Matt Cutts Implies Google Is Aware Of SEOs Bribing Bloggers

On Friday night, Google’s head of search spam, Matt Cutts tweeted a link to a Gawker story named Shady Marketing Firms Are Still Quietly Bribing Bloggers. Matt said, “we’re taking action on hundreds of buyers, dozens of sites, & dozens of spammy writers,” in reference…

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Google Still Working On Promoting Subject-Specific Authorities In Search Results

Remember the video Google’s Matt Cutts released in May, talking about the ten future Google SEO changes? One of those topics was about authority boost for authors and sites that are an authority on a topic? Well, Google is still working on that. In TWiG, This Week in Google, episode 227,…

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Yandex Does What Google Can’t: Provides Bitcoin Exchange Rates

How much is one US dollar in UK pounds? Google will give you a direct answer to that and many other currencies with the conversion tool that’s built into its search results. But when it comes to Bitcoin, Russian-based Yandex seems to have won the honor of being first to support conversion of…

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Nelson Mandela Ranks #1 On Google’s Top Trending Searches For 2013

Google has published its top ten global trending searches of  2013, with the recently deceased South African leader Nelson Mandela ranking No. 1 for this year’s top global searches: It’s perhaps unsurprising that the #1 trending search of 2013 was an international symbol of strength and…

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This Holiday Shopping Season, Searching Google For “Pearl Necklace” Leads To NSFW Surprise

Those using Google to find the perfect pearl necklace for their significant other this holiday season may be in for a rude surprise. If you search for “pearl necklace,” one of the top results is a definition from Urban Dictionary, which is completely not safe for work. A reader sent us…

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Google’s Matt Cutts: Feel Free To Use The Disavow Tool Even Without A Manual Action

In a new video answer today from Google’s head of search spam, Matt Cutts, Matt says that you can use the disavow tool even if you do not have a manual action. In which cases can you use this tool even without a manual action? (1) You tried to remove links but the webmaster linking […]

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Google Scholar Library: Add Scholar Search Results To Your Library

Google announced a new feature within Google Scholar named “My Library.” This new section lets you save articles right from the search page, organize them by topic, and search full-text within your library to find what you are looking for. To enable this feature, you need to click on…

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After Two Years Of Broken Promises, Does Google Need To Explain More to Maintain Trust In Search?

For two years running, Google’s broken major promises about search. It began doing paid inclusion in 2012, which it once called “evil.” This year, it’s experimenting with banner ads it said would never be allowed. Both represent major philosophical shifts for the company…

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Google & Microsoft Agree To Block Child Sexual Abuse Material From Search Results

The Mail Online reports Google and Microsoft Bing have adjusted their search results to block child pornography and other child sexual abuse content from being accessible through their search engines. The news is being widely covered, some claiming tha…

2014 SEO Playbook, Part 1 – Hummingbird

It’s November, which means it’s time for my annual SEO Playbook for the coming year. Thanks to Google’s Hummingbird, Internet marketers and search engine optimization professionals are thinking a lot about content and authority, as well as what this new algorithm means for keyword…

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How Recent Organic Search Changes Will Affect Paid Search

Search marketers were pitched not one but two curveballs recently which have forever reshaped the landscape of search engine optimization (SEO). The industry saw the first one coming a mile away as Google began encrypting organic search queries two years ago. Now, there’s almost zero…

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Image Mismatch: The Latest Google Webmaster Tools Manual Action Penalty

Google has a new manual action penalty within their guidelines named image mismatch. Image mismatch is when the images on your web site do not match what is shown in the Google search results. Google words it as “your site’s images may be displaying differently on Google’s search results…

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Google Testing Site Name & URL In Search Result Snippets

Last month we saw Google testing displaying the site name in place of the URL in the snippets of the search results. Now, Rubén reports Google testing a nicer approach, showing both the site name and the URL in the snippet. So when you search for this site, it will show “Search Engine Land…

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Google Hotel Finder Goes Mobile

Google’s Hotel Finder, which launched in June 2011, is now available on mobile devices. Google said all you need to do is go to www.google.com/hotels directly on your smart phone and search for your destination. Listings will come up almost immediately, giving you the ability to filter the…

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Google Hummingbird & The Keyword: What You Need To Know To Stay Ahead

On September 26, Google told participants at its 15th anniversary event it had a new algorithm impacting more than 90 percent of searches worldwide. They called it “Hummingbird.” Google’s Amit Singhal later said it was perhaps the largest change to the algorithm since he joined…

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Google App Indexing: Google Can Index & Link To Content In Your Android App

Google announced that they can now index the content within Android apps. The mechanism for doing so, they call, is app indexing. App indexing allows webmasters to connect pages from your web sites with specific content within your Android app. This en…