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...
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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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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...
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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...
Facebook’s News Reader App, Paper, Launches Today on iOS in the US
Facebook Creative Labs have launched their first ever product, a curated visual news reader app called Paper. If you live in the US and own...
Google Places Adds Over 1,000 New Categories For International Business Listings
In an announcement made in a discussion forum thread by Google Business Community Manager, Jade Wang, Google has added a substantial amount of new business...
Save the Date: #SEJMeetup on March 11 @ SMX West!
We’ve scheduled our second ever #SEJMeetup in San Jose, CA to coincide with the SMX West conference. We’ve booked the Mosaic Restaurant & Lounge for Tuesday, March...
Twitter Search Gets Better, More Useful, With New Search Filters
Twitter announced on, of all places, Twitter yesterday that they are bringing new filters to the desktop version of their social network: We’re bringing new...
Matt Cutts Explains Why You Should Not Use Article Directories To Build Links
Matt Cutts, Google’s head of search spam, answers a question about link building in his latest Webmaster Help video where a user writes in to...
Pinterest Makes It Easier to Find Pins with Introduction of ‘Pinterest Interests’
Pinterest is one of the fastest growing and most user friendly social networking sites on the web today, but they’re clearly not satisfied with maintaining...
Google Crushes Yet Another Link Network For Violating Quality Guidelines
Matt Cutts, Google’s head of search spam, made an announcement on Twitter early this morning that action has been taken on another link network: Today...
Google Acquires Artificial Intelligence Company DeepMind For a Reported $400 Million
An artificial intelligence company based in London, England called DeepMind has been acquired by Google for a reported sum of $400 million. The deal was...
Mobile Marketing Taking Over: 65% of Marketing Emails Opened on Mobile Devices in the US
It’s official: Americans are ditching desktops and viewing marketing emails on their smartphones and tablets more than ever, according to new research from Movable Ink. The US Consumer Device...
Matt Cutts Explains How Important Social Media Signals Really Are
Matt Cutts, Google’s head of search spam, answers a question about social media signals in his latest Webmaster Help video where a user writes in...
Google Will Now Adjust Search Filters Based On What You’re Looking For
You may have noticed while searching on Google lately that there are now fewer search filtering options available under the ‘More’ drop down menu, as...
Pinterest Beefs Up Search Capabilities With More Efficient Way To Find Recipes
Pinterest announced on their blog yesterday the launch of new features to make it easier, and more efficient, to find recipes based on your individual...
Facebook to Begin Showing Less Text Posts From Business Pages
In an announcement made today on the Facebook Newsroom blog, an update to the News Feed algorithm is being rolled out that will result in...
Pinterest is Testing the Ability to Pin GIFs
Posting GIFs has proven to be wildly popular on sites like Reddit and Tumblr, soon you might be able to pin GIFs to your favorite...
Google Cracking Down On Bad Advertising Practices, Over 350 Million Ads Removed
Google released a report on their AdWords blog today detailing just how vehemently they are cracking down on “bad actors” who are abusing the online...
Facebook Introduces Trending Topics, Here’s How They Differ From Twitter’s
Facebook recently introduced a new feature to the desktop version of their site that’s a lot like Twitter’s trending topics. Simply called “Trending”, it’s a...
Keyword Rich Domain Names Improving Search Rankings is a Myth, According to Bing
Duane Forrester, Sr. Product Manager of Bing, claims it’s a myth that keyword rich domain names improve search engine rankings in a post published yesterday on...
Google Releases Official Google Publisher Plugin For WordPress
Announced this morning on their Webmaster Central blog, Google has released an official Google Publisher Plugin for WordPress. While still in the beta stage, this...