Is Negative SEO Becoming A Bigger Problem For Businesses?
Negative SEO – the practice of competitors engaging in SEO attacks in order to harm businesses in search results – has been a concern in the search industry for years. It’s rare that we see any...
View ArticleGoogle Makes Reconsideration Request Responses More Helpful
It appears that Google is actually making the reconsideration request process more helpful for webmasters by giving them more clues on what the problems are with their sites. At the Search Marketing...
View ArticleMatt Cutts Is Disappearing For A While
Just ahead of the holiday weekend, Google’s head of webspam Matt Cutts announced that he is taking leave from Google through at least October, which means we shouldn’t be hearing from him (at least...
View ArticleGoogle Webmaster Tools Gets New rel-alternate-hreflang Feature
Google announced on Monday that it is adding a new feature to Google Webmaster Tools to make it easier to debug rel-alternate-hreflang annotations. These are the attributes Google uses to serve the...
View ArticleHistory of SEO: Evolve or Die. 24 years in 4 minutes.
Remember when Netscape Navigator and Ask Jeeves ruled the roost? Here’s a 4 minute throwback of how search engines have changed in the last 24 years. Learn how smart marketers figured out how to...
View ArticleMetaFilter Reportedly Recovering From Google Update
A few months ago, MetaFilter founder Matt Haughney revealed in a blog post that a decline in Google traffic resulting from a 2012 algorithm update had led him to lay off some of the site’s staff. He...
View ArticleNew Google Penguin Update Is Getting Closer
It’s looking like we’ll probably be seeing Google launch a new version of the Penguin update before too long, though Google still won’t give an exact timeframe. Either way, they’re working on it, and...
View ArticleIs Google Making Too Many Changes To Search?
Google celebrated the ten year anniversary of its initial public offering this week, and reflected on the past decade of search and some of the major changes it has made. Everybody knows that Google is...
View ArticleGoogle Makes It Easier For People To Search For Your Content
Google announced that it’s now showing a new and improved sitelinks search box within search results, which will make it easier to find specific content on third-party websites from Google itself. The...
View ArticleNew Google Penguin Update Coming, Will Refresh Faster
Google’s Penguin update is notorious for taking an extremely long time to get refreshed, leaving sites negatively impacted by it out of luck until Google finally pushes a refresh through. You can make...
View ArticleGoogle Penguin Update Still Lurking, Keep An Eye Out
It’s been a while since Google launched the most recent version of its famous (or infamous, depending on how you want to look at it) Penguin update. If you haven’t seen any changes in your rankings,...
View ArticleTwitter Regretting Not Getting That Google Deal Done?
Remember the days when you could search for something that was in the news on Google and get a set of realtime search results comprised mainly (but not solely) of updates from Twitter? It was a helpful...
View ArticleGoogle Takes Action On Link Network In Poland
For the past year or so, Google has been on a warpath when it comes to link networks, particularly in Europe. That is still going on, it would seem. Barry Schwartz at Search Engine Roundtable reports...
View ArticleGoogle Penguin Update Will Probably Just Continue Indefinitely
As you may know, Google’s latest Penguin update, which launched in October, is still rolling out. Google had said that it would be a slow rollout from the beginning, but here we are two months later,...
View ArticleGoogle: Clicks On App Deep Links Jumped By 10x Last Quarter
Google started testing app indexing on Android in October of last year, adding deep links from apps within search results on its operating system. In June, they opened it up to everyone. On Tuesday,...
View ArticleGoogle May Have Just Killed A Whole Category Of Websites
Over time, Google has been showing more and more content on search results pages, resulting in people having to click over to third-party websites for fewer and fewer things. Now, Google is showing...
View ArticlePinterest SEO: Things To Consider
A lot of website owners and marketers are still trying to crack the Pinterest nut. If Facebook referrals start evaporating, that will no doubt be the case even more. Currently, Pinterest is second...
View ArticleData Confirms Google Is Wiping Out A Whole Category Of Websites
Last month, we reported that Google may have just killed a whole category of websites – lyrics sites. New data shows that search visibility for some of these sites has indeed drastically declined....
View ArticleHow Ranking Works In Pinterest’s Guided Search
Pinterest launched Guided Search last April as a new way to help users discover content with some nudging in the right direction. It’s basically Pinterest’s way of suggesting search refinements as you...
View ArticleWhat Google’s Twitter Deal Means For You
News came out last week that Google and Twitter have struck a new deal to put real-time tweets back into Google’s search index. The companies aren’t providing much in the way of details about the deal...
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