Archive for May, 2014

Twitter Launches An Interactive Guide To Help Small Businesses Reach Their Goals by @mattsouthern

2014/05/31

This week, Twitter launched an interactive guide designed to help small businesses make better use of its social network.

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Eat24: Life Without Facebook by @eat24

2014/05/31

Hey guys, As you might have heard, we recently closed our Facebook page. No big deal. Just your average love story: Brand meets social media platform, falls head over heels… then one day the spark is gone so the brand writes a dramatic breakup blog and emails it to a million of their closest friends

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Google: Even Old But Active Manual Actions Will Show In Google Webmaster Tools

2014/05/31

Google launched their manual action viewer back in August of 2013. The question was, would Google show manual actions dating back years before that…

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Google’s ‘Right To Be Forgotten’ Form Now Available For Users In Europe by @mattsouthern

2014/05/31

Last week a landmark privacy decision was made by the European Union Court of Justice that grants EU citizens the “right to be forgotten.” The ruling stipulates that users can ask for Google to stop linking to anything that’s “inadequate, irrelevant or no longer relevant, or excessive in relation to the purposes for which they were processed.” Following this ruling, Google has opened up an online form where you can ask to have links to personal data removed from Google’s search results. How It Works When submitting links to be removed, you are asked to provide Google with the URLs […] The post Google’s ‘Right To Be Forgotten’ Form Now Available For Users In Europe by @mattsouthern appeared first on Search Engine Journal .

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Google’s Matt Cutts: It’s Silly To Think We Penalize Vivint Because It Competes With Nest

2014/05/31

Pando wrote an article named After Google bought Nest, it removed one of the companyâs biggest competitors from search results showing how Vivint was removed from Google shortly after Google acquired Nest. Matt Cutts, Google’s head of search spam called this “silly…

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AJAX Hash Bang URLs No Longer Work In Fetch As Google Tool

2014/05/30

This week, Google introduced the new fetch as Google tool that now supports rendering the page as well. The tool is actually very sweet in many ways, including visualizing what Google sees and showing you what Google cannot see…

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Daily Search Forum Recap: May 30, 2014

2014/05/30

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web…

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SearchCap: Google Right To Be Forgotten Form, Yahoo Search Bar & App Indexing Languages

2014/05/30

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: How Google’s New “Right To Be Forgotten” Form Works: An Explainer Google has taken a big step forward in complying with the European… Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.

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Press Release Sites See Huge Drop In Google Ranking After Panda 4.0

2014/05/30

Yesterday I reported at Search Engine Land that Panda 4.0 may have hurt press release sites and showed SearchMetrics data for PRWeb, PR Newswire…

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