One of our favorite Google Reader clients, Press, released an update to its app today explaining that it plans to continue development after Reader shuts down on July 1, 2013. First and foremost, Press is not shutting down when Google Reader goes away. The team is already looking into another backend syncing solution, which will ideally be cross-platform one. Noting that they, too, just found out yesterday about the shutdown, they state:

"We have used RSS for many years and believe it's a powerful and efficient way to follow your favorite websites. We're absolutely committed to keep working on Press. We've poured a lot of time and energy into it, and we love our app."

Press isn't alone in their search for a new platform to provide cross-platform RSS news syncing...

Posted by Mackenzie Fogelson

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So you’re ready to launch some content.

Stop. Right. There.

In case you haven't noticed, our industry has evolved. As SEOs, we're expected to be an amalgam of technicians, analysts, creatives, and marketers. Agility is essential and if you want to acquire and sustain relationships with great clients, you’ve got to prove your worth in every effort you make or you won’t continue to earn your budgets.

Chances are, you’re already pushing out a great deal of content for your clients on a regular basis...

Global news organization Reuters was the subject of a hack on Friday that “compromised” its blogging platform, according to the company.

Reuters announced the hack via Twitter on Friday afternoon:

Reuters.com was a target of a hack on Friday. Our blogging platform was compromised… (1/2)— Reuters Top News (@Reuters) August 3, 2012

…and fabricated blog posts were falsely attributed to several Reuters journalists. We are working to address the problem. (2/2)— Reuters Top News (@Reuters) August 3, 2012

Among the fabricated posts was a false blog posting, purporting to carry an interview with the head of the Free Syrian Army Riad al-Asaad that was posted…
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With all the recent turbulence in the SERPs, many agencies and businesses are recognising the need to move budgets from the lower-end link building tactics to techniques like guest posting.

Guest posting is very easy to get wrong though, as a technique it may well be considered high-quality but just like any other link building tactic, it's the execution which determines whether the links earned are high-quality (the devil is in the detail!)...