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 […]
DSKNECTD: How Technology Changes The Way We Interact; World Cup Fan Roundtable Air Date: June 12, 2014 In the first segment we interview writer and director Dominic H. White on his newly released motion picture DSKNECTD. We discusses  the various ways technology may be profoundly changing the way we interact with others, and also discuss […]
Interview with Spy-Fu CEO Mike Roberts – Panda 4.0 Air Date: June 5, 2014 With 28% of webmasters saying they were somehow penalized by one or more versions of the Panda update (we’re at 4.0 now), Jim and Dave discuss Panda and penalties. We also cover how Google ranks web pages that have no incoming […]