It's official. After weeks of false starts and rumors, Google has unleashed the Panda 3.9 refresh. The announcement came last night on Google's official Twitter feed with a Tweet that's pretty standard for these affairs: New data refresh of Panda starts rolling out tonight. ~1% of search results change enough to notice. More context: http://goo.gl/huekf…
DuckDuckGo is a relatively new search engine that's making user privacy a priority. It's stripped down, no-nonsense approach to Internet searching is making it popular with Internet purists. Whether the young search engine can compete with Google has yet to be determined. What Makes DuckDuckGo Different Personalized results are one of the top attractions for…
The new Bing Link Explorer is probably the most powerful web analytic tool you've never heard of. But if you're willing to move a bit beyond the Google eco-sphere, you'll find some pretty interesting uses for this application. In a recent article on SearchEngineJournal.com titled, How to Use the New Bing Links Explorer, Sujan Patel…
Rumors of the potential release of Google Panda 3.9 are sweeping across the SEO world this week, but hard data on the subject is tough to come by. Whether it's actually an update, or a refresh, the uproar over this unconfirmed update sheds a lot of light on Google's role as Internet overlord and scapegoat.…
Google is company that likes its privacy, so when they make a move, it's usually a surprise. Here are their top 10 surprises of all time. #10 - Over Optimization Slip Up: March 2012 The SEO world dissects practically every word Webspam Team Leader Matt Cutts' speaks, so its surprising that he isn't more careful…
Which site metric do you think is more important, page views or unique visitors? In an affiliate marketing industry obsessed by SEO questions, the outcome of this argument takes on some pretty serious monetary consequences. There are pros and cons to both metrics and some in the industry don't think much of either one. Whether…
Google's recent Penguin update is rapidly earning a reputation as an SEO nightmare for affiliate partners. Penguin pretty much redefined link building practices that had been in practice for almost a decade and left many webmasters starting, pretty much, from scratch. Not surprisingly, there's no shortage of articles advising publishers how they can beat Penguin's…
Google Panda updates are a permanent fixture on the SEO scene these days. Every month the search engine giant refreshes or updates the Panda algorithm that's such a headache for so many in the affiliate marketing world. It's worth noting that most of the developments this month revolve around refreshes rather than actual updates. Google…
If you've been in the gambling affiliate business for any length of time, you know that Google has a remarkable amount of power over your livelihood. Practices such as paid link exchanges that are perfectly acceptable one day can cause you to drop off the map entirely the next based on little more than a…
Do affiliate partners need to use a no-follow tag on every affiliate link they post? According to Google's SEO guru Matt Cutts, they probably don't. That's what he told Danny Sullivan during a brief interview at the SMX Advanced show in Seattle recently. In typical Cutts' fashion, his answer was pregnant with possibilities, but low…
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