Breaking the news headlines in the past week is Bing’s Scroogled Campaign against Google shopping. Once, Google fought against paid inclusion programmes and now it embraces them. The Scroogled Campaign is considered a wakeup call to raise awareness that Google shopping results are pay-to-rank and not natural. And while Bing exposes Google’s questionable shopping results and [...]
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Monday Morning Roundup: Latest Search Headlines (Dec 3 2012)
Posted 3 December 2012 by ShepTagged As: bing, Google, Google Shopping, Google Webmaster Tools | Categories: News, SEO | Leave a Comment
Monday Morning Roundup: Latest Search Headlines (Nov 26 2012)
Posted 26 November 2012 by ShepTagged As: bing, Google, search engine | Categories: News | Leave a Comment
Making headlines in the past week: The Launch of Bing Webmaster guidelines and Webinars. The guidelines cover a wide range of topics and, above all, they are designed to help find your content and get you indexed in Bing’s search engine. Here are some of the topics covered in the guidelines: · Content – Bing encourages [...]
Monday Morning Roundup: Latest Search Headlines (Nov 19 2012)
Posted 19 November 2012 by ShepTagged As: China, Google, Search Egine | Categories: News | Leave a Comment
Making headlines in the past week: The Chinese Block Google Search, Gmail, Google+, Maps and more Google services. China’s Communist Party, which is always sensitive about news, blocked the site during its 18th Party Congress. According to Search Engine Land, the block was only temporary, lasting about 12 hours. In other news, Google has reported that government [...]
Monday Morning Roundup: Latest Search Headlines (Nov 12 2012)
Posted 12 November 2012 by ShepTagged As: Google, panda update, search engine | Categories: News, SEO | Leave a Comment
On the 5th of November, 2012, Google confirmed the 21st Panda Update. According to Google, the update will affect 0.4 per cent of queries and 1.1 per cent for English searches in United States. In other news, Google has changed its SERP layout to make it simpler and cleaner and to create a consistent search experience across [...]
Monday Morning Roundup: Latest Search Headlines (Nov 05 2012)
Posted 5 November 2012 by ShepTagged As: search engine, SEO, seo news | Categories: News, SEO | Leave a Comment
In the past week’s news: A Melbourne man won a defamation case against Google. Milorad Trkulja claimed that certain image and search results damaged his reputation by linking him to some of Melbourne’s criminals. Search Engine Land reports that Trkulja has won a similar case against Yahoo. Latest on Search Engine Land. Students research information [...]
Monday Morning Roundup: Latest Search Headlines (Oct 22 2012)
Posted 22 October 2012 by ShepTagged As: bing, Google | Categories: SEO, Uncategorized | Leave a Comment
Google has copied Bing in introducing a tool to help devalue the impact of bad links to a given domain – bringing a sigh of relief to SEO’s still suffering the effects of Penguin’s blow. Many webmasters say it’s the bomb, whereas some think that Google is letting people do all the hard work for [...]
Monday Morning Roundup: Latest Search Headlines (Oct 15 2012)
Posted 15 October 2012 by ShepTagged As: | Categories: News, SEO | Leave a Comment
In this week’s top news is Google Mobile’s New Slide Out Black Navigation Bar. A new mobile interface made to navigate more easily on Google Services. In other news Google Rolls Out Massive Street View Update. This is said to be making Google maps more comprehensive and increasing street view coverage in most countries around [...]
Monday Morning Roundup: Latest Search Headlines (Oct 8 2012)
Posted 8 October 2012 by ShepTagged As: | Categories: SEO | Leave a Comment
The top news story for the past week has to be Google’s latest penguin data refresh adding to the search engine giant’s ceaseless blow by blow assault on below board SEO practices. It has been announced that it will be effecting about 0.3 percent of English language search queries and will also roll on other languages like Italian, French [...]