However, not only does asking or requiring links for the review come off as confrontational and like you are trying to influence the news, it also is against Google's Webmaster Guidelines. Hell, the FTC even updated its guidelines to include...
Work with members one on one to achieve these personal goals; and make sure they are all written down somewhere each of you can access them, such as Trello or on Google Drive. Then, make sure these goals are written somewhere, such as a white board...
With this in mind, your content must be that which serves an informational, resourceful and captivating intent for which it meets Google Quality Guidelines but also would gain the sharing of it by your users socially and hopefully the attainment...
For many years, Matt Cutts of Google has been providing a lot of helpful information on search engine optimization (SEO). With social, we watch everything – Facebook, Twitter, Quora, LinkedIn, Google+ and so on.
Google continued its clamp down of third party tools that 'scrape data' from Google. For many this signified a tipping point and choice between scraping or having access to the Google adwords API. The irony that Google itself scrape the web was not...
Google has always claimed to be able to find networks of bad links (link farms, etc) algorithmically, although many in the SEO community suspect that detecting bad neighborhoods is more of a manual task in all but the most blatant of cases.
Can they bump your site from its glorious placements in Google and send it to page 10 hell? Finally, in just the past two weeks and after x bad links pointed at his site he indeed got the notice from Google that his link profile was full of stinky...
In the past few months Google has really upped the game in terms of manually and algorithmically adjusting for what they deem to be artificially inflated or “over-optimized” online marketing tactics. Certainly you can select your preferred URL...
How many steps have we taken, often reluctantly, pulled kicking and screaming by Google at times, since then? In the past four years or so, we’ve seen varying levels of hysteria over Google Suggest (later renamed Autocomplete), Search Options...
To call attention to two bills that would result in massive web censorship and hurt American businesses, Google today has carried through on its promise to protest the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and Protect IP Act (PIPA) by blacking out its...
And I can still remember when and where I heard about Google (winter of 1999, in the computer lab at college). Google has cornered the web and the only thing that's missing is the ISP service (but seeing as they own your browser and possibly your...
If the above doesn't apply, then maybe it's just a matter of time before Google cracks down even further, giving no weight to those spammy backlinks. Fast forward eight months and Google has made two major changes to its algorithm -- first to...
Google Maps Easter Eggs Upon hearing that Stephen Colbert asked Siri to 'write the show' for him, because he had been playing with the voice recognition technology so much that he had forgotten to script his own show, I thought to myself, "hell...
Important note: this is against Google Webmaster Guidelines and, in rare cases, can result in website penalties or bans) Payout 1: When keyword ranks on Page 2 of Google Payout 2: When keyword ranks on Page 1 of Google
Taking links from the Google home page off the table, what would your ideal link be? Maybe we all need to dream bigger – in links, in content, hell, in life. As kids, we’d start crafting our Christmas lists at some point in August.
One of our stated goals in the Search Engine Watch redesign was to increase traffic from Google News in order to establish ourselves as an authoritative publication on the search marketing industry. Google News is optimization is fundamentally...
Most use or know about Google’s AdWords Keyword Tool nowadays. When using Google's keyword tool, make sure you select “Exact Match” (from the left navigation) so that you can get a sense of how many monthly searches are performed using that...
Apply them to Google Insights. CTR data in your Google Webmaster Tools account. Run your top campaign keyword terms through the Google AdWords tool, export and review the by-month breakdown of search volume trends.
Google Sites, driven primarily by video viewing at YouTube.com, ranked as the top online video content property in August with 162 million unique viewers. Or perhaps that why Google was among the top bidders trying to buy Hulu?
If Google+ is able to draw Facebook users over to their platform and offer benefits for businesses at the same time, they’re going to give Facebook a run for their money in the social sharing = big business economy.
