May 16 – Time for Facebook to Grow Up | FOX Business

Just days before Facebook’s highly-anticipated initial public offering, some investors continue to fear an exodus of Facebook’s biggest advertisers if Mark Zuckerberg fails to tighten his focus on ad sales.  The concern follows a report on Tuesday that General Motors (GM) will stop buying ads on Facebook, as it sees them as ineffective.  Read more

May 14 – Google’s Penguin Freezing Out Small Business Searches | CNBC

“The Penguin update targets all the practices that search engine optimizers (SEO) have been doing for the past 10 years, such as getting paid links or spinning content articles and distributing them just to improve their ranking,” Todd Bailey, search engine expert and vice president of marketing at WebiMax.  Read more

May 11 – Google’s Penguin Update Hardest on Small Business | Business News Daily

Being at the top of a Google search results page is a highly sought piece of real estate for many businesses. After all, being listed near the top of the results page on Google can be the difference between gaining new customers and losing them to another company.  Read more

May 10 – WebiMax Receives Multiple Awards from the Interactive Media Council | PR Web

Kenneth Wisnefski, founder and CEO of WebiMax, a leading search engine optimization firm, announced today that the company received multiple awards from the Interactive Media Council, Inc. for 2012. WebiMax received the Outstanding Achievement Award and Best in Class award for the second consecutive year.  Read more

May 7 – WebiMax Launches PenguinWatch.com, a Google Update Resource Center | CBS Money Watch

Google officially announced the Penguin update is one of over 500 annual updates to their search algorithm, however the problem is the amount of sites that were wrongfully flagged. Last year when the company released their Panda Update, over 40% of websites were wrongfully penalized. Read more

May 7 – WebiMax Launches PenguinWatch.com, a Google Update Resource Center | San Francisco Chronicle

Google launched a major update to their search engine algorithm, titled the Penguin update on April 24th. The Penguin update targets websites and businesses that Google has identified as over-optimized and penalizes them for trying to trick their search algorithm and increase rankings. This update is predicted to impact 3% of all search queries.  Read […]

May 4 – “Hunger Games” success spells trouble for TV ads | Reuters UK

The success with which “The Hunger Games” film harnessed social networks, en route to becoming 2012’s biggest blockbuster, underscores a growing threat to billions of dollars in movie-advertising revenue on which broadcasters rely.  Read more

May 1 – New Legislation in Congress Supports Facebook User Privacy | Search Engine Journal

A new bill proposed by Eliot Engel (NY-D) and Jan Schakowsky (IL-D) known as the “Social Networking Online Protection Act” is the first legislation in Congress that addresses the practice of pre-employment Facebook screenings and is intended to make the practice itself an illegal act.  Should SNOPA be signed into law, it would outright ban […]

May 1 – 10 Worst States for Small Business Taxes | Advisor One

Small business owners who just filed their taxes are heaving a sigh of relief that the season is over and their returns are in. That leaves time for the bigger questions, of course: What’s next year going to be like? Am I in a good place? How can I pay lower taxes in the future?  […]

Apr. 30 – Social Media Drives Publicity in Trayvon Martin Case | Voice of America News

“The minute you get a message out there that has engagement that gets people’s imaginations fired up or gets their emotions or passions stoked, it’s going to go beyond your network because you may have your 130 Facebook followers but each one of them has 130 of their own so the message can spread like […]

Apr. 27 – Amazon Works to Perfect the Art of the Daily Deal | AOL Daily Finance

The problem with most daily deal sites is that the bargains you’re offered aren’t necessarily the ones you want. That’s where Amazon (AMZN) thinks it can gain an advantage over rivals like Groupon (GRPN) and others.  Read more

Apr. 25 – WebiMax Named a 2012 South Jersey Fastest Growing Company by the Philadelphia Business Journal | PRWeb

WebiMax, a leading search engine optimization firm, was recently named a 2012 South Jersey Fastest Growing Company in a contest jointly conducted by the Philadelphia Business Journal and the Rohrer College of Business at Rowan University.  Read more

Apr. 24 – WebiMax Launches London Internet Marketing Initiative Assisting London Businesses Capitalize on Rise in Visitor Web Searching | Yahoo! News

WebiMax, the top-rated search engine optimisation (SEO) firm in the United Kingdom, has recently launched their London Internet Marketing Initiative offering a comprehensive suite of web-based marketing services. The initiative brings their award-winning solutions to London-area and UK businesses catering specifically to the influx of visitors to the city and surrounding areas in the coming […]

Apr. 15 – Obama, Romney camps ready for digital warfare | Philadelphia Inquirer

Now that Rick Santorum has suspended his campaign and the race is on between President Obama and Mitt Romney, an unprecedented media war has begun. We’ve seen big media battles before. But in money, in woman- and man-hours, and in technical and strategic sophistication, this will be the biggest ever. Especially in Pennsylvania and other […]