Google: We Won’t Be Updating Toolbar PageRank
SEORoundtable reports Google says PageRank is finally dead and that last update was a “mistake” https://www.seroundtable.com/google-toolbar-pagerank-dead-19256.html
Up Close @ SMX: Avoiding SEO Disasters
Contributor Russell Savage recaps Mark Munroe’s presentation at SMX East, in which he discussed common SEO disasters, as well as ways to detect and prevent them.
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TopSEOs: “We Have Not Been Banned By Google”
Despite Google apparently dropping two of its domains this week, TopSEOs denies that it has been banned and says it’s in contact with Google to discuss the situation. On Wednesday, Mark Jackson at Vizion Interactive posted that TopSEOs had been deindexed in Google’s search results. Sure…
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SearchCap: Google Reports “Right To Be Forgotten” Totals, Should You Copy SEO Tactics? & More
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 Nixed 4,143 Links To YouTube, Groups Under “RTBF” On the heels of our earlier discussion of search-index removal requests under the…
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Facebook & YouTube Are Top Sites With Content Removed From Google Under “Right To Be Forgotten”
Google is now sharing details about Right To Be Forgotten removals in a new section of its pre-existing Google Transparency Report area. The latest numbers show that Facebook, ProfileEngine.com and Google’s own YouTube are the top three sites to have content taken down through the new…
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Pigeon update undone?
A recent study posted to SearchEngineLand has come to the conclusion that Google has rolled back the Pigeon update.
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Study: 60 Percent of “Right To Be Forgotten” Requests Denied
Reputation VIP operates the Forget.me website intended to handle Google and Bing “Right to Be Forgotten” (RTBF) requests. Using three months of data, the company has released a study on RTBF’s impact in France, the UK and Germany. There was a smaller, separate study on Spain. It…
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Sit Back and Let Google Make Plans for You
Now, the updated Google app can help you plan your next date or discover where to dine out when traveling.
Should You Copy A Top Site’s SEO?
Big sites like Amazon.com can teach us a lot about SEO…or can they? Contributor Tom Schmitz gives us the lowdown.
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Free Google Local Duplicate Listing Finder Tool
Finding duplicates for the same listing with the Google local index is critical. Unfortunately the new Maps is terrible at it and G+ creates too many false positives. You can revert to the old Maps and its increasingly quirky behavior or MapMaker to find the duplicates in the Google Local index but both of those […]
Workin’ 9 to 5? Songs to Get Productive
A deadline looms. The clock is ticking. Yet it’s too loud in the office – your desk mate’s yakking on the phone, the coffee machine is whirring. So you relocate, ahhh… No actually, now it’s too quiet.
Know Your Platforms: AdWords vs. AdWords Express
What are the key differences between AdWords and AdWords Express? Which platform is best suited for the needs and goals of your business?
What To Do When The PPC Competition Plays Dirty
Contributor Pauline Jakober shares concrete steps you can take to combat shady PPC practices — even when the search engine declines to take action.
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Videos: Google’s Maile Ohye Gives Local Businesses Advice
Maile Ohye of Google is one of the best people there are providing clear, concise…
Over 50% Of SEOs Are Concerned About Negative SEO Extortion
A few months back we reported on a mass of negative SEO extortion emails being sent around. We asked our audience if these negative SEO extortion emails scare them and truth is…
Do We Need A Search Marketing Code Of Ethics?
It has been a while since we talked about SEMPO, Search Engine Marketing Professionals Organization, one of the first and longest lasting organizations for the SEM community.
But they announced they will be working on a code of ethics for the SEM comm…
Google: 30% Of First Page Search Results Contain HTTPS URLs
Here are more Google HTTPS tidbits from my SMX coverage last week…
Friday Infographic: SEO Plugins for WordPress: What do We Use?
13% of the web in Europe is using Wordpress. Of that, over half have installed an SEO plugin for Wordpress. Which ones are most popular?
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Friday Infographic: SEO Plugins for WordPress: What do We Use?
Cross-Device Measurement: Believe the Hype
The basic task of marketing is to deliver better results when achieving a particular goal, whether it be better SEO, brand awareness, conversions, or in-store purchases. When targeting consumers across devices, it is important to evaluate whether the righ
The Great Link Paradox
We used to link feely on the web and anchor text has always been a matter of context and choice. Google changed everything with its profound dependency on link signals. Designer anchor text is not a pure SEO invention, Googlers themselves asked us to use descriptive anchor text to help them understand our pages better:
“Writing descriptive anchor text, the clickable words in a link, is a useful signal to help search engines and users alike to better understand your content.…
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