There are some steps one may take to retrieve their Facebook when it is hacked. First and foremost, one should change their password, along with having a secondary email and phone number submitted to Facebook in case of a hacker changing the password. One should also verify their identity on Facebook, and utilize the two-step login process. Also, to see if anyone has hacked into an account, one can check their Facebook sessions. If you do all of these, you can recover your account and prevent future issues.

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Steps to Take When Your Facebook is Hacked

In many cases where a client is looking to gain SEO, their expectations are set in their minds. “I want to be #1 for 10 terms” or “I want 2000 visits a month”. And they expect to have these results in one or two months. But this is usually far from reality. Real SEO means putting time and money into the project to build trust with both Google and with visitors to the site. This isn’t a switch that you turn on or off, and it does take a good amount of time to build properly. A good SEO company will warn their potential clients about this reality before starting work or taking money, but sadly, “good” SEO companies are a bit more rare than not. Mark Jackson has his thoughts on this struggle in the article linked below.

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Why I Talk Most Folks Out of SEO Projects

Google has introduced a new service that ties Google Translate to Google Goggles. It means there’s a new OCR tool useable on your phone that can detect language from images and translate them. An example of a good way to use this is of a restaurant menu with foreign unknown language – the service uses OCR (optical character recognition) and allows your to brush your fingers over the screen to select the part of the menu in the image you want translated. The update is currently available for Android’s version of Google Translate and supports Czech, Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, and Turkish languages.

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Google Translate: Picture To OCR To Speech

Olympics are the first truly multi platform global sporting event. Tablet and smart phone searches approached 50% of overall search query volume for the first two days of the Olympics, and Japan even exceeded that to 55%. At some times during the games searches are being done more on smart phones and tablets than on computers. The Olympics are establishing new levels of mobile usage for online searching, definitively showing the public’s adaptation to mobile browsing and searching.

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Google: Nearly 50 Percent Of Olympics-Related Searches Coming From Mobile Devices

As Google changes their algorithm, often anyone doing SEO has to change their approach to manage SERP climbing, as well. Here is a quick list of 10 old SEO techniques that don’t have the same ability they used to:

1. Article Submissions
2. Press Releases Without Anything Newsworthy
3. Reciprocal Linking, Link Exchanges
4. Creating Thin Content
5. Losing a Voice to Automation
6. Ignoring Social Signals
7. Implementing Tactics Without a Strategy (applies to 1-6 above)
8. Focus on Rankings
9. Focusing on Google Only
10. Ignoring Design

All of these are tempting tactics that used to be effective (in some cases, things you could get away with). Now these are things that can’t be counted on in the same way.

For more details on each point, check out the article linked below, by Greg Habermann.

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10 Old SEO Methods You Need to Stop