Tech-Point

Website owners and SEO professionals go to great lengths to get their sites ranked on the first page of Google and other search engines. But unfortunately, unscrupulous competitors are not above launching negative SEO attacks against top-ranking websites. These attacks are not as dangerous as they used to be, but done properly, they can still have negative - and lasting - consequences to a site’s organic rank. Negative SEO can take many forms but it’s usually a combination of the following tactics: Building spammy backlinks to your domain Removing your quality backlinks Website hacking Building spammy backlinks (also called 'bad' or 'toxic' links) to a website is the most common method used to try to de-throne top performers. As we can see from this  2018 Search Engine Roundtable poll , a significant number of SEO professionals (for the lack of a better term) have resorted to these tactics at one time or another. In the last couple of years, Google has got a lot smarter...

OnePlus ambassador Robert Downey Jr. Beijing:  Much-loved Marvel hero and  OnePlus ambassador Robert Downey Jr. was spotted posting about OnePlus 7 on his Weibo page using  Huawei's flagship P30 Pro  smartphone, the media has reported. On 30 July, Robert Downey Jr. forwarded a Weibo using Huawei P30 Pro rather than his endorsed smartphone brand OnePlus 7. Although the post later disappeared from his Weibo profile, the eagle eyes of users captured the evidence in the screenshot before it got erased, tech portal huaweicentral.com reported on Wednesday. OnePlus, which roped in the Hollywood actor earlier this year for endorsing it, has faced flak for paying for ads featuring him instead of waterproofing its smartphones. Even as OnePlus has always touted its commitment to getting its users the highest specs at the lowest prices, its phones have lacked official IP certification for water resistance. Micro-blogging site Weibo is one of China's most popular social platforms...

Whether you’re trying to preserve your cell phone data or get online while in flight, connecting to Wi-Fi networks seems to be a constant task when traveling. And this either requires figuring out the correct router name and password or entering a passphrase and/or accepting terms and conditions on a log-in page. If it’s the latter, figuring out how to get to the Wi-Fi log-in page can be the biggest hurdle to getting back online. What if I told you there’s a shortcut to figuring out the log-in portal? For the last few years, I’ve been using a single URL to prompt the portal log-in page for Wi-Fi routers around the world. And it’s a URL that I highly recommend that you save on your browser(s) of choice: http://www.msftconnecttest.com As this site isn’t secured with HTTPS protocol, your browser will let it redirect to the Wi-Fi log-in page, and it’s never failed to work during my constant travels, at least using a Windows laptop. The only downside is that using this URL redirects to the ...