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Google’s Matt Cutts recently took some time out of his (no doubt) busy day to discuss some of the biggest and most common mistakes a large number of webmasters continue to make with regards to search engine optimization (SEO).
According to Matt, these are the most common mistakes to make and can be easily avoided when ……
In March, Matt Cutts, the head of Google’s web spam fighting team, promised that a Penguin update, designed to more effectively fight spam, was going to be available sometime later this year.
Fast-forward to the beginning of May and Cutts hasn’t disappointed. He has warned webmasters to expect a Penguin “hit” in the “next few weeks”. ……
Google has recently released a new analytics tool to help businesses know just how customers decide to purchase from their website and how long that takes.
What Google has released is called the Customer Journey to Online Purchase and this new interactive tool is revolutionary in how it collects customer habits to better help you serve ……
A new deal between Google and the European Union will not only kept the search engine company from seeing huge antitrust suits but it will also likely keep the consumer watchdogs off their back.
Many competitors have claimed that Google is abusing its dominant market share position across Europe. Now that Google has finally agreed to ……
It seems even Internet browser aren’t safe from Google penalties…
Recent reports say that Google has dished out a penalty to Mozilla.org, the nonprofit site of the organization that provides the Firefox browser. The penalty was for web spam originating from the site, here’s the message the Mozilla team received from Google:
Google has detected user-generated spam ……
When it comes to search engines, Yahoo! has unfortunately been the butt of many an Internet joke lately. As Google and Bing have almost sealed off the search engine market, many experts have speculated as to which direction Yahoo would take. But this is all about to change.
With their recent acquisition of the local search ……
In a recent report from AdGooroo, claims that Google Adwords is a far better advertisement system than the Yahoo!/Bing network were analyzed and produced some surprising results.
This report ticks off a few different metrics that are used to measure the effectiveness of advertising campaigns including overall ad impressions, click through rate, as well as average ……
With catchy domain names becoming slightly harder to find these days, many people are buying old domain names that would seem perfect for them. But, this can often lead to problems.
These domain names are often previously owned by spammers and can have you already on your back foot with your Google ranking before you even ……
Understandably when you search for something online there are those websites that you just don’t want popping up in your results. It would be fantastic if you had some type of control over that no matter what you were searching for.
There once was a feature on Google when you searched for something that would let ……