SearchCap: The Day In Search, September 10, 2013
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 Cutts: Auto-Generated Content & Search Results In Our Index Violate Our Guidelines In a recent video from Matt Cutts, Google’s head of…
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SPONSOR MESSAGE: Organic Links from Page One Power – The Link Builders You’ve Been Looking For
Page One Power is a link building firm dedicated to relevancy and transparency. Though our mission is to catapult you to the top of the SERPs, we’re more than just links. We’re real people. Our professional writers and researchers create high quality content for humans– not just…
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Google’s Cutts: Auto-Generated Content & Search Results In Our Index Violate Our Guidelines
In a recent video from Matt Cutts, Google’s head of search spam, Matt discussed a pretty obvious spam tactic that Google will take action on. The question was Does Google take action on automatically generated pages that provide no added value? The answer is, yes. Of course, Google is not…
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Changing Course In The New Linking World
In the wake of the Great Google Massacre (i.e., everything that’s happened over the past couple years since Google got serious), there are many sites that survived the carnage but aren’t as successful as they used to be — and they’re looking for ways to get back to where…
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Microsoft Updates Bing Video Search
Bing announced updates to their video search engine…
Google’s Matt Cutts: The Nofollow Can Only Hurt You When…
Matt Cutts, Google’s head of search spam, posted a video yesterday on the question of, “can nofollow links hurt your site…
Google Maps Drops Wikipedia Layer
It seems as if Google dropped the Wikipedia layer from Google Maps a few weeks ago.
A Google Maps Help thread has dozens of complaints from Google Maps users that the Wikipedia layer is gone.
The layer provided additional content from Wikipedia a…
Google Glass XE9 Snagged My “How Do I” App With “How To” Video Results
Google released an update to the Glass software codenamed XE9, the update is tremendous and adds a ton of search and other features…
Google Authorship Rich Snippets Even Easier Now With Google+ Signin
Google is really encouraging people to (1) sign up for Google+ and (2) mark their pages with rich snippets and authorship for the search results.
Google came out with a way to encourage publishers and webmasters to do both of these…
It’s Time to Update the Definition of a Website
For years the website has been defined as a computer term representing pages on the World Wide Web. This outdate perception is holding brands back from embracing the website for what it really is. Here’s how a website should be defined.
SEO Reporting To Shift Your Bottom Line
PPC & CRO are heavily report-driven and have excellent data visibility, and as a result are generally better understood to be a tool rather than an end in itself. SEO, however, has often fallen into the reporting-for-reporting’s-sake trap and there have been some surprising stand-out reports…
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Live @ SMX East: Supercharge Your PPC Results
All advertisers recognize the value of PPC listings. But savvy advertisers go beyond the basic call to action and link to a landing page, making use of extensions that enhance the overall utility and attractiveness of ads in multiple ways. Extensions a…
Essential Tips for Facebook’s New News Feed Ad Unit
Facebook has rolled out new News Feed ad unit formats to most, if not all, Facebook advertisers. Here’s an overview of the new ad unit, how it changes your ad writing strategy, and some expert tips you should know for the best results.
Google Glass Gets Universal Search: News, Video, Sound Results & More
Google is giving Glass a taste of universal search results. The latest software update for Google Glass is out, and this one offers a significant expansion of the device’s search capabilities. Google sends out one major software update to Glass owners each month. The latest is known as XE9…
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2 Reasons to Love the New Google AdWords Paid & Organic Report
Google recently added a report that shows the total traffic by keyword from paid and organic search. As data started pouring in to the account it was easy to see why this report will be very valuable to marketers. Here are two of those reasons.
Google+ Brings Automatic Authorship to WordPress & Typepad, Lets You Embed Posts
Bloggers can sign into their respective platforms using their Google+ accounts, automatically tying their accounts together without going through the usual authorship hoops. And you can now embed Google+ posts on your blogging platform of choice.
Google Submits New Proposal to Avoid Antitrust Fine in EU
After being told its antitrust concessions were insufficient, Google has increased its concessions to avoid a possible $5 billion fine from the European Commission in its ongoing antitrust review. The EC didn’t reveal the latest concessions offer.
Daily Search Forum Recap: September 9, 2013
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 Offering Links To Yell, Yelp…
SearchCap: The Day In Search, September 9, 2013
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 Adds Automatic Authorship With Google+ Sign In Google announced an even easier way to get your picture into …
Google Adds Automatic Authorship With Google+ Sign In
Google announced an even easier way to get your picture into the Google search results by adding automatic author attribution through Google+ signin. Google has integrated Google+ Sign-In with Google’s authorship program. Now if you sign in to WordPress.com with Google, the the articles you publish…
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