Marketing News & Consulting
Last week, I reported on Google’s takedown of AngloRank, a supposedly solid link network used by black hats to boost their sites. It was amusing to follow AngloRank’s sales thread on BlackHatWorld, because Matt Cutts’ proud Tweet announcing the torch was actually seen as free publicity and the network saw an increased interest in their […]
On January 15th 2013, Facebook planted it’s so called “third pillar” of it’s social network empire, “social” search…
If you’ve become accustomed to seeing your charming mug in the SERPs when you are Google’ing your keywords, it might be rather unsettling to see those images suddenly disappear…
Google has been busy in 2013, retiring the old Offline Conversions APIs, and beginning a new Offline Conversions import service…
Afraid of the iOS 6 upgrade because you love Google Maps? Well the waiting is over…
It seems strange to say but, for those old enough to remember, there was a time when internet searches were not dominated by Google. Prior to its arrival, the one time alpha and omega of search engines was Alta Vista (founded in 1995). One can still find Alta Vista (resurrected by Yahoo) bravely hanging on […]
Google’s YouTube service has just launched it’s third Creator Space studio, this time in Playa Del Rey, Los Angeles. The 41,000-square-foot aircraft hangar was formerly used by the US Army for making helicopters in the Vietnam years, and it was the assembly point for the famous Hughes H-4 Hercules transport plane in World War II. […]
This is my final installment on my overview of the New Webmaster Guidelines. My first post covered Design & Content the second part covered Technical Guidelines.
This is part 2 of an in depth look at the newly revised Webmaster Guidelines from Google. Google has recently updated their list of best practices and suggestions for site development. To give your site the best chance of ranking well, and to keep a competitive edge, the Google guidelines should be read like the […]