Publishers’ Google ad-tech antitrust claims clear a major legal hurdle
A judge’s ruling keeps publishers’ antitrust claims alive, preserving their path to seek potentially billions in damages from Google.
Topic: Daily Mail
BuzzSumo: The definitive guide
A complete guide to the popular content marketing tool, BuzzSumo. Includes a detailed tutorial and lots of "pro tips".
Digital PR examples: 13 powerful campaigns and strategies that work
Building brand authority can be just as important as backlinks for SEO. Here are 13 effective ways to use digital PR to gain visibility, rankings, and traffic.
Google’s ad tech monopoly remedies trial begins
The DOJ’s ad tech remedies trial could crack open Google’s dominance of programmatic ads, reshaping transparency across the open web.
Search, social and video: Evolving digital PR for 2025
See how social-first content, brand mentions, and video are driving a fundamental shift in 2025’s search and engagement strategies.
Google’s Top stories looks broken: Are news publishers to blame?
International publishers are overtaking local news brands in Google's Top stories, raising questions about search relevance.
Daily Mail publisher introduces new social-first video ads
DMG Media manages the video production process to ensure the ads can stand alone as independent content pieces.
PPC 2023 in review: UA sunsets, Google antitrust trial, X’s downfall and more
If you expected a boring year, you were wrong. Let's explore the most significant changes and updates in PPC that happened in 2023.
Daily Mail ‘set to sue’ Google over Bard copyright issues
Google is accused of illegally taking hundreds of thousands of the newspaper's articles to train its ChatGPT rival, Bard.
Turn the beat around: Over half a million new businesses opened in Q1 2021; Thursday’s daily brief
Plus, Microsoft Advertising announces new products and features
Google Sept. 2019 Core Update ‘weaker’ than June core update
A detailed look at the early impact from the latest Google core update.
The line between subdomain leasing and alternative revenue strategy
How search engines handle subdomain leasing may carry implications for all businesses.
Daily Mail SEO says site lost big after June Google update, asks community for help
The site appears to have been hit hard by the Google's June core search algorithm update.
UK Paper Argues Right To Be Forgotten Being Abused In Some Cases
While the majority of Right to Be Forgotten (RTBF) take-down requests in Europe do not seek to conceal criminal misdeeds, the UK-based Daily Mail argues that in some cases it’s being abused by those trying to suppress criminal records. The publication cites several egregious examples where criminals have had links successfully removed: Examples of links […]
Report: Last Week’s Google Update Benefited News & Magazine Web Sites
Maybe the Google Trends update from last week is also used in Google's latest algorithmic update from last week? New SearchMetrics report shares some data around that.
Loch Ness Monster Google Logo Marks 81st Anniversary Of Famously Hoaxed Loch Ness Photograph
Google Doodle offers theory of how the "Surgeon's Photo" came to be, while Google Maps lets you keep searching for the legendary monster.
The EU’s Right To Be Forgotten Is A Mess & How Google’s Making It Worse
“The road to hell is paved with good intentions,” the saying goes. There are plenty of good intentions with the EU’s Right To Be Forgotten mandate, as well as Google’s attempt to meet new obligations under it. Things are still going to hell regardless. Thanks to the new right, the EU has helped enable convicted […]
Google In Trouble Again Over Racist Search Suggestions In UK
Is Google Suggest (autocomplete) simply a mirror held up to society; or is it a product that needs to be censored and regulated to protect us from potentially offensive and objectionable content — even defamation? In the latest row over Google Suggest, the company has removed racist and other offensive autocomplete entries in the UK. […]
Bing Adds Warnings To Child-Porn Related Queries In UK; Google Rejects The Idea
Bing has added new pop-up alerts that are triggered when people search for terms considered to be related to child porn, according to the BBC, in reaction to the UK’s prime minister attacking Google, Bing & Yahoo over not doing enough to stop child pornography. But Google has reportedly rejected the idea of warnings. Microsoft told the […]
Which Ad Network?
Choosing which ad network you join can be quite overwhelming. Each one will offer you the moon, so how do you decide which one to trust? Unfortunately, the answer isn’t as simple as us just pointing at the best one and telling you to go with them. You see, there are more ad networks out […]
Kadafi, Gaddafi, Qaddafi: In The Age Of Search, News Publications Still Struggle With Libya Leader’s Name
A decades-old dispute involving Libya remains unresolved. How do news organizations spell the name of Libya’s leader, Muammar Gaddafi? The exact spelling has a bigger impact these days, where people search for news. Use the wrong spelling, and your story might go missing. Can search tell us the “right” one? More below.
Virgin Mary, Baby Jesus “Seen” On Google Maps
From company logos to swastikas, marriage proposals and other messages, you can find some very unique images in Google Maps. And now, according to some construction workers in England, you can also find a vision of the Virgin Mary holding baby Jesus. That’s a close-up of what Google Maps shows at a construction site along […]
Robots.txt Recruiter: Daily Mail Uses Robots.txt File To Find SEO
Malcolm Coles spotted that the Daily Mail, one of the UK’s largest papers, changed their robots.txt file to include a line which reads: # August 12th, MailOnline are looking for a talented SEO Manager so if you found this then you’re the kind of techie we need!# Send your CV to holly dot ward at […]
Dead Girl On Google Street View? No, Just A Game
Imagine clicking through your neighborhood’s Google Street View photos and finding this: If you think you’re looking at the body of a dead girl, so did people who live on Middle Road in Worcester, England. But, as the Daily Mail reports, it’s just a ten-year-old named Azura Beebeejaun who happened to be “playing dead” with […]
Google Blasted By Mother Of Naked Boy On Google Maps
The Manchester Evening News reported that a UK mother was incredibly upset with Google after finding her 3-year-old son naked on Street View imagery within Google Maps. The image has been removed, but when it was there, the license plate and faces were blurred out, but not the little boy. An hour after Google was […]