Slick New Overhaul Brings Rank Tracking Back To Raven Tools
Late last year many Raven Tools users were surprised to find that Search Engine ranking data had been removed. Under pressure from Google, Raven yanked the SERP data and focused the tool on helping SEOs and Internet Marketers with analyzation tools. Well Raven users that have missed the tracking…
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Google’s Matt Cutts On Hidden Text Using Expandable Sections: “You’ll Be In Good Shape”
In the latest video answer from Google’s Matt Cutts, the head of Google search spam, Matt answers a question about “hiding” text in JavaScript/AJAX-like expandable menus. Matt said that generally this practice is acceptable within Google’s webmaster guidelines, if and only…
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Google Continues Censoring Piracy Related Search Suggestions By Blocking Grooveshark
TorrentFreak reports Google has added another web site to the piracy block list for their instant search suggestions. The site is named Grooveshark, which is a popular free music streaming service. Google would not comment specifically about Grooveshark but told TorrentFreak, “our algorithms…
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Who Is Google listening To? And Should They Be?
Google has different types of ‘clients’: those searching, those trying to rank and those paying for ads. Who should they listen to?
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Who Is Google listening To? And Should They Be?
Google Gets “Lowest Score Ever” In Customer Satisfaction Survey
There’s a mystery surrounding the latest customer satisfaction numbers released by ForeSee Results (for the American Customer Satisfaction Index [ACSI]). Published late last night, they indicate the lowest levels of consumer satisfaction with search engines (and portals) since 2003. The…
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Google Agrees To Settle Lawsuit Over Passing Search Queries To Third Parties
Google has agreed to settle a class-action lawsuit that stems from two searchers accusing the company of sharing their search queries with third parties without user content or knowledge. As part of the settlement, Google has agreed to pay $8.5 million…
UK Prime Minister Attacks Google, Bing & Yahoo On Child Porn, Demands Better Efforts By October
UK prime minister David Cameron unveiled a wide-range of efforts today to protect children against pornography on the internet. A significant part of his speech attacked the search engines of Google, Bing and Yahoo for not doing enough and demanding changes by October. Below is Cameron’s…
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Google: Today’s Enhanced Campaigns Rollout Will Take Several Weeks To Complete
Account managers have been bombarded with alerts in their AdWords dashboards for months now. Today, notices like the one below started appearing upon login to AdWords — upgrade your campaigns by July 22 or Google will do it for you. Now, in a new blog post, Sridhar Ramaswamy, Senior Vice…
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Google’s Matt Cutts: Duplicate Content Won’t Hurt You, Unless It Is Spammy
Duplicate content is a huge topic in the search engine optimization (SE)) space, heck, we even have a category devoted to the topic. But should we worry about it? Google’s head of search spam, Matt Cutts, said he wouldn’t stress about it – that is, unless it is spammy duplicate…
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How Does Google Make its Money Again?
Google, the number one player in our industry. Not just in usage, but definitely also in money. They make a lot of it. But how?
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How Does Google Make its Money Again?
Panda Update Confirmed – New Slower, More Loving Panda
Over the past few days we saw that there was a lot of movement within the search engine results across a wide number of the terms that we monitor and after seeing a couple of clients record some of their best rankings to date, we knew that there was so…
4 Days Before Deadline, Google’s Larry Page: 75% Of Active AdWords Campaigns Are Enhanced
On today’s quarterly earnings call, Google CEO, Larry Page, addressed Enhanced Campaigns and noted that nearly three quarters of AdWords campaigns have migrated. Page said: “… we want to make advertising super simple for customers. Online advertising had developed in very device…
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Mastering PPC: Ad Extension Basics, Part 2
Last week I provided an overview of ad extensions, how they work and their key benefits. Now let’s take a deeper dive into the most popular types of ad extensions currently available, and when you might want to use each format. Location Extensions Most people think of SiteLinks when they think of ad extensions, but […]
Google Confirms Panda Update Is Rolling Out: This One Is More “Finely Targeted”
This morning I noticed a possible Panda update was rolling out, one that seemed to be “softer” in nature than the previous updates, where many webmasters who were originally hit by the algorithm are now claiming recovery. Google has confirmed a Panda update is rolling out and this…
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Google: Authorship Bug Affects “Very Few Sites,” Actively Working On A Fix
Google has confirmed that there are current issues with displaying authorship rich snippets on “very few sites.” A Google spokesperson told us “it’s something we’re actively working on” but that “it affects very few sites” on the Internet. This is a…
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Google Tablet CPCs Rise 1.7% Above Desktop For First Time [The Search Agency Report]
The Search Agency issued its Q2 State of Paid Search report today, finding that overall impressions were up 19.2 percent across all search engines quarter-over-quarter (QoQ), while overall clicks declined 7.8 percent. Cost-per-click (CPC) rose across all devices. This marks the first quarter The…
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New PPC Trend? Staples & Toys”R”Us Among Top Advertisers With More Impressions From PLAs Than Text Ads [AdGooroo Study]
Advertisers have flocked to Google AdWords Product Listing Ads (PLAs) since Google Shopping transitioned to a paid model last fall. A new study by AdGooroo estimates more than 4 billion PLAs were displayed in the U.S. from March to May 2013, accounting for 5.9% (71.7 billion) of the total of ad…
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Google’s Matt Cutts: Linking 20 Domains Together Likely A “Cross Linking Scheme”
A common question I see from webmasters and SEOs is how many sites in my network can I link together without getting in trouble. Google’s head of search spam, Matt Cutts, answered a question on that topic in a recent video which asked “If I have 20 domains, should I link them all…
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New Google Maps App For iOS Includes Dedicated iPad Experience
Just a few hours after opening up the new Google Maps desktop version to anyone interested, Google has followed up by announcing new Google Maps apps for iOS. The big news is that, for the first time, there’s a dedicated iPad experience of Google Maps. Sure, you could use the previous Google…
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New Google Maps Now Open To All, No Invite Needed
Google has opened up the new version of Google Maps to anyone who wants to give it a try — no invite is needed. The company shared the news via Twitter this afternoon. First announced at the Google I/O conference in May, the new Google Maps was initially available only to a select group of…
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