Did Google acquire Game Maker and Distributor CiiNow?
Google was officially assigned the pending patent applications from CiiNow last Wednesday (August 27, 2014) in a transaction that was reported as being executed at the end of July. From searching through the USPTO, I don’t see any other patents assigned to CiiNow, so that appears to have been all they owned. The USPTO assignments […]
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Google Link Disavow Tool: The Complete Guide
Google has finally released their link disavow tool enabling webmasters to report inorganic inbound links for their domains. This document contains a step-by-step guide with screenshots and a list of best practices including potential problems associated with the use of the tool.…
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SearchCap: Google Author Rank Lives, Facebook Mobile Search & In-App Search Engine
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 Authorship May Be Dead, But Author Rank Is Not Google ended its three-year experiment with Google Authorship…
Google Drops Authorship From Search Results
Google’s John Mueller says Google will stop showing authorship in its search results because “this information isn’t as useful to our users as we’d hoped.”
SPONSOR MESSAGE: Repositioning SEO So Everyone Wins
Join us Tuesday, Sept 23rd at 1:00EDT (10:00PDT) for a live webcast to hear Jessica Bowman, Founder and CEO of SEOInhouse and Matt Roberts, Chief Strategy Officer, Linkdex as they discuss how a good SEO program can bring higher rankings in search engin…
Google Authorship May Be Dead, But Author Rank Is Not
Google ended its three-year experiment with Google Authorship yesterday, but the use of Author Rank to improve search results will continue. Wait — you can have Author Rank without Google Authorship? And just what is Google Authorship versus Author Rank? Come along, because they are different…
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Bing Waxes Lyrical on Spam Detection and Filtering
A post on the Bing blog explores the inner workings of Web spam, what it looks like, what Bing is doing about it, and why it’s not always easy to determine intent.
Google Dorking: It’s All Fun & Games Until The Hackers Show Up
For anyone not in the know, Google Dorking is the practice of using advanced search techniques – more specifically, specialized search parameters – to locate hard-to-find web pages and information. As innocent as it sounds, Google Dorking has a dark side – so dark, federal…
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Star Ratings of a Different Color: Google Testing New Formats
Google is reportedly testing additional colors for the stars in its ratings for companies and local businesses.
In-App Search: Great Idea, Not So Great Experience
Google, Facebook and others are trying to bring the world of internet-style “deep linking” to apps. Google is indexing in-app links from Android in a bid to keep search relevant in a mobile world now dominated by apps. Facebook recently touted gains that its open-source App Link program…
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Why Your Content Marketing Team Needs A Link Builder
Link building requires very different skills than those needed to create content. Make sure you have these very important capabilities at your disposal.
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What Google, Amazon & Domino’s Pizza Have In Common? Drones!
Google X announced they are also working on flying delivery drones, just like their friends at Amazon and Domino’s Pizza.
Google announced this on Google+ saying:
Introducing Project Wing from Google[x]…
Google Bringing Back Old Design Or A Bug?
Many folks are reporting in the Google Web Search Help forums that Google is bringing back the old design that has either the black top bar or the gray top bar.
There are people who can see it in all sorts of browsers including Opera, Firefox, Safari….
BingBot As GoogleBot? Maybe, If It Crawls Google’s PageSpeed Tool
A savvy webmaster was curious when he noticed that BingBot was crawling his site from Google IP addresses. Did Google acquire Bing’s crawler? Was it some sort of fake bot trying to rip off content…
Google Kills Off Their Authorship Support
Last night, Google’s John Mueller was tasked to announce on his personal Google+ account that Google has dropped support for authorship, completely.
Yes, completely. They simply removed it from their search results interface and from behind the scene…
Video Recap of Weekly Search Buzz :: August 29, 2014
This week at the Search Engine Roundtable, I cover a wide range of topics. I cover the extreme chatter around more Penguin vibrations. Google completely killed off their authorship support…
Google Allows Store-Exclusive “Nearby” Product Listing Ads On Desktop
The ability to advertise locally-available products on Google via local product listing ads on mobile and desktop devices has been available since last fall. However, only on mobile devices could retailers promote items that were just available in-stor…
Google Blog Search Now Within Google News Search
Google has quietly disabled the Google Blog Search home page at google.com/blogsearch and redirects it to the Google home page. Now, if you want to filter content based on blog posts, you can do so by going to Google News, clicking on the Search Tools and selecting the “All news” drop…
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Search In Pics: Google Coffee Lab, Android Ice Bucket Challenge & Public Urination Fines Via YouTube
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 Coffee Lab: Source: Google+ Google Irvine Office Views: Source:…
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14 Ultimate Link-Building Guidelines to Keep Safe in 2014
How do you know what link-building is safe in 2014? Is there such a thing? That’s a question most SEOs, marketers, and business owners have been trying to answer since Google Penguin first hit in April 2012.