Archive for April, 2012

Google Requesting Business Licenses For Maps Verification

2012/04/28

A Google Places Help thread has confirmation from Google that Google may request to see your business license as verification to post your listing in Google Maps. A person who places a request to be listed in Google Places asked: I received an email from local-help@google.com…

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Google Requesting Business Licenses For Maps Verification

2012/04/28

A Google Places Help thread has confirmation from Google that Google may request to see your business license as verification to post your listing in Google Maps. A person who places a request to be listed in Google Places asked: I received an email from local-help@google.com…

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Google Goes After Links In WordPress Themes

2012/04/28

A WebmasterWorld thread has an SEO claiming he received a response from Google to a reconsideration request that the only way his site will be reincluded in Google is if he removes all or most of the links in those WordPress themes…

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Google’s Over Optimization Update Named Penguin

2012/04/28

The Google update that Matt Cutts first called the over optimization filter and then called webspam algorithm was actually called the Penguin Update internally at Google…

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Google Tablet Search Interface Infects Desktop Users

2012/04/28

There are several reports of a major bug with Google Search in the Google Web Search Help that say people using desktop search but the interface looking as the tablet search interface. The reports started to come in 5 days ago and more and more reports trickled in since…

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Google Penguin Feedback Form

2012/04/28

Google’s Matt Cutts tweeted that they have launched a form to submit to Google if you think your site should not have been hit by the Penguin update. With Panda, Google did a similar thing about a week or so later…

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Video Recap of Weekly Search Buzz :: April 27, 2012

2012/04/28

I am a bit under the weather, as you can tell. Google launched the Penguin update this week, it is what was initially called by us as the over optimization algorithm or webspam algorithm. If you were hit on the 24th…

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Daily Search Forum Recap: April 27, 2012

2012/04/27

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web…

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SearchCap: The Day In Search, April 27, 2012

2012/04/27

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: StarCraft Themed Google Easter Egg “Zerg Rush” Calls An Attack On Your Search Results Google’s newest Easter egg, a search for “zerg… Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.

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"Zerg Rush" Google Easter Egg: Play a Starcraft-Inspired Game

2012/04/27

Google’s latest Easter egg turns your search results into a shootout against red and yellow zeroes, plunking down and around the page to devour the user’s search results. Your job is to protect your search results and sidebar from these mini zergs.

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