While some of us were using the combined Valentines’ Day/ President’s Day weekend to dress up like the sexiest Calvin Coolidge you’ve ever seen, others were making news. Here’s some of what you missed while reading The Gettysburg address in a heart-shaped hot tub at the Mount Airy lodge.
What do Facebook Postings and Herpes Have in Common?
They last forever- duh! In case you didn’t know that putting something on the Internet is tantamount to carving it backwards into your forehead Mark Zuckerberg and co. at Facebook were kind enough to spell it out in Facebook’s new terms of service agreement. Only trouble is, they kind of thought it was on the down-low until Consumerist found it.
Cue outrage over privacy and a humble Zuckerberg realization that embarrassing posts don’t stay hid for nobody.
If Election Lasts Longer Than 3 Months, Call Your Doctor
Political website Politico has shown that even without a Presidential election it can hang onto at least some of the gains in viewers it racked up last year. Though like most political sites it has lost some juice since then, it has exited election season with substantially more users than it entered. The lesson is that good SEO and content can help you retain traffic gained when outside events drive users your way.
Canonical Tags – You’re The One Baby!
Rand Fishkin calmly and quietly asserted that the new canonical tagging initiative set out by the three major search engines ( which has caused no end of head scratching on other blogs) was “The Most Important Advancement in SEO Practices Since Sitemaps.” Thanks for blowin’ my mind before the weekend, Rand… He does go on to suggest that the move, designed to cut down on duplicate content issues, still leaves a number of questions unanswered. So, false alarm then?
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