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Matt Cutts Announces Tool For Reporting Scraped Content Ranking Better Than Original Content
Matt Cutts, Google’s head of search spam, made an announcement on Twitter today about a new tool developed to let […]
Matt Cutts Answers If Content Ranks Better When It’s Easy To Read
Matt Cutts, Google’s head of search spam, answers a question about content writing in his latest Webmaster Help video where […]
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Be Matt Cutts in this Donkey Kong-inspired SEO Video Game
Have you ever wanted to be Google’s Matt Cutts in an old school version of Donkey Kong? If so, NetVoucherCodes […]
Matt Cutts Answers If Google Uses EXIF Data From Pictures As A Ranking Factor
Matt Cutts, Google’s head of search spam, answers a question about image search in his latest Webmaster Help video where […]
Bing Takes A Stance Against Poor Spelling and Grammar, Saying It Will Hurt Rankings
Duane Forrester, Senior Product Manager at Bing, has been publishing a lot of useful blog posts recently with his latest […]
Google Suggests What Users Should, And Should Not Do, With Google Glass
Google has released an official list of suggestions for what Glass Explorers (early adopters) should and should not do with their […]
Matt Cutts Explains What Google Search Would Be Like Without Backlinks As A Ranking Tool
Matt Cutts, Google’s head of search spam, answers a question about backlinks in his latest Webmaster Help video where a […]
Google Loses Big in German Reputation Lawsuit
Typically, when I’m asked to describe what Google does, I launch into a description that goes something like this: “A […]
Google Offers SEO Recommendations For Pages With Infinite Scroll
Pages with infinite scroll are often appreciated by users but not so much by Googlebot, as Google themselves points out […]
Matt Cutts Explains What A Day In The Life Of A Spam Fighter At Google Is Like
Matt Cutts, Google’s head of search spam, answers a question about what it’s like to fight webspam in his latest […]
Google To Launch New Content Recommendation System For Publishers
Google has plans to launch a new content recommendation system for publishers’ websites as early as next month. Google has […]
Bing Launches Bitcoin Conversion Tool
Bing announced today they have beaten Google out the gate with the launch of a native Bitcoin conversion tool. Yandex […]
Introduction to Upcoming Bing Ads Editor Enhancements
Editor Note: Ping Jen is a Product Manager in the Microsoft Bing Ads Product Team. His accompanying Bing Ads blog […]
Matt Cutts Explains How Comments With Bad Spelling and Grammar Affect A Page’s Ability to Rank
Matt Cutts, Google’s head of search spam, answers a question about spelling and grammar in his latest Webmaster Help video […]
Bing Partners With The Hollywood Reporter To Create Ultimate Resource For The Oscars
Just as Bing wants to be your number one destination for Winter Olympics information, they also want to be your […]
What I Learnt From Beating Google’s First Update of 2014
For those of us who track our own websites, you may have noticed a Google update roll out on the […]
Bing Getting Into Olympic Spirit With Winter Olympics Search Features And Medal Tracker
If you had to guess which search engine would provide the best experience when searching for information related to the […]
Google Sending Warnings To Business Owners: 3 Weeks To Save Their Google Places Listing
Business owners have reported on the Google Business Help forums that they are getting emails from Google with the subject […]
Introducing Debbie Miller, Social Media Manager for Search Engine Journal
I’m pleased to announce the latest addition to the Search Engine Journal team: Debbie Miller of Social Hospitality. We hired […]
Google is Now Showing Large Embedded Videos in Search Results
Next time you do a search for video content, instead of the YouTube results you’re used to seeing you may […]