February 2013 - iRISEmedia

25 02, 2013

Google Panda, Links, Chromebooks and Advertorials Penalization, and Affected Websites

By irise|2013-02-25T18:03:07-05:00February 25th, 2013|

Google has made a number of changes with Panda over the last year, and seems to continue to do so. SearchEngineLand.com reports that the Panda update has not only affected small businesses but large ones as well. Legitimate content farms like About.com (which the New York Times sold for $300 million to IAC), Associated Content (bought by Yahoo for $100 million), LookSmart (bought from CNet.com in 2007) HubPages and other big-name sites were hurt with Google's Panda algorithm. In other words, Google, the company that provided many online businesses with their source of income, is now taking that income away from many legitimate businesses. What their real "angle" or "game" is currently remains unknown.

Matt Cutts: Try Something New for 30 Days

By irise|2013-02-11T16:18:37-05:00February 11th, 2013|

Matt Cutts came out with a inspiring video on 30 day challenges.

Bottom line, he said, you can accomplish anything you ever wanted with a 30 day challenge, and that those 30 days will pass by whether you like it or not.

Get-Simple CMS – A Quick, Simple Content Management System – We Build Them

By irise|2013-02-01T14:29:30-05:00February 1st, 2013|

We recently came across across a unique, lightweight content management system (CMS) where all data is handled by XML files. This CMS is called Get-Simple.
Get-Simple is not as feature-rich or robust at CMSs like Wordpress or Drupal, but it's easy to set up, theme and edit. Get-Simple is relatively limited in features. However, it requires no MySQL database and is already looks like it has the basic array of materials for a CMS. It has a photo gallery, basic shopping cart, SEO plugin, custom SEO-friendly URLs, a WYSIWYG editor, an XML sitemap, a contact form, and more. It’s also very easy to theme from any HTML theme you choose. What’s more is that it loads very fast.