Faced with the reality that viable businesses require revenue, more and more newspapers and magazines are erecting pay walls on their websites. But paid content isn’t a panacea, and it’s far easier — and more comfortable — to erect a pay fence. Case in point: the New York Times, whose new pay wall features enough...Read More

Webmaster Level: Beginner to Intermediate We on the Webmaster Central team aren’t SEOs, but that doesn’t stop me from pretending to be one! In our latest video, I’ll talk about utilizing some features in Webmaster Tools as though I were the SEO for www.googlestore.com. Just as a grandparent raves about their grandchild, I could have...Read More

Media executives around the world are holding their breath. Rupert Murdoch’s bold and risky bet on the iPad is on the way. The ultimate hope: it will prove that the iPad is a viable platform for profitable content distribution. A big part of the ‘profitable‘ part: paid content. But media executives might not want to...Read More

As individuals become increasingly comfortable sharing information online, they are also ceding their privacy in new — and sometimes dangerous — ways. According to a Consumer Reports survey released today, over half (52%) of social network users are oversharing online. And cybercriminals are taking note. The information shared on social networks is particularly susceptible to...Read More