The New Emphasis On Link Building: What’s Behind It And How To React

There seems to be a fresh interest in link building. Why now? What do the search engines have to say? How should agencies and companies approach link building? Why The New Interest In Link Building? Why are search engine optimizers and agencies more interested in link building again? Because the…

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Study Finds Sweeping KPI Improvements With Switch To Google Shopping Campaigns

The August deadline for converting your Google product listing campaigns (PLA) to the new Shopping Campaigns structure — before Google does it for you — is just a few months away. A new study from CPC Strategy suggests it’s worth making the switch sooner rather than later. CPC…

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How SkyBox Satellite Imagery Might Aid Google’s Offline Conversion Tracking

There’s a report this morning that Google is close to buying satellite imaging company SkyBox. The purchase price is put at roughly $ 1 billion. The deal has yet to be confirmed. The article conjectures that Google wants the company for two potential reasons: More imagery for consumer maps…

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Google Webmaster Tools To Add JavaScript Debugging Tool

Google has announced on the Google Webmaster Central blog that in the “coming days” they will be releasing a new tool to help debug your site’s JavaScript issues. Specifically, Google is going to show you if they have issues crawling and indexing your site because of JavaScript…

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SearchCap: Ripoff Report Returns In Yahoo, Google Shopping Campaigns, Bing Webmaster Roadshow

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Bing Webmaster Roadshow 2014 Takes Search Experts On 4-City Tour This Summer Bing announced today it will be hosting the Bing Webmaster Roadshow 2014 starting…

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Google Hits eBay With Manual Penalty In Search Results

What really happened to eBay dropping in Google’s search results this week? A source familiar with the situation tells Search Engine Land that Google hit eBay with a manual penalty this week. A manual penalty is when a human being at Google reviews a site and decides that it deserves some type of…

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Bing Webmaster Roadshow 2014 Takes Search Experts On 4-City Tour This Summer

Bing announced today it will be hosting the Bing Webmaster Roadshow 2014 starting next month, with stops in four cities including Chicago, Atlanta, Boston and Houston. In partnership with Inc. Magazine, the events will include panel discussions with Message Medium’s Maisha Walker, Bruce Clay…

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Ripoff Report Is Back In Yahoo Australia’s Search Results, But Not Completely

After what we think was about a week of being de-indexed, the controversial Ripoff Report website is showing up again in search results on Yahoo’s Australian website. But a company spokesperson tells us that some URLs are still blocked. Late Wednesday night (May 21), we noticed that a…

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Google Drops Authorship Rich Snippets From Search Results. A Bug?

For the past 20 minutes, if you search anything on Google, the authorship images, where it shows a picture of the individual who wrote the content shown in the Google results, no longer shows up. Here is a picture of what a search results look like with authorship images (was documented yesterday):…

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SearchCap: MetaFilter Filtered By Google, RetailMeNot Debates Panda Reports & Google Drops Authorship

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 Drops Authorship Rich Snippets From Search Results. A Bug? For the past 20 minutes, if you search anything on Google, the authorship images, where it shows…

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