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Learnings From SMX London: The Impact Of Social On Search

Published on 2014/06/06 By admin

SEOs and Social Marketers speculate on the impact that Social Media marketing has on how well their websites perform in search results. There has been much conjecture with many people interpreting an array of correlations as causation. Both Google’s Matt Cutts and Bing’s Duane Forrester…

Does Google’s Review Count Inflation Give Them An Unfair Advantage In Local Search?

Published on 2014/04/28 By admin

We all know that monitoring online reviews is important for online marketing; but lately, it seems that not all reviews are created equal.

Google’s Matt Cutts: We Don’t Use Twitter Or Facebook Social Signals To Rank Pages

Published on 2014/01/22 By admin

Google’s head of search spam, Matt Cutts, released a video today answering the question, “are Facebook and Twitter signals part of the ranking algorithm?” The short answer was no. Matt said that Google does not give any special treatment to Facebook or Twitter pages. They are in…

Google’s Matt Cutts: We Don’t Have Different Algorithms For Different Web Position Slots

Published on 2014/01/15 By admin

Google’s head of search spam, Matt Cutts, posted a video answering another webmaster question.

Google Launches Fix To Stop Mugshot Sites From Ranking: Google’s MugShot Algorithm

Published on 2013/10/07 By admin

On Thursday, Google released yet another algorithm update, no – not the Penguin update, but an algorithm to combat mugshot web sites from showing up highly in their search results. In February, Jonathan Hochman wrote a story here named Why Google Should Crack Down Harder On The Mugshot…

3 Principles Of Future-Focused, No-Surprise Link Building

Published on 2013/06/21 By admin

Link building doesn’t really fit the mold with the rest of the online marketing world.

Google: Panda To Be Integrated Into The Search Algorithm (Panda Everflux)

Published on 2013/03/13 By admin

Matt Cutts, Google’s head of search spam, announced at SMX West today that their Panda algorithm will soon be more integrated into their overall continuous algorithm updates. Meaning, the Panda refreshes that we have been tracking in detail will start to be less severe and noticeable to…

Google’s Farmer Update Plants User Behavior Seeds

Published on 2011/03/04 By admin

Over the last 10 days, the world of Internet search has swarmed around any source for news on Google’s “Farmer” algorithm change that affected nearly 12% of USA search results. Any company generating its revenue by producing low quality content rushed to wrestle up new rank and ad revenue data and..