In certain fields, industries, and technologies, change is an integral characteristic. In these fields, keeping up with current trends and whirlwind changes is the key to success. SEO is one of these areas. As 2014 is nearing its end, savvy marketers are looking ahead to see what SEO changes the New Year will bring. SEO […]
Publishers in Spain Ask Government to Force Google News to Return & Force Google to Pay
Publishers in Spain want the Spanish government to force Google News to reopen their service in the country. Google made the decision to close Google News in Spain as well as to remove all Spanish publishers from all other editions of Google News. Because of the Spanish government’s new law, which comes into effect in […]
Google AdWords No Longer Allowing Credit Cards for Large Customer Sales Advertisers
Kirk Williams tweeted to the #ppcchat Twitter group an incredible change that is hitting the largest Google AdWords customers – they will no longer be able to use credit cards to pay their AdWords accounts, but must move to an invoicing system. It’s no secret that many people take advantage of cash back and air […]
Google to Close Engineering Offices in Russia Due To New Internet Data Laws
Google is planning to shut down their engineering offices in Russia by the end of the year, due to restrictive new data laws that come into effect in the new year. Earlier this year, Russia passed a variety of Internet laws, including some that governed the storage of data by Internet companies. Any company that […]
5 Google Plus Posting Tricks You Probably Didn’t Know
Google Plus is a great content marketing and relationship building platform (even though we may be uncertain about its future). I’ve had lots of success connecting to people on Google Plus and building additional exposure to my content. Over time I’ve discovered some less known Google Plus posting tricks which I am sharing today! 1. […]
Google To Close Google News in Spain & Remove Spanish Publishers from all Google News Versions
With many news publishers trying to get money out of Google for linking it to their content from Google News, Google has been playing hardball. When German publishers demanded that they get paid for the use of their thumbnails and snippets within Google News, Google simply linked to just the titles, and it only took […]
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
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 […]
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 […]
Google Testing New Mortgage Calculator Answer Box
Anyone who is marketing financial services online should be concerned with a new Google test. Google is now displaying a very large mortgage calculator that appears directly under the top AdWords ads that appear on the page. This calculator, in such a prominent position, will result in many websites that offer calculators to lose clickthroughs to […]