Should Hotels.com Get a Google Slap for Soliciting Paid Links From Bloggers?
By now, every SEO worth his or her salt knows that exchanging money for links is an absolute no-no in Google’s eyes. Apparently, Hotels.com didn’t get the memo.
Should Hotels.com Get a Google Slap for Soliciting Paid Links From Bloggers?
By now, every SEO worth his or her salt knows that exchanging money for links is an absolute no-no in Google’s eyes. Apparently, Hotels.com didn’t get the memo.
7 Quick Local Hits To Optimize For Black Friday & Cyber Mondays This Season
Time for local businesses to optimize for the holiday season. Columnist Chris Silver Smith provides 7 quick tips to boost rankings and, hopefully, sales.
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4 Pitfalls to Avoid Heading Into the Holidays
Here are four pitfalls that seem to occur every year, along with some thoughts on how to best avoid them or deal with them as they occur.
Bing Images Finally Adds Animated GIF Filter
Just like Google, Bing has finally added a filter to their Bing Image search to filter images by animated GIFs only.
As many of you know, I love animated GIFs, so having two major search engines support an animated GIF filter…
Google Analytics Treemaps For AdWords Reporting Coming Soon
Google mentioned on Google+ on the Google Analytics account, that a new AdWords reporting feature named Treemaps is coming to the software.
Google: Duplicate URLs In The Disavow Is Not An Issue
An SEO asked on Twitter if listing the same URL in the disavow link file will hurt or what happens? Does listing it twice negate it? Does listing it twice show more importance? Or does Google ignore duplicate listings…
Google: Only SEOs Go To Page 35 In Google’s Search Results
Google’s John Mueller posted another funny on Google+, this one mocking how only SEOs travel as far as page 35 in the Google search results.
He wrote…
Matt Cutts Not Returning To Google In 2014: Will He Return In 2015?
Matt Cutts, Google’s currently on leave head of search spam, announced on Twitter that he is extending his leave into 2015.
In July, Matt Cutts shocked the SEO space by announcing he would be taking a few months off to spend time with his wife…
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Using Analytical Analysis to Help Improve Conversions
The secret to getting the most success out of your initiatives typically lies in accessing the biggest hammer in your marketing tool bag, analytics!
Day of the Dead Google Video Doodle
Today on the Google home page in Mexico and the United States of America, is a special logo, aka Doodle…
Day Of The Dead Google Logo Celebrates Mexican Holiday With Latin-Inspired Art & Music
Today’s Google logo marks the Day of the Dead, a Mexican holiday to celebrate and pay tribute to deceased loved ones. Google’s logo has been replaced with a video complete with Latin-inspired music and art, featuring the traditional sugar skulls, orange marigolds and feasts often…
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Will He Ever Return? Head Of Google’s Web Spam Team Matt Cutts Extends Leave Into 2015
The head of Google’s web spam team, Matt Cutts, says that his leave from the company has gone so well that he’ll be continuing it through 2015. Cutts shared the news today in a note added to his original blog post from July about going on leave, saying: When I went on leave, I wanted […]
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SearchCap: Halloween, Google Tax In Spain & AdWords Features
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Following Germany’s Lead Spain Passes Misguided “Google Tax” Anti-Piracy Law Given the saga of Germany’s ill-conceived and poorly…
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Spooky Google Doodles for Halloween 2014
Just as Halloween has seen some evolution over the years, so have the holiday-themed Google Doodles presented each year on the Web.
Following Germany’s Lead Spain Passes Misguided “Google Tax” Anti-Piracy Law
Given the saga of Germany’s ill-conceived and poorly implemented “ancillary copyright law” one would have thought that another European government wouldn’t immediately duplicate the mistake. But that’s exactly what’s happened in Spain. Spanish…
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Video Recap of Weekly Search Buzz :: October 31, 2014
This week in search, I blow through tons of topics in 11.5 minutes. First up was the DMCA piracy algorithm going live the other week…
New Google AdWords “Automated Extensions” Report Rolling Out
First, what are “automated extensions”? This is the new term for what were once known as “annotations” — Consumer Ratings and Seller Ratings which automatically populate in AdWords ads. Google said it is retiring the use of “annotations” and replacing it…
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Search In Pics: World Series Game, Penguin Office & Halloween At Google
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. The Google Penguin Office: Source: Google+ Google’s Timothy Jordan…
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Google Enables Multiple AdWords Account Logins
Hear that? That is the communal sigh of relief echoing throughout the paid search world. The days of having several browsers open in order to manage multiple AdWords accounts simultaneously are finally over. Google announced a new workflow that allows …