Matt Cutts, Google’s head of search spam, answers a question about ecommerce sites in his latest Webmaster Help video where a user writes in to ask: How would Google recommend handling eCommerce products that are no longer available? (Does this change as the number of discontinued products outnumbers the active products?) Matt prefaces his answer […] Author information Matt Southern Matt Southern is a marketing, communications and public relations professional. He provides strategic digital marketing services at an agency called Bureau in Ontario, Canada

Remember when there was an issue with Mobile Safari passing referrer data via Google search results properly…

Google’s Matt Cutts answered in a video what webmasters and site owners should do about their out of stock products on their e-commerce sites. Matt Cutts basically said it depends on the size of the e-commerce site.

SEO software company BrightEdge announced a way for its customers to tap into its big data repository in a powerful way. The “Data Cube” – the muscle behind the company’s S3 platform – is now directly accessible to customers for on-demand resear

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Not long ago, we came up with a list that highlighted one of the most important sections of a website– The ‘About Us’ page. But, we’d be remiss if we didn’t follow that list up with an equally important section–the ‘Contact Us’ page. Why is this such an important area to focus on

Formerly dubbed the Search Query Report, Bing Ads has updated what’s now called the Search Term Report, which houses the data on the terms users actually typed before clicking on an ad.

Google’s crusade against link networks around the globe continues. Google on Friday announced taking action on the following: German link network efamous; another German agency network; and Spanish and Italian link networks.

Google continues to experiment with Google Shopping displays beyond the traditional thumbnail box panel of Product Listing Ads. This latest version is larger than the sponsored result spotted earlier this month for the book “Don’t Make Me Think”.

In the next 2 months I’l be speaking at 7 different business events and conferences in cities ranging from San Francisco to New York to Denver. When I present at a business conference, I’m not just there as a speaker, but as an attendee – just like any other business person. The interesting thing is, I’ll probably get more business benefit from just one of these events (not including the effect from speaking) than most people get from multiple events