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The Best Parental Control Apps for Your Phone of 2016

The Internet is a scary place. Trust me, I work there. And if the dangers of cyberspace can rattle an adult, imagine how they might traumatize an innocent child. Installing  a parental control tool  on your PCs can shield your kids from the dark side of the Web, but computers aren't the only tech kids use to get online. These days, phones, tablets, and other mobile devices are the toys most young people turn to when they want to browse the Internet, download apps, and chat with friends. And all of those activities can open up our precious youth to some serious online nastiness. Don't fret, parents, there is hope. Parental control tools are now available specifically for mobile devices. This list currently highlights only the latest and greatest  Android apps  for parental control. Many of these utilities have iOS counterparts, but they're typically more powerful on Android because of Google's looser restrictions for what they can and can't do. But rest assured ...

March 2016 Google Algorithm Updates – Was it Panda, More Quality Updates, or Something Else?

They say March comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb. Well for SEOs, it’s slightly different this year. March came in like lion and went out  like a bigger lion . There were three distinct dates where I saw significant movement from an algorithm update standpoint (starting on 3/3, then more on 3/14, and then another major tremor on 3/21).  In this post, I’ll go through what I saw, what I think it could be, and then I provide some final recommendations for those that were impacted. Let’s go. In early March, I noticed significant movement across some of the sites I monitor. I have access to a lot of data across sites dealing with quality problems (Panda, Phantom, and other quality updates). In addition, I had several new companies reach out to me in early March explaining they were also seeing movement. And Barry Schwartz posted that webmasters  were seeing similar things  based on chatter he was hearing. And then Pierre Far also commented that he...