Google had been criticized for its lack of communication on penalties, especially with webmasters who submitted reconsideration requests but did not have manual penalties. Previously if a webmaster submitted a complaint but their site did not have a manual penalty, their correspondence was ignored. Now it appears that Google is notifying webmasters who submit re-inclusion … Continued
About a month and half ago we wrote that sites are never finished, and just one month later, we rolled out a complete redesign of our site. The new look was built on the idea of shifting the focus of the site to our core services and making it easier for users to navigate. Over … Continued
MDPV is a chemical that has recently been outlawed in three states as a controlled substance. Is Google breaking the law by serving MDPV ads in those states?
Copyright violation has always been a major problem on YouTube, but it appears that Google is ready to step up to the plate and strengthen their enforcement of copyright policies.
Microsoft officially launched the Bing Business Portal which is their version of Google Places with some added features for business owners.
In late February, Google rolled out the Panda update targeting low quality content. Now, a month and a half later, they have implemented the algorithm change throughout all English language Google domains (.co.uk,.com.au, etc…) with additional changes in how they analyze long tail search and utilize user feedback. The original Panda update was met with … Continued
It’s no secret that copied content plagues the web. In a video posted earlier this week, Matt Cutts discusses some of the difficulties in crediting content to the original author and ways that webmasters can protect the value of their content. Cutts starts out using a hypothetical scenario: – Site A publishes content – Site … Continued
The most common methodology for user experience optimization is simplifying the conversion process to make it as easy as possible for someone to interact with your site. This often involves shortening steps, simplifying pages and cleaning up clunky designs. However, Twitter discovered that inserting additional steps into the sign up process actually improved user sign … Continued
Here are questions we received for our monthly marketing Q&A session. This month we received a lot of questions about Google penalties, creating good content, SEO and other relevant topics. If you have any questions you would like for us to answer, leave them in the comments below or click here to email us a … Continued
One common question among Google Analytics users is why the program shows 0 visits for some keywords. After all if it recorded that someone reached the site through search and recorded the keyword they used, then why doesn’t that count as a visit? I wondered the same thing when I first started using GA and … Continued