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...
Disavow Tool and Reconsideration Requests When business owners first reach out to me about a Penguin hit, their emails can be hard to get through. You can hear the pain, frustration, and confusion come through in their writing.
The Orabrush brand became so popular that local pharmacy store managers began contacting Orabrush directly, citing requests from customers who had heard about the brand online. The Orabrush success story was told at SES New York 2011.
Google has tried in recent years to provide users with some information on how it deals with government agencies' requests for user data. Google is fighting a National Security Letter (NSL) issued by the U.S.government, with the Electronic Frontier...
Avoid empty img tags, since they create HTTP requests. Gzip HTTP compression, which decreases file transfer size. Boggs started off by saying there is no single needle in the haystack that can help you with the success of your site’s performance...
Most often, the outreach attempt will fail because the person you’re contacting doesn’t know you from Adam, and gets these requests all the time. When I brainstorm with colleagues about their approach to link building, the most common starting...
The new Measurement Protocol allows web developers to send raw uesr interaction data directly to Google Analytics servers using HTTP requests. People use multiple devices and browsers to surf the web.
In our industry, most everyone I know accepts LinkedIn requests from anybody that’s not either an obvious spammer or an MLM marketer (apologies for the redundancy). Like most in our industry, I use my Facebook account for business.
Google has released figures on the number of requests to turn over data made by the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), showing that it receives less than 1,000 requests a year. Google receives thousands of requests from law enforcement...
There's good info about the disavow tool and reconsideration requests, which are again two topics that are greatly argued about and potentially misunderstood. Paddy Moogan is a well-known link builder who works for Distilled.
The PageRank is a 5 and your inbox is inundated with requests for links to relevant websites in your industry. Many of your customers have posted positive reviews on your Google+ page; your email is full of correspondence (after your new video hit...
Retailers can easily add these requests to customer receipts while anyone with a website can add a recommendation box which ties directly to the Facebook page. When people on the go search for businesses, they typically need directions to the...
This means a CDN would be worthless and a surplus of requests would begin hitting a site owner’s server(s). Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 4_1 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/532.9 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0.5 Mobile/8B117 Safari...
Google has followed up last week's transparency report update – which revealed that government requests have risen by 70 percent over the last two years – with a little more information on how it deals with and why it responds to government data...
Twitter's transparency report shows that governmental requests for data have grown over the course of 2012. Governments from around the world made 1,858 requests for Twitter data during the second half of 2012 – up from 849 requests in the first half.
Today, Google released new data in the Transparency Report, showing user data requests received, through which means, and for how many of those requests data was produced and presumably released to the requesting party.
