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    Google To Bring It On German Link Spammers

    rustybrick
    by rustybrick
    Feb 4, 2014
    Yesterday, Google posted a stern warning on the German Google Webmaster blog telling webmasters that you will be penalized for unnatural links.
    Matt Cutts then Tweeted the same warning saying A reminder...

    Super Bowl 2014: How We Searched

    Vanessa Fox
    by Vanessa Fox
    Feb 3, 2014
    I know, I know. Kids today are all about the hashtags and the Twitters, but turns out, we’re pretty good multi-taskers and are still really into searching too. As has been the case all six years I’ve been looking at how the Super Bowl impacts how we search, we use Google (and Bing and Yahoo) to get more information about everything from snack recipes to players.  The more I watch the stats, the more I imagine that everyone is just sitting at home in front of their televisions, laptop at the...

    DMOZ Drops Over 1 Million Sites From Directory?

    rustybrick
    by rustybrick
    Feb 3, 2014
    Did you notice that DMOZ, one of the oldest and largest human crafted web directories, has removed over 1 million sites and 10,000 editors from their directory...

    Twitter’s New Patent Trove (943 Patents) from IBM

    by Bill Slawski
    Feb 1, 2014
    In November, Twitter disclosed in an amendment to its S1 filing that IBM was demanding licenses for three patents issued in 2006 that it claimed that Twitter was infringing upon. As far as we know, IBM didn’t file a lawsuit against Twitter, and this...

    What Time Does Super Bowl 2014 Start? Look Up!

    dannysullivan
    by dannysullivan
    Jan 31, 2014
    Along with the Super Bowl, there’s another annual big game that happens — sites trying to be number one for “What Times Does The Super Bowl Start?” This year, I want to win by pointing out that no one should click on any of the articles competing. Just look up, searchers — Google already won. Every year, we have a recap of all the attempts by publications to rank tops for this search — and that will come again from us. For those who want the history: 2009: Can Searchers Find The Superbowl?...

    Google's Matt Cutts: Don't Use Article Directories For Link Building

    rustybrick
    by rustybrick
    Jan 30, 2014
    In a short video yesterday, Google's Matt Cutts told webmasters and SEOs not to use article directory sites for link building strategies.

    Well...

    Should I build links using article directories?

    Jan 29, 2014
    Links from relevant content in article directories — Seen as good or bad? eg. I link my beauty website from a cosmetic surgery article on say, Ezine?...

    Google's Matt Cutts: We're Taking Action Against Buzzea, The French Link Network

    rustybrick
    by rustybrick
    Jan 29, 2014
    Last night at around 3am EST (this morning), Google's Matt Cutts Tweeted, "Today we're taking action on a French link network that violates our quality guidelines (Buzzea)."
    Buzzea has already posted a message on their site acknowledging the Google penalty and telling everyone they are closing up. The translated version reads:

    Switch Design

    by Rian van der Merwe
    Jan 29, 2014
    Anthony Colangelo explains how he uses a technique called Switch Programming to help solve coding problems:

    We gave each other 30 seconds to explain our intended results, and nothing else. Then, we traded computers and got to work.

    I was working on a fairly new project with a codebase that Mark really hadn’t been in, and Mark was working on an old project that I hadn’t touched for over a year and a half (long story). Point is, neither of us were intimately familiar with the...

    Google To Affiliates: No Added Value, Then You Violate Our Webmaster Guidelines

    rustybrick
    by rustybrick
    Jan 28, 2014
    Last night, Google published a blog post on their webmaster central blog notifying affiliates that if their sites do not add any value, then they may be penalized...