Earth Day 2013 Google Doodle: Control the Weather in Interactive Logo
Today’s Google Doodle for Earth Day 2013 has a lot to experience. So much, in fact, Google created a “sightseeing checklist” to make sure you don’t miss anything. You’ll find all four seasons, animals, rain, wind and snow, and much more.
Google Reconsideration Request Guidelines & Example
Writing an awesome reconsideration request is critical when you’re attempting to get an unnatural links penalty removed by Google. Get on the path to recovery by following these tips, and see one example of a reconsideration request that worked.
Google: Pushing Hundreds Of Thousands Of Pages Can Raise A Red Flag
As I covered at Search Engine Land yesterday, Matt Cutts, Google’s head of search spam, posted a video answer to a question Google’s John Mueller asked named Should I add an archive of hundreds of thousands of pages all at once or in stages…
My Google Traffic After My Linking Penalty Was Lifted
As promised, I wanted to share my traffic changes after I’ve nofollowed my paid links. I already shared with you the interesting reconsideration request submission, response and analysis…
Google’s Paid Clicks Up 20% But CPC Prices Fall 4% In Q1 Earnings Report
Google announced earnings last night and reported revenues of $14 billion and profits of about $3.5 billion for their first quarter of 2013. The key highlights for search marketers are on paid clicks and cost-per-click…
Google AdSense Message Indicator Showing One For Some Publishers
A Google AdSense Help thread has some AdSense publishers acting concerned over noticing a message indicator showing one unread message but when they click through…
Google To Require Publishers To Agree To New AdSense Terms & Conditions
Google announced they have updated the Google AdSense terms and conditions.
Google did not link to the terms and conditions that are being updated but did pull out the two major changes to the legal agreement…
Google: Disavow Links Even If Removed As A Best Practice
A Google Webmaster Help thread has Google’s John Mueller implying that it may be “good practice” to list the sites and URLs in your disavow file even if they links were removed and especially if you simply requested the webmaster to remove them…
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Video Recap of Weekly Search Buzz :: April 19, 2013
Interesting week in the world, with the Boston bombing and the stuff going on this morning. I did my best to do the search…
Local Weekend Update
What Else is New Dept: There is a new bug with the Google Report A Problem for SABs: If a user selects the report a problem link via Maps or G+ Local they get a “This page won’t load…We’ve tried everything” message. At least its cute. Although that sad face icon is eerily reminiscent of my first […]
One Out Of Five “Second Screeners” Look Up Advertised Product Info While Watching TV
To give further credence to consumers’ love of “second-screening” and why marketer’s should be salivating at the opportunities these new habits behold, Nielsen released stats on just what consumers are doing on their tablets while watching TV. Social networking sites…
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SearchCap: The Day In Search, April 19, 2013
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the Web. From Search Engine Land: Bing: Our Search Results Do Not Infect Users, “Malware Study Was Wrong” Bing has responded to the malware study conducted by AV-TEST earlier this…
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Bing: Our Search Results Do Not Infect Users, “Malware Study Was Wrong”
Bing has responded to the malware study conducted by AV-TEST earlier this week, claiming that Bing search results led to five times more malware than Google. To that Bing said, “the conclusions many have drawn from the study are wrong.” Why is the study wrong according to Bing? While…
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4 Ways To Take Your AdWords Scripts To The Next Level
Last week, I presented at HeroConf in Austin and shared some advanced tips for automating AdWords account management with an audience of PPC account managers. They seemed to like what I had to say; so, I’ll share a few of the more advanced scripting tips with you here. When you manage PPC accounts,…
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Another Loss for Viacom in Endless YouTube Copyright Legal Battle
A U.S. district court judge has confirmed, once again, that YouTube operates within the rules of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act and is protected by safe harbor. The court said YouTube could only be held liable for material it knew existed.
Search In Pics: Google Glass On Glass, Silly Bandz & Googely Nail Polish
In this week’s Search In Pictures, here are the latest images culled from the Web, showing what people eat at the search engine companies, how they play, who they meet, where they speak, what toys they have, and more. Google Glass On Glass: Source: Google+ Google Fiber Van At GooglePlex:…
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Google Removes Related Searches
This morning I went to use one of my go to techniques for keyword research and found it was … missing. Related Searches Gone It was bad enough that the new Search tools interface was this awkward double-click menu but I understood that decision. Because most mainstream users don’t ever refine their results. But to […]
Google Removes Related Searches is by AJ Kohn, originally posted on Blind Five Year Old.
In-Line Search Term Reporting Coming to Bing Ads
Bing Ads announced it is working on adding a Search Terms Report to make mining search query data more accessible from within the Web UI. Currently in the Web UI, search query data is only available under the Reports section. With the update, search te…
Tips for promoting a client who sells something you don’t know much about
The goal of this post is to help get you a peek into how I get “unstuck” when promoting products or services I don’t use on the day to day, while illustrating another great way to use Wikipedia to build exposure and links. (note, I’ll be presenting at SearchLove in Boston on just that topic, […]
Tracking Rankings With Google’s Referrer URL
Earlier this year I wrote about the problem of diminishing keyword data and offered a number of solutions to overcome this problem. Today I will highlight one specific method of keyword and position mining – server log files.
These days there is no such thing as an absolute ranking position.
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