Goodbye Matt Cutts?

Back on July 3, 2014 Google’s Head Of Search Quality And Keeping SEO’s And Website Owners Placated (I don’t think that’s his official title šŸ˜‰ went on leave. In his blog post on the subject he noted that it was time off to make good on a promise to his wife. He told her when […]

SEO News for Oct 27-Oct 31

Duane Forrester Leaving Bing After almost four years Duane Forrester, senior product manager and webmaster ambassador for Bing, will be leaving Microsoft as a result of its recent round of layoffs Read More >> Googleā€™s Larry Page Hands Over Leadership Roles to Sundar Pichai Larry Page transferred the leadership roles of Googleā€™s Search, Google+ and […]

This Week in Search: Sept 29-Oct 3, 2014

Google To Release Penguin 3.0 Next Week? Search Engine Land reported yesterday from SMX East that Google Webmaster Trends Analyst, Gary Illyes has suggested the long awaited Penguin 3.0 may launch as early as next week! Illyes stated that the launch will not be a simple refresh but rather a new algorithm altogether. Webmasters who […]

Top SEO News From Around The Web: Sept 15-19

New Android and Apple operating systems to be encrypted by default In light of recent privacy issues both Apple and Google have announce this week that they will introduce default encryption on the next versions of their operating systems. Read the full story > Android Browser bug exposes half of users to potential malware attacks […]

Matt Cutts Talks About Ranking Content Without Links

In the latest Google Webmasters video, Google’s Matt Cutts addresses the question ā€œHow can content be ranked if there aren’t any links pointing to it?ā€ Matt goes on to talk about how Google looks at the content of pages that don’t have any external links pointing to them; taking into consideration the frequency of keywords […]

DuckDuckGo Launches Beta Redesign

In the wake of controversy over tracking and data privacy concerns launched at some of the major search engine players, underdog search engine DuckDuckGo has come out with a beta version of their new design interface. The new design includes contextual features such as images, videos, a knowledge graph-esque information box, instant answers and more. […]