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With absolutely no fanfare at all, Twitter has thrown the switch on an updated Follower notification email that tells you everything you wanted to know about a person and more. The old notification email greeted you warmly then announced that NAME HERE is now following your tweets on Twitter. After that was a snapshot of their current followers, tweet and following stats. The new format does away with the warm greeting and puts the name of the Twitter account in the notification line: Cynthialil (@ Cynthialil ) is now following your tweets (@TWITTERACCOUNT) on Twitter. That’s followed by the person’s avatar, Twitter name, location and bio info before moving on to the stats which now include lists. The stat layout is now a table that resembles the layout in Twitter. The result of all this is more information delivered to your inbox when someone new decides to follow you on Twitter – but do you care? I would imagine that a large number of users don’t even have the notification box checked in their profile. If you have a busy account, or run a few accounts, it can get annoying, but you should care if you’re running a business. Your Follower list is open for all to see so you should make the effort to keep it free of spammers and inappropriate material. R-rated avatars have no place on your business Twitter unless that’s the business you’re in. Do you review your Follower notifications on Twitter? Or is it just a numbers game for you?

Tags: Business, cloud-computing, cloud-hosting, flickr, follower, make-the-effort, notification, person, Social, Tweets, Twitter
Posted July 15, 2010 by cgseo under Social Media

Don’t panic! Don’t panic! There’s a good chance that your site has not been hacked. However, if in the future, your web site were to suffer at the hands of some malicious hacker, Google Webmaster Central will alert you to that fact. Starting this month, we will notify more webmasters of more potential issues we’ve detected on their websites, including: Starting this month, we will notify more webmasters of more potential issues we’ve detected on their websites, including: Spammy or   abused user-generated content Abused forum pages or egregious amounts of   comment spam Suspected   hacking These notifications are meant to alert webmasters of potential issues and provide next steps on how to get their sites fixed and back into Google’s search results. If it pertains to a hacking or abuse issue, the notification will point to example URLs exhibiting this type of behavior. These notifications will run in parallel with our existing malware notifications. The notice will look something like this: Google also suggests that it is considering these alerts to include “other types of vulnerabilities or abuse issues.” What that means, who knows? I know you shouldn’t hold your breath that Google’s going to tell you how to improve you rankings any time soon.

Tags: existing, future, look-something, month, more-potential, more-webmasters, notification, Search, some-malicious, steps-on-how, their-websites, these-alerts, websites, will-notify
Posted March 2, 2010 by cgseo under Social Media