Google Hits eBay With Manual Penalty In Search Results
What really happened to eBay dropping in Google’s search results this week? A source familiar with the situation tells Search Engine Land that Google hit eBay with a manual penalty this week. A manual penalty is when a human being at Google reviews a site and decides that it deserves some type of…
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Google Webmaster Tools To Add JavaScript Debugging Tool
Google has announced on the Google Webmaster Central blog that in the “coming days” they will be releasing a new tool to help debug your site’s JavaScript issues. Specifically, Google is going to show you if they have issues crawling and indexing your site because of JavaScript…
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How SkyBox Satellite Imagery Might Aid Google’s Offline Conversion Tracking
There’s a report this morning that Google is close to buying satellite imaging company SkyBox. The purchase price is put at roughly $1 billion. The deal has yet to be confirmed. The article conjectures that Google wants the company for two potential reasons: More imagery for consumer maps…
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Study Finds Sweeping KPI Improvements With Switch To Google Shopping Campaigns
The August deadline for converting your Google product listing campaigns (PLA) to the new Shopping Campaigns structure — before Google does it for you — is just a few months away. A new study from CPC Strategy suggests it’s worth making the switch sooner rather than later. CPC…
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Ripoff Report Is Back In Yahoo Australia’s Search Results, But Not Completely
After what we think was about a week of being de-indexed, the controversial Ripoff Report website is showing up again in search results on Yahoo’s Australian website. But a company spokesperson tells us that some URLs are still blocked. Late Wednesday night (May 21), we noticed that a…
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RetailMeNot Says On Google Ranking Drop: The Reports “Greatly Overstate” Our Organic Search Impact
On Tuesday, Google pushed out their revised Panda Algorithm code-named Panda 4.0. Panda is designed to remove low-quality content from Google’s search results. Yesterday, we published an early Winners & Losers report on which large sites were impacted the most both in a positive and…
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Google Tells SEC Reporting On Mobile CPCs And Clicks Would Not Be Meaningful, Too Confusing
The average cost-per-click advertisers pay for Google ads has been declining year-over-year since the fourth quarter of 2011. The rise of mobile has long been seen as the driving force behind the declining average cost-per-click (CPC) — a glut of new ad inventory coupled with the fact that…
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Chrome’s Latest Updates Include New “OK Google” Voice Search Capabilities
Earlier this week, Google released new updates for Chrome OS devices, including new “hotwording” capabilities. According to the announcement, the “Okay Google” voice search is now available on Chrome’s New Tab Page and Google.com (the US version only). Darrell…
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On MetaFilter Being Penalized By Google: An Explainer
MetaFilter is a news and discussion site dating back to the early years of the web. Founded in 1999, it’s attracting attention this week after coming forward about how a Google penalty has severely harmed its business, to the degree of having to let staff go. It serves as a poster child of…
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Is eBay A Big Loser In Google’s Panda 4.0 Update? — Winners & Losers Data
Yesterday, Google began rolling out their Panda 4.0 update designed to punch low-quality content. That’s generated both “winners” who have moved up in rankings as “losers” have dropped down — and eBay might be one of the big losers. Searchmetrics gave us their…
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Founder: OpenStreetMap Already As Good Or Better Than Google Maps
Steve Coast founded OpenStreetMap (OSM) in the UK in 2004. It’s 10 years old this year. He was inspired by the Wikipedia model and compelled by a lack of available map and location data in the UK at that time. Coast now works for GPS navigation company Telenav, which owns location-based…
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Google Begins Rolling Out Panda 4.0 Now
Google’s Matt Cutts announced on Twitter that they have released version 4.0 of the Google Panda algorithm. Google’s Panda algorithm is designed to prevent sites with poor quality content from working their way into Google’s top search results. But didn’t Google stop updating us…
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Official: Google Payday Loan Algorithm 2.0 Launched: Targets “Very Spammy Queries”
Google has confirmed they have released a new algorithm update to their Payday Loan Algorithm update over this weekend. This algorithm specifically targets “very spammy queries” and is unrelated to the Panda or Penguin algorithms. A Google spokesperson told us: Over the weekend we began…
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DuckDuckGo Relaunches & Starts To Look Like A Real Search Engine
DuckDuckGo, the spunky little search engine that hangs its hat on user privacy, has relaunched today with a new look and feel, not to mention a number of new features like maps and local search, image search and more. Put it all together, and DuckDuckG…
New “Open Internet Project” Seeks To Derail Google-EU Antitrust Settlement
Frustrated by what it sees as the European Commission’s capitulation to Google a new group called the “Open Internet Project” (OIP) seeks to derail the current Google antitrust settlement or create a new investigation. A mixture of French and German publishers and companies are…
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Bing Ads Editor To Get Several New Targeting Enhancements
Bing Ads is currently piloting several new features for Bing Ads Editor that are planned to roll out in the coming weeks. Here’s a preview of three of the new features. Bulk Location Targeting A new “Targeting” tab will be the hub for users to add location targets and exclusions…
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Bid Simulator Now Available For Google Dynamic Search Ads
If you’re running Dynamic Search ad campaigns in AdWords, you may have noticed the recent addition of the bid simulator tool. Bid simulator offers estimates of the potential impact bid changes would have on clicks, cost, impressions and more. The bid simulator for Dynamic Search ads is…
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Rubik’s Cube Invention Celebrated With Google Logo To Mark The Puzzle’s 40th Anniversary
Google went all out today to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Rubik’s Cube, giving the classic 80′s toy its very own interactive logo on the site’s global homepage. Doubling as digital version of the toy, the Rubik’s Cube logo will most likely prove to be a major…
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Google “Mapping” Real World With Incredible Precision For Self-Driving Cars
A fascinating article in the Atlantic appeared this weekend. It’s mostly about Google’s self-driving cars and how they operate technically. But it’s also about something much bigger: how Google is now effectively “crawling” the real world as it has crawled the web for…
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Doodle Equality: In 2014, Google Features Women In Special Logos Nearly Half The Time
If you haven’t noticed, the Google Doodle team — which creates those special Google logos — has been making up for lost time in 2014, adding significantly more women to the number of historic figures featured on Google’s various regional and global homepages. Now, nearly…
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