Facebook Introduces App Center!

May 15, 2012 | 490 views | by Navneet Kaushal

Facebook has announced a new App Center service, which will be a “a new place for people to find social apps”. This App Center has been designed to allow more apps to be created successfully on the iOS and Android mobile platforms, as well as desktop- and web-based applications. 

Facebook AppCenter

With the SEOs struggling to sit up after the Penguin Update smack, there has been additional anxiety created by the rapid shifts in the SERPs noted in the past 24 hours. Webmasters have shared this on forums that Google search results are showing a lot of movement. The word spread that it was a Penguin 1.1 being rolled out by Google, but the search engine has denied this.

Bing has re-launched its search engine with a ‘social’ face. In the coming days the users in the United States will see and experience the ‘New Bing’; and the changes will roll out globally in  the coming few weeks. Those wanting to experience the changes can head here.

It is really beneficial for you to claim the authorship of your online content. When your author information appears next to your content, it stands way too prominently and looks much more credible in search listings. And this results in you getting higher click through rates, for free! Google rolled out rel=author markup last year. If the author was popular, credible and had his content +1ed by influential peers, then his content would be ranked high by Google.

It is finally happening! The event that all digital analytics and research professionals were looking forward to- the DAA India Symposium. Participants get to meet, listen to and interact with industry leaders and world class speakers.

The DAA (Digital Analytic Association) India Symposium

Google Places has introduced an upgraded bulk listing management tool. These improvements are aimed at helping the business owners and search marketing professionals with multiple locations.  The new features allow for more convenient upload and management processes.

As Google explains the changes made:

  • “Edit one or more of your listings’ data at once
  • Search through your listings, filtering by specific information or for listings with errors

Webmaster Tools is riding on a wave of change. They started off with spring cleaning in April and now have made changes to the navigation, dashboard, and the home page.

Google Webmaster Tools Revamps Navigation - Dashboard and Homepage

The new and ‘improved’ navigation structure has the following groups:

  • Configuration (Things configured and not changed very often)
  • Health (to check on the general functionality)          

Google has updated the AdSense payment page with a new design, improved navigation and more flexibility with the payment settings. As Google said, "We’ll soon be introducing some changes to the “Payments” and “Account settings” pages in your AdSense account. At the moment, this new payments interface is available to a small set of AdSense accounts, but we’ll gradually roll it out to more publishers in the upcoming months."

Google’s Matt Cutts has come up with a new video addressing the query: How does Google view font replacement?  

Whether webmasters use Cufon, SIFR, FLIR, how do they fare in front of Google, this query was answered by Matt Cutts.

Did you find the video helpful? Do share your views. 

The World Wide Web is buzzing with ideas and advice to rise back again after being pecked by the Penguin. Webmasters are contemplating on ways to beat the Penguin and we have been discussing for ways of Penguin recovery too.