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Youtech & Associates supports fun for a cause in its sponsorship of the A to Z Bar Crawl, the first-ever event hosted by UrbanMatter, a top online resource for Chicago events and entertainment. The bar crawl, running from 11am – 6pm, aims to bring Chicagoans out to celebrate an afternoon at six of the hottest bars in bustling River North to enjoy unbeatable drink specials, games, prizes, and shareworthy photo contests. A portion of the proceeds from the A to Z Bar Crawl will benefit the Chicago Hearing Society, a nonprofit organization that both Youtech and UrbanMatter are very close to. Now Tickets include a customized bar crawl t-shirt with first-come-first-served letter choice, a wristband granting drink specials at participating bars, an overnight parking discount at the Mart Parc Wells garage at 401 North Wells Street, and a soon-to-be-shared discount on an overnight hotel stay.

The last time we saw a major update was almost 2 years ago, when the Penguin 3.0 update affected millions of sites back in October of 2014. There is no exact time a spam filter is run, but the speculation is that each new spam filter would take months before they began a new one. Google announced that the Penguin 4.0 algorithm update is “more granular,” meaning that this update will now diminish spam by “adjusting ranking based on spam signals, rather than affecting ranking of the whole site. It’s unclear how long it might take for the update to be rolled out fully, but based on speculation and previous updates, the change should take full effect within a couple weeks.

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