This day in search marketing history: March 26
More sites move to Google mobile-first indexing, plus: Google penalizes entire site over one guest blog post, Google Maps logo bomb and more.
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This day in search marketing history: March 25
Google Panda patent granted, plus: Microsoft starts IndexNow push, mobile-friendly update details, AdWords remarketing and more.
This day in search marketing history: March 24
Google’s top 3 search ranking factors, plus: Google Maps blocks abusive business profile edits, Google penalties and more.
This day in search marketing history: March 12
Go inside a Google search quality meeting, plus: Google core search ranking algorithm update, how Google prices and ranks ads and more.
This day in search marketing history: March 11
Google officially acquires DoubleClick, plus: how dates in Google snippets work, nofollowing links, interest-based advertising and more.
This day in search marketing history: March 9
Google's Fred update, plus: people also ask, personalization, Google puts bad merchants on notice and more.
This day in search marketing history: March 1
Google publishes Search quality rating guidelines, plus: Ginny Marvin joins Google, AdWords Price Extensions, click fraud and more.
This day in search marketing history: February 28
R.I.P., DMOZ, plus: Multifaceted featured snippets, Google's non-answer on CTR, voice search ranking factors and more.
This day in search marketing history: February 27
Google Panda Update 3.3 and Venice, plus: GSC domain properties, Google Scraper Report, XML sitemaps change and more.
This day in search marketing history: February 25
SEOs upset over Google featured snippets, plus: Google's red Slow label, Google Panda fallout, PageRank 301 redirect dilution myth and more.
This day in search marketing history: February 24
Google unleashes the Panda update, plus: E-A-T patent, AMP Top Stories, Overstock's Google penalty, optimize by conversions and more
This day in search marketing history: February 23
Google penalizes Natural News, plus: Google AdSense separates YouTube earnings, BrightEdge acquires Oncrawl, florist war on AdWords and more.
This day in search marketing history: February 11
Yahoo officially rejects Microsoft, plus: passage ranking goes live, Google's SEO consulting services, Google Japan's link penalty and more.
This day in search marketing history: February 9
Google Buzz launches, plus: Bing Ads outage, Google search time capsule, Adwords yellow ads return, Yahoo rejecting Microsoft and more
This day in search marketing history: February 1
Bing accused of copying Google's search results, plus: Microsoft tries to buy Yahoo, about this result, fake locksmith issues and more.
This day in search marketing history: January 31
Google releases URL Inspection Tool API, plus: AdWords IF functions, Page Speed Update confusion, local paid inclusion and more.
This day in search marketing history: January 30
Jumpshot shuts down, plus: Google publishes featured snippet guide, Universal Search expands, local reviews in Google search and more.
This day in search marketing history: January 28
Featured snippets introduced, plus: Hamlet Batista passes away, Google buys DeepMind, Google ad labeling and more.
This day in search marketing history: January 27
Google AdWords API launches, plus: PAA vs. featured snippets, Google hiring an SEO, Expanded Text Ads findings and more.
This day in search marketing history: January 26
LinkedIn Ads launches, plus: holiday retail insights, crappy results, Google Panda 3.2, sitemap testing, DuckDuckGo and more.
This day in search marketing history: January 22
Google deduplicates featured snippets, plus: Facebook and Twitter signals, blacklisting domains, Wikipedia nofollows links and more.
This day in search marketing history: January 14
What happened when we turned off AMP, plus: Shopify's chat bug, comment spam, mobile first, missing tweets and more.
This day in search marketing history: January 13
Google's Matt Cutts search integrity tour, plus: core updates, Carol Bartz becomes Yahoo CEO, Baidu censors Google and more.
This day in search marketing history: January 12
Google Panda becomes a core ranking signal, plus: R.I.P. link command, Google Japan’s PageRank penalty expires and more.
This day in search marketing history: January 5
Google AdWords introduces click-to-call ads, plus: IndexNow WordPress plugin, AdWords 2x budget change, search being solved and more.
This day in search marketing history: January 4
Rap Genius gets out of Google jail, plus: how Rick Santorum made his Google problem worse, Yahoo's new CEO and more
This day in search marketing history: January 3
Why Google penalized Google Chrome, plus: DuckDuckGo launches Donttrack.us, Google challengers, Google newspaper ads and more.
This day in search marketing history: January 2
Google uses paid links and thin content to promote Chrome, plus: why people click on search ads, search quality raters guidelines and more.
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Twitter removes nofollow attribute from links in tweets
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Google demotes libelous content in search through its predatory sites algorithms
Google will continue to try to surface high quality, relevant content while downgrading sites that attempt to exploit peoples' reputations.
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Millions of fake Google Maps listings hurt real business and consumers
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Local SEOs mixed, some peeved at idea of paying for Google My Business services
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SearchCap: Twitter in Google search, PPC ad scripts & more
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