniques are readily available. So let’s take a look at if and why is link building important.

Knowledge Graph: The First Step to Better Searches

Google, the only search engine that merited a place in Webster's dictionary, has done it again!

 
Discovering something no longer means going to the library to search for answers. Instead, you open Google, type a query, and browse through the results to find the best information, but it doesn't end there. Now, there's a new feature that makes searching more convenient for us browsers, widely recognised as the Knowledge Graph. It is the visual representation of the results most relevant to what you were searching for, and is much more interactive and informative than previous search results.

It's basically premised from the idea that “queries” are more than just keywords or phrases, but are entities with relationships to one another. This is what cybergeeks like to call strings.

ASUS PadFone 2 Jelly Bean Upgradation

So you own an Asus PadFone 2, the second-generation Android smart phone. With the much-anticipated upgrade announcement the tablet has surely turn out to be a tablet at your ease, named Android 4.1 Jelly Bean. The publication also discloses that Asus is all set to sell a white PadFone 2, if you haven’t purchased it yet. The new white colour option is now obtainable in Singapore, selling for Singapore dollar 1,099 and 1,239, for 32GB or the 64GB version respectively. 

Exposed: The Benefits of China VPN Services

A Virtual Private Network (VPN) for China provides users with a Chinese IP address, which allows users to access sites that are located in China.

WHY GET A VPN FOR CHINA?

The Chinese government blocks certain worldwide social networking, news and micro-blogging websites from being accessed from inside of China. Similarly, it blocks Chinese websites from being accessed from outside of China. This is blocking policy and implementation is known as the “Great Firewall.” When members of the world media, Chinese residents traveling abroad, foreign students, expatriates or researchers want to access websites hosted in China, they often cannot do so.

Your Appraisal Can Be In Danger With Monitoring Apps

Managers have a huge task of not only taking care of the daily tasks at office, but also managing the performance of their employees. After every six months or so employee appraisals are conducted and although these are valid methods of testing employee behavior they aren’t always reliable. Around appraisal time, employees generally know they are being observed and their performance analyzed, which makes them to act differently, more composed and more unnatural so if you want to know the truth behind your employees and conduct appraisals based on their daily tasks then there’s nothing better than the iPhone spy application for you.