Blocking bots from a mobile site is a dated strategy and can actual hurt you when users search for a mobile version of your site. So how can you build a site that addresses current and future cross-media challenges?
Google has removed ad blocking app Adblock Plus from the Google Play store. So, why has Google pulled ad blocking apps? In simple terms, Google basically said that ad blocking apps stop it from making money.
Publishers want to make sure annotations end up where the publisher intended rather than blocking text or images. If annotation frames are created using the tablet screenshot as a guide when the consumer views the catalog on a desktop the larger...
Blocking sections of the site in the robots.txt is a completely viable way to hang on to content that serves on-site users but that doesn’t, or doesn’t really need to, rank. In the last year, Google really changed the game.
If there is a problem such as a negative keyword blocking your ads or bidding too low for a keyword, this tool will help you find those issues to make those changes quickly. Whether you're a seasoned online marketing veteran or new to the industry...
Iran is said to be blocking YouTube in protest of a recent anti-Islam video posted on the video-sharing site. Iranian officials have unblocked Gmail services for the country's citizens, Reuters reported.
Media magnate Rupert Murdoch has backed down from blocking Google and says that he will let the search engine index his newspapers. Murdoch went to war with the search giant over how and when it peers into his content, going so far as to call it "a...
These are severe issues and so when conducting your technical SEO audit make sure you create a checklist of all these items to ensure that none of these technologies or scripts are blocking crawlers from indexing pages on your site.
Simply select page or directory, enter the URL and click on either of the block buttons depending on whether you’re blocking it from just the cache or completely. If you don't yet have a Bing Webmaster Tools (BWT) account, now is the perfect time...
With a handy work timer and site blocking tools, you can more effectively regulate your intellectual indulgences. But how, why, when and who should use them? What follows is a list of some helpful link building tools you can use day in and day out...
There's tons of information about the robots.txt file available at the Web Robots Pages, including the proper usage of the disallow feature, and blocking "bad bots" from indexing your website. When it comes to SEO, most people understand that a...
You might be wondering at this point if the "Do Not Track" initiative will mean that via browsers offering an easier way of managing (read: blocking) cookies, compliance can be achieved. This was the date on which the EU Privacy Directive, which...
In 2010, Google settled their AdWords discrimination complaint with French authorities, agreeing to conditions that saw changes to their policies on blocking certain advertisers from purchasing sponsored links.
A look into the long tail of your negative list can reveal areas where the weeding-out of bad traffic may now be blocking some potentially profitable traffic. There is truth in the cliché “good is the enemy of great.
On Google’s October 2010 settlement of their AdWords dispute with French authorities over their practice of blocking specific advertisers from buying sponsored links, the New York Times had reported that Google "also agreed to apply 'the principle...
And remember, link salvagers, you're not only recovering lost link equity here, but blocking competitive off site link salvage experts from capitalizing on your squandered links. Link equity salvage is the process of finding and redirecting your...
Blocking off the road, cutting the phone lines, tearing up the map.none of these are logical solutions for getting rid of the problem you’d like to keep hidden at the end of that road. An anonymous plaintiff claims to have lost his job and suffered...
A third revision is coming to the browser extension, as user testing highlighted an issue where many sites were not compatible with Volunia due to the common practice of blocking other services from framing content.
Denmark’s controversial CP blocking program came under fire again, as the mistake exposed a number of flaws in the way the service is managed. That a single clerical error could result in the blocking of thousands of innocent websites is worrisome...
A second Apple software engineer points to an important concern: “By the way, it may be that the weakened third-party cookie blocking is too weak to have at all. The search giant used a bit of code to “trick” Safari into thinking users had...
