Archive for May, 2014

Mother’s Day Google Logo Celebrates The Superhero In Every Mom

2014/05/11

Today’s Google logo celebrates Mother’s Day with a colorful illustration of a caped Superhero mom, cycling along with her two children.

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Freelancing 101: A Starter Guide to Acquiring, Managing, and Maintaining SEO Clients by @zainshah713

2014/05/10

When I first got into SEO, I quickly realized I wanted to have my own consultancy gig. Due to the unique nature of SEO and inbound marketing, there was no clear-cut approach, information or template on starting your own inbound practice. If you talk to five internet marketing agencies, more than likely, you’ll get five different stories on how they began and started acquiring clients

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Bing’s Duane Forrester Debunks 10 SEO Myths by @mattsouthern

2014/05/10

Duane Forrester, Bing’s Senior Product Manager, took to the Bing Webmaster Blog today to give his analysis on 10 of the most common SEO myths. The SEO myths, along with a recap of Duane’s analysis for each, are as follows. 1.

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Amp-what: A Unicode & HTML Entity Search Engine

2014/05/10

Who doesn’t love HTML Entities, unicode characters and the like…

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Google Preparing Large Update? Shifts On May 2nd & 7th

2014/05/09

I mentioned there was some chatter about a Google update on May 2nd but now we are seeing even more chatter and signs of flux in the Google search results on May 7th…

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Snapchat On 20-Year Probation After Being Charged With Deceiving Users by @mattsouthern

2014/05/09

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) issued a press release this week stating that Snapchat has agreed to settle charges that it deceived users with false promises of disappearing messages. The FTC case also alleges that Snapchat deceived users in regards to the amount of personal data it collected and the security measures taken to protect that data.  FTC Chairwoman Edith Ramirez states:  If a company markets privacy and security as key selling points in pitching its service to consumers, it is critical that it keep those promises… Any company that makes misrepresentations to consumers about its privacy and security practices risks FTC action. […] The post Snapchat On 20-Year Probation After Being Charged With Deceiving Users by @mattsouthern appeared first on Search Engine Journal .

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Daily Search Forum Recap: May 9, 2014

2014/05/09

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: Bing On Links, Google PLA Tests & Brand Bias

2014/05/09

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.

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Bing On Links: You Should Never Know In Advance Where A Link Is Coming From

2014/05/09

Duane Forrester from Microsoft’s Bing team wrote a blog post today on the official Bing Search blog named 10 SEO myths reviewed. There are many good and obvious points Duane makes in the post but one point he makes about links is very revealing.

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