SearchCap: The Day In Search, January 20, 2014
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Matt Cutts: “Stick A Fork In It, Guest Blogging Is Done” Google and Matt Cutts, in particular, has made a number of statements about guest blogging…
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Matt Cutts drops the hammer on guest blogging
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Matt Cutts: “Stick A Fork In It, Guest Blogging Is Done”
Google and Matt Cutts, in particular, has made a number of statements about guest blogging over the past year as the tactic has grown as a link building tactic. None of those statements are as clear as the one Cutts wrote today on his personal blog. Cutts, the head of Google’s webspam team,…
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Expedia Lost 25% Of Their Search Visibility In Google Possibly Over Unnatural Links
The major travel web site, Expedia, seems to have lost 25% of their search visibility in Google according to Search Metrics. It appears that drop was due to an unnatural link penalty, where Nenad called out Expedia over a month ago for paid links on article sites. Expedia.com’s Google Traffic…
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Google Authorship Drop in SERPs: What Does it Mean?
There has been a lot of chatter over the web about Google dropping author pictures in search results. Where did it start and what should you know about it?
Let’s see!
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Reviews, SMBs & Google – Still Not Clear on the Concept
This story is so rich in the evolving complexity of reviews; the absurdly angry SMB, the frustrated poster and so rich a tale of service gone awry. A story of how decent service can become indecent service by the sort of reflexive behavior that is so common in the service industry. To say nothing of […]
Google Remarketing Ads Found To Violate Canadian Privacy Law; To Revamp Ad Review System By June
Google has agreed to several concessions after an investigation by Canada’s Office of the Privacy Commissioner found Google in violation of Canada’s privacy rights for the use of sensitive health history in remarketing campaigns. The investigation began last January, when a man…
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Google Bolding Related Words In Search Snippets – Not Titles
Mark Traphagen posted on Google+ how Google is getting better at understanding Semantic Search. Truth is…
Google Bolding Related Words In Search Snippets – Not Titles
Mark Traphagen posted on Google+ how Google is getting better at understanding Semantic Search. Truth is…
Google Glass Mirror API Gets New Templates
Timothy Jordan from the Google Glass Developers team announced on Google+ added new templates for the Mirror API…
Google Glass Mirror API Gets New Templates
Timothy Jordan from the Google Glass Developers team announced on Google+ added new templates for the Mirror API…
Evidence That Google Chooses Increasing Profits Over User Security
CNET is reporting that Google has removed several apps from the chrome web
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Local SEO Scam Of The Month: Craigslist SEO
Most SEO consultants I have met are pretty decent, hard-working folks. But there are plenty of SEO con artists out there, and it kills me every time I see a small business (or a big business) get taken. Recently, I had the privilege to witness a true P…
Are You Winning The Attention Auction?
Every waking minute of every day we choose to do one thing or another. For a long time we didn’t have many choices. Hunt the mammoths or mind the fire. Read the bible or tend the crops. I can remember when we only got six television stations on an old black and white TV. But […]
Are You Winning The Attention Auction? is by AJ Kohn, originally posted on Blind Five Year Old.
SearchLove Boston speaker line-up revealed
This April (7th & 8th) will see us return to the Joseph B Martin conference centre in Boston to share our latest insights into the world of online marketing.
5 Not-So-Common Reconsideration Request Errors
I’ve been struggling with a particularly difficult link cleanup project lately. On the occasion of my 100th reconsideration request (4th for this particular client), I thought it might be helpful to share five not-so-common problems that you might run into during your own link cleanup…
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Searching For Gmail In Google Links You To Compose A Message To A Google Apps User
If you search for [gmail] in Google and if you click on the sitelink that reads “Google mail” – Google may push you to a page that composes an email to a Google Apps user. Here is the search result you may see when you search for [gmail]: Clicking on that sitelink below the main…
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Dissecting Google Penguin 2.1: What Factors Mattered? [Study]
SEO data platform MathSight used its reverse engineering process to give clues into what factors Penguin 2.1 was targeting. This data builds on research MathSight uncovered last year on Penguin 2.0, and expands on the idea that it’s centered on low-qualit
Martin Luther King, Jr. Logos From Google, Bing, Ask.com & Dogpile
Today is the official holiday for Martin Luther King, Jr.’s birth, which was on January 15, 1929 but is celebrated the Monday after…
Google Removed 350 Million Ads & Rejected 3 Million Publishers
Google announced on Friday their efforts to keep their ad network safe, in-line and trustworthy. They shared some pretty crazy stats on what that means for their ad network…