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Authorshipocalypse! The Great Google Authorship Purge Has Begun
December 2013: Authorship in Search Results Gets Restricted UPDATE 21 January 2013: I have now published results of my study detailing who lost Google Authorship …
Google Penguin Hunting: An Interview with Russ Jones, CTO of Virante
At Pubcon this October, John Rampton of Search Engine Journal interviewed Russ Jones, CTO of Virante, about how to Penguin-proof a website. The Google Penguin ...
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Google Plus Update Event: 18 Major Upgrades to Google+
My live tweets from today’s Google Plus Update live event. Google’s Vic Gundotra announced 18 major upgrades to Google+, centerend around Hangouts, photos, and videos. ...
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Matt Cutts at Pubcon 2013: Authorship, Authority and the Future of Search
After reading several live blog notes (here and even better here) on the keynote address by Google’s Matt Cutts at Pubcon 2013 yesterday, I was seeing ...
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Google Plus Page Verification Is Now Harder to Get, But Still Possible
Recently I posted on Google+ that we had discovered that the Google Plus Page Verification application page is now closed. In other words, they are ...
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Penguin Penalty Checker: Introducing Penguin Analysis
New Penguin Penalty Checker Site Assess Your Google Penalty Risk Penguin Analysis is a new site that can help you assess how at risk your ...
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Google Authorship Not a Ranking Factor (Yet): John Mueller
UPDATE 7 October 2013: At SMX East last week, in the Google Authorship session, Google Webmaster Trends Analyst Pierre Farr also confirmed that Google Authorship ...
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Google Answers Questions About Google Authorship
It’s been a long time since we’ve had any real information updates on Google Authorship and how it should be used from the horse’s mouth ...
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Google In-Depth Articles Search Results: Any Hope for Small Publishers?
UPDATE: Some Hope for Small Publishers 11 August 2013 We have seen before where a new feature like this only works for big guys in the ...
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Google In-Depth Article Search Results: How to Qualify Your Content
Google today announced that “In-depth Articles” are to be featured in Search. The Official Google Webmaster Tools blog today announced that Google is beginning to ...
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Virante CEO Named Patriotic Employer by US Department of Defense
Employer Support for the Guard and Reserve (ESGR), a division of the United States Department of Defense, today named Virante Inc. CEO Malcolm Young as ...
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New Google Maps: First Tour
There’s a new Google Maps coming. Google is rolling out a complete overhaul of the look and feel of its popular browser-based mapping program. Everything ...
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Male Cancer Men’s Health Month Interview 21 June 2013
This Friday, June 21, Todd Hartley, CEO of WireBuzz will interview Martin (“Marty”) Smith and me about our experiences with cancer, as part of Google’s ...
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