One Man's Spam Is Another's Good Result: Google's New Approach To Spam

SearchDay March 11, 2011 Today's Top Stories One Man's Spam Is Another's Good Result: Google's New Approach To Spam Google announced a new search feature today -- the ability to block sites you don't want to see in your results. You can now tell Google not to add those sites into any search query they answer for you. "Over the years we've experimented with a number of ways to help ... Frank Watson  |  Full story  |  Mar 11, 2011 Google, Bing Have White Lists Of Sites Not To Be Impacted By Algo Changes Both major search engines admitted today they have 'white lists' of sites that won't be impacted by changes to their algorithms. During the Spam Police session at SMX, Google's Matt Cutts and Bing's Sasi Parthasarathy both confirmed this, the UK Register noted. "Google has admitted that it uses whitelists to manually ... Frank Watson  |  Full story  |  Mar 11, 2011 RSS More from SEW's Team of Experts Discovering the Right SoLoMo Formula The mobile discovery trend is taking on new forms with growing smartphone penetration, and a Groupon-fueled hunger for the deals infused with apps carrying the social, local, mobile (SoLoMo) banner. Michael Boland  |  Full story  |  Print version The Global Google Battle for Vertical Search With no real global search competitors, Google continues its expansion into new verticals. To survive, vertical search engines developers must do something different, do something useful, do it offline as well as online, and do it first! Andy Atkins-Krüger  |  Full story  |  Print version SEO on a Global Scale: Ranking Internationally Tips for ranking on international versions of Google, a look at worldwide ranking factors, and how to build country-specific sites. Guillaume Bouchard  |  Full story  |  Print version Facebook Pages Upgrades: What Brands Need to Know Tabs, photos, notifications, community interaction, and wall settings -- a step-by-step guide to help you use Facebook's upgraded features effectively. Kaila Strong  |  Full story  |  Print version YouTube Creator Institute Offers Video Wizards Everything Except a Quidditch Team Bing Chen, who handles YouTube Creator Initiatives and Product Marketing, announced the creation of the YouTube Creator Institute. The first initiative from YouTube Next, the school offers aspiring video wizards everything except a a Quidditch team. In a post on the YouTube Blog, ... Greg Jarboe  |  Full story  |  Mar 11, 2011 Hitwise: Bing Market Share up 5%; Google Down 2% in February 2011 Experian Hitwise's monthly look at search market share is out, and not much changed since January. Google is king, Bing is inching up, Yahoo is still around (although it's search results are powered by Bing) -- and the rest of the 69 search engines Hitwise tracks aren't even worth mentioning ... Danny Goodwin  |  Full story  |  Mar 11, 2011 Google Mobile News Roundup: Android Security, Avoid Traffic, Emergency Numbers & More Following the DroidDream Android malware scare, Google announced that they had removed the malicious applications from the Android Market, suspended the developer accounts, and contacted law enforcement, in addition to using its remote application removal feature (Android's so-called "kill switch") on affected phones. The Android Market security update they pushed ... Danny Goodwin  |  Full story  |  Mar 11, 2011 Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) Holds Forum and Track at SES New York 2011 The Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) has programmed a forum and track at SES New York 2011. The IAB is comprised of more than 500 leading media and technology companies who are responsible for selling 86 percent of online advertising in the United States. ... Greg Jarboe  |  Full story  |  Mar 10, 2011 Google Panda Update Tip: Remove Low-Quality Content Improve it or remove it. With Google's Panda Update, low-quality content can impact an entire domain, but removing these pages -- or moving them to a different domain -- can help your rankings, says Google's Michael Wyszomierski. In an update to a post created in Google Webmaster Central last week seeking ... Danny Goodwin  |  Full story  |  Mar 10, 2011 Recent Forum Posts How to crawl website pages fast? Hello world. I am working on a website, Mobile Development Experts (http://www.mobiledevelopmentexperts.com/). Its pages are not crawled by crawler for 8 to 9 days. I want to know that what should I do for my web pages that crawler comes every 2,3 days to crawl the pages. Is there any technique ... Join the discussion  |  Mar 11, 2011 Give me Suggestion to get revenue other than addsense Give me Suggestion to get revenue from website other than add-sense daily 1000 visitors is coming.. just i am using google add sense.. This is the only way to get revenue from the site or any other way is there to earn more... pls give your suggestions.. my website: crazywoods.com Join the discussion  |  Mar 10, 2011 How to drive traffic... I need to drive traffic to my website. my niche is entertainment i am using twitter and facbook but not as much of traffic getting.. pls give me the suggestion...... SMO --> facebook and twitter is using but no traffic... follower is there but not yet traffic what is the ... Join the discussion  |  Mar 10, 2011 Profile site needed Hello All I am looking for some good sites which allowed dofollow profile links with anchor text. Can any one help me here please? Join the discussion  |  Mar 9, 2011 Search News Around The Web Google May Face Antitrust Hearings In Senate - TechCrunch Google's Word Count Experiment - Google Operating System Obama Said to Consider Kindler, Schmidt for Commerce Secretary - Bloomberg BusinessWeek Google's Brin among nominees for Mikhail Gorbachev's award - Associated Press Google's Chrome Untouched at Pwn2Own Hack Event - PCWorld Click to call phone numbers - Gmail Blog Amazon.com Slammed With Lawsuit Over Instant Search Patent - TechCrunch The Big SMX West 2011 Recap - Search Engine Land Search Engine Optimization SERPS More Volatile this Week than Last; Google Still Tweaking Panda - Conductor Blog Quick & Dirty Competitive Research for Keywords - SEO Book.com Why The BEST Way To Learn SEO Doesn't Exist Yet - SEO.com If you were an SEO of a large company, what would you include in your 2011 strategy? - GoogleWebmasterHelp YouTube Channel Search Advertising Negative Keywords for Product Listing Ads - Inside AdWords Social Media Marketing How Twitter Saved Wells Fargo - (A lesson in using Social Media) - Shimon Sandler Chrysler Sacks New Media Strategies Over Errant Tweet - ClickZ LinkedIn Launches Industry News Aggregator - Marketing Pilgrim Adobe Makes Big Push Into Social Analytics - ClickZ Link Building Link Building - Creating Encyclopedic Content - Michael Gray Local & Mobile Search Google Places Dashboard - There's Good News and There's Bad News - Understanding Google Maps & Local Search SMB Search Marketing SMBs to Boost Social Media and E-mail Spending in 2011 - ClickZ SMB Social Analysis - Can Money Buy You Friends? - ClickZ International Search Selling to the multilingual UK market - Econsultancy Visit the Hiroshima Peace Memorial in Street View - Google LatLong Video Marketing The Pros and Cons of YouTube Video for Your Website - ReelSEO We want YOU-Tube: now hiring - YouTube Blog Webcasts Upcoming Events White Papers HOW TO AVOID A SOCIAL MEDIA MELTDOWN: What Today's Marketers Must Know Wednesday, March 30, 2011 1:00pm EST / 10:00am PST SES New York March 21-25, 2011 SES Shanghai 24-25 May 2011 SES Toronto June 13-15, 2011 SES San Francisco August 15-19, 2011 SES Chicago November 14-18, 2011 © Incisive Interactive Marketing LLC. 2011 All rights reserved. 120 Broadway, 6th Floor, New York, NY 10271 Data protection ClickZ is contacting you at the following address - getsolat.asep@blogger.com If you prefer not to receive this email, please unsubscribe. 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