Matt Cutts Returns, Taunts Black Hat SEOs ; Google Severely Hits Private Blog Networks Air Date: September 25, 2014 Based on his taunting of black-hat SEOs in Twitter, Dave and I speculated Matt Cutts might be signaling his return to Google. (spoiler alert, we were wrong) Google hit a few private blog networks with extreme […]
Apple CEO Tim Cook Accuses Google Of Gross Privacy Violations; Google News Publishers Reporting Smooth HTTPS Migration Air Date: September 18, 2014 Apple CEO Tim Cook accuses Google of gross privacy violations. Apple tries to distance itself from Google on privacy issues Google News publishers reporting HTTPS migration is going smoothly Webmasters reporting Google sitelinks […]
Facebook Testing Self-Destructing Status Updates? More Penguin and Google Algorithm Update Info Air Date: September 11, 2014 Dave and I discussed a wide range of topics today including but not limited to; Facebooks announcement that it is testing a process to allow status updates to self-destruct after a period of time More information about Penguin […]
SEOs! – Here Come the Holidays! – Could DuckDuckGo Overtake Bing? Air Date: September 4, 2014 It’s September. That means only one thing to SEOs. It’s Christmas Time, or, time to get ready for the Christmas shopping season Google Hangouts are now being referenced in search results Google will refund at least $19million to parents […]
Why You Should Care About PageRank; Amazon Plans Their Own Online Advertising Air Date: August 28, 2014 Believe it or not, there are compelling reasons to care about PageRank. Dave and I discuss the meaning of PageRank and how it effects the way Google sees the web. Google chairman, Eric Schmidt says unbreakable encryption is […]
Google AdWords Takes Out Exact and Phrase Match; Google DMCA Notices Reach Record High Air Date: August 21, 2014 Google announced it was killing off Exact and Phrase Match in AdWords. Dave and I discuss the implications for advertisers. Google WebmasterTools is now more important for link discovery, and for link clean up. Dave and […]
Google Penalties Guest Blogging for Content Spam and, Manual Spam Action in Webmaster Tools Air Date: August 14, 2014 Fun episode covering topics such as, Google prepping to issue penalties for content spam guest blogging (vs link spam)? Google penalties reappearing In Manual Spam Action of Webmaster Tools. Why have three Google executives left for […]
Google Gives Ranking Boost To Secure HTTPS/SSL Sites and the SEO Community’s Reaction Air Date: August 7, 2014 Google is now giving secure sites (https:///clork/bons/danf.js?k=0&/clork/bons/danf.js?k=0&/clork/bons/danf.js?k=0&/clork/bons/danf.js?k=0&/clork/bons/danf.js?k=0&/clork/bons/danf.js?k=0& or, SSL), a boost in search rankings. Given the myriad of implications, this announcement has generated a strong response from the SEO community. Dave and I cover as many as […]
Search Engine Watch Editor Departs, Google Domains Invites Available, Google’s Local Algo Pigeon Air Date: July 31, 2014 Jennifer Slegg joins Dave and Jim for an interview where Search Engine Watch editor-in-chief, Danny Goodwin announces he’ll be leaving SEW the following day. For those interested in filling in parts of the back-story around the ClickZ […]
Google Rewrites Quality Rating Guide; Are Web Analytics Dying?, Huge Facebook Q2 Earnings Air Date: July 24, 2014 With special guest host Jennifer Slegg, founder of the . Jennifer and I discussed a piece she wrote, “”. We also talked about Google engineers talking about working on Penguin, the questions around web analytics, and marvel […]
Microsoft To Cut 18,000 Jobs; Real SEOs Solve Problems; A New Google Sandbox Air Date: July 17, 2014 The show starts with talk of the announcement that 18,000 jobs will be cut at Microsoft. We then move to an article I wrote for the SEMPost that had gotten a lot of attention in the industry, […]
10 Lies You Should Never Believe From SEO Gurus :: Gated Content :: Flaws in EU Right to be Forgotten Ruling Air Date: July 10, 2014 With special guest host, Carolyn Shelby, Director of Director of SEO and SEM for Tribune Publishing . Carolyn and I discuss Gated Content, Matt Cutts taking a leave of absence, 10 Lies […]
Google and the Right to be Forgotten and Facebook Experiments with User Emotions Air date: July 3, 2014 debuted on October 25, 2007. Since then, Dave Davies and I have done 300 episodes, the vast majority of which were recorded live-to-podcast as they were webcast at /. That’s 300 Thursdays over nearly seven years. 300 […]
Google to Switch to Universal Analytics Air date: June 26, 2014 Alan K’necht, partner at Digital Always Media, discusses how Google is switching from Google Analytics to Universal Analytics, and what business owners and digital marketers should be doing about it. Plus, Google to remove author images from search results, Bing’s Duane Forrester says adding schema […]
Canadian Courts, Google and Privacy Air date: June 19, 2014 The Supreme Court of British Columbia leveled a ruling instructing Google to remove a listing from its global index. The Supreme Court of Canada upholds Internet user’s right to privacy. Also, Amazon’s Fire Phone, SEO advice on Google and 302 redirects and YouTube to delete […]