Photo: Twenty20 If you equate stability balls with core work only, you’re selling them (and your fitness results) short. Adding stability ball exercises to your workout is a great, simple way to increase the difficulty of your favorite moves. Using just this tool, you can challenge both your upper and lower …
Read More »Strange Petroglyph in Chaco Canyon May Represent Ancient Total Solar Eclipse
A petroglyph on the south face of Piedra del Sol, a free-standing rock in New Mexico’s Chaco Canyon, may depict the solar corona observed during the total solar eclipse of July 11, 1097 CE, says Professor J. McKim ‘Kim’ Malville of the University of Colorado, Boulder. The solar eclipse petroglyph …
Read More »500 Startups’ Australia accelerator program is axed by its partner before it even launched
500 Startups continues to feel the impact of a sexual harassment scandal involving its co-founder and former managing partner Dave McClure. Two weeks after the closure of its Canada-based fund, its maiden venture in Australia is getting the chop before it even began. The U.S. firm doesn’t have a dedicated …
Read More »SoftBank’s Vision Fund backs Flipkart in record India tech investment
SoftBank missed out on getting a piece of Flipkart when its deal to acquire Snapdeal, the e-commerce firm which SoftBank backed in 2015, fell apart last month, but the Japanese tech giant has finally gotten there. Flipkart today confirmed that SoftBank has invested in its business, via its $100 billion …
Read More »Indian startup Flux Auto wants to democratize self-driving tech for trucks
A young startup in India wants to makes autonomous driving technology more widely available for truck operators, especially those outside of the U.S., by lower the cost significantly. The concept of self-driving trucks sat in the background for some time as the vision of autonomous cars ferrying consumers from A …
Read More »Women’s soccer say they’re not rebuilding
“But I can just feel how much the returning players want to do better this year than we did last year.” Key losses F Ashley Hatch, MF Michele Murphy Vasconcelos, MF Elena Medeiros Key returners D Taylor Campbell Isom, F Elise Flake, GK Hannah Clark, F Nadia Gomes, F Madie …
Read More »Google My Business lets business add quick URLs to reservations, online ordering & more
Google has added the ability for local businesses in specific categories, such as restaurants, to add new URLs to their profiles to hyperlink searchers directly to a landing page where they can take specific actions. Some of these actions include placing a reservation or an online order, make an appointment …
Read More »What are the risks for businesses that are getting fake reviews on Google?
Recently, someone emailed me some information about a private Facebook group run by an SEO company in Austin, Texas, that is encouraging businesses to “swap reviews” on Google. In the post, the SEO company owner said: “It’s that time again – Let’s swap Google reviews! I have a REAL level …
Read More »UK local SEO firm Movette shut down by regulators for deceptive sales practices
Almost everyone, it seems, has received one: a call falsely claiming that your business listing on Google is about to expire. Many people also receive deceptive robocalls from marketing companies claiming to represent or be authorized by Google. One such UK-based company, Movette, was just shut down by regulators for …
Read More »3 customer insights gained by keyword research
Keyword research is underrated. Many SEOs have gotten the idea that keyword research just doesn’t hold the value it once did, especially in today’s environment of voice search, extreme long-tail phrases and so on. However, this couldn’t be further from the truth. Not long ago, I wrote a post outlining …
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