Via +Pe lagic  More on the recent casino bonus spam in google.co.uk: Embedded Link How Does the Casino Bonus Spam Work? | Irishwonder’s Black Hat SEO Blog Note: just like the previous one, this is not an outing post and is only intended to study the mechanisms of how things work in Google rather than […]

Webmaster Central 2013-02-25 EN Why do we need to keep iterating questions to get answers? In this latest claim Penguin hasn't been updated since October, so no site hit by Penguin has escaped since at least October?  Google said in the beginning that Penguin could be removed if site owners clean up their backlinks, but […]

Won't last long, but while it does it's making money. Some people might be forgiven for believing that the crash-burn-rinse-repeat spam methods are quite a good way to win on Google… Reshared post from +Aaron Chronister LMAO… Come on Google, you're a bunch of ignorant F** Embedded Link https://www.google.co.uk/#hl=en&q=casino+bonus Google+: View post on Google+ This […]

This looks like a great WrodPress plugin for lead-gen: Embedded Link WordPress Landing Pages Create landing pages for your WordPress site. Monitor and improve conversion rates, run A/B split tests, customize your own templates and more. Google+: View post on Google+ This post was first made on the Richard Hearne Google+ profile.

+Barry Schwartz I was the one who asked John that question on Penguin. My impression is that they refresh the data more frequently then thought, but don't change the algo often. I've seen changes a few times recently to Penguin hit sites that make me think the data is refreshing. It's not really clear from the […]

This looks like a really interesting way to gather customer interactions from your site: Embedded Link SpeakPipe – listen to your customers SpeakPipe allows your customers, podcast listeners, blog readers and fans to send you voice messages (voicemail) right from a browser without any phone calls. Google+: View post on Google+ This post was first […]

Way to go Google – now regular web publishers have no idea if they can link to other websites or not (check out the comments): Embedded Link Why Blogs that Allow Guest Posts Will Be Penalized in 2013 : @ProBlogger This guest post is by Jeff Foster of WebBizIdeas. Just as low-level article directories (ezinearticles, […]

Wow, so much for authority: Embedded Link global warming causes – Google Search Google Instant is off due to connection speed. Press Enter to search. Press Enter to search. +You · Search · Images · Maps · Play · YouTube · News · Gmail · Drive · Calendar · More · Translate · Mobil… Google+: […]

I see some sites not worthy of the title "junk" ranking on link profiles that would make even the worst SEOs squirm. New sites are getting a hall pass to use comment spam and shitty directory links, and all because Google now has to avoid Negative SEO. I'm really starting to think that blackhats could […]

And Fitness SF now taking up the wazoo over on their Yelp page: Embedded Link Fitness SF Gyms in San Francisco, CA Google+: View post on Google+ This post was first made on the Richard Hearne Google+ profile.

Check out what this agency did when the client refused to pay: Embedded Link FITNESS SF – Website Impounded Fitness SF kept ignoring our invoices and did not react on our turn-off notice. As a result this is no longer operational. Google+: View post on Google+ This post was first made on the Richard Hearne […]

OK so the discussion at around 2:04 is really worth listening into IMO (link takes you to that point). I enjoy the level of thinking that +Alistair Lattimore brings into these hangouts.  Well done to +Jim Munro for producing these. Google+: View post on Google+ This post was first made on the Richard Hearne Google+ profile.

 Any upvotes much apprecaited: Embedded Link View Discussion Be heard. Vote on questions and submit your own. Google+: Reshared 3 times Google+: View post on Google+ This post was first made on the Richard Hearne Google+ profile.

Hard to believe that such small chang can have such a large impact, but when you start testing you're always amazed at how small things can have huge impacts: Embedded Link A/B testing discount leads to 121% increase in revenue A/B testing discounts on their pricing page increased revenues for Meebox by 121% and increased […]

I see scrappers ranking nicely, and some really poor results coming into favour. I'd love to know in reality if some of the anti-SEO tactics they're implementing have any downside for actual users? Google+: View post on Google+ This post was first made on the Richard Hearne Google+ profile.

Worth watching I think: Embedded Link Discourse Reply while you read. Do you respond before you’ve read the whole topic, risking duplication and ridicule, or do you read to the end, possibly forgetting the post you specifically wanted to reply to? … Google+: View post on Google+ This post was first made on the Richard […]

 I'd love to get some examples from Google of the bad uses keyword data was being put to. +Alistair Lattimore made a really good point on yesterday's Dumb SEO Questions hangout that by next year we could be seeing 90%+ of all keyword data gone from GA. Embedded Link Stephane Hamel – Google+ – Seriously +Google […]

 Hard to know what other tests they might wrap into same window: Google+: View post on Google+ This post was first made on the Richard Hearne Google+ profile.

 Looks to me like they were running a large-scale test from 12/7 until 1/7 (or thereabouts): Google+: View post on Google+ This post was first made on the Richard Hearne Google+ profile.

Useful for responsive layouts. Reshared post from +Henry Zeitler Google Analytics and Responsive Web Design – Introducing Responsive Tracking As agreed with +Sasch Mayer I want to share a little blogpost I finished today. It's an easy way to track events on a responsive page in Google Analytics. I'm looking forward to hear your thoughts, ideas and […]

I suspect there is going to be a TC Summit in 2013 so: Embedded Link Schemer: Go to Top Contributor Summit 2013 2 people commented on this scheme, including Federico Granata: “Obviously you must be a TC ;-)” Google+: View post on Google+ This post was first made on the Richard Hearne Google+ profile.

Please complete the form below so we can see if we can assist. We will contact you as soon as possible (within 15 business days). Customer service the Jetstar way.  3 weeks to reply to customer issues… Google+: View post on Google+ This post was first made on the Richard Hearne Google+ profile.

THis has been a long time coming, but there's finally an update to W3 Total Cache plugin for WordPress.  There do seem to be a few issues being reported, but I just updated a blog site and it all seems to be working well.  Still looking around to work out the new/improved features. Embedded Link […]

I agree that this has now crossed a line – Google are now overtly facilitating copyright infringement IMO. Mobile image search now gives users a "Save" button for all images. No need to even visit the originators site. Reshared post from +Pe lagic What The Hell Is Google Thinking – Google Images So, by now […]

I suspect we saw a Pengiun-related update going out last week, but I'm really stunned to see a site with zero "link building" lose about 40% organic Google referrals. Very weird indeed, and need to take a look at a larger set of affected sites. Anyone care to share sites affected this past week (not […]

Said domain can be purchased for $11 on Godaddy Auctions. After replying to the one-step-removed spam gmail address the true (scammer) domainer offered it to me for $150. Sad, but there are just so many scams around domain names. Google+: View post on Google+ This post was first made on the Richard Hearne Google+ profile.

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Well, yes.  Perhaps you should learn to spell before you try to sell a shit domain for $49,000. Also learn to price properly. Here's a short dictionary word domain offered for $35,000 https://flippa.com/2873856-detect-com-category-killer-domain. Embedded Link – Domain Name for Sale on Flippa: Bizniss.com – need I say more, enormous possibilities for subdomains Flippa: Domain name bizniss.com […]

All I did was click the ireland.com button in main nav.  How graceful: Google+: View post on Google+ This post was first made on the Richard Hearne Google+ profile.

 This website cost €2.5m to develop.  They spent another €0.5m on the domain (actually not too bad a deal given that Panama.com is for sale at $1.6m currently).  Now tell me that the homepage is in any way user friendly?  Fancy one of the offers that appears in a carousel?  Too late it's moved on […]

Some really interesting website performance stats: Embedded Link HTTP Archive – Interesting Stats HTTP Archive · Trends · Stats · Websites · About · Mission · FAQ · Download Data · Source Code · Bugs · News · Contact Us. Interesting stats. Got a stat you’d like to see? Suggest it! New feature: Com… Google+: […]

If you do conversion testing ( #CRO )  this new preview tool from Wingify (VisualWebsiteOptimizer.com) is a fairly cool QA helper: Embedded Link New Feature – Now preview your A/B test on multiple browsers with Visual Website Optimizer You can now preview your Visual Website Optimizer A/B test variations on multiple browsers before the test […]

Well worth digging into how Google has integrated Google+ with their in-house jobs system. Now imagine this same system rolled out externally. Reshared post from +Google Plus Daily Will Google+ change how you find a job? A recent update to the +Google Jobs site includes deep integration with +Google+. And while it's limited to Google's own […]

Go +Daniel Weadley (DanielRoofer) on Matt Cutt's latest blog post – check out the comments: Embedded Link Official Google Webmaster Central Blog: Page layout algorithm improvement Thursday, January 19, 2012 at 3:00 PM. Webmaster Level: All In our ongoing effort to help you find more high-quality websites in search results, today we’re launching an algorithmic change […]

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2 sites today I've visited where I couldn't interact with the page due to the Facebook iframe (from like button) was covering the page. I simply deleted the iframe node and problem went away. How many regular folk though would just bail the site? Google+: View post on Google+ This post was first made on […]

I never noticed (until now obviously) that Google had killed off Trends for Websites. Real shame as that was a useful tool from time to time. Google+: View post on Google+ This post was first made on the Richard Hearne Google+ profile.

Wonder what happened the Communities flyout in the side navigation?  It's gone for me and now a visit to a community takes 2 clicks and 2 page loads Google+: View post on Google+ This post was first made on the Richard Hearne Google+ profile.

One more really interesting read today: Embedded Link What if Microsoft exited the search business? Amazingly, most everyone totally ignores a linchpin competitive assumption when they talk about search competition and Google’s antitrust liabilities – that Microsoft will always be a competitor in th… Google+: View post on Google+ This post was first made on […]