SearchCap: Google Bad Ads, Google Mortgage Calculator & Google VP Leaves
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
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Google’s Senior VP Of Knowledge, Alan Eustace To Retire
Google loses another senior vice president and world record holder, Alan Eustace.
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Google Disabled 524M Bad Ads Last Year
Counterfeit product ads are down, but Google has to fight as hard as ever to combat weight loss scam ads, according to the search engine’s annual Bad Ads Report.
Free Trip To SMX – Win The Biggest Search Geek Contest!
Enter the 7th Annual SMX West Biggest Search Geek Contest, sponsored by Marin Software. The challenging quiz-based contest is where the world’s brightest search marketers compete to outsmart fellow search geeks from across the globe. The contestant who answers the most questions correctly in…
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Google’s Mortgage Calculator Quick Answer Now Live
Google now offers a mortgage and interest calculator, so you no longer have to go to a financial web site to get the cute web based calculators.
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Q&A: Thomson Reuters’ Emily Palmer
With less than a week to go until SES London, this Q&A with Thomson Reuters’ head of programmatic Emily Palmer will give you a peak at what’s in store at the conference.
5 Pieces Of Content: 25 Link Ideas
Trying to come up with ideas for getting links from other sites? Link Week columnist Julie Joyce shows us her brainstorming process with several example articles.
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Adblock Plus whitelists Google; Google disables 500M ads
It’s Tuesday and it’s already “The Week of Ads.” First we had the Super Bowl, which brought us some great commercials.
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Google, Microsoft, and Amazon Pay to Unblock Ads
Adblock Plus has been taking money from major tech companies to have their ads unblocked.
Google Issues Its 2014 “Bad Ads” Report: Disabled More Than Half A Billion Ads
Over 43 million ads were disabled for using “Trick to Click” ploys.
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Omniture for Beginners: 2015 Update
Back in December 2013, I wrote a tutorial post showing how to find basic analytics data in Omniture, and explaining differences in terminology between Omniture and Google Analytics. Both platforms have seen some changes since then, so this refresh restores the guide to its original usefulness.
Appearing Multiple Times In Google Shopping: The Pros & Cons
Are you bleeding money or gaining exposure from showing up multiple times in Google Shopping results? Rebekah Schelfhout shares her thoughts.
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Verizon Wireless to Enable Opt-Out of Mobile “Supercookies”
The wireless service will allow users to completely opt out of being targeted with the unique mobile identifiers called “supercookies.”
Google News RSS Feed Bug Still Actively Being Fixed
Back in December, we reported on complaints that the Google News custom RSS feeds were not working. Google said back then it “will be resolved shortly,” but it was not and still is not…
Google Tests Bolder AdWords To Organic Results Line Break
Tony Edwards spotted a small and subtle test by Google and posted it on Twitter. Google is testing placing a bolder/darker line break line between the ads and the organic results in the search results…
Does Your Mobile Site Pass The Google Redirect Test?
Obviously, mobile is important and it is just as important to configure it properly so that GoogleBot and search engines understand what is mobile and what is not…
80% Of Those Solicited Wanted Negative SEO Services
We’ve covered negative SEO a lot here, the practice of harming your competitors in the search results so that you can go up in the rankings because they go down in the rankings…
Survey’s In: Small Businesses Still Want $500 SEO
Small SEO budgets are a big challenge — especially when the clients have no idea that their grand expectations don’t match their tiny budgets.
Snapchat Discover Signals Future SEO Changes
Will Snapchat’s new content partnership alienate search engines, and bring big SEO headaches for content publishers down the road?
10 Growth Hacks to Drive New Search Traffic From Your Content
Here are 10 top tactics for 2015 to help you build a successful case for expanding content creation and distribution budgets.