This is generally one of their easier reinclusion requests, if you fixed it and updated your site security; Google is likely to return your site to its former position. Reconsideration requests must be submitted in a very specific way, especially...
Google has filed a legal challenge to the U.S.government, demanding the right to reveal more information on the data requests it receives in the latest twist in the PRISM scandal. Since news of PRISM broke earlier this month, tech giants such as...
HARO also posts urgent requests via Twitter. A public relations strategy is a big part of successful search campaigns. Getting your company's brand and employees exposed through media and social channels is incredibly important and can have a...
Before using the Disavow Tool, one is expected to make multiple link removal requests on their own. It has now been 18 days since Penguin 2.0 rolled out on May 22, 2013. In the aftermath of that rollout, webmasters that were affected are now...
We disclose user data to government in accordance with the law, and we review all such requests carefully. In addition we only ever comply with orders for requests about specific accounts or identifiers.
How Should Webmasters Respond to Link Removal Requests? These requests for link removal are probably coming from site owners who have received a manual unnatural links warning from Google. As such, I am probably going to end up sending link removal...
One common issue we see with disavow requests is people going through with a fine-toothed comb when they really need to do something more like a machete on the bad backlinks. Disclaimer: This column contains ideas that advocate radical changes to...
Google Webmaster Tools and / or Google Analytics will expand its reporting to display server data such as calculated server load, server response, page elements' load, consecutive requests and other page, site and server performance metrics...
One common issue we see with disavow requests is people going through with a fine-toothed comb when they really need to do something more like a machete on the bad backlinks. When it comes to Google’s Disavow Tool, there was plenty of speculation...
The dark side of SEO began to cast a wider shadow over the content marketing world with an even steeper rise in blog comment spam, links, and dubious and irrelevant requests to webmasters and blog owners to consider crap guest posts.
Google recently released data that shows government takedown requests by court order are on the rise, and that Google does comply around 45 percent of the time with U.S.requests. In a ruling this week, a German federal court said Google must...
According to YouTube, there are more than 1 million channels generating revenue today, and one of the most frequent requests that the creators behind them make to YouTube is for more flexibility in monetizing and distributing content.
It’s no secret that Google receives thousands of government requests worldwide to takedown content each year, and the search engine reported it doescomply at times. In February, Google filed an appeal in Russia to challenge the censorship of a...
Whether someone purchases a new gadget, or requests additional information about a service that could change their business, or snags a free trial for software that could cure a specific woe – they are in a heightened state of excitement.
The report judged firms based on a number of practices, including publishing regular transparency reports, notifying users of government data requests and lobbying lawmakers for improved user privacy protections.
From July to December 2012 Google received 2,285 government requests to remove content from its platforms, an all-time high. The search giant reported that requests were at 1,811 from January to June 2012.
Google: Disavow Links Even If Removed As A Best Practice – Search Engine RoundtableSays Google's John Mueller: "While it's really important for the web-spam team when processing the reconsideration request to see significant effort put into...
YouTube denied Viacom's allegations, saying that it respects the rights of content owners and complies with takedown requests when it gets them. Google-owned video-sharing site YouTube has handed Viacom yet another loss in the latest round of a...
Comments (If somebody leaves a negative comment you can see which device they had and you can reply to these requests; you couldn't do that before. Increasingly, your audience is spending time interacting with your brand on mobile devices every year.
After getting a ton of user requests for them, we decided to launch ProListing for everyone. SEW spoke with BOTW president and founder Greg Harnett about his company’s upcoming birthday, how the industry has evolved since its founding, and where...
