Covario To Be Acquired By Dentsu Aegis Network, Rio SEO To Remain Independent
Covario, one of the very large search marketing agencies in the US with over 220* employees, has announced they will be acquired by Dentsu Aegis Network. Dentsu Aegis Network is a multinational media and digital marketing communications company headqua…
TV Rank: Google Gets Patent On Using TV Viewing Habits To Influence Search Results
Google uses a variety of signals to determine how to rank search results, such as how people link to content on the web, geographic location, search history and more. Now, perhaps what you’re watching on TV might become a new factor. Bill Slawski, an SEO patent guru, posted on his blog that…
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German Official: Google Should Reveal Its Ranking Algorithm
One of the unanswered questions in the ongoing European-Google antitrust saga is what concrete changes or concessions critics want (or will accept) from Google. One of those things may have just come to light in a Financial Times interview with German justice minister Heiko Maas. Maas asserts in…
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Google Revives, Upgrades My Maps
Like many of Google’s local/mapping products, My Maps has had a … let’s call it a “checkered” history. It’s been heavily promoted and then seemingly ignored. It’s been renamed (to “My Places”) and had some of its features co-opted by other…
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When Google Shows A Source Or Credit For Quick Answers & Knowledge Graph
As Google continues to provide quick answers and knowledge graph data directly at the top of the search results, publisher concerns continue to rise. Publishers are worried that searchers will have less of a need and desire to click through from Google’s search results page to the…
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Publishers To EC: We Want More From Google Or We’ll Sue
As we discussed last week, the current Europe-Google antitrust settlement is dead. This is a surprising turn of events considering that it was once described by European regulators as essentially a done deal. Outgoing European Competition Commissioner Joaquin Almunia confirmed last week in a talk…
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Nearly A Year Later, Are We Finally Going To Get A Penguin Update Refresh?
In 22 days from now, it will be the year anniversary of the release of the fifth update to Google’s Penguin algorithm, code-named Penguin 2.1. As you can imagine, waiting 11 months and 8 days can be excruciating for those who were negatively impacted by the punitive algorithm. They’ve…
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With Apple’s Help, Google Search Gets Special Info Boxes For iPhone 6 & Apple Watch
Who says rivals can’t work together? If you search on Google for “iPhone 6″ or “Apple Watch,” you’ll discover new information boxes about each product that Google created with the help of Apple. Here’s how it looks for search on iPhone 6: And for the iPhone…
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Apple Watch Brings Local Search To Your Wrist
We don’t yet know how popular the Apple Watch will be when it goes on sale early next year. A “flash survey” conducted immediately after the announcement showed 33 percent of 1,000 US respondents were potentially interested in buying one. The device carries a wide range of apps…
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Despite Google’s Need To Go Deeper When Indexing, Google Fixes Self Indexing Glitch
Over the week, there were various reports of Google going against their own webmaster guidelines, by indexing their own search results. Last night, Google updated their robot.txt file to ensure they block their own search results from being in the Goog…
Google Revamps Webmaster Tools API
Google announced on the Webmaster blog that they’ve updated the Google Webmaster Tools API to bring it up to par with other Google APIs. Google has revamped how you authenticate for apps or web-services and it also gives you access to some of the main features of Webmaster Tools. Specific…
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How Google Fails To Enforce “First Click Free” — An Eric Schmidt Case Study
News publishers often want to be listed in Google. News publishers also often want to have paywalls or registration barriers. The good news is Google has rules that allow for this. The bad news is that Google routinely fails to enforce these rules. Bel…
Google Knowledge Graph Now With “In The News” Box
Google has launched a new knowledge graph panel on the right side named “In the news.” If you search for [jill duggar], you will see the new box come up on the right hand side. If you click on the link that reads “Headlines & Global News,” you would think Google would…
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Google To Start Bumping Ad Copy For Extensions In Mobile Search Ads
When Google added ad extensions and formats to the Ad Rank formula last fall, the company essentially put a neon sign flashing “Ad Extensions Increase Click Through Rates” in that store window you walk by every day. Now, in another sign of the rise of ad extensions, Google has announced…
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Bing Released A URL Keyword Stuffing Spam Filtering That Impacted Three-Percent Of Queries
Igor Rondel, the Principal Development Manager of the Bing Index Quality, posted on the Bing Search Blog news that they released a spam filter a “few months” ago that impacted about 3% of all search queries. The spam filter was aimed at URL keyword stuffing. Igor Rondel it targeted…
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Search Preview In Apple’s iOS 8 Coming To The iPhone In One Week
Apple announced the new iPhone 6 and 6 Plus and announced iOS 8, the new mobile operating system for Apple devices, will be available September 17th, a week from today. Here is a preview of some of the new search features within iOS 8 including Bing re…
The Confusion Over Google’s Algorithm Updates & Refreshes
I personally spend a lot of time within the SEO space investigating claims of Google algorithm updates, it is a fascinating topic because there are so many variables involved and a lot of secrecy on Google’s end around their search algorithms. Often, Google will not confirm updates or…
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Google’s Current EU-Antitrust Settlement Appears Dead
Without immediate, new concessions from Google it appears that the company will not be able to finalize an antitrust settlement with the European Commission before antitrust chief Joaquin Almunía leaves office in November. It’s almost certain that a stronger Google critic will succeed him…
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SearchMetrics Released SEO Ranking Factors For 2014: Content Now Really King?
SearchMetrics announced their 2014 SEO ranking factors study is now ready for download. Every year, SearchMetrics releases the study but this is the largest study they’ve done, with almost 100 pages and by adding dozens of new factors like time of site, bounce rate, fresh links and others….
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Optmyzr Launches Google Shopping Campaigns Setup Tool
There are many benefits of the new Shopping Campaigns structure that Google ushered in on September 1st, however, the setup process can be cumbersome and iterative, particularly if you have the same type of campaign structure across multiple campaigns….