Archive for April, 2014

How SEOs Would React To Google Dropping Links As A Ranking Factor

2014/04/22

As you know, Yandex, the popular Russian search engine…

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Google Marks Earth Day 2014 With 6 Animated Animal Logos, Including a Hummingbird

2014/04/22

For Google’s annual salute to Earth Day in 2014, the company has incorporated a series of six animals – the Rofous hummingbird, dung beetle, moon jellyfish, Japanese macaque, puffer fish, and veiled chameleon – into various animated logos.

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Matt Cutts Explains How To Avoid Buying A Domain That Has Been Penalized By Google

2014/04/22

Matt Cutts, Google’s head of search spam, answers a question about buying domains in his latest Webmaster Help […] 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. He has a bachelors degree in communication and an unparalleled passion for helping businesses get their message out

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62% Say Attacking Google’s Matt Cutts Is Wrong

2014/04/22

I am happy to say that the majority of our industry thinks that attacking Google’s head of search spam, Matt Cutts, as wrong…

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Starting Over, Part 2: Launch

2014/04/22

Posted by Dr-Pete This post is a part of the “Starting Over” series, the story of starting a blog ( MinimalTalent.com ) from scratch.

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Bing Supports Today’s Boston Marathon By Spotlighting Runners On Its Homepage

2014/04/21

Bing made an unconventional move today and changed its homepage image midday in honor of the Boston Marathon. To support the race and marathon participants, Bing changed its homepage to include a photo of the runners with fans cheering them on, and two BostonStrong flags waving in the foreground of… Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article

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SearchCap: Matt Cutts Tells How To Avoid Buying A Domain Name Previously Ruined By Spammers

2014/04/21

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Google’s Matt Cutts: How To Avoid Buying A Domain Name Previously Ruined By Spammers In his latest video, Google head of web spam (and, today, Boston… Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article

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Daily Search Forum Recap: April 21, 2014

2014/04/21

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today…

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PostJoint Google Penalty Fallout Continues

2014/04/21

PostJoint has reconfirmed their penalty in Google. Their penalty was for unnatural inbound links, which seems to be Google’s stock penalty for blog networks. It was not a new business model violations penalty, as has been reported elsewhere.

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