Matt Cutts, Google’s head of search spam, answers a question about content in his latest video where a user writes in to ask: Can a site still do well in Google if I copy only a small portion of content from different websites and create my own article by combining all, considering I will mention the source […]
In an announcement made this morning on the official Google Webmaster Central Blog, starting today Google Webmaster Tools will now help you identify pages on your site that contain crawl errors specific to smartphones. Some smartphone-optimized websites show error pages or redirect users to irrelevant pages while navigating on mobile, while desktop users wouldn’t run into […]
An announcement was made on the official Google Search blog today about a new addition to Google Trends being rolled out that promises to deliver more accurate results. Google Trends’ new topic reports are designed to measure interest in people, places and things that users care about. An example Google gives in their blog post is […]
Topsy, one of the last remaining Twitter search and analytics companies, has been purchased by Apple for $200 million as reported today by the Wall Street Journal. Apple has confirmed the purchase, but wouldn’t make any comments beyond the following statement: Apple buys smaller technology companies from time to time, and we generally do not […]
Google rolled out a major change to AdWords this week by introducing CPM bidding by viewable impressions. This change was first noticed by Kim Clinkunbroomer of Philly Marketing Labs. Rather than charging advertisers on the traditional model of served impressions, this change to CPM bidding means that advertisers will be charged based on ad impressions that can […]
Google announced today that they will be adding a Reviews tab in Google Places that allows business owners to see all their customer reviews in one place. In addition to being able to see all of your reviews, you can also respond to them directly right from the new Reviews tab. From Google’s announcement: Today, we’re […]
Matt Cutts, Google’s head of search spam, published a post on his personal blog today asking for feedback about how Google can improve Webmaster Tools in 2014. Google’s webmaster console allows you to verify your website and be alerted of manual webspam actions that will directly affect your site. They have also improved how they […]
On December 3rd in San Francisco, SEJ is hosting an SEO Workshop by the man himself, Bruce Clay. Bruce just got some exciting news: a Facebook thought leader will be joining him onstage! Just added: Spend some quality time with Facebook exec Matthew Idema Matt Idema, Director of Monetization Product Marketing at Facebook, will show the […]
Matt Cutts, Google’s head of search spam, answers a question about disavowing links in his latest video where a user writes in to ask: Should webmasters use the disavow tool, even if it is believed that no penalty has been applied? For example. if we believe ‘Negative SEO’ has been attempted, or spammy sites we have contacted […]
An email sent from Incisive Media announced that the SES Conference & Expo will be rebranded as ClickZ Live. The email states: In a natural transition that recognizes the ever-evolving changes taking place in the digital marketing industry and the more diverse educational needs of today’s marketing community, our global SES Conference and Expo series, […]
