Archive for January, 2014

Matt Cutts Explains Why You Should Not Use Article Directories To Build Links by @mattsouthern

2014/01/29

Matt Cutts, Google’s head of search spam, answers a question about link building in his latest Webmaster Help video where a user writes in to ask: Links from relevant content in article directories — Seen as good or bad?

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2014 Industry Survey Reveals Salaries, Top SEO Tools & More

2014/01/29

Moz has released the results of their 2014 Industry Survey, which sheds light on salaries for various roles, top marketing activities and metrics, the top 10 SEO tools, and how marketers are dealing with “(not provided)”.

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Searching For Super Bowl Ads? Watch Our Official Playlist

2014/01/29

With all the excitement of the big game building and our third annual #Hashtag Bowl quickly approaching at our sister site, Marketing Land, we’ve put together a special page where you can watch all of the official Super Bowl ads as they go online. You’ll also find teaser ads as well as…

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Google Answers Questions With Longer Responses Now

2014/01/29

Google for as long as I can remember showed answers for basic questions.

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Google’s Matt Cutts: Don’t Try To Build Links Through Article Directories

2014/01/29

Matt Cutts, Google’s head of search spam, posted a video answer encouraging webmasters not to use article directory web sites with the goal of building links. The question posed was: Links from relevant content in article directories — Seen as good or bad

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Pinterest Makes It Easier To Find Pins With Introduction of ‘Pinterest Interests’ by @mattsouthern

2014/01/29

Pinterest is one of the fastest growing and most user friendly social networking sites on the web today, but they’re clearly not satisfied with maintaining the status quo.

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Google Crushes Yet Another Link Network For Violating Quality Guidelines by @mattsouthern

2014/01/29

Matt Cutts, Google’s head of search spam, made an announcement on Twitter early this morning that action has been taken on another link network: Today we’re taking action on a French link network that violates our quality guidelines (Buzzea). — Matt Cutts (@mattcutts) January 29, 2014 In a follow up to that tweet, Matt added […] Author information Matt Southern Matt Southern is a marketing, communications and public relations professional.

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Google: A Digital History [Infographic] by @wonderwall7

2014/01/29

Google has done a lot in its 16 year history. From its first known algorithm update in early 2000 to its approximate 24 Panda updates since early 2011, this infographic outlines major updates to Google since its inception in 1998. In your opinion, what has been the most useful Google Update thus far? Let me know […] Author information Kelsey Jones Search & Social Consultant at MoxieDot.

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Google’s Matt Cutts: We’re Taking Action Against Buzzea, The French Link Network

2014/01/29

Last night at around 3am EST (this morning), Google’s Matt Cutts Tweeted, “Today we’re taking action on a French link network that violates our quality guidelines (Buzzea).” Buzzea has already posted a message on their site acknowledging the Google penalty and telling everyone they are closing up. The translated version reads:

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