G article answers a number of questions on backlinks and reconsideration requests
Google again stresses that the only thing you need to use is the GWMT links data and to look for “patterns” in backlinks .
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What does it feel like to go viral?
Reading this post about accidentally going viral and how it hard then to get rid of the fear that was your hugest accomplishment in life (and it pa
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SearchCap: The Day In Search, June 21, 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: Bing Experiments With Social Search By Adding New Bing Boards To Search Results Bing announced today that they are …
Animated Google Doodles Welcome First Day of Summer and Winter 2013
Whether you’re in the northern part of the earth’s hemisphere getting ready for swimsuit season or the southern part, where you’re cozying up with layers, today’s Google Doodle by guest artist Christoph Niemann has something for everyone.
Google News Stopped Indexing Your Sitemap?
Over the past few days I have been contacted by several Google News publishers who have received the following message in their Google Webmaster Tools News Sitemaps Report: “Your Sitemap is on a site that is not in the Google News database. Google News can only accept Sitemaps from sites that we crawl. If your […]
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Bing Experiments With Social Search By Adding New Bing Boards To Search Results
Bing announced today that they are adding a new social element to their search results with the introduction of Bing Boards. Currently being created by, “…a small group of food and lifestyle bloggers, experts and social influencers,” the Bing Boards are a collection of images,…
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Video Recap of Weekly Search Buzz :: June 21, 2013
This week in search, we reported a possible small Google update. Google’s Matt Cutts was targeted in a black hat spam payday loan mockery. However…
Search In Pics: Google Internet Balloon At GooglePlex, Noogler Pinwheels & Penguin Candies
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 Internet Balloon At GooglePlex: Source: Google+ Google Pinwheels For…
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Friday Talk: Andrew Keen about Digital Vertigo
With the latest revelations around PRISM it is interesting to listen to a talk Andrew Keen did a few years ago. He has been criticising the web and especially privacy on the web for quite some time now.
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Friday Talk: Andrew Keen about Digital Vertigo
Dashboard Series: Creating Combination Charts In Excel
I’m starting a series on dashboards because I think creating sexy dashboards is a critical skill every marketer needs to know. It’s going to be a long series — but by the time we’re finished, you’ll be able to create dashboards that excel in both form and function. Why Use Combination Charts?…
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PLAs: Cannibals? Allies? Or Both?
The spectacular growth of Product Listing Ads (PLAs) over the past 2-1/2 years has been a boon for Google and advertisers as well as for consumers. This growth was spurred by the visual appeal of the ads themselves, by Google’s increasing sophistication in serving the right PLAs for the right…
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Pure Spam: What Are Google Penalties & What to Do to Recover
Manual spam penalties of any type are difficult to recover from – especially if they are severe. These suggestions will give you places you can start to look, and things to do, to help lift 10 possible manual actions applied by Google.
Google Fixes Links Report In Webmaster Tools
About nine days ago Webmasters started noticing an issue with the link report within Google Webmaster Tools. Then the issue grew and more and more webmasters noticed a bug in Webmaster Tools where the link count dropped significantly from what Google …
Google Gets Summer Solstice 2013 Right But First Day of Winter Wrong
Today may be the first day of summer and/or winter depending on where you are. But one thing for sure, if you are in Australia…
Google, Am I That Ugly? Google Drops My Face From Authorship
I know I am not the prettiest guy in the world or even in the SEO space – probably very far from it – but why would Google drop my authorship image for this site…
Google Links Reconsideration Request FAQs
Two of my favorite Google Search Quality folks, Kaspar Szymanski and Uli Lutz…
Google Advice On When To Submit Reconsideration Request & How To Clean Your Link Profile
Google posted a new article today answering common questions about submitting reconsideration requests and managing your backlink profile. Google Search Quality representatives, Kaspar Szymanski and Uli Lutz, co-authored the article, going through the …
3 Principles Of Future-Focused, No-Surprise Link Building
Link building doesn’t really fit the mold with the rest of the online marketing world. It’s unique and always changing. Even after trying to understand it, most marketers still don’t get it, and many SEO agencies don’t even want to touch it. That’s because link building is a moving target…
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Google Makes A Splash With Christoph Niemann Illustration To Mark The First Day Of Summer
Today’s Google Doodle by Christoph Niemann marks the summer solstice for searchers in the Northern Hemisphere with an animated illustration of five swimmers in Google-logo colored swimming caps, bobbing along on a wave that splashes back and forth. Google users in the Southern Hemisphere get…
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AdWords Flexible Bid Strategies: Two Steps Forward, One Step Back
The idea of flexible bid strategies is interesting on paper and has potentially useful implications in the long term. For now it is simply a perplexing addition in the midst of Google AdWords’ massive upheaval with enhanced campaigns.