Google Penalizes Flight Industry Web Sites By Removing Their Rich Snippets
Google’s John Mueller confirmed yesterday in a Google Hangout on Google+ that Google took action on major travel sites for showing product pricing rich snippets for airline prices…
Updated: Google penalizes mobile sites using sneaky redirects
Looks like Google has taken action on mobile sites that trick users into being redirected to an unwanted web site from the mobile search results page. If your site received a manual action, read this.
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SearchCap: Google rich snippet spam, AMP report & Bing ads data
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
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Google On Using Sitemaps For Expediting Redirects: Keep Sitemap Live For 6 Months
Google’s John Mueller said yesterday in a Google Hangout on Google+ that if you use the tactic of submitting a sitemap of your old URLs to Google…
Webmasters Noticing Google Referrer For Android Google Search App
Some of the folks over at WebmasterWorld are noticing a new referrer coming from Google that comes from the string com.google.android.googlequicksearchbox.
Interestingly, that is the name of the Android app APK for the Google Search app on Android…
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Bing Ads makes it easier to segment performance data like time of day and device
The feature is now live in all accounts.
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Five ways to slash ad spend and achieve results right now
You know what’s great about PPC? Even when your account is in the dumps, you can make small changes that can have a big impact on its performance and your ad spend.
Google updates the AMP report in the Google Search Console
Five months after launching the AMP error report in the Google Search Console, Google has updated the report to make it easier to spot errors.
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Jane Jacobs’ Google Doodle marks 100th birthday of famous NYC community organizer
Without formal training, Jacobs established herself as a renowned urban activist dedicated to protecting New York City’s urban landscape.
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Do bounce rates affect a site’s search engine ranking?
Bounce rates and how they affect a website’s ranking on Google has been discussed, dissected, and dismembered over and over again.
Performing a manual backlink audit, step by step
Need to get rid of problematic or unnatural backlinks and not sure where to begin? In this helpful how-to, columnist Dave Davies outlines his process for performing a manual backlink audit.
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Brand bidding & PPC optimization: future of brand protection (part 8)
What’s on the horizon for brand bidding in PPC? Columnist Lori Weiman wraps up her 8-part series on brand bidding by looking to the near future and discussing trends that search marketers can capitalize on.
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5 super-common SEO mistakes content marketers make
Obstacles are bound to arise in any SEO effort, but columnist Stephan Spencer reminds us that many of these are avoidable if you choose the correct approach.
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AdWords Editor update: Frequency caps, review extensions, display app install campaigns
Version 11.4 is now available for download.
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Branded query optimization for SEO
Before jumping in to optimize for non-brand queries, columnist Clay Cazier reminds us to do what many paid search marketers already do: maximize our visibility for branded queries.
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How Google fights webspam and what you need to learn from this
Google has this week revealed its annual report on how it has policed the internet over the last 12 months. Or at least how it policed the vast chunk of the internet it allows on its results pages.
SearchCap: Google Trips app, Bing image search app & more
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
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Moz launches comprehensive keyword research tool “Keyword Explorer”
A slick new keyword research tool from Moz gives users the power of customization when curating keyword lists.
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Google Teacher’s Day Doodle With Animated Pencils As Teacher & Students
On the Google.com home page in the United States you will see an animated Google logo, Doodle, with a large pencil and five smaller pencils walking and learning. The Doodle is to represent Teacher’s Day in the US, today is National Teacher Appreciatio…
Google Webspam Report: Google Manually Penalized 500 Sites Per Hour In 2015
Yesterday, Google shared on the webmaster blog their 2015 webspam repot. They said they served up 4.3 million manual actions in 2015 and as @TheRealpmac calculated, that comes out to about 500 manual actions or Google manual penalties an hour…
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