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Google’s Matt Cutts Further Explains Automation of Reconsideration Request Process
In the latest video from YouTube’s Google Webmaster Help channel, Matt Cutts explains why the Google Spam team can’t handle every individual reconsideration request with...
Matt Cutts Asks SEO’s To Report Good Sites For Better Rankings
In a tweet that went out yesterday from Matt Cutts asked users to report/let Google know about sites that you think should be doing much...
Bing Describes 7 Ways They Are Better Than Google For Image Searches
Bing recently posted an inside look from Senior Program Manager, Meenaz Merchant, describing the ways in which Bing is a better image search engine than...
Matt Cutts States Page Speed Is Not A More Important Ranking Factor On Mobile
Matt Cutts, Google’s head of search spam, stated in a video response that page load speed is not any more important as a ranking factor...
Matt Cutts Says Google +1’s Have No Direct Impact On Search Rankings
Matt Cutts, Google’s head of search spam, refuted the latest Moz study that claimed to show a correlation between Google +1’s and high search engine rankings....
Bing Announces Hardware & Ad-Free Search for Schools
Bing announced on their search blog today that they are launching Bing for Schools, a program that will partner with school districts across the country...
Don’t Be a Glasshole: 8 Situations When You Shouldn’t Wear Google Glass
We’ve got some bad news. Google Glass has been officially postponed until 2014. At least that gives us some more time to debate the privacy...
Matt Cutts Recommends NoFollowing Links On Embedded Widgets
Google’s head of search spam, Matt Cutts, posted a video answer yesterday advising website owners with a recommendation that may help from getting penalized by...
When Is It Appropriate To Use ccTLD’s? Via Matt Cutts
ccTLD is an acronym that stands for ‘country code top level domain’. In March of this year, Nick Paterman (one of our authors), mentioned that...
DuckDuckGo vs Google (Impressive New Stats)
We’ve covered the DuckDuckGo vs Google war in the past… We know it’s not the closest race in the world but DuckDuckGo released some impressive...
Cleaning Up SEJ Author Bio Links
Dear SEJ Contributors & Readers, Thank you for everything you have contributed to SEJ and your participation in our community, comments & social media. We’ve...
Google Affiliate Network’s Shut Down Leads To Mass Client Migration
One week ago the Google Affiliate Network (GAN) announced they would be shutting down their platform in the upcoming months. Since then, the affiliate industry...
SEO Bites: Ben Stiller Stars as the Algorithm
As the SEO industry has slowly evolved over the past five years in response to Google’s aggressive initiatives to combat web spam (and those looking...
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[Infographic] Search Engine Market Share November 2012
A new infographic by Chitika insights reveals the latest trends in search, with Google, Yahoo, Bing, Ask and AOL as the main players. The results...
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#In2013YouBetterNot Disturb Sleeping Pandas [Thursday Twitter Funatron]
2013 is 25 days away. 25. The countdown is near, and we all look ahead, with hope. All industries are looking at 2012 in retrospect:...
Search Engines Are Talking Turkey!
The biggest search event for Yahoo!Search, after this year’s Presidential elections in the US, is Thanksgiving, and Yahoo!Search is already talking Turkey. Since BOSS Geo,...
Social Meme Monday: Home Objects Inspired by Social Media
You know you are completely addicted to social media when you have items at home whose designs are inspired by Twitter, Facebook, Reddit, Pinterest, and...
Monday Thanksgiving Humor
Thanksgiving is just 3 days away! It is a day for family and friends and at times irritation :). There is a lot of humor...
Social Meme Monday: Funniest Pinterest Someecards
Aside from pinning images and content related to SEO, most browse Pinterest boards to look for dinner presentation ideas. Since you love our Facebook Someecards...
Social Meme Monday: Amusing Facebook Someecards
There is a huge number of Someecards e-greetings that have wittily and candidly expressed our addiction to Facebook. For today’s Social Meme, we have selected...
Meme Monday: Instagram Your Lunch for Me
Launched in October 2010 and acquired by Facebook in April 2012, Instagram is a free photo-sharing program and social network that lets users apply digital...
Meme Monday Labor Day Edition
It’s Labor Day! We hope that everyone is having a fabulous, long weekend. To add some fun, here is our Meme Monday Labor Day Edition...
Matt Cutts Meme Monday: @mattcutts
Our audience seems to really enjoy our search and social meme Mondays, but it is really important that we not forget the nerd of all...
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Google Panda Update Tips and Timeline [Infographic]
Unless you’ve been hiding under a rock for the last year, you no doubt understand that the Google Panda Update that was initially released at...
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A Timeline of Google Algorithm Changes & Updates [Infographic]
Outrider has offered a very informative and historical infographic that offers a timeline of Google Algorithm Changes. All SEO’s can use this IG as a...
Easy Way to Understand Google’s Panda
There are so many myths out there about Panda and what it means. This infographic from Single Grain makes it very easy for you to...
See a Breakdown of Top 10 Industries Contributing to Google’s 2011 $37.9B Revenues
Did you see Google’s “disappointing” #37.9 Billion 2011 earnings announcement for their 2011 ad revenues? Ever wonder which industries contribute the most to Google’s ad...
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Norad Santa Tracker : The History of NORAD, Google & Santa [Infographic]
Christmas Eve is only 1 day away and that means that Santa Claus is getting his reindeer and sleigh prepped to bring presents to boys...
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Google – Under the Hood [INFOGRAPHIC]
This infographic was created by Blog Search Engine, where you can promote your blog by getting it reviewed. I think this infographic offers some fantastic...
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Google Vs Facebook on Privacy and Security [INFOGRAPHIC]
Veracode.com made a really interesting infographic called “Google Vs Facebook on Privacy and Security”. There are some Facebook things that concern me. Tell me what...