Google has added new translation features, making it easy to edit translation search terms, change languages or hear the translations directly within search.
Going off a tip from @WilliamHarvey, when searching the word “translate,” Google now delivers a quick search option for entering text or choosing the translation...
Thursday, 17 July 2014
Wednesday, 21 May 2014
Official: Google Payday Loan Algorithm 2.0 Launched: Targets “Very Spammy Queries”
Google has confirmed they have released a new algorithm update to their Payday Loan Algorithm update over this weekend.
This algorithm specifically targets “very spammy queries” and is unrelated to the Pandaor Penguin algorithms. A Google spokesperson told us:
Over the weekend we began rolling...
Tuesday, 13 May 2014
Google’s Matt Cutts Regrets Not Acting Faster On Paid Links & Content Farms
In Google’s Matt Cutts latest video, he answers a question I personally asked about what he regrets, what decision he regrets making in the past related to webspam. My question specifically was:
Was there a key moment in your spam fighting career where you made a mistake that you regret, related to spam?
Matt answered it in than four minutes explained he regrets not acting sooner on (1) paid links and (2) content farms.
Google’s Paid Links Regret
Matt explained that several years ago at a search conference in...
Wednesday, 2 April 2014
Google’s Matt Cutts April Fools Video: No We Won’t Stop Changing; While Shirt Constantly Changes
If you didn’t have enough April Fools day fun today, here is one more for you.
In today’s video from Matt Cutts, Matt answered a real question from Dave in the UK, who asked, “When will Google stop updating its search results?” The answer was never! And to prove his point, Matt animated his shirt...
Thursday, 27 March 2014
Google Says Don’t Delete Your Disavow File Prior To Uploading A New One
Yesterday, Matt Cutts, Google’s head of search spam, posted an interesting tip to SEOs around disavow file submissions.
He said that you should not delete or remove the original disavow file when uploading a new one. He said instead, upload the new one, which will replace the old disavow file. The reason he said was...
Wednesday, 26 March 2014
Five Days Later, It Looks Like Google Has Penalized Web Design Library For Selling Links
We all saw this one coming: Web Design Library, the website that was using Twitter to renew paid links last week, appears to have earned a Google penalty.
While I was researching last week’s article, I saw the site ranking at No. 8 for the term web design. Today, I’m seeing it at No. 48 for that same...
BrandVerity Offers Feedback From Google, Bing On Paid Search Trademark Complaints
Brands aiming to protect themselves from trademark infringement in paid search are often met with white noise after they submit complaints to the search engines. They typically aren’t told if any action was taken — and even more frustrating, if no action was taken and/or why.
To help solve this problem, BrandVerity...
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