Guest Blogging Is Pretty Much Done Matt Cutts, head of web spam at Google made a post today on his personal blog concerning guest blogging. Matt basically said that if you are guest blogging for links, just stop it. From the article: Okay, I’m calling it: if you’re using guest blogging as a way to gain links in 2014, you should probably stop. Why? Because over time it’s become a more and more … [Read more...]
Google Removed 350 Million Bad Ads in 2013
Google is out with their bad ads advertising report for 2013. On their blog they reported: Stopping more bad ads from fewer bad sources We removed more than 350 million bad ads from our systems in 2013. To put that in perspective, if someone looked at each of these for one second, it would take them more than ten years to see them all. This was a significant increase from approximately 220 … [Read more...]
Google Unveils Publisher Plugin For Publishers to Monetize With Adsense
The Next Web reported that Google has come out with a WordPress plugin Here’s what Google says you can do with the plugin: Google AdSense: Earn money by placing ads on your website. The plugin links your WordPress site to your AdSense account and makes it easier to place ads on your site — without needing to manually modify any HTML code. Google Webmaster Tools: Webmaster Tools provides … [Read more...]
Google Refuses To Remove Pic From Sexy Execs Blog
There seems to be a storm brewing about a site that has not been in active in close to 3 years. The site did not even bother to get its own domain name opting for a free blogspot blog. The site in question is SexyExecs.blogspot.com. Sexy Execs made blog posts over a two year period. They would post a pic of an executive, some of these were user submitter pics, and then they made some snarky and … [Read more...]
MediaPost: “Google Holds Right Cards for the Horizontal Market”
Gord Hotchkiss did a piece today about Google and the mobile market. As Hotchkiss sees it Google holds all the cards to take advantage of everything coming down the pike. He notes Google is pushing hard to make Android the default operating system in the Open Automotive Alliance. Google is basically looking to turn cars into really big mobile devices. Laurie Sullivan covered this for … [Read more...]
Google May Not Be Showing Your Desired Ad To Put More Money in Their Pocket
Alan Mitchell of Calculate Marketing wrote over a year ago that many may be paying too much for their Google Adwords clicks. In an article on Search Engine People he gave this example: To see why, let's suppose you have four Google AdWords keywords: red bikes red bikes sydney men's red bikes men's red bikes sydney All four of your keywords are set to phrase match, meaning that they … [Read more...]
Matt Cutts Spends Christmas Talking Domains and Wikipedia Content
Search Engine Roundtable covered a couple topics from Matt Cutts of Google. Matt apparently took the time during the Christmas holiday to go over a couple of questions that concerned webmasters on the Google Webmaster Help forums. The first question dealt with expired domains with penalties from Google Hello I purchased a new domain name last month. When I'm searching on Google, I can't … [Read more...]