As someone who remembers buying PPC penny clicks on GoTo.com (Overture’s former name) back in the day before Google AdWords even existed, it is easy for forget that AdWords has been around for 15 years. AdWords launched back in October 2000 with this press release. And it is amazing how far it has come, when […]
Archives for October 28, 2015
How to Find Your Site’s Featured Snippets in Google Search Results
Finding featured snippets in the search results for sites you own can be a challenge of trial and error for random search queries you think your site should not only rank for, but show a featured snippet for. But there is a smart way to try and find them for your own site. In yesterday’s […]
Unlinked URLs Do Not Need To Be Disavowed; Don’t Pass PageRank
SEOs have begun noticing that Google is showing links in Google Search Console that aren’t true links at all. Rather, they are text URLs that are not even linked at all. But Google is showing them in Search Console as if they are a true link, even though the actual hyperlink isn’t there. With them […]
Not Too Late to Disavow for Google Penguin
Whenever it comes close a Penguin update or refresh, there is always the mad rush to get a link audit completed and a disavow file submitted before Penguin is run again. We know we will be seeing Penguin sometime soon, so there is the usual question about the cut off for submitting that disavow. Sha […]