Yesterday Matt Cutts from Google tweeted that Google search results for users on smartphones may be adjusted based on the kinds of errors a web site produces (of course I was excited):

Important: if your website has smartphone errors, we may change rankings for smartphone users: goo.gl/x8R4A #smx

Seems every few months some new astounding facts come to life about the digital and social media world we live in. And inevitably somebody will combine those facts into a video with snazzy animation and catchy music. The Social Media Revolution 2013 is one such video.

In today’s fast-paced, technologically-noisy world, people communicate with smart phones and computers more often than they do face-to-face. Or at least it feels that way. Millennials walk around staring at their 3 inch screen with headphones in their ears, so connected to their own world yet so disconnected from what’s around them.

The sidewalk has become a very dangerous place, as nobody is ever watching where they’re going. As a result, the pedestrian collision ratio has skyrocketed. But it’s too risky to be caught looking away from your phone. What if a stranger approaches you and wants to — talk — I know, they’d be out of their mind, right? Literally running into them sounds better to Millennials than putting themselves in the position to have a spontaneous face to face conversation.

If you’re hiring a company to write blog posts for you and have them published as guest posts on blogs, you’re probably getting ripped off. (There are legit content marketing services out there, but many are scams.)

Check out the email below. It’s the standard formula that the fake-blog-post industry uses. Fake name, no company, and no blog or LinkedIn page — which is always a credibility-buster for a supposedly professional blogger. A 702 area code from scam-filled Las Vegas is another clue. Bloggers like me get emails like this almost every day.

Here’s how it works: