Reddit Manipulates Google’s Results for Fun
Redditors have caught onto the fact that Google includes reddit in their news results and are currently having fun. Utilising website’s powerful traffic potential redditors are requesting upvotes to the front page with the promise of entry into Google’s results. It seems to be working as more ridiculous entries fill Google’s search results:
Even after the result disappears from the news box it still seems to linger at the top of the organic results:
Here’s an example of attempt at Google’s image search manipulation:
So far it works, but only when searching through recent images:
While some are just having the usual pointless reddit fun (some of it too controversial to link to), others are attempting to use the trick to go against companies they don’t like (primarily Comcast).…
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SearchCap: Google AdWords “Call-Only” Ads, Link Building Techniques & Google Misclassifies Websites As Hacked
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
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January’s Google Analytics Blog Insights to Grow Your Business
Here’s your summary of what happened over on the Google Analytics blog, and in the analytics industry in general, in January and how you and your team can take advantage of these developments.
1. Boost Conversions by Infusing Google Remarketing with Marketo Real-Time Personalization
Who Should Care: Advertisers, large e-commerce businesses
Level of complexity: Advanced
The Gist:
- On January 15th Marketo hosted a Google sponsored webinar
- The webinar details the importance of real-time personalization for marketing results
- The webinar was performed by Google’s Dan Stone, Marketo’s Mike Telem and Mike Tomita
- Real examples of successful cases: via http://www.marketo.com/webinars/real-time-personalization/
Your Action Items: You can watch the webinar here and download the slides here.…
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New ‘Call-Only’ Ad Types Arrives In Google AdWords To Make Mobile Easier
A new ad type will give mobile-centric marketers the ability to set up phone call conversion only campaigns.
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Google May Have Mistakenly Marked Your Site As Hacked: Here Is How To Fix It
Yesterday I reported on how dozens and dozens of webmasters noticed Google labeled their sites with the this site may be hacked label in the search results. It seems way too unusual for so many new webmasters to be complaining about it…
Google Tests Displaying Line Separators Between Organic Results?
Nicole Hess caught Google testing using a line separator in the search results between organic results. She posted a screen shot on Twitter and it does look legit…
Google Adds Carousel Results Within The Snippet Level & Suggests Using Articles Rich Snippets
Google announced they are adding carousel based search results at the snippet level. So if you search for something and Google feels more content from that source is warranted, instead of showing more search results listed below…
GoogleBot Crawling Too Hard & Much? Report The Issue To Google.
Normally, Google’s crawlers named GoogleBot, is pretty well behaved. It normally is pretty good at making sure it doesn’t harm your site by crawling too fast or too much.
Video Recap of Weekly Search Buzz :: February 20, 2015
This week in search, I cover how Google said you should avoid doing any link building. Some SEOs are waiting patiently…
Search In Pics: Google Glass Book, Android Mobile & Pebble Beach Box Seats
In this week’s Search In Pictures, here are the latest images culled from the web, showing what people eat at the search engine companies, how they play, who they meet, where they speak, what toys they have, and more. Google Doodle On Cupcakes: Source: Google+ Google Glass Vol 001 Book:…
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Yahoo Wants To Syndicate Search To 600,000 Mobile Apps
Flurry gives Yahoo massive mobile reach and developer access.
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55 Questions to Ask Before Restructuring a PPC Account
If you are a pay-per-click manager, at some point you’re going to inherit an existing account. Here is a checklist of items to review before committing to a restructure.
5 Techniques To Safely Get Links In 2015
Link building is important, but it can be dangerous if you don’t know what you’re doing. Today, columnist Neil Patel shares his white hat link building tips.
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11 SEO Tactics You Need to Know in 2015
As search engines continue to evolve, marketers must improve their skills to keep up. These 11 tips will help you excel in SEO in the coming year.
SEO Reporting – A Simple Yet Powerful Approach
A look at how to simply use data available in Google Webmaster Tools and put it next to a URL-level analytics report to obtain keyword-level insights.
Friday Commentary: Are you the Right Shape for Your Agency?
The size of an agency matters less than the level of expertise it is able to offer. That observation remains important and true to every senior level marketer
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Google’s New Hacked Classifier Misclassifies Some Web Sites As Hacked
Many web sites this morning noticed Google labeled their sites as being hacked and dangerous in the search results. The issue was not with their web sites but rather the Google hacked sites classifier.
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Driving Traffic from Facebook – Whiteboard Friday
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Facebook sends a remarkable amount of traffic, but there’s a lot of confusion around both just how much and (perhaps more importantly for our work) how we can optimize our work to take advantage of it. In today’s Whiteboard Friday, …
Google Media Consumption History Patent Filed
Google published a foreign patent at WIPO today that has an interesting perspective to it. When someone performs a search that involves a specific entity, their search may be influenced by the search engine’s knowledge of their past interactions with content involving that entity. For example, someone searches for “Justin Timberlake” and the search system … Continue reading Google Media Consumption History Patent Filed →
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SearchCap: Google Mobile Carousel Update, Bing Online Ordering & AdWords Android App
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
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