Compliment Your SEO Efforts With Google Plus Authorship

Google search results have undergone a drastic change by displaying results containing a pic of the original author of the web page. We all have heard about domain authority and page authority in the past but, a new wave of trust for your website in the eyes of Google comes in the form of Google Plus Authorship. Recognizing yourself as a reputed author in Google can go a long way in complimenting your Seo efforts. So, what exactly is Google Authorship and how can we use it to enhance our search engine optimization efforts is what we are going to discuss in this article.

I am the Author of this Web Page

The best example I can give you, could be of this web page which you are reading right now. The main contents of this web page has been written by me and I am the author of its contents. We, the users can have an idea of it by looking at the author bio section of the article but, is there a way to help Google recognize your as the author of this web page? The short answer to this question is Google Plus Authorship which helps to link your Google Plus profile to the content you create and allows you to get recognized as an author.

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What Matters for BlackBerry is What Matters to Users

At this week's Computerworld Premier 100 conference in Tucson, I asked many of the IT leaders whether their companies will use the coming BlackBerry Z10 smartphone or its qwerty cousin, the Q10. I had done a review of the Z10 and found the underlying BlackBerry 10 OS to be very good. Based on my experience, I thought there might be some genuine interest.

What I found is that nobody, out of about 20 CIOs and senior VP's of IT, that I spoke to said they would be endorsing or adopting the platform, except for one CIO who pulled out his current BlackBerry and said, "I only use BlackBerry because my boss wants us to." He suggested his boss might require continuing with BlackBerry 10 and the Z10.

At a luncheon during the P100 event, I also asked a group of eight CIOs at my table if anybody was moving to the new BlackBerry device, and everybody but the current BlackBerry user shook his head "no" and some even grunted, almost in disgust. They indicated that it was the BlackBerry outage in the fall of 2011, and the company's slow rollout of its latest OS and devices that had been their biggest concerns.

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RI Testing Ground for BlackBerry Money

The Canadian-based smartphone manufacturer, BlackBerry, has chosen Indonesia as a testing ground for its first-ever mobile money service, BlackBerry Messenger Money (BBM Money), which premiered in the country on Tuesday.

In a pilot project conducted in cooperation with Bank Permata, users will be able to transfer money to their contacts over the BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) service, executives of both companies said in interviews. TA McCann, BlackBerry vice president for BlackBerry messenger and social communities, said that the company introduced BBM Money to extend the usage of BBM beyond chat.

He added that Indonesia was chosen to test out BBM Money as Indonesia “is our leading market for BBM”.“Indonesia has the largest and most active population of BBM users,” he said, adding that 60 million people worldwide utilized BBM.The percentage of active, daily BBM users in Indonesia had surpassed the global average of 60 percent, he said.

To access the service, people must first download the application from BlackBerry World. They then have to register, through the app, their name, phone number and password to obtain a BBM Money account.

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