Google to Penalize Too Many Ads Above the Fold
January 23, 2012 by Daron Babin
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Google to Penalize Too Many Ads Above the Fold as they announce a planned update that targets sites with too many ads above the fold.
Also, Ross and John discuss Jerry Yang leaving Yahoo and a shakeup at Blackberry maker as RIM loses the co-founders and their COO takes over.
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What Scares SEOs?
October 31, 2011 by Daron Babin
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What is SCAAAARYYY about SEO? What scares SEOs? Blackhat, backlinks, Google algorithm changes? Ross and John list the things that really get them creeped out and scare the bejeezus out of them!
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Google Makes Minor Panda Update, Might Buy Hulu
October 17, 2011 by Daron Babin
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Google Makes Minor Panda Update; Google earnings report released; Google may still buy Hulu; The End of Search Without Social; Google Buzz going away.
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Real Time Analytics, Facebook Changes, and Google+ Explodes
October 3, 2011 by Daron Babin
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Ross and John are back, these week diving into GOogle Real Time Analytics and ranking reports. They also answer some questions left over from a prior Q&A session, before wrapping up by talking about the pros and cons of FaceBook’s changes, and how Google+ has grown rapidly.
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Stopping Non Subject Sites; Google+ and Google +1 Ranking Impact
September 19, 2011 by Daron Babin
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Ross offers us a site review of ClownAntics.com which supplies anything you could possibly need to dress like a clown. He also takes listeners on how to control or stop non subject sites from linking to them and the impact of rankings if any that Google + or Google +1 are making.
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Making Buried Information From Google Places More Visible
August 22, 2011 by Daron Babin
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Mike Blumenthal reports Google has just released a new browser plugin (Chrome and IE) tool, Google Related that provides information that Google thinks is relevant to a given website that you are visiting. Ross and John also go through headlines in search and listener questions.
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Returned Search Results and Metadata
June 27, 2011 by Daron Babin
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Ross and Scott answer listener questions on Google filling up more and more of it’s returned search results with ads, local search, google store, etc. And how will there be any room for small Internet retailers or will it all be brands? They also answer a question about handling extra metadata.
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Crawl Frequency and the Google Farmer Panda
March 14, 2011 by Daron Babin
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How long do you normally give a change before you decide if it had any effect or not and move on? Is it even possible to answer that, since its largely dependent on crawl frequency? Ross and John answer that and other listener questions and discuss the Google Farmer Panda situation.
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Google Algorithm Changes for Fixing Spam
January 24, 2011 by Daron Babin
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Google Plans Algorithm Changes for Fixing Spam as Matt Cutts, head of the search quality team, wrote in his blog that he agreed about the increase in spam and detailed what the company is doing to keep it under the hood. Ross and John also look into Googles answer to Groupon, Google Offers.
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Matt Cutts Goes to Washington
January 18, 2011 by Daron Babin
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Matt Cutts Goes to Washington, Testifies Google Has Integrity, Europeans Go Fishing for Bad Google Behavior, plus Ross and John answer listener questions on sources for keyword analysis, WordPress plugins and more.
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