The “Right To Be Forgotten”: EU Court Gives People Ability To Delete Their Google Search Results
The “right to be forgotten”: a triumph of individual privacy rights or censorship? It’s going to depend on how it plays out in specific circumstances. The Luxembourg-based European Union Court of Justice, Europe’s “top court,” ruled earlier today that Google can…
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Bing: Link Spam Killing Links & Google: Links Still Matter
The other day we covered a topic on hold Bing’s Duane Forrester has a bold statement that you shouldn’t know where your links are coming from and honestly, I think it is awesome advice but people may take it to mean, if you do, it may lead to a penalty…
Google’s Matt Cutts Looks Back & Shares His Webspam Regrets…
I rarely submit questions for Google’s Matt Cutts, but I did submit one and he actually answered it in a video.
The question was, Matt – what are your regrets related to web spam…
European Court Requires Google To Delete Personal Info: Reputation Management Just Got Easier
A major ruling just knocked Google over the head, where Europe’s top court, the The Court of Justice of the European Union…
Break-Even CPC & Simple Landing Page Testing
Optimizing your conversion rate is so important because it drives bid. Your bid helps determine your position, or your profitability. Here’s how you can improve your landing pages, and then reinvest gains into your PPC strategy.
Those Google Ranking Shifts Are Not A Google Update, Google Denies Any Algorithmic Changes
Over the past week or so, there has been a lot of various signals across the search community that Google’s algorithms and rankings were updating, so much so that people were bracing themselves for a major Penguin or Panda-like algorithm announcement from Google. Google never made the…
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5 Tactics We Used To Build Links Last Month
There are a lot of questions around link building tactics these days, especially when it comes to how companies can actually build links that won’t get them in trouble. In fact, one of the most common questions I hear at conferences and from clients is, “How do you build good…
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New Google Sports Knowledge Graph May Include NBA Video Recaps
Search for [miami heat] on Google and you may not just see information about scores, schedules, standings and so on, but you may also see a video hosted on YouTube from the NBA with a game recap. Google is now showing video thumbnails in the NBA knowle…
5 Googley SEO Terms – Do They Mean What You Think They Mean?
Robots.txt. Google DNS. Penguin, Panda, and penalties. Duplicate content filter. PageRank. You’ve heard all these terms, but these words have very specific meanings and are among the most commonly misunderstood terms when it comes to Google and SEO.
Google: Nothing To See Here, No Update Going On…
Despite all the signals, chatter and reporting showing that Google’s search results appear to be updating as if there was an algorithmic change at Google, Google has told me that there is nothing going on.
Google said that they are not working on anyth…
How To Save URLs To The Wayback Machine On Demand
Yesterday, Search Engine Land featured a post about the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine now providing access to more than 440 billion archived web pages back to 1996. As I’ve written about before on Search Engine Land and my infoDOCKET blog, the Wayback Machine is an absolutely…
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5 Ways to Sell SEO to Your CMO
Are for ready for the tough questions about your organic search plans? Be well prepared with data points and projections that speak to the goals that matter to different decision-makers, using this five-point data-driven decision plan.
SearchCap: Google’s Matt Cutts Regrets, Bing On Firefox OS & Google Doodles
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’s Matt Cutts Regrets Not Acting Faster On Paid Links & Content Farms In Google’s Matt Cutts latest video, he answers a question I…
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10 SEO Myths Debunked by Bing’s Duane Forrester
Hot on the heels of Google’s Matt Cutts discussing what he feels are the biggest SEO myths, Bing’s Duane Forrester has written about what he feels are 10 of the biggest myths in SEO. While some are true SEO myths, a few fall under best practices.
Google’s Matt Cutts Regrets Not Acting Faster On Paid Links & Content Farms
In Google’s Matt Cutts latest video, he answers a question I personally asked about what he regrets, what decision he regrets making in the past related to webspam. My question specifically was: Was there a key moment in your spam fighting career where you made a mistake that you regret,…
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From Foursquare to Swarm: Mayor 2.0, Insights, Stickers & Goodbye Badges
The time has come to say goodbye to Foursquare mayorships, as we know them. Foursquare has revealed some new details about what users can expect when Swarm launches this week, including the future of mayorships, badges, and new features.
Dorothy Hodgkins Google Doodle Celebrates Biochemist
A Google Doodle today celebrates the 104th birthday of British scientist Dorothy Hodgkins. The special logo features and X-ray crystallography of 3D biomolecules, the method used by scientists to determine the 3D structure of biological molecules.
Dorothy Hodgkin Google Doodle Celebrates Biochemist
A Google Doodle today celebrates the 104th birthday of British scientist Dorothy Hodgkin. The special logo features an X-ray crystallography of 3-D biomolecules, the method used by scientists to determine the 3-D structure of biological molecules.
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Official Google Advice On Internationalizing Your Home Page
Google has published their official advice on the Google Webmaster Central blog on how to handle your home page when your web site serves multiple languages and countries. Zineb Ait Bahajji and Gary Illyes, Google Webmaster Trends Analysts, wrote the p…