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  Search Engine Land The latest brand getting attention over buying links. This time, it's Dun & Bradstreet Credibility Corporation.

  

  What Can We Learn From The Latest Brand To Be Called Out For Paid... searchengineland.com

  Move over JC Penney. Another brand is getting attention over buying links, this time Dun & Bradstreet Credibility Corporation. Today’s news is less news and more a reminder of lessons that SEO companies, clients and publishers...

  5 days ago
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  Search Engine Land In Wake Of Penguin, Could You Be Sued For Linking To Others?

  

  In Wake Of Penguin, Could You Be Sued For Linking To Others? searchengineland.com

  Many webmasters have been desperately trying to fix poor SEO work done to a site thanks to the recent Penguin update targeting webspam and the bad link warnings sent from Google.  The only current way to discredit a link is to...

  12 days ago
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  Search Engine Land The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Thompson told Yahoo’s board of directors that he’s been diagnosed with thyroid cancer, and that his decision to leave the Yahoo CEO post was influenced “in part” by the diagnosis.

  

  Report: Scott Thompson to Step Down As Yahoo CEO, Ross Levinsohn To... searchengineland.com

  Kara Swisher at AllThingsD is reporting that embattled CEO Scott Thompson is going to step down for “personal reasons.” Swisher has one or more “moles” inside Yahoo and consistently gets inside information, which generally...

  14 days ago
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  Search Engine Land Bing's got a new look.

  

  The New Bing: Microsoft Tries Again With Search Meets Social searchengineland.com

  Bing announced a relaunch of its search engine today, with a big emphasis on bringing social into search. But wait! Didn’t Bing already have social as part of its search experience? Yes, but now the search engine hopes to do it...

  17 days ago
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  Search Engine Land Google's Matt Cutts spent some time answering follow-up questions about the Penguin Update. He also suggested site owners to review two videos he’s done on how to pull sites out of link networks that seem out of webmasters' control.

  

  Two Weeks In, Google Talks Penguin Update, Ways To Recover &... searchengineland.com

  It’s been about two weeks since Google launched its Penguin Update. Google’s happy the new spam-fighting algorithm is improving things as intended. But some hurt by it are still wondering how to recover, and there remain...

  18 days ago
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  Search Engine Land Bill Hunt provides a step-by-step process for migrating complex international sites.

  8 Steps To Maximize Success In Global Site Migrations searchengineland.com

  With the change from winter to spring, we are seeing a lot of companies bringing their international sites out of hibernation and refreshing them with new looks as well as new content. I am seeing this even more new sites...

  20 days ago
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  Search Engine Land Google has never really talked about Google Quality Raters publicly before, until today. Check out Matt Cutts as he goes through the Quality Raters process.

  

  Video: Google Speaks About Search Quality Raters searchengineland.com

  Google’s head of web spam, Matt Cutts, has published a video talking about a topic that Google has never really talked about publicly before – Google Quality Raters. The video goes through the process used by Google with these...

  26 days ago
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  Search Engine Land Lists like this aren't perfect, but there are some surprises. FWIW, the only way to really know if the latest update hurt or helped you is to look at your search-driven traffic from Google, rather than rankings.

  

  Winners & Losers From Google's Webspam Update searchengineland.com

  Yesterday, Google rolled out a new search algorithm it says should better prevent webspam from polluting its search results. That’s already produced changes. Who won and who lost? Searchmetrics has done a quick analysis....

  1 month ago
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  Search Engine Land No catchy name associated with this update, unfortunately.

  

  Google Launches Update Targeting Webspam In Search Results searchengineland.com

  Google has announced that it is releasing a new search algorithm that it hopes will better catch people who spam its search results or purposely do things to rank better that are against Google’s publishers guidelines. Going...

  1 month ago