It controls for devices that aren't fully detected by Google Analytics by excluding screens with a 0x0 pixel dimension, which is the case for devices prone to detection issues. Google Analytics user agent detection can be thrown off by the...
That said, I fully expect they will be working on automated detection for these types of sellers. If you have bought so-called “clean” links that pass PageRank, you might want to take a closer look to see if those links are still actually clean and...
They want to roll out a next generation of hacked detection, as well as being able to notify webmasters better. Here are nine search and SEO changes webmasters will likely see – although, as always, Cutts warns nothing is set in stone and it should...
Dynamic serving –same URL, different HTML via device detection on server. So how can you build a site that addresses current and future cross-media challenges? In the jam-packed Next Generation Site Architecture session at SES New York last week...
Well, take a whiff from Google's Aromabase and its whopping 15M+ scentibytes collected by StreetSense vehicles and Android Ambient Odor Detection. Smells like April Fools' Day. You know, immature and cheesy, with a quick, bright finish.
In addition, many vendors will offer the ability to go beyond traditional tracking capabilities, with cool JSON or jQuery features such as broken link detection, mobile screen orientation and more. As I wrote in my web analytics 2012 year in review...
An update to Google’s spam detection algorithms will grow the number of reviews appearing on some Google+ Local pages. And Google has shared some advice with reviewers, business owners, and SEO professional on how to keep reviews from being deleted.
Use a copy detection and attribution service like www.tynt.com or a script such as the ones created by Adam Dimech This continues to be true in 2013. What has changed over the years is the degree of risk associated with operating outside of the...
As a matter of fact, Google’s four other spam initiatives beyond Panda and Penguin addressed two instances of site quality adjustments, keyword stuffing and hacked page detection. Many search marketers have fixated on Panda and Penguin updates from...
While Facebook has assured that they will improve spam detection, as a result of a startup alleging 80 percent of their traffic was sent from bots, we might begin to feel skeptical of these online communities – these systems.
This is where Bing is going to communicate with you, any issues they need to inform you of, from malware detection to crawl speed concerns will be here. Like Google Webmaster Tools (GWT), Bing's Webmaster Tools provides some great data for...
For mobile-specific rendering, leverage mobile detection scripts and responsive web design media queries. Optimization tactics are intended to boost conversion, improve PPC quality scores, and provide a better user experience.
The websites try to avoid detection by Google's Safe Browsing service by adopting several techniques, such as "rapidly changing their location through free web hosting, dynamic DNS records, and automated generation of new domain names".
It's a testament to how poor Google's spam detection algorithms actually are that prior tactics were even rewarded. Like many webmasters affected by the Google Penguin update, Trent Harbour of Berkeyshop.com needed to find out why his site had...
I could write a whole article on the how to’s and not to’s of the m.site, such as don’t force your users to such a site using such aggravating tricks as device detection redirects and not allow them to go to your standard site.
Spam detection using historical factors Have a look. Google Penalty or Algorithm Change: Dealing With Lost Traffic – Explains the difference between penalties, filers and dampeners (as well as things you can do).
Knowing Google and Bing’s IP addresses can be helpful if using IP detection as a method for identifying and stopping bad crawlers. It was previously known that Google would send messages notifying a site owner if their site was pointing to what...
Such updates and events include Panda, the notice of death detection and a Penguin web spam algorithmic update. In the past few months Google has really upped the game in terms of manually and algorithmically adjusting for what they deem to be...
Most of my clients however, had already built mobile content on a mobile subdomain (m.or subdirectior (.m), so we had to set up user-agent detection and redirection on all desktop pages, and then work with canonical tags to ensure that the search...
Google claims it has cut in half the number of so-called "bad ads" being displayed across its networks, thanks to a combination of new technologies and improved detection methods to stop fraudulent services being offered.
