Is eBay A Big Loser In Google’s Panda 4.0 Update? — Winners & Losers Data
Yesterday, Google began rolling out their Panda 4.0 update designed to punch low-quality content. That’s generated both “winners” who have moved up in rankings as “losers” have dropped down — and eBay might be one of the big losers. Searchmetrics gave us their…
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New Bing Ads Location Report Shows Whether Ads Were Triggered By Physical Location Or Location Interest
The Bing Ads team has added a new Geo Location report that offers more detail on the type of targeting methods used in serving your ads. The report is available under the list of Targeting reports via the Bing Ads API and the web UI. Aptly named, the “Geo location (New version)” report…
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Google Paid “Dealers Nearby” Appears to Have Gone Live
This is old news to some but interesting to me. Last week, while I was in Hungary, Dr. Pete reported on Twitter that Google’s new paid ads that appear in car knowledge graph panels has gone live. It is a dramatic presentation on the desktop. And even more so on mobile. Will Google soon be […]
Founder: OpenStreetMap Already As Good Or Better Than Google Maps
Steve Coast founded OpenStreetMap (OSM) in the UK in 2004. It’s 10 years old this year. He was inspired by the Wikipedia model and compelled by a lack of available map and location data in the UK at that time. Coast now works for GPS navigation company Telenav, which owns location-based…
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Search is the Starting Point for 60% of Travelers, While Social Informs [Study]
Kenshoo has released an industry spotlight report on the travel sector that shows 58 percent of leisure travelers and 64 percent of business travelers begin with search, with one out of four tablet users converting by booking air travel on a tablet.
Let’s Talk Web Design
An interview with Ade Lewis, Head of Web at Teapot Creative
Ade Lewis has plenty of fresh thinking around online marketing.
Improving our reviews
We recently did customer research into what our site review customers thought about our site reviews. While we were very happy with the results, it also showed us some things we could improve. It was very clear people wanted our reviews for the SEO improvements most of all, and today we’re launching the changes to our review…
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Google Fossile Doodle Logo For 215th Birthday Of Mary Anning
Today on the Google home pages worldwide is a special Google logo…
Google Spam Algorithm Version 2.0 Released Over Weekend
As I broke last night, Google has released an update to the Payday Loan Algorithm also known as the Google Spam Algorithm over the weekend.
No, I was not crazy expecting something big that happened over the weekend and throughout the month and this we…
Google AdSense Publishers Receive Personally Identifiable Information (PII) Breach Notifications
A Google AdSense Help thread has well over a hundred posts from AdSense publishers complaining they received a serious notification from Google that they are in “breach” of “passing personally identifiable information (PII) to Google…
Google Authorship By Line Sometimes Does Not Show Image
Mark Traphagen, who follows Google+ and authorship more than anyone else I know (it is a bit obsessive in a good way)…
Google Panda 4.0 Now Rolling Out; A New Panda Algorithm
Last night was pretty wild, with Google confirming an update over the weekend targeting spammy queries and also Google’s Matt Cutts posting on Twitter that Panda 4.0 was released.
This is a new Panda algorithm, not a refresh that we’ve seen almost mon…
5 Ways to Inspire Creativity and Originality
Originality does not just happen so how do you create and inspire? Read our latest post from Kate Morris
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5 Ways to Inspire Creativity and Originality
Google Confirm Google Panda 4.0 Is Operational As More “Spammy Queries” Are Cleaned
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Did Your Manual Penalty Disappear? It Probably Expired
Did you know that all Google manual penalties have an expiration date? In some cases, they can expire after just a few months. In other cases it can take years. So is there a discernible pattern to help us know when a penalty is going to expire?
Don’t Overthink Semantic Markup – 5 Basic Types To Adopt First
Have you heard of semantic markup? Of course you have! Everyone’s talking about it. But why does it matter to search marketers? After all, semantic markup is not a ranking factor. Adding it to your site won’t move your page 8 rankings to the first page of Google. So, is it really worth…
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3 Principles of Behavioral Economics That Will Increase Your Web Sales
If your ultimate goal is to get people to buy, you must understand what drives them to make that decision. Different things matter to different people, but here are three key things you can take advantage of that factor into people’s buying habits.
How Many Businesses Have Verified G+ Pages for Local?
While at SIINDA conference, Google was an obvious point of reference and conversation both in the formal sessions and the informal discussions afterwords. One number that was bandied about was the total number of currently verified local business listings worldwide. While I have no way to independently verify the number of 20 million verified listings, as Google […]
Mary Anning Google Logo Marks Life Of Famous Paleontologist Born Over 200 Years Ago
Google continues its roll to celebrate the women who have shaped our world, with today’s Google logo recognizing one of the world’s leading paleontologist Mary Anning. The animated illustration depicts Anning uncovering dinosaur fossils shaped to resemble the Google logo. Born on this…
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Google Launches Panda 4.0
It’s official. Panda 4.0 has officially hit the Google search results. Google and Matt Cutts have confirmed Panda 4.0 began rolling out yesterday, and it has caused some waves in the search results along with an update targeting spammy queries.