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Jennifer Slegg
2014
Google Starts Penalizing Sites for Rich Snippet Spam
Google is going after websites that misuse structured data markup. The new penalty affects websites that violate Google's rich snippets…
Google Adds 1,000+ New Categories to Places Dashboard
Google is making some new changes to Google’s Places for Business in order to make it easier for users to…
Yahoo Wants Back in the Search Game
Yahoo is rumored to be planning a return to search – both organic and paid. CEO Marissa Mayer has reportedly…
AdWords Patent Infringement Costs Google Big Money
The court in Virginia has ordered Google to pay a royalty for all AdWords advertising revenue to Vringo for patent…
Matt Cutts: Using Article Directories for Links? Just No
If somehow you're still using article directories as a link building tactic in 2014, just don't. In his latest webmaster…
Link Network Buzzea Calls Google Penalty ‘Abusive’
It's been a few weeks since Google's Matt Cutts publicly announced the demise of the link networks (remember Backlinks.com and…
Pinterest Interests: New Tool Delivers Personalized Pin Recommendations
Pinterest Interests is designed to make it easier for pinners to explore topics they are most interested in and find…
Google & Bing Agree: Past SEO Success Guarantees You Nothing Today
Google's Matt Cutts and Bing's Duane Forrester have weighed in on the topic of why older domains that have had…
Matt Cutts: Facebook, Twitter Social Signals Not Part of Google Search Ranking Algorithms
Says Cutts: "As far as doing special specific work to say 'you have this many followers on Twitter' or 'this…
Google Webmaster Tools Updates Crawl Error Reports
The new crawl error reports will make it easier for webmasters to track down crawl errors, why they are happening,…