Google Give Tips For Identifying If Your Site Has Been Hacked, And How To Fix It
A post went up on Google’s official Webmaster Central Blog last night from a representative of the Search Quality Team providing tips for how to...
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Matt G. Southern, Senior News Writer, has been with Search Engine Journal since 2013. With a bachelor’s degree in communications, Matt specializes in gathering details, checking facts, and making complex subjects easy to understand. In addition to writing articles, Matt oversees strategy development for SEJ’s news department.
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Matt Cutts Announces Tool For Reporting Scraped Content Ranking Better Than Original Content
Matt Cutts, Google’s head of search spam, made an announcement on Twitter today about a new tool developed to let Google know when you find...
Twitter To Start Including Promoted Accounts In Search Results
Twitter announced the launch of a new feature today giving Promoted Accounts a more prominent home by including them in search results. Promoted Accounts are an...
Matt Cutts Answers If Content Ranks Better When It’s Easy To Read
Matt Cutts, Google’s head of search spam, answers a question about content writing in his latest Webmaster Help video where a user writes in to...
RSVP for #SEJMeetup @SMX West… Don’t Miss Out
Our second ever #SEJMeetup is happening in San Jose, CA, on day one of the SMX West conference. We’ve booked the Mosaic Restaurant & Lounge (just two blocks from...
Matt Cutts Answers If Google Uses EXIF Data From Pictures As A Ranking Factor
Matt Cutts, Google’s head of search spam, answers a question about image search in his latest Webmaster Help video where a user writes in to...
See Who’s Posting From Your Facebook Page With Facebook’s Latest Feature
Facebook has quietly launched a new feature designed to make Page Managers accountable for their individual posts on a Facebook page. If you’ve ever managed...
Bing Takes A Stance Against Poor Spelling and Grammar, Saying It Will Hurt Rankings
Duane Forrester, Senior Product Manager at Bing, has been publishing a lot of useful blog posts recently with his latest one being how poor spelling...
Google Analytics Data Now Accessible From Your Google+ Page Dashboard
Daniel Waisberg, Analytics Advocate at Google, broke the news on his Google+ page yesterday that Google Analytics data can now be viewed from your Google+...
Google Suggests What Users Should, And Should Not Do, With Google Glass
Google has released an official list of suggestions for what Glass Explorers (early adopters) should and should not do with their Google Glass device. Many have...
LinkedIn’s Blogging Platform Is Now Open To Users, Not Just Influencers
Ryan Roslansky of LinkedIn announced yesterday their publishing platform, which had previously only been available to LinkedIn “influencers”, is now available to regular users. When...
Facebook To Acquire WhatsApp For $19 Billion in Cash and Stock
News broke this evening via a regulatory filing that Facebook is acquiring mobile messenger WhatsApp for $19 Billion in cash and company stock. Specifically, WhatsApp will be...
Matt Cutts Explains What Google Search Would Be Like Without Backlinks As A Ranking Tool
Matt Cutts, Google’s head of search spam, answers a question about backlinks in his latest Webmaster Help video where a user writes in to ask:...
Starbucks & The Economist Admit To Using Google+ Mostly For SEO Benefits
The New York Times published a report last Friday dissecting the benefits of Google+; they believe Google benefits more than its users do, but also highlighted...
Facebook Delaying Launch Of Auto-Playing Video Ads In News Feed
As a follow up to story we published in December announcing the testing of auto-playing video ads in Facebook’s news feed, it may come as...
Klout Acquired By Lithium Technologies For Roughly $100 Million
Online publication Re/code has reported that Klout, the online social influence scoring platform, is set to be sold to social customer service company Lithium Technologies. The deal...
Google Makes Change To Webmaster Guidelines: Don’t Block Ads With Robots.txt
An update has been made to the technical guidelines section of Google’s Webmaster Guidelines that specifically states site owners should not block the Google ads destination...
Google Offers SEO Recommendations For Pages With Infinite Scroll
Pages with infinite scroll are often appreciated by users but not so much by Googlebot, as Google themselves points out in a post published this...
Matt Cutts Explains What A Day In The Life Of A Spam Fighter At Google Is Like
Matt Cutts, Google’s head of search spam, answers a question about what it’s like to fight webspam in his latest Webmaster Help video where a...
Google To Launch New Content Recommendation System For Publishers
Google has plans to launch a new content recommendation system for publishers’ websites as early as next month. Google has already begun pitching this new...
Bing Launches Bitcoin Conversion Tool
Bing announced today they have beaten Google out the gate with the launch of a native Bitcoin conversion tool. Yandex was the first search engine...
Matt Cutts Explains How Comments With Bad Spelling and Grammar Affect A Page’s Ability to Rank
Matt Cutts, Google’s head of search spam, answers a question about spelling and grammar in his latest Webmaster Help video where a user writes in...
Yahoo Improving Local Search Through Partnership With Yelp
In a report published over the weekend by the Wall Street Journal, Yahoo looks to be improving their local search efforts through a partnership with...
Bing Partners With The Hollywood Reporter To Create Ultimate Resource For The Oscars
Just as Bing wants to be your number one destination for Winter Olympics information, they also want to be your primary source for information about...
New Version Of Klout Features Content Curation And Scheduling Tools
Klout just became many times more useful with the launch of an entirely new version of their service that features tools to help you curate...
Bing Getting Into Olympic Spirit With Winter Olympics Search Features And Medal Tracker
If you had to guess which search engine would provide the best experience when searching for information related to the 2014 Winter Olympics, very few...
You are invited….
We’re throwing our second ever #SEJMeetup! This incarnation will take place in San Jose, CA to coincide with the SMX West conference. Please join us on...
Google Sending Warnings To Business Owners: 3 Weeks To Save Their Google Places Listing
Business owners have reported on the Google Business Help forums that they are getting emails from Google with the subject line: “Action Required: You have 3...
Google is Now Showing Large Embedded Videos in Search Results
Next time you do a search for video content, instead of the YouTube results you’re used to seeing you may get a large embedded video...
2014 A Big Year For Google Photos: Adobe Photoshop Veteran Moves To Google Photo Team
Adobe’s John Nack announced on his blog this week that after 14 years with the company he will be leaving Adobe to join Google’s digital...