Archive for September, 2011

Google Wallet Launch Largely Symbolic But Important

2011/09/19

According to documents seen by TechCrunch, Google Wallet is launching later today a bit behind schedule.

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Link Profile Tool to Discover Paid Links or Other Anomalous Linking Activity

2011/09/18

Posted by Tom Anthony A couple of months ago I got pulled in on a project for a new client, who admitted that their previous ‘SEO guy’ had bought them some links. Not a lot of links (they didn’t have a lot!), but it seemed that had been the extent of their SEO efforts. One of the things we needed to do was evaluate what amount of damage might have been done

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Linkscape’s September Update + Feedback

2011/09/17

Posted by randfish Last week, we launched a new Linkscape update with data crawled and indexed in August. Several folks noticed some significant changes in this index, particularly in link counts and some PA/DA metrics. I wanted to take some time in this post to talk about Linkscape’s data, our process, some of the challenges we’re facing and what you can expect to see with the index over the next several months

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This Week’s Google Updates: Apps & MLB Snippets, Detailed Reconsideration Responses

2011/09/17

This week Google added rich markup data for mobile apps, partnered with MLB.com for more rich baseball data on the SERP, and increased the level of detail on the email sent to webmasters who have requested reconsideration for the Google search ind…

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YouTube Adds Video Editing, Lets You Make Quick Fixes to Videos

2011/09/17

YouTube made two noteworthy announcements this week. First, Minjae Ormes, YouTube Movies and TV Marketing Manager, announced, “In celebration of the 70th anniversary of its release, Orson Welles’ seminal work Citizen Kane joins the tho…

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Google’s European Privacy & Antitrust Battles: An Update

2011/09/17

The European Commission is still determining Google’s degree of dominance, Google is providing an WiFi location opt-out service; Google has announced that it will delete 3.6 million Dutch WiFi SSIDs, and Google Analytics has been un-banned i…

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Albert Szent-Gyorgyi’s 118th Birthday Google Logo

2011/09/17

Today on Google home pages worldwide is a special logo for the 118th birthday of Albert Szent-Gyorgyi. Albert Szent-Gyorgyi was born on September 16, 1893 in Budapest, Austria-Hungary and died on October 22, 1986 in Massachusetts…

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Business Closure Issues On Google Maps To Be Resolved

2011/09/17

Mike Blumenthal covers Google Maps news like I cover search news…

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Is Google Improving Webmaster Tools Notifications Or They Did Already?

2011/09/17

A Google blog post said that Google is now going to be sending out more transparent reconsideration request responses and notifications…

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