Amazon Is Main Competitor to Google? Google Admits Spam Is A Hard Problem For User Generated Content Sites Air Date: October 16, 2014 A new rivalry is forming as Amazon moves into territory Google has staked as its own. Dave Davies and I discuss Google Chairman Eric Schmidt’s comments that Amazon is Google’s main competitor. […]
Canadian Shoppers Consult Smartphones Before Buying; Facebook Hyper-Local Ads Air Date: October 9, 2014 We look at The newly emerging in a feature interview with Jeff James, editor of the . Canadian shoppers won’t make purchases in-store before pulling out their phone, suggests this. Facebook Launches . Google+, says Googles new head of social media […]
SEMPO Organizes Search Marketing Code of Ethics Meeting Air Date: October 2, 2014 We interview SEMPO President Emeritus and SEO Rockstar host Chris Boggs about the SEMPO led initiative to organize a Search Marketing Congress. The point to the Congress is to frame a search marketing code of ethics. Discussions will take place at Pubcon […]
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 […]