confirmation from Matt Cutts: disavows can help penguin
Just quoted in a tweet, Matt Cutts confirmed that disavows will help penguin saying “disavows can help for Penguin.”
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SearchCap: The Day In Search, July 2, 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: Google Alerts Drops RSS Delivery Option Google has quietly dropped the support to deliver your Google Alerts via RS…
Google Alerts Drops RSS Delivery Option
Google has quietly dropped the support to deliver your Google Alerts via RSS. A warning at the top of the page, for those who had RSS delivery previous set up for Alerts reads: Google Reader is no longer available. To continue receiving Google Alerts, …
Google No Longer Powering Russian Internet Company Searches As Mail.ru Takes All Queries In-House
Russian Internet company Mail.ru Group released an official announcement that they will be handling all queries made by Search Mail.ru users from here on out. According to TheNextWeb.com, Google previously powered 60 percent of the searches performed o…
SPONSOR MESSAGE: The Future of Digital Marketing Services
In a recent survey, almost 60% of marketers said they expect to increase their relationship with digital agencies in the next twelve months. As an agency, is your business positioned to build the capabilities and services to capture this increasing dem…
Bing Gives Webmasters More Control Over Deep Links
Bing has announced changes to deep link management. You can now log into Bing Webmaster Tools and remove specific deep links that the Bing algorithm has automatically generated and selected to appear under the main search result for a website.
(When will it happen and) who will stop Google?
There’s a good summary [warning: I got a few annoying popups after going there] of how Google controls the web: I like th
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Local Businesses Need To Expand & Refine Advertising Approach
With consumers leveraging a broader array of online and offline media when searching for local business information — and increasingly relying on smartphones and tablets to conduct searches — local businesses need to expand and refine their advertising approach in order to remain…
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Google Reader Closes: Save Your Data by July 15 Or Lose it Forever
Google Reader is no more. Google officially closed the doors on its popular RSS news reader yesterday. Today, it has posted a thank you message to its fans, and points users to alternatives like Feedly. Digg and AOL have also launched RSS readers.
The Google Local Carousel & Local Directories
“Nostalgia means the pain from an old wound…” – Don Draper When Google’s new Local Carousel came to a town near you a couple of weeks ago, I immediately envisioned the Don Drapers of local search in conference rooms around the country dramatically presenting their initial impressions. Of course at the end, instead of Duck […]
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Penguin Predictor at 94% via Open Penguin Data Project
It has been a lot of work since I first began this project immediately following Penguin 2.0.
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Bing Ads Introduces New Ad Format With Windows 8.1 Smart Search Integration
Microsoft announced today that the Bing Ads platform will be integrated with Windows 8.1 Smart Search, giving Bing Ads advertisers more reach and a new ad format. Released last week, Smart Search in Windows 8.1 allows users to search across the web, apps, device and the cloud with one query. The…
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a4u Expo – Extreme SEO – Punching the Penguin #a4uexpo
Five SEO experts will be hoping to keep Penguin on the ropes by covering new linking techniques, multi-devices and site audits
Post from Alex Moss on State of Search
a4u Expo – Extreme SEO – Punching the Penguin #a4uexpo
In Memoriam: Warren “Ted” Ulle (Tedster of WebmasterWorld)
The search marketing industry lost one of its brilliant minds last week when Warren “Ted” Ulle, but better known throughout the industry by his nickname “tedster”, passed away. Ted was a long time administrator at WebmasterWorld.
Why My Google Sitelink Demotions Aren’t Holding
Over the past several months, there has been a quiet but repetitive topic taking place in the Google forums. A recent one was started by loupiote, who said “a couple of weeks ago, I have demoted the link yet…
Google Webmaster Tools Cleans Up Navigation & More
Google has announced a clean up of Google Webmaster Tools, where they reorganized the left hand navigation menu…
Creating Great Experience for SEO
Improving a website’s usage data is very essential in SEO nowadays, as these signals highly reflect the quality of the site and the level of experience it can provide to its users.
Another reason why optimizing for experience is so important in this new age of search is because of the fact that Google Panda filters are now being integrated to Google’s search ranking algorithm.
a4u Expo – It’s Time to Revisit WordPress #a4uexpo
Joost De Valk returns to the a4uexpo conference agenda, where he’ll be giving the chance to revisit WordPress and hear what is currently best practice.
Post from Alex Moss on State of Search
a4u Expo – It’s Time to Revisit WordPress #a4uexpo
Google Testing Larger News Photos In Search Results
Google Operating System reports Google is testing showing larger photos in the News OneBox Google web results page. Often, when you search for news related topics in Google.com, Google will show news results at the top, middle or bottom of the results. This is part of Google’s universal…
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