New Year's Eve 2017 Google Logo & Bing Theme

Today is New Year's Eve 2017, the last day of 2017 and of course, both Google and Bing have special logos and designs. Here is the Bing background: Here is the static Google Doodle: To see the full Penguin slide show of New Years...

Daily Search Forum Recap: December 29, 2017

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web...

Search Buzz Video Recap: Google Spam Update, SEO Tips, AdWords Tests & Christmas Workers

This week Google may have pushed another algorithm update...

New Google Update Targets Link Spam & Other Unnatural Links?

For the past few days, I have been tracking webmaster forum chatter around another update that may have started around December 26th or so. The dates are a bit fuzzy...

Google: Fetching Content From Other Web Sites Does Not Add Value

You see this a lot in the publishing world, where you have the same article published on hundreds of web sites. Normally it is from a news source like AP, where they send out the feed, third party publishers fetch it and then post it on their site...