The TMO Blog

Google Plans To Target Italian and Spanish Link Spammers

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Think Google's attack on unnatural links and link spammers is limited just to the US? Think again. Google has made it clear they are targeting spammy practices from around the world, by attacking Polish and German link spammers over the past…
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Google Gives Up On Large Branded Banner Ad Test

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You may remember the uproar from last October, when Google began experimenting with huge banner ads that ran across the top of branded search results. Many hailed them as the first sign of a completely branded search engine, while others weren't…
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Google Does Look At Your Other Sites When You Receive a Manual Action

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Google has been bringing down the hammer on spammy websites quite a bit recently with more specific penalties for sites that aren't following guidelines. There have been several high-profile cases such as the Rap Genius penalty, and several…
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How You Can Get The Most Out Of Hashtags

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Twitter has become an undeniable force in modern culture. Even if you aren't signed up for the social media platform, you can hardly turn on the television without being bombarded by tweets and hashtags. Every major news network solicits tweets…
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You Can’t Outrun a Google Penalty By Changing URLs

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There is no escaping a Google penalty without following the rules and doing the hard work to clear your name. It is old news that if you have suffered a penalty on your site and you moveto a new domain and redirect the URLs to that new domain,…
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Bing Adds New Timeline Feature For Half a Million Celebrities

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Bing is quickly expanding their new timeline feature for celebrities and historical figures. Just a few weeks after premiering the feature for athletes participating in the Sochi Olympics, Bing has added the feature to searches for about half…
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Google Places Quality Guidelines Get Quietly Revised

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Google is usually pretty public with their guideline revisions, but some of their smaller updates are easy to miss. Last week, Google made a small announcement of the Google Help forums that they have made a clarification update to their Google…
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Does Grammar Hurt Your Rankings? Revisited

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Pretty much anything Google's most popular engineer Matt Cutts says makes headlines in the SEO community, but often his Webmaster Chat videos and advice aren't mind-blowing by any stretch of the imagination. For instance, we recently covered…
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Bing Warns Against Keyword Stuffing in Their Webmaster Guidelines

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Google isn't the only search engine waging a war on black hat or manipulative SEO. Every major search engine has been adapting their services to fight against those trying to cheat their way to the top of the rankings. This week, Bing made their…
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