SearchCap: Google Polish Penalties, AdWords Disallows Porn & Matt Cutts Takes Leave
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Head Of Google’s Web Spam Team Matt Cutts Is Going On Leave Google’s Matt Cutts – who holds the title of “distinguished engineer”…
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Head Of Google’s Web Spam Team Matt Cutts Is Going On Leave
Google’s Matt Cutts – who holds the title of “distinguished engineer” — is taking a break from his duties as Google’s chief web spam fighter. Cutts has announced on his personal blog that he’s taking leave through October. It will be the longest break Cutts…
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12 Awesome Perks of Being a SEER Intern
Passing our one-month mark as SEER digital marketing interns, we have joined didactic training sessions, completed engaging projects, and learned a tremendous amount of SEO knowledge along the way. It’s pretty clear that we love interning at SEER – what better way to share our love than through a gif-filled, all-things SEER favorite list? 1) […]
Google ‘Forgets’ Publisher Articles as EU Takedowns Begin
Following Europe’s ‘right to be forgotten’ ruling in May, Google has begun taking down search results. Some publishers have already been affected, including the BBC and The Guardian.
Yahoo Retires Less Popular Products to Make Room for New Innovation
Yahoo is shutting down a range of its not-so-popular products, in order to focus on its more popular ones. Included in the cull is people search, Xobni, toolbar on Chrome, and Shine.
Google Orders Terminator Robots Not To Kill Founders Brin & Page
How do you stop the unstoppable killer Terminators if you’re not Sarah Connor? Google does it with a simple text file. People have noted today that Google has a special “robot.txt” file that pokes fun at stopping the Terminators. Robots.txt files are actually used to stop robots…
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Bing Reveals U.S. “Fireworks” Search Interest in Time for July 4th
In preparation for the Fourth of July, people are going online to search for information or products around the Fourth’s main event: the fireworks. Bing dives into the data by state and county to reveal where people are expressing the most interest in the
Android Wear Apps Go Live in Google Play Store
Last night, Google announced on Google+ that they have published the first set of Android Wear apps in the Google Play Store.
Jason Calacanis: Google’s Matt Cutts Killed Mahalo & Wants Revenge
Jason Calacanis, a well known angel investor, who helped launch many brands, products and software ideas – is still incredibly mad at Google and directly, Matt Cutts over the Panda algorithm and how it destroyed his other start up…
Google Slaps Two More Link Networks In Poland
Google has slapped two more link networks in Poland late last night.
Google posted details about how reconsideration requests work on the Google Poland blog. And Google’s Karolina Kruszynska confirmed with me this morning that Google went after two…
July 2014 Google Webmaster Report
I thought the June report was massive, well, the past month at Google was even more active. We had the Spam algorithm revised to version 3…
Michael Boland and McKay Allen on Tuesay Webcast: “11 Elements of a Converted Call”
On Tuesday July 8, at 1 PM EDT, our sister site, Digital Marketing Depot will host a webcast, “11 Elements of a Converted Call.” Michael Boland of BIA Kelsey and McKay Allen from LogMyCalls will discuss why some calls convert and others don’t. Topics include the impact call length…
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What Local Business Leaders Must Know About Search Engines And SEO
When I write about SEO and business success, I often realize that I’ve touched upon a point that merits a column of it’s own. This is one such column. It will focus on the fact that online and offline marketing have grown inextricably codependent — especially for local businesses….
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Evaluate Your Surrounding Community to Spark Fresh Ideas
Taking the time to do a surface-level evaluation of your surrounding social community can help you gain perspective on what is happening in your brand’s ecosystem and come up with new ideas for your social strategies.
VIDEO + SLIDESHOW: The Coming Paradigm Shift in Mobile Marketing
Thanks to the proliferation of mobile devices, the necessary ingredients for a complete paradigm shift are in place: decreasing cost of wireless communication and wireless sensors, combined with the increased ease of access to cheap data storage and da…
Google AdWords Begins Enforcing Porn Ads Rules
CNBC reports that Google is now banning porn businesses from utilizing their ad network. The truth is, the policy of not allowing adult ads in the Google ad network was announced in March. You can read about it on Google’s help pages over here: The AdWords policies on adult sexual services,…
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The New Data Currency In A Digital World
The list of options on the performance marketing menu has been growing steadily. Whereas search had historically been the primary channel for direct marketers to drive leads and revenue, the array of opportunities has been increasing within the social …
Google Hits Poland Again With Link Network Penalties
Four months after Google’s first link network penalty in Poland, Google has targeted an additional two Polish link networks this morning. Google’s Karolina Kruszynska, a spam fighter, posted on Twitter that the most recent wide spread manual action targeted two link networks in Poland:…
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6 Ways to Make Your Search Results Shine
There are always new ways to improve your business’ search results using Google Knowledge Graph, if you take time to understand search query intent and implement structured markup across your website.
Many Organic Results Influenced by Locality
Does locality have an effect on SERP ranking? Not always, but when it does we should be mindful of the best choices to make to achieve the best ranking possible.