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Content Free: 25 Percent Of Google+ Reviews Are “Empty”
Investment firm Piper Jaffray has started tracking and comparing Google+ and Yelp reviews. For its inaugural report, the firm looked at a...
Google’s Matt Cutts: Why Google Will Ignore Your Page Title Tag & Write Its Own
Google’s Matt Cutts posted a video answer on the question about why and when Google will ignore your title tag and use something else for...
Why Yahoo’s Not Going To Steal The Search Default For iPhone Away From Google
Apparently, Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer wants to be the default search for Apple’s Safari browser on iPhone and iPad and has been preparing to...
More April Fools: Everything From Tools To Make Your Video Viral To Free Nexus Phones
Yesterday, our editor in chief Matt McGee found a number of Google April Fools jokes already in play, including a Google Maps Pokemon challenge...
Google’s April Fools’ Day Jokes For 2014: Google Maps Pokémon Challenge, Magic Hand & More
Is it just me, or does it seem like Google starts celebrating April Fools’ Day earlier and earlier every year? No company on the web...
How A Single Guest Post May Have Gotten An Entire Site Penalized By Google
Google made it clear earlier this year that those doing guest posts “for SEO purposes” might be subject to penalties. But the latest...
Nearly A Year Later, Google’s Penalty Notices Remain Confusing
Nearly a year after Google’s Matt Cutts told us penalty notifications will get clearer, including more actual examples of what a problem...
Google Penalizes Italian & Spanish Link Networks
As promised, Google has taken manual action to penalize link networks in Italy and Spain. It was just four days ago that Google warned...
Google Working On A Softer & Gentler Panda Algorithm To Help Small Businesses
Google’s head of search spam, Matt Cutts, announced at Search Marketing Expo that his search team is working the “next...
Google To Publishers Concerned Over The Knowledge Graph; Searchers Still Need Your Content
In the keynote session last night at Search Marketing Expo West, Google’s head of search, Amit Singhal tried to address the concern of...
Live Blog: Head Of Google Search Amit Singhal Keynote At SMX West 2014
Good evening/afternoon (or early morning for our European readers!) from sunny San Jose, Calif., where day one of our SMX West conference is...
BrightEdge Uses SEO Patents As “Sword,” Sues Searchmetrics
Oh no they didn’t: BrightEdge has sued rival Searchmetrics using multiple SEO patents, which were granted last year. The concern being...
Matt Cutts Video: How Google Determines What’s A Paid Link
Google head of search spam Matt Cutts released a pretty detailed video discussing the Google webspam team’s criteria for determining...
Tweet Showing How Google Itself Is A “Scraper Site” Goes Massively Viral
Perhaps it’s SEO’s “Oreo moment,” a tweet relating to search engine optimization that’s gained nearly as much...
Someone Outranking You With Your Own Content? Use The New Google Scraper Report
One of the most frustrating experiences for any publisher is discovering that someone not only has copied your content but outranks you on...
FOX Partners With Google To Allow Voting For American Idol On Google’s Search Results
FOX and Google have partnered to enable American Idol fans to vote for the finalists directly in the Google search results. That means you no...
Welcome Martin Beck, Who Joins Third Door Media From The Los Angeles Times
We’ve grown again! Third Door Media, the company that produces Search Engine Land and Marketing Land, is excited to welcome Martin Beck to...
Ray Kurzweil’s Job At Google: Beat IBM’s Watson At Natural Language Search
If Ray Kurzweil is right, computers will be smarter than humans 15 years from now. It’s called “technological singularity” and...
Everything’s Not Awesome: Google News Spammed With Pitch To Watch “The Lego Movie” For Free
It’s definitely not what you expect to make the top of a Google News section, a crappy article promising that you can watch The Lego Movie...
Google Says (Some) Missing Features Will Be Added To New Google Maps
Google took its new Maps site out of beta this week, but many users noticed that some of their favorite features from Classic Maps were missing....
