Archive for April, 2015

Israeli Webmasters: Google Wants To Interview You For Improvements To Webmaster Tools

2015/04/18

Gary Illyes from Google posted on Google+ that their next round of webmaster interviews will take place in Israel. This is similar to what they announced in October 2014 about watching SEOs as they work but that was based in North Africa and Europe…

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How This Writing Tip From a Senator Will Punch Up Your Blog Posts by @LM_Strain

2015/04/18

Do your blog posts need a little CPR? Here’s how a writing tip from a Senator from California can breathe life into your dull prose. The post How This Writing Tip From a Senator Will Punch Up Your Blog Posts by @LM_Strain appeared first on Search Engine Journal

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The Real Reasons Social Media Affects Your Company’s SEO by @LEWatrous

2015/04/18

Google doesn’t directly factor social media influence into the ranking algorithm, but that’s no reason to ignore social channels or marketing efforts. The post The Real Reasons Social Media Affects Your Company’s SEO by @LEWatrous appeared first on Search Engine Journal .

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Getting Better, But Google Still Has Work On Piracy: The Game Of Thrones Story

2015/04/18

The search engine scores exceptionally well fighting piracy on generic searches for the popular TV series. But for the piracy-prone searches it’s supposed to be targeting, there are failures

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Yahoo Renews Microsoft Deal Reducing Yahoo’s Dependence On Bing Ads

2015/04/18

Yahoo’s CEO, Marissa Mayer, announced on Tumblr that they have renewed and extended their deal with Microsoft on their search front. In short, Bing will still power much of Yahoo Search but Yahoo does gain more control..

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Google Officially Drops URLs In Mobile Search Results For Site Name & Breadcrumbs

2015/04/18

Google announced last night that the mobile search results are no longer going to display the site’s URL in the search snippet…

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Google Tests "People Also Ask" Box In Search Results

2015/04/18

Dan Barker posted a screen shot on Twitter of an interesting new search feature within the Google search results named “People also ask…

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Uninstalled Android Apps Now Benefit In Google’s Mobile Search Results

2015/04/18

As you know, Google launched the first part of their mobile friendly algorithm in February, which meant Android searchers would see Android apps they installed come up in the mobile search results higher for content within the app that matched their query…

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Google Search Country Filter Bug

2015/04/17

A searcher reported a bug that Google confirmed in the Google Web Search Help forums saying that the country filter search tool doesn’t work right. If you search within a country specific Google property, such as at google.co…

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Daily Search Forum Recap: April 17, 2015

2015/04/17

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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