Google Image Search On Android Not Functioning Properly
There are dozens of reports in the Google Web Search Help forum and Android Central that Google Images is not working properly on specific Android phones and tablets…
The Head Of Matt Cutts Tells Us The Body Is Important Too
In a magical video where Google’s head of search spam, had his body removed all to make a point that the body of a page’s content is really important.
Yes, Matt actually removed his body, in a way to show just how important the body is…
Massive Google Webmaster Tools SSL Warnings?
This morning and yesterday, the webmaster forums started getting polluted with questions about Google Webmaster Tools issues and notifying them about SSL certificate errors.
In short, back in 2009, Google began notifying webmasters of security certif…
Is Google Ethical & Moral For Penalizing Webmasters? One SEO & Ethics PhD Says Absolutely Not.
Josh Bachynski is a name many folks who are involved in the SEO community, attend the conferences, are on Twitter or the forums…
Why It’s Good To Compete With Google
If you talk to a room full of veteran digital marketers, a topic that eventually comes up is competition — specifically, the fact that our competition in search is often not immediately obvious. You can miss out on understanding your online competition for a few different reasons. For…
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3 Ways Google’s New Keyword Planner Brings Sexy Back to AdWords
Here are three ways to use the latest Google Keyword Planner features to make your AdWords management more receptive to user context (location, device, and time), which in turn will help make your entire campaign more successful.
Yelp Reports Q1 2014 Net Revenue At $76.4 Million, A 66% Growth Over Last Year’s Q1 Earnings
According to Yelp’s Q1 2014 earnings report, the company’s net revenue for the quarter totaled $76.4 million, representing a 66 percent growth over first quarter of last year. Yelp claims average monthly unique visitors climbed to 132 million, representing 30 percent year-over-year…
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SearchCap: Google Sneaky Redirects, HARO Links, AdWords Pregnancy Center Ads
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 Action Against Pregnancy Center Ads Stirs Confusion, But Does Not Signal Preference Or Policy Change You may…
Daily Search Forum Recap: April 30, 2014
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web.Search Engine Roundtable Stories:
Google Penalizing HARO Links…
Google Action Against Pregnancy Center Ads Stirs Confusion, But Does Not Signal Preference Or Policy Change
You may have read this week that some paid ads by pro-life oriented crisis pregnancy centers have been removed by Google after pro-choice political advocacy group NARAL claimed credit for getting the ads banned, as reported by the Washington Post. In r…
Actually, We Don’t Think Google Hates HARO Links
Despite the buzz going through the SEO industry today, we don’t believe that Google is specifically targeting links that are earned via the popular Help a Reporter Out service. That’s one of the claims from SEO consultant Bill Hartzer, in an article he published yesterday, Google…
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Google’s Bodiless Matt Cutts On Importance Of Body Content For Search Engines
Matt Cutts, Google’s head of search spam, posted a fun video where fellow Googler, Michael Wyszomierski, cropped out his body in the video to make a point. The statement Matt made was that there is importance of content in the body of a page and not just the header, such as the title tag. If…
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Marketing is now a technology-powered discipline… a new world of experience-enhancing capabilities that challenge marketing organizations to reinvent their strategies, operations, technologies and talent. Join us for MarTech: The Marketing Tech Conference August 19-20 in Boston and we’ll help…
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Content Free: 25 Percent Of Google+ Reviews Are “Empty”
Investment firm Piper Jaffray has started tracking and comparing Google+ and Yelp reviews. For its inaugural report the firm looked at a “snapshot of 950 places in 20 major cities” and compared review counts and depth across categories. The firm says it will continue to do so on a…
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Coupons, Coupon Codes, Promo Codes…When Content Is NOT King
A few years ago, I did some work for a comparison shopping/coupon website. Curious about how well the site was doing in regard to their SEO, I did a few search queries for some of the terms I remembered being big traffic drivers. I didn’t see my former client on page one for the first few…
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Boost Your Campaigns By Becoming An Expert Search “Forecaster”
In the Greater Seattle area, you never know what spring weather will bring — cloudy at 8 a.m., sunny at noon, pouring down rain at 5. I always start the day with a check of the forecast, so I know what to expect. In the same vein, anyone planning a search advertising campaign should know…
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32 Ways to Trip a Google Spam Filter
Ever wonder how or why your website lost its once favorable rankings in Google? If you want to stay on the good side of Matt Cutts and Google and potentially activate a Google spam filter, never implement any of the these 32 tactics.
Google Holds Webmaster Meetup At Google Taipei May 15th
Google posted on the Google+ webmaster channel, in Chinese…
Google AdSense Fraud Leak Seems Fake, Publishers Doubt It & Matt Cutts Calls B.S.
Last night, some anonymous person claiming to have worked in the Google AdSense department for “several years” posted a story named “Google AdSense Leak.” In where he describes…
Google Adds Examples For Deceptive Sneaky Redirects
Google announced they have updated two of their webmaster guidelines documents to better describe ways you should not use redirects to trick or manipulate Google’s search results.
The Sneaky redirects added examples…