Google is killing off exact and phrase match in AdWords, Google Webmaster Tools Now More Important for Link Discovery and Cleanup. Google DMCA Notices Reach Record High. Plus, Jim talks to Rustybricks newest employee, an old crotchety Englishman named Lenny.
Google is prepping to issue penalties for content spam guest blogging (vs link spam)?Google Penalties Reappearing In Manual Spam Action of Webmaster Tools. Why 3 Google executivess have left for Chinese companies in a year? Google takes a page from the Pentagons radical ideas factory DARPA.
Google Starts Giving A Ranking Boost To Secure HTTPS/SSL Sites and theSEO IndustryReacts. Will Google Ever Update PageRank Again?Right To Be Forgotten To Blame For Removal Of 50 Wikipedia Links From EU Search Results. Also, Dave proclaims his proactiveness following the recent story whereRussian Hackers Amassed Over a Billion Internet Passwords.
Jim, Dave and guest host Jennifer Slegg speak with Danny Goodwin who announced he is Leaving as Editor at Search Engine Watch, plus Google Domains Invites Available Through Google Employees andGoogle Updates Local Search Algorithm (called Pigeon) With Stronger Ties To Web Search Signals .
Jim welcomes gust host Jennifer Slegg, founder of the SEM Post, to discuss headlines including: Google Rewrites Quality Rating Guide – What SEOs Need to Know; Engineers Workon Google Penguin Algo Update; Is Web Analytics Dying? Facebook second quarter earnings: 788 million dollars up from 331 million last year. Facebook stock more than doubles year to year.
Microsoft to cut 18,000 jobs, reported to affect marketing, engineering and other areas where there is overlap from Nokia merger; Testing robots.txt files made easier; State of the Industry Real SEOs Solve Problems; A New Google Sandbox.
Jim welcomes the Director of Digital Strategy at 435 Digital and Tribune Company Carolyn Shelby. They discuss Gated Content; Matt Cutts Takes Leave of Absence; 10 Lies You Should Never Believe From SEO Gurus; Europe starting to see the flaws in the right to be forgotten ruling and Google executives death on Santa Cruz yacht turns lurid with prostitute arrest.
Is Google Respecting the Right to be forgottenasGoogle has informed journalists at the Guardian that pieces they wrote have been removed in compliance with the new EU regulations regarding the Right to be forgotten. Facebook Found Manipulating Users Emotions as a Social Experiment? PlusCommunity gets its sixth season, courtesy of Yahoo,Google social network Orkut is closing on September 30th.andJason Calacanis Wants Revenge Against Google andMatt Cutts For Destroying Mahalo.
Alan K'necht, partner atDigital Always Media, discusses How Universal Analytics Is Different And What You Should Be Doing Now. Plus,Google to Remove Author Images from Search Results;Bings Duane Forrester Says Adding Schema Markup Is Important For Search EnginesandGoogle announces Android L with Material Design at Google I/O.
BC Supreme court orders removal of global search listing;Supreme Court of Canada Upholds Internet Users' Privacy;The Amazon Fire Phone;Google: Avoid Using The noscript For Content You Want Google To Trust ;302 Redirected Links Can Cause Google Manual Actions;YouTube Is About To Delete Independent Artists From Its Site
Webcology takes a deeper look at the ecosystem of the Internet as it affects webmasters and web marketers from the points of view of two well known web marketers, Jim Hedger and Kristine…
Schachinger. Based on interviews with special high-profile guests or panels, Webcology introduces, explores and explains how the various segments of the web marketing world work.