Kewei Lin is the founder of FlipWeb and a long-time operator in digital assets — websites, domains, e-commerce and online business brokerage. He writes about how online businesses are built, valued and transferred, and oversees editorial standards across the site.
We have always heard a lot of questions regarding SEO from different users and webmasters. Everyone has their opinion when it comes to what works and what does not in terms of SEO. This also helps because Google does not reveal anything regarding SEO and we have to debate without an end. There is th
We are hearing new reports every day regarding websites being affected heavily by the Google June 2019 Core update. Recently, there was the report regarding CCN.com which announced shutdown due to the recent Google update. Although it is another thing that CCN.com announced their comeback the next d
There is a common saying that you should always listen to good advice when you have it. Now, what better could it get to get the advice directly from the people who manage Google? Basically, Google Webmaster experts often give some advice to people who are asking for help. However, it can often be a
One of the most important technqiues when it comes to websites and its ranking is SEO or Search Engine Optimization. We know that SEO plays an important role in making the website visible to Google. Often, there are dedicated professionals who handle the SEO of a website. However, SEO professionals
We recently reported about the Diversity update from Google. This was also one of the rare announcements made by Google before or when the update was rolling out. Basically, the update meant that there would now be a diversity seen inside the search results. Previously, you would have noticed that a
In a major announcement by YouTube, the company might have just pleased the old school music lovers. Because the company has announced that they are remastering the top 1000 music videos on YouTube of all time. This means that out of all the music videos that are available on the platform right from
Everyone is currently talking about the latest Google June 2019 update which affected most of the websites in the world. There have been cases where websites have either had to cut down operations or totally shut operations after they lost most of their traffic from Google. However, it must be added
Snapchat is an application which lets you upload “Snaps” on its platform. These “Snaps” can be seen by your contacts and those will remain on the app for the next 24 hours. After that, they will get invisible automatically. This idea was later included by Facebook on its own app, Instagram and was n
We know that Google’s core updates are something that every website on the internet gets affected by. This is in a positive way or a negative way but every website is bound to be covered. Now, there are reports from certain websites which say that their traffic has jumped up 50% after the June 2019
If you are someone who is dealing with SEO, you will be pleased to read about this announcement from Bing. Microsoft’s Bing is a search engine which competes with Google Search as well as other search engines around the world. However, it is believed that Google Search dominates heads and shoulders
We know that most of the websites have been affected by the recent Google June 2019 core update. However, one of the biggest hits might have been taken by CCN.com which is a website reporting about cryptocurrency. This website also reports on US’ stock markets and has good authority as well as traff
WordPress, as well all know, is arguably the best platform in the world right now when it comes to publishing. There are millions of websites in the world which are based on WordPress. These may be self-hosted websites or WordPress.com hosted websites. Now, you are your own boss when it comes to sel
Once upon a time, Snapchat was among the hottest companies in the industry thanks to its unique features as well as a young user-base. However, things changed when Facebook decided to incorporate the same features in its Instagram app by getting inspired from Snapchat. We now know that Instagram Sto
One obvious and extremely-repeated rule in the SEO industry is to keep the content relevant as well as up-to-date. However, we have hundreds and hundreds of blogs and websites, without SEO knowledge, not following this rule. The first thing that any decent SEO guy would tell you is to keep your cont
We have seen that the domain market is a huge one if you know how to sell your domain correctly. This includes giving a good value of your domain as well. And we might sometimes feel that a domain is overpriced but it must be having its own value. Also, we sometimes see domain sales […]
We have known that the biggest social media company in the world, Facebook, is working on a Cryptocurrency of its own. However, there was not much information regarding the same in public domain as of now. Still, we don’t have much information regarding Facebook’s Cryptocurrency but we do have repor
We have heard people say time and again that smartphones will replace TVs in the near future. Well, a new research from eMarketer shows that the future is upon us earlier than expected. Because the research reveals that smartphones users are already spending more time on their devices than on watchi
DailyMail UK which is regarded as being the one of the best publications in the United Kingdom has been hit hard in the June 2019 Core Algorithm Update from Google. As we all know, most of the news websites rely heavily on Google for organic traffic. And since these websites are there from years and
Instagram earlier announced a new way for brands and influencers to partner and create content. This was with the help of Branded Content Partnerships where an influencer would create posts having “Paid partnership with” caption inside them. This would let people know that this is branded content wh
Google Maps is one of the flagship services that is currently running from Google. We know that billions of people use Google Maps for navigating across cities and finding places that they are not aware of. However, Google Maps has also turned out to be a service with which you can explore new place
It is a fact that Google is one of the biggest search engines out there. There are billions of websites indexed inside Google and they are all ranked on the basis of their content as well as other factors. However, that is a huge topic and we are not going to talk about that in […]
You would now be well aware that Google handles most of the search traffic around the world. This is because the company runs Google Search which indexes millions of websites every month. Now, we know that Google needs to release some updates in order to maintain Google Search. These updates are kno
Twitter has slowly but steadily become the best micro-blogging site around the world. Also, ever since the US Presidential Elections, Twitter’s user base has also gone up. Also, the company has been adding new features to its app and website constantly. Recently, Twitter’s app got a redesign whereas
In the YouTube Creators Studio summit, YouTube CEO has told its creators what work the platform has done to address their concern. YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki shared an update regarding the concerns of creators on monetization and content distribution. Recently, YouTube Creators have been complaining
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