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Big Tech's Day of Reckoning: What the Meta and Google Verdicts Really Mean

In the span of just 48 hours this week, two separate juries in two different US states delivered verdicts that could reshape the entire social media industry — not because of the dollar amounts involved, but because of what those verdicts legally establish for the first time. On Tuesday, March 24, a jury in Santa Fe, New Mexico ordered Meta to pay $375 million for failing to protect children from sexual exploitation on Facebook and Instagram. Less than 24 hours later, on Wednesday, March 25, a jury in Los Angeles found both Meta and Google (YouTube) liable for engineering addiction in young users — finding them negligent in the design of their platforms and awarding a further $6 million in damages. Two days. Two states. Two juries. Both pointing at the same conclusion: that Big Tech can no longer hide behind the legal shields it has relied on for nearly three decades. This is the story of what happened, why it matters far beyond the headline numbers, and what comes next for the s...

Best Adsense Plugin for WordPress

The best Adsense Plugin for WordPress that we recommend has all the features for someone with little or no technical knowledge. That is - you don't need to know any coding language and PHP nad all the rest of it. Simply install the plugin into your WordPress blog and let it work its magic. Monetizing a blog or a website can be pretty difficult. You would need to constantly play around with the various placements options available. You would also need to try different ad seizes to see which suit your blog or site the best. If you are new to this and are reading about Adsense for the first time. Adsense is a monetization platform brought to you by Google, that lets you place ad on your blog or site. When someone clicks on it you get paid - the amount you get paid will depend on the number of ad-views and number of clicks. So the more number of times your ads are displayed, the more clicks you are bound to receive which will in turn increase your earnings. So if you have a blog and...

The best WordPress content plugins to showcase your blog

If you have a blog and have visitors coming and reading and enjoying your content. It is in your best interest to keep visitors at your site with a WordPress content plugin. The best way to do this is to show them related content. Your blog might be many levels deep and content might actually get hidden and never see the light of day. To showcase your best content in relation to freshness and accuracy, we recommend a WordPress plugin that easy to install and we have had the best experience with so far. The plugin is called, YARPP - Yet another related post plugin , this plugin has an amazing way of matching the best content and displaying the same at the bottom of your posts. You can either display your posts as Text Links , Thumbnails or customize it even further with YARPP free templates. Yet Another Related Posts Plugin Options Once you install the plugin in to your WordPress blog - there are a number of options for you to choose from. You can display related posts on pages, posts...

WordPress Plugin to remove date from Google Search Results

This is one useful plugin for WordPress Blogs that have been around for sometime. Bloggers have something called evergreen content - so content and pages that appears on Google Search results even after a few years of being published. Might still be relevant and useful. There seems to be one small problem however - users might feel the need to click on something more recent however. So how do Google Search users know what is most relevant?. The answer is very simply below each search result Google shows the date of publication. So content that might show up even after two or three years, although still useful and relevant might get ignored by users. This seems to be one of the problems for large blogs that might have suffered from Panda and Penguin updates. Panda and Penguin are Google programs that either push a blog or website further up search results and also does the opposite. Penalizes blogs and websites bringing down their traffic by about 40%. There are a lot of blogs and websi...

How to add a paragraph in Wordpress

WordPress  is the most popular and widely used blogging platform out there. That does not mean that it does not come with its little glitches and headaches. With the latest update 3.5.1 - there seems to be some known issues and one issue we faced is the loss of a line break or a new paragraph. So once the post was ready and published. it looks like one big mass of letter with no proper line spacing or paragraphs. No one wants to read an article which does not contain paragraphs. It becomes  nightmare to read. These are issues that WordPress need to fix automatically but that does not seem to be happening. The solution however is very simply but still a minor inconvenience. When writing your post, you usually hit the 'return' or 'enter' button to create a new paragraph or a line break. This is something that is done in all text writers and editors like 'Word' and 'Notepad. Something everyone is used to -- this post is for WordPress users who do not have progr...

what is WordPress and how does it work

WordPress is a blogging platform that allows you to create and maintain a blog for free. We are not going to go into the technical aspects of WordPress so much but stick to how to use WordPress to setup your blog. If you have questions like where to blog, how to blog or how do I create a free blog online. WordPress is the No 1. destination on the web for people to create and maintain their blogs for free. WordPress is a CMS (Content management System) which means it can be used to run a full-fledged website. So if you want to run a blog or a website you can use WordPress as a platform. WordPress is based and built on PHP and MySQL - PHP is the code used to build it and all the database is maintained and stored using MySQL. Now that we have got that out of the way, let's proceed to some of the other benefits and uses of WordPress. Wordpress Uses Can be used to setup and run your free blog online Can be used as a platform to build and run your complete website online Very good for S...

PostRunner: Guest Blogging Service for Authors and Publishers

So let's say you have a blog and you're open to allowing other people to write and contribute -- allowing guest blogging. Maybe you're an author and want to actually write an article for another blog. You might want to do this because once you write for another blog you get exposure and new readers. Since the blog post you contributed will have a link to your social profiles and your own blog or site. It is therefore a win-win for both parties involved. The blog accepting your guest post get new and fresh content and the contributor get exposure and credit -- as a person who is good at their niche. Getting the two together can be quiet a task. The contributor needs to find sites that might accept this contribution. Blog and site owners needs to actually find people with quality as guest writers and contributors. If you are someone who writes then you know how tedious it is to make a list of all the blog that are similar to your area of expertise and then contact all the blo...

Facebook for WordPress plugin now available

Facebook has a new plugin for WordPress. It seems Facebook engineers are not leaving any stone unturned and since WordPress powers 16.6 percent of the web it makes sense that Facebook has just made it a lot easier, for WordPress bloggers to integrate a complete solution plugin for WordPress. This new social integration feature available for WordPress have already made Blogger's blogspot users to ask why something like this has not been released for Blogger. The new social plugin allows for easy integration of social publishing and mentions. There is no coding required and works on mobile and also supports internationalization.available Facebook for WordPress plugin: How it works for Social Publishing Once you install the plugin you can then cross-post content published to your WordPress blog to your Facebook Timeline and all the Facebook pages that you manage. In addition you can also mention all the pages as friends on Facebook, which allows for further and deeper distribution of ...

How to add Search Description and Meta Tags to your Blogger blog and posts for better SEO

Now this is something that every person using Blogger would need to do. A little bit about the history and use of description for posts. This is something that was not available to people using Blogger or blogspot blogs as some people like to call them. This is one of the main reasons why WordPress was a preferred blogging platform. Many an online blogger would tell you that a description for your posts does wonders. One would also wonder why it took Google so long to implement it.  What is Search Description If you are a blogger and you know a little bit about SEO you would know then when someone searches for a search term on search engines like Google. The title of your post shows up and below that is the search description. You can from the image below of Google's description see how it is laid out in results. The site title appears and below that is the search description.  Google's Search Description Do users see the search description when they land on the page...

WordPress 3.3 now available for download

WordPress 3.3 'Sonny' is now out and ready for use. It has been named in honor of Jazz saxophonist Sonny Stitt. The new version of WordPress looks more modern and features have come to it that should have come long ago. It seemed old and from another era but the new WordPress looks set for success. The new version is now iPad optimized and in addition to all the other services you could import blogs from. You can now also import your Tumblr blog to WordPress. So what are the significant improvements in WordPress 3.3 The uploaded now has a drag-and-drop feature, so when you're uploading your media files to WordPress you can now drag-and-drop them into the new uploaded and it gets the job done. There are new hover menus for navigation, so you don't need to click on each link in the navigation bar to get further options. Hovering brings those options out. An all new toolbar Improved co-editing support, the message that your friend is also editing the same document will not...

Broken Link Checker - WordPress Plugin helps you check for broken links and missing images

Running a large WordPress blog and you want to know all your dead links and missing images. Broken Link Checker is a WordPress plugin that does just that. There are many reasons why this could be useful. You do no want to send your visitors to a site or a page that does not exist anymore. Since clicking on a link will only return a 404 error, meaning that that does not exist. It is also a dead-end route when it comes to search engines since their bits will not be bale to follow these links. If you have a large blog then too many of these links can also be bad. There are also images that you might have linked to and they maybe missing leaving your otherwise colorful page looking a bit dull and boring. Using this plugin is a boon to blog owners because once it is installed it will start checking your whole site and this may take some time depending on the size of your blog or site. Once a broken link is found you will have the option to remove that link, remove the link but keep the text...

How to phone in your WordPress Blog posts

WordPress has a new feature in addition to being able to update your blog using the iPhone, iPad and Android, email and desktop you can now phone in your posts. It's called post by voice. To get started is fairy simple.  1.  Login to WordPress 2. Enable 'Post By Voice' on your dashboard. 3. You receive a phone number with a code. Use this number and code to get started and post updated to your blog using voice. You can now post up to 1 hour of audio at a time.  The feature has not been implemented in the open-source version of WordPress. An original post by Sociolatte