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Critical Vulnerability Found In Popular WordPress Newsletter Plugin
Web security firm, Sucuri, found a critical vulnerability in a WordPress plug-in that has over 1.7 million downloads. The vulnerability allows potential attackers to take...
Matt Cutts Is Going On Leave For Several Months
Matt Cutts, Google’s head of search spam, announced today that he will be going on leave for several months. Matt cited the need to spend...
Google Acquires Songza To Improve Its Music Services
An announcement was made today that Google has acquired Songza, a music streaming service that specializes in predicting the songs users want to hear. The...
Search With “Ok Google” From Any Screen On Your Android Device
Google recently announced, via the Official Google Search blog, that Android users will now be able to conduct a voice search using the “Ok Google”...
Bing Explains How They Choose The Title Tag For Your Web Pages
Despite your best efforts to define the title tags for your web pages, Bing may take it upon themselves to serve a different title in...
PR Newswire Responds To Panda 4.0 By Taking Action Against Spammers
When Panda 4.0 was rolled out last month, press release sites were hit particularly hard. PR Newswire lost around 63% of their SEO visibility as a...
An #Interview With Dennis Goedegebuure on AirBnB and Internal Linking
As part of our coverage from the sold-out Searchmetrics x Search Engine Journal conference in San Francisco on SEO, content marketing, and analytics, I caught up with...
Google Authorship Pictures In Search Results Are Going Away
The Google Authorship pictures that we’ve grown accustomed to seeing in search results are about to go away. Google’s John Mueller detailed this change in...
Google Is Testing Their Own Domain Registration Service
It’s 2014, and 55% of small businesses still don’t have a website, according to research conducted by Google. As a result, Google has begun exploring...
The Art of Peripheral Persuasion: Visuals in Web Design
They say that content is king, and that’s true. Quality, keyword-rich content will go a long way for your SEO and conversion rates. But people...
Diane Von Furstenberg Introduces High Fashion Frames For Google Glass
First, Google introduced the Google Glass Titanium Collection. Then they teamed up with the makers of Ray Ban and Oakley to add more style to...
Now You Can Search For Music On Google And Play It Directly In Your Favorite App
Today, Google announced a change they have introduced to the mobile search experience on Android devices in the US. Starting today, when you search for musicians...
The Future Of SEO Is Personalized Search: Interview with Warren Lee
As part of our coverage from last week’s sold-out Searchmetrics x Search Engine Journal conference in San Francisco on SEO, Content Marketing and Analytics, I recently...
The Landing Page Optimization Guide You Wish You’ve Always Had
What follows is a list of resources that can be applied specifically to landing page optimization, originally repurposed from ConversionXL and other great websites around the web....
WordPress Takes A Stand Against Abuse Of DMCA Takedown Requests
Torrentfreak reported yesterday that WordPress has issued a lawsuit demanding $10,000 in compensation to cover damages suffered through a false DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act) takedown notice. WordPress...
Get Over The ‘Next Big Thing’: An Interview on SEO With Duane Forrester
Duane Forrester, a Senior Project Manager at Bing who oversees Webmaster Tools, syndicates to SEJ his well-written, thoughtful blog pieces on SEO. Over late night emails, he...
Microsoft Takes A Shot At Google With Updated Terms Of Service
Microsoft and Google don’t have the best history of getting along. Case in point: Microsoft’s ‘Scroogled’ campaign, and Google’s refusal to support Microsoft platforms. The...
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Ranking Factors Post-Hummingbird, Panda 4.0 by @marcustober [SESSION RECAP] #SEJSF
This is a session recap from Marcus Tober’s presentation on “The Search (R)evolution” from our June 13 San Francisco conference, “SEO, Content Marketing and Analytics:...
#SMXAdvanced 2014 Recap: You&A with Matt Cutts
Matt Cutts, Google’s head of webspam, made some important announcements as well as sharing some interesting insight into an upcoming algorithm change that will take...
Google Begins Rollout Of Payday Loan Algorithm 3.0 Today
Matt Cutts, Google’s head of search spam, recently announced at SMX Advanced in Seattle that the third iteration of its Payday loan algorithm would be...
Bing Offers 6 Best Practices For Sitemaps, With Advice For Large Sites
Fabrice Canel, Principal Program Manager at Bing, updated the Bing Webmaster Blog this week with six tips for sitemaps, including some advice specifically for large...
Google May Disclose When Search Results Have Been Censored Due To ‘Right To Be Forgotten’
The Guardian reports today that Google is considering letting users know in the search results pages when search results have been removed due to the...
Google Releases An In-Depth Guide To Googlebot-Friendly Site Moves
Google announced on their Webmaster Central blog today that they have released an in-depth guide to Googlebot-friendly site movies. “Few topics confuse and scare webmasters...
Understanding How to Use the Google Tag Manager
Just recently someone told me they stumbled upon the Google Tag Manager and had no idea how it worked or why it mattered. Believe it...
Google Gives Advice On Fixing Faulty Redirects, How To Direct Smartphone Users To Correct Page
Google published some advice on their Webmaster Central blog today on how to fix faulty redirects. Specifically, how to prevent smartphone users from clicking on...
Multilingual SEO: It’s Actually a Pretty Big Challenge for Google to Determine the Language of a Query
There are many words which are spelled the same but have different meanings based on language and location. A very simple example is the word...
How To Connect Your Google Maps Listing To Your Google+ Page
Google recently introduced the ability for those who have created a page in Google+ of a type other than Local business or place to integrate their...
Matt Cutts Describes How Content Is Ranked Without Many Inbound Links
Matt Cutts, Google’s head of search spam, answers a question about inbound links in his latest Webmaster Help video where a user writes in to...
A Flaw In The All-In-One SEO Pack WordPress Plugin May Be Putting Your Website At Risk
If you have the All-In-One SEO Pack WordPress plugin installed, your website may be at risk of being compromised if it’s not updated. A update was released...
Google’s ‘Right To Be Forgotten’ Form Now Available For Users In Europe
Last week a landmark privacy decision was made by the European Union Court of Justice that grants EU citizens the “right to be forgotten.” The...