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New Negative SEO Hurts Google Rankings… Without Using Backlinks

December 9, 2014 at 4:30 am PST By Jennifer Slegg

New Negative SEO Hurts Google Rankings… Without Using Backlinks

Bartosz Góralewicz recently posted a case study where two different sites seem to be impacted by negative SEO. But the big difference with these negative SEO attacks is they were done without the use of any backlinks.  Something was seriously wrong with two of my clients’ sites. They weren’t suffering from Panda or Penguin issues. […]

Google Considering Alerts for CMS, Template & Plugin Vulnerabilities

December 9, 2014 at 4:25 am PST By Jennifer Slegg

Google Considering Alerts for CMS, Template & Plugin Vulnerabilities

Google webmaster tools is soliciting feedback from users who are using either a content management system or a template on the website, and if they would want an alert for issues related to these showing up in their Google Webmaster Tools account. They are giving multiple options for webmasters to choose from. That my CMS […]

Find Older or Specific Posts with New Facebook Search

December 9, 2014 at 4:19 am PST By Jennifer Slegg

Find Older or Specific Posts with New Facebook Search

Do you ever see a post on Facebook that you mean to go and look at again or click through on the link, but when you check again, the news feed is refreshing you cannot find it?  Facebook has finally added a new search function that allows Facebook users to search for keywords in recent […]

YouTube Allows Users To Check Copyrighted Songs Status Before Uploading

December 9, 2014 at 4:07 am PST By Jennifer Slegg

YouTube Allows Users To Check Copyrighted Songs Status Before Uploading

YouTube’s filters that they have in place to prevent copyrighted music from being used in video by the non-copyright holder is getting a change. Previously, users would need to upload their video before they would learn if the video would be removed, if the video would be muted by YouTube, or if the copyright holder […]

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