After Germany passed a law requiring Google to pay news publishers for publishing snippets and thumbnails in the search results, it took only two weeks for publishers to concede and ask for Google to return their Google News listings to the way they appeared prior to the judgement. And now we have more details about […]
Archives for November 2014
Google Adds AdWords Shopping Campaign Reports in Analytics
Google has added more integration between Google AdWords and Google Analytics with more support for Shopping Campaigns. The changes will give advertisers more data about their shopping campaigns, including which products and product categories drive the most purchases. And best of all, these new additions come just in time for the busiest shopping season of […]
Google Launches Publisher Monetization of Google Consumer Surveys
You have probably come across a site that instead of hiding their content behind a paywall, they instead hide it behind a Google Consumer Survey, which requires visitors to answer a survey question before users get access to the content. Something new with the publisher program however, is a new option where a user can […]
Twitter Changes Placement of New Tweet Box on Desktop
Twitter desktop users have been accustomed to seeing the box for typing a new tweet sitting in the left sidebar. But Twitter has now moved the box to the middle column, appearing above the tweet stream. They have also added a tweet prompt asking users “What’s happening” in the text box that disappears when the […]
Google’s Recommendations for Gaining Links That Could Seem Suspicious
Sometimes there is an opportunity to get a great link from the traffic and exposure perspective, but you know that in the eyes of Google it could be seen as spammy. Or you want to have a link but for whatever reason, the link cannot be made a no-follow link. While some webmasters have been […]
Penguin 3.0 is Continuing to Rollout & Still Too Late to Disavow
We saw many Penguin fluctuations happen over this weekend, and we knew that Penguin would be ongoing over several weeks. But John Mueller from Google has confirmed that the Penguin update is still ongoing in a Webmaster Office Hours this week. In the latest Google Webmaster Hangouts, he was asked about whether Penguin is still […]
Snapchat Wants to Move Into Sponsored Content
Snapchat wants to move into the content market, and are approaching various companies about hosting their content within their Snapchat app – and they are courting companies that not only deal with video and images, but companies for text articles too. Plans for Snapchat Discovery became known during the summer, with plans for a November […]
Disqus Targeting Ads Based on Your Comments
Do you comment on websites that use Disqus for their commenting system? If so, prepare to be targeted for ads based on those comments and the sites you make them on. 1.6 billion unique monthly visitors see Disqus comments on a variety of websites. It is unknown how many of the websites utilizing Disqus would […]
Matt Cutts Extends His Leave From Google Webspam Team Into 2015
In an announcement that really wasn’t too surprising, Matt Cutts from Google has announced he is extending his leave into 2015. Matt Cutts originally announced his four month leave back in July, and it was anticipated that he would be back from leave in November. But he tweeted on Friday that he was planning to […]
Spain Latest Country to Demand Payment from Google for News Listings
Spain has passed a new law that would allow news publishers to charge search engines and other aggregators every time a search result appears that includes their news content. The law, which is somewhat similar to the German law from earlier this year, which saw Google remove snippets and thumbnails from German news publishers. However, […]