Archive for August, 2013

Google Says “Snag” Has Taken Manual Spam Actions Viewer Offline

2013/08/09

If you’re not seeing the “Manual Actions” feature in Google Webmaster Tools, you’re not alone. Many webmasters have taken to Twitter and other social networks to say that the link has been removed from their accounts, and Google has updated its original announcement to say..

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SearchCap: The Day In Search, August 9, 2013

2013/08/09

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the Web. From Search Engine Land: Bing Reports They Receive Hundreds Of Thousands Of DMCA Complaints Every Month Because of their share of the search market, Google is most frequently targeted by…

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Meet Real-Time Marketing Tony Wright, Speaker at SEJ Dallas Meetup by @johnrampton

2013/08/09

Search Engine Journal has meetup! We’ve partnered with Advice Interactive to put on the very first Local Social.  If you’re in the Dallas-Ft.

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Google Puts Local Ads on the Maps App

2013/08/09

For local businesses wanting to advertise, Google has announced that relevant ads will appear to users after they perform a search, placed at the bottom of the screen that includes title, ad text, and a link to get directions to the business.

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8 Image Based iPhone & Android Apps That You Need to Download by @albertcostill

2013/08/09

Is it surprising that one of the most popular apps, for both iPhones and Androids, are image apps? If you happen to be addicted to your phone, or just like to geek out with the latest tech news, this isn’t exactly a startling development. Over the last couple of years, image apps have continued to […] Author information Albert Costill Just a typical guy that enjoys an ice-cold beer, pizza, sports and music

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What I Learnt From Revoking A Google Manual Penalty

2013/08/09

It’s every site owner’s worst nightmare. You wake up one morning to a Google Webmaster tool warning message notifying you of the detection of unnatural links aka

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Local Search: How to Rank on Google in 2013 [Survey]

2013/08/09

Moz has released the 2013 Local Search Ranking Factors. When it comes to overall ranking factors, page place signals are considered the most important.

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Google Webmaster Tools Adds Manual Actions Viewer to Show When Your Site is Penalized

2013/08/09

For some time now, Google has been sending notifications to site owners about manual webspam actions.

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All Of Google’s Manual Actions For Search Spam

2013/08/09

As I mentioned a few minutes ago in my story about Google’s new manual spam action viewer – Google has documented all of the manual actions a site may receive for spamming their search results…

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Bing Reports They Receive Hundreds Of Thousands Of DMCA Complaints Every Month

2013/08/09

Because of their share of the search market, Google is most frequently targeted by copyright holders filing DMCA complaints, but the search giant is not the only one managing requests to remove unlawful links from search results. TorrentFreak reports Bing not only receives a number takedown notices…

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