When Twitter began showing favorites and follows in the Twitter timeline, there was a lot of confusion about why this would trigger. Some users were seeing it consistently, while others weren’t seeing it at all. According to a tweet by Twitter CEO Dick Costello, Twitter will show favorites (and presumably follows, which I also verified) […]
Archives for September 4, 2014
3 Google Webmaster Tools For Implementing Structured Data
For some time now, the SEO community has been abuzz about semantic search and incorporating structured data markup to sites in an effort to help search engines understand the context of content on a given page and render rich snippets within search results. And for good reason! In a (relatively) recent case study conducted by […]
Yelp Uses Private Yelp Messages to Find Paid Reviews Evidence
Yelp announced that they have released 61 new “Consumer Alerts” on the Yelp pages of businesses who have been found to be spamming the review system through either multiple reviews from the same IP address or who have been found offering payment or discounts for fake reviews. The businesses are flagged with alert notices for […]
Google Reconsideration Tips: Remove Inorganic Backlinks
Another day and another Google Webmaster Help Reconsideration Request Tip in their series of tips this week. Day # 3 brings us “remove inorganic backlinks”. Day 3 of #GoogleRecon — For a reconsideration request to be successful, a significant percentage of inorganic links should be removed from the website. If you can get a backlink […]