Archive for March, 2013

Yahoo Buys Mobile Startup With Big Search Chops

2013/03/20

Earlier today Yahoo and Jybe announced that the latter was being acquired by the former. Jybe, which I had not heard of previously, is described by Yahoo as “a personalized recommendation company founded with the vision to help people find the things they love to do based on what’s trending…

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Why Digg Briefly Vanished From Google’s Search Results

2013/03/20

The Internet was certainly talking about Digg today when people discovered the social news site was no longer appearing in Google’s search results.

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This Kid Tattooed A Google Logo On Himself

2013/03/20

You think you’ve seen it all when you read and cover Google related discussion forums and I’ve been doing this for ten years…

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Link Removal Fees From Web Directories

2013/03/20

With all the concern over unnatural link notifications, the Penguin update, disavowing links and lawsuits over linking, SEOs and webmasters are eager to remove all bad links as far back as they can…

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Google Trends Now Shows YouTube Searches

2013/03/20

Google announced on Google+ that they have expanded Google Trends to add YouTube search support. Now you can use Google Trends to see what searches are trending and spiking across the world from within YouTube search

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Google Trends Now Shows YouTube Searches

2013/03/20

Google announced on Google+ that they have expanded Google Trends to add YouTube search support. Now you can use Google Trends to see what searches are trending and spiking across the world from within YouTube search. The trend data for YouTube goes back to 2008.

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What Really Happened With Raven Tools: Interview with Jon Henshaw

2013/03/20

In late 2012, Internet marketing tools platform Raven Tools raised eyebrows in the SEO world when the company’s CEO announced that Raven would remove “all unauthorized Google data” – or data obtained through scraping Google against its terms of service – from its platform, including its rank tracking service and data from third-party provider SEMRush. Author information John Rampton Managing Editor John Rampton is an entrepreneur, full-time computer nerd, PPC guru at Maple North and founder at PPC.org

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What Really Happened With Raven Tools: Interview with Jon Henshaw

2013/03/20

In late 2012, Internet marketing tools platform Raven Tools raised eyebrows in the SEO world when the company’s CEO announced that Raven would remove “all unauthorized Google data” – or data obtained through scraping Google against its terms of service – from its platform, including its rank tracking service and data from third-party provider SEMRush. Author information John Rampton Managing Editor John Rampton is an entrepreneur, full-time computer nerd, PPC guru at Maple North and founder at PPC.org.

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Digg Banned From SERPs (Updated)

2013/03/20

Updated (see below) I’m always following SEPS’s and big companies out there getting slapped by Penguin and Panda updates.  Matt Cutts talked last week about a Panda update this past Friday at SMX last week.  Was Digg impacted by this update?

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SEO Diagnostics: Proactive and Reactive Diplomacy

2013/03/20

When analyzing your SEO world, it’s important to make a non-biased diagnosis of your progress. Use search engines to proactively study your environment and think beyond just traffic and conversions – think about accessibility considerations.

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