Data released this week by Socialbakers showed that Instagram photo posts had 50 times the engagement for big brands as similar posts on Twitter. This follows a story that the photo app surpassed Twitter in total number of accounts, 300 million to 284 million. The study looked at the top 25 brands on each network and then compared user interaction with the brand’s posts. Twitter feels that it has more reach that is not easily tracked in such reports since it allows tweets to be viewed by non-account holders.

WordPress is easily a very popular blogging online platform. Knowing how to operate the software properly makes running a blog easier and more effective. Follow these simple suggestions on while using the platform to take full advantage of your blogging experience.

There was an exploit discovered just this month that allows remote code to execute on the popular content management system (CMS). A popular file download plugin could be used by a hacker to execute code on your site. If you are running WP Download Manager 2.7.4 or lower, you should upgrade right away. Sucuri discovered the issue and the plugin developers but a new version out to protect against hackers gaining access to your admin accounts.

If you want make-it-yourself logos for you website or company startup, one millions customers are telling you that LogoGarden is a good place to start. The company recently reached the milestone after a period of rapid growth. The company is reporting 2,000 new accounts each day and sees customer growth reaching 2 million users in the company year.

Web.com reported their earnings for the third quarter this month and provided information about the registration business. David L Brown of Web.com reported that the increase in domain names has led to a reduction in the amount of income they were able to generate. Overall registrations have declined at the same time. Non-domain name registration services have also been hurt as companies offering package deals at rock-bottom prices. Web.com took aggressive steps to support its share price after their earnings report by starting a $100 million stock buy back plan. That plan will purchase 12% of the company’s outstanding stock.

When turning 12 at HostGator equals big savings for customers, it’s a good day. Now you can get up to 65% off HostGator hosting during the anniversary sale that started today. Register for 6 months of service and get 65% off. Take a 45% discount when registering for a full year. Their host popular shared hosting is great for small businesses and everyday bloggers. But there are many  different options to choice from depending on your needs.

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Google Shuts Down IGoogle

iGoogle, Google's all-in-one homepage site, was finally shuttered in early November. The site's shutdown is only the latest in a long line of rollouts and shutdowns from the giant search engine company, and one that seems to have been a long time coming. In fact, iGoogle's continued existence might have been puzzling to many.

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A Review Of PLRPro Online Service

PLR is an acronym that means Private Label Rights. These are associated with articles that are written by people other than the real author. Most marketers use PLR for their websites, blogs and for article directory distribution. The problem that is inherent with PLR is the quality of the content. PLR membership sites are notorious for providing content that is not acceptable and below the standards that affiliate marketers expect.

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Make WordPress Run Faster

Many Internet users rely on WordPress as the platform for getting their written work on the Internet. One concern that all users face is how to make wordpress run faster to enhance the user's experience. Improving your websites performance does not have to cost a lot of time and money when you use jsdelivr.

What is jsdelivr?

MaxCDN sponsors jsdelivr and is a free CDN service for webmasters and developers to link their plugin files to save bandwidth and improve website performance. It also gives users the ability to route the programs that use the plugins to the links destination, making the websites load faster. Increasing your websites loading time will help to make it user friendly, and in turn will be search engine friendly too.

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Considering The Future Of Article Spinning

I have read many articles lately indicating Google will start penalizing sites containing spun articles. In 2013, you will have to alter every word in an article to spin the content. If I have to spin each word manually, I might as well create an entirely new article. Readers can easily identify poorly spun content and I believe the experts working for Google will have no trouble writing a program capable of doing the same thing.

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Sponsored Tweets : Making Money on Twitter

Paid tweets are not a new concept. The issue of spam posts and spam users in our followers list and twitter feed is not uncommon, but the attempts are painfully apparent and easily dismissed. Ted Murphy, owner of IZEA, has begun a new venture at IZEA called SponsoredTweets. The founder has a good stream of celebrities, conventional as well as online to back his sponsored tweeting venture.