Unique, and original, content drives the Internet (so we’re constantly told), and we SEOs spend much of of our time producing and honing that content in the hopes of making the all mighty Google happy as a clam. Unfortunately, there has always been an ongoing problem with spammy websites lifting existing content verbatim, and passing it off as their own creation. These scraper sites not only devalue the original content they have stolen, but they can also impact the page rankings of the original page

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If you’ve ever tried your hand at blogging then you’re already aware it can be more challenging than others may assume. Between all of the brainstorming, research, writing, and editing, you’re devoting a lot of time to just one piece of content

Google announced yesterday on Google+ that Chrome, Google’s popular browser, now supports the ability to say “Okay Google” to activate voice search by default from the Google search page…

If you create videos as part of your content marketing strategy, you’ll be happy to know that YouTube is about to launch a new app just for you. In an announcement made on the Official YouTube Partners & Creators Blog today, YouTube unveiled their first Creator Preview video which is a run-down of new features they’re working on. Among the new features is a brand new mobile app that gives video makers easy access to YouTube’s creator features

Google reported on their Webmaster Central Blog today that they will be launching a new tool in the next few days to help users better understand how Google renders their JavaScript-coded website. This new tool is designed to let webmasters know whether or not Google is running into difficulties with crawling or indexing their website due to the way JavaScript has been implemented. Google says they have been making improvements in the way JavaScript is viewed by Googlebot

Since Panda 4.0 was rolled out early this week, there have been reports about which websites saw the greatest drop in rankings. According to the reports, eBay was one of the top Panda losers. [Update]: this article was amended to reflect that this breaking news is via a report from Re/code.

Yesterday, the SEO space got into a bit of a panic when Google suddenly dropped authorship images from their search results page.