Welcome back to another week and all the latest search and SEO news from the week past. This week we're getting into the Google Q&A, 302s passing PageRank, Google's RankBrain and much more.

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News

• Google Estimates 25 Sites Now Use Secure Connections
• Teacher Didnt Tell Optimizing Site Speed
• Sites Penguin Cannot Request Manual Refresh
• Google Text In Images

On Manual actions;

• All Google Manual Actions Send Warnings To Site Owners
• Google Manual Actions Do Not Last Forever

Google on Blogger Product reviews

• Best Practices For Bloggers Reviewing
• Google Warns Bloggers Brands Of Tainted Posts
• Google Warns Bloggers Promotional Links

Rank Brain

• Word to Vector Project
• Google Turning Its Lucrative Web Search Over To Ai Machines
• Faq All About The New Google Rankbrain Algorithm
• Rankbrain Everything We Know About Googles AI Algorithm
• Google To Announce That Links Are No Longer A Major Ranking Factor

This week the group discussed Googles clampdown on Bloggers, RankBrain, Penguin algorithm, Google Manual actions and More!

 

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• Google's Mobile April 21st update
• doorway page update in the Google guidelines and the usual SEO response: Google uses doorway pages
• FTC staff wanted to sue Google
• deep linking search appwords Google and the Knowledge Graph:
• techcrunch
• Google
• Bill Slawski does some answer searches
• Jan-Willem Bobbink: optimising Google's knowledge graph
• answer SERP's do drive traffic... in fact! Lots of it!

the Regulators:

• Terry Van Horne
• Steve Gerenscer
• Dave Harry

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The learning segment was on mobile friendly design and specifically the upcoming Google Mobile Friendly update coming shortly. Google's April 21st Mobile update; doorway page update in the Google guidelines; optimising Googles knowledge graph; Google and the Knowledge Graph and direct answers; Google crawls apps for "deep links" and more.

 

Local SEO 2015

• http://blumenthals.com/blog/2015/03/16/google-maps-upends-primary-data-suppliers-yp-ca-is-out/
• Google is using knowledge Panels in competitive areas to highlight ads and Google Properties Knowledge Panes
• Problems Editing Data Google is in Control of

Local SEO 2015:

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In this episode Terry and Dave are interviewing Local SEO gurus Darren Shaw of whitespark.ca, Mike Blumenthal and Andrew Shotland of Local SEO Guide.Terry and David went over a number of local SEO topics ranging from NAP Issues; Google announces One business per location; Data Suppliers and how/who Google Maps collects data from is changing; problems editing data Google is in control of and more.

 

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• data driven SEO getting detailed insights using free tools
• Facts are replacing links! Discussions on  Bill Slawski and Scientific Americain
• Google breaks G+ up into image and info streams

the Regulators:

• Terry Van Horne
• Steve Gerenscer
• Dave Harry

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SEO podcast discussed a few ways to calculate budgets and ROI, data driven SEO getting detailed insights using free tools; Facts are replacing links, Google breaks G+ up into image and info streams and more!

Here's the video version

• Become a Google Local Guide
• Google Tightens it's grip on the money being made over at Youtube
• Google Flights - seems legit and who would complain?
• Pinterest continues to get better at fighting spam
• Googles new hacked classifier misclassifies web sites
• Older copy of the Webmaster Guidelines
• Google Vietnam was hacked breifly
• Google chat boxes on local listings
• Panda turns 4?
• What to ask when hiring an SEO... (from Bing)

the Regulators:

• Terry Van Horne
• Steve Gerenscer
• Dave Harry

iTunes and the Dojo Radio iPhone App!