Weâve been hard at work making updates at Tynker, and weâre excited to share whatâs new! Hereâs a quick look at some of the latest additions and improvements.
Weekly Project Updates
Each week, a new project is made available to reinforce core coding concepts and spark creativity. Check out the current Weekly Projects below before theyâre gone!
Winter Mini-Games (NEW!)
Build a winter sports arcade with a game menu that launches three mini-games: hockey, curling, and snowboarding. This project is available using Tynker Blocks.
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Historyâs Heroes
Create a fun matching game celebrating Black History Month! This project is available using Tynker Blocks and JavaScript.
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Student Experience Updates
Weâve also introduced platform improvements to make navigation smoother and learning progress clearer for students.
New Dashboard Icons
Students can now track their progress within a lesson more easily. Completed activities are marked with green check marks, and hovering over an activity reveals its title for a quick preview.
Color-Coded Block Categories
Blocks are grouped by category and color-coded to make them easier to find and understand. Each category tab now matches its block color, helping students quickly connect the tab to the blocks!
PakarPBN
A Private Blog Network (PBN) is a collection of websites that are controlled by a single individual or organization and used primarily to build backlinks to a “money site” in order to influence its ranking in search engines such as Google. The core idea behind a PBN is based on the importance of backlinks in Google’s ranking algorithm. Since Google views backlinks as signals of authority and trust, some website owners attempt to artificially create these signals through a controlled network of sites.
In a typical PBN setup, the owner acquires expired or aged domains that already have existing authority, backlinks, and history. These domains are rebuilt with new content and hosted separately, often using different IP addresses, hosting providers, themes, and ownership details to make them appear unrelated. Within the content published on these sites, links are strategically placed that point to the main website the owner wants to rank higher. By doing this, the owner attempts to pass link equity (also known as “link juice”) from the PBN sites to the target website.
The purpose of a PBN is to give the impression that the target website is naturally earning links from multiple independent sources. If done effectively, this can temporarily improve keyword rankings, increase organic visibility, and drive more traffic from search results.