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SearchCap: Google: News Sites May Have Seen A Decline In GoogleBot Crawling In March

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Google: News Sites May Have Seen A Decline In GoogleBot Crawling In March Google’s Matt Cutts tweeted that news related sites, such as this one, may have noticed a drop in […]

Barry Schwartz on April 8, 2014 at 5:03 pm | Reading time: 7 minutes

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Google: News Sites May Have Seen A Decline In GoogleBot Crawling In March
Google’s Matt Cutts tweeted that news related sites, such as this one, may have noticed a drop in the crawl statistics within Google Webmaster Tools. If you did notice that drop, Matt says you do not need to worry. Google News added if-modified-since support in March, which would be the reason for the crawl changes. […]
AdWords Editor Version 10.4 Arrives With Bid Strategies Support
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Google Places Adds New Features To Its Bulk Location Management Tool
Googler Jade Wang announced yesterday Google Places is rolling out new features to its bulk location management tool. According to the announcement, the new features will include a “Status” column that lets users know if a Map location is live, unverified, has errors, data conflicts, is a duplicate, or if it is pending review. The […]
Hotel Search Upgrade: Google Licenses Room 77 Platform
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PPC Managers: Download Latest Bing Ads Editor To Keep Google Import Function
Microsoft wants to get the word out to Bing Ads Editor users be sure to update to the latest version of Big Ads Editor. As of today, users with versions Bing Ads Editor older than 10.2 will not be able to use the Google AdWords Import function. Today, Google retired an underlying API that powers […]
Invest in You: Attend a Workshop at SMX Advanced
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Google’s Penguin Algorithm Comes In Different Levels Of Degrees?
It may be the case that some sites impacted by Google’s Penguin update may not be as impacted as the next. Meaning, Google’s algorithms may apply a different degree of the Penguin update (which may feel like a penalty) to one site over another. Matt Cutts, Google’s head of search spam, posted on Twitter a […]
How To Massively Scale Ethical Link Building FTW
The linkbuilding toolkit is broader than most commentary suggests, and once the concept of quality and appropriateness (AKA relevancy) is truly embraced (and not just paid lip service to), then the dynamic, cutting edge solution to linkbuilding in 2014 is obvious: scale your processes that generate high quality targets and content opportunities for linkbuilding across the spectrum of all types of linkbuilding.
Google Takes Action On Seven Link Networks In Japan
Google’s head of search spam, Matt Cutts, announced on Twitter this morning that Google has “taken action” on seven different link networks in Japan. Over the past several months, Google has not only been manual taking action against link networks or link schemes in the US, but they have been widening their efforts across the […]
2014 US Search Awards Now Accepting Entries
The US Search Awards are now accepting entries for this year’s awards ceremony scheduled on October 8 in conjunction with Pubcon in Las Vegas. Recognizing US based organizations, agencies and individuals doing search and digital marketing, this is the second annual US Search Awards ceremony. The event will include 20 different award categories, ranging from […]
Google Schema Adds Support For Business Telephone Numbers & Hours Of Operation
Google announced they now support improved schema markup, rich snippets, for location pages. Business Phone Support Schema Google said they now support showing business telephone numbers for customer service, technical support, billing support, and bill payment. For each phone number you markup, you can specify if it is toll-free, suitable for the hearing-impaired, and whether […]
The Big SMX London Preview – A Virtual Tour Of What To Expect
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Google Makes Linking Adwords Accounts Easier With New Bulk Linking Feature
Today Google announced a new bulk linking feature that allows Google Adwords account users to link all of their accounts with a quick click of a button. Google said the new “linking wizard” will be available to anyone who has access to an Adwords MCC (client center) with multiple Adwords Accounts. To use the new […]