Google Webmaster Guidelines Update Calls “Low Quality Guest Blog Posts” Spam

Google has updated their webmaster guidelines, specifically in the little or no original content guideline, to add “low-quality guest blog posts” as an example of “scraped content.” Brian Ussery first spotted this change, noting how Google has been fighting the use of guest…

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Baidu Beats Expectations, Posts 59 Pct Revenue Growth In Q1 2014

Chinese search engine leader and advertising provider, Baidu, released financials for the first quarter of the year reporting total revenues of $ 1.53 billion USD at $ 1.24 earnings per share. That’s a 59.1 percent increase in revenue from the previous year.and beats street expectations on both…

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Baidu Posts 50 Pct. Revenue Growth But Shy Of Investor Hopes

Chinese search engine and advertising provider Baidu announced quarterly earnings today. The company fell just shy of financial analysts’ estimates, which were $ 1.54 billion (51 percent growth). Instead the company announced  $ 1.573 billion in revenue, which was a 50.3 percent increase from a…

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Ask.com Posts Most Popular Questions Of 2013 Without Waiting To See What Gets Asked In Dec.

It’s not even Thanksgiving week, but Ask.com has posted its Most Popular Questions and Search Terms for the year, listing 2013′s top ten trending terms for news, celebrity and entertainment, and political searches. According to the site, the Royal Baby ranked No. 1 for the top searched…

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Google’s Matt Cutts: When Commenting On Blog Posts, Try To Use Your Real Name

In a recent video published by Google’s head of search spam, Matt Cutts talks about are blog comments with links spam? In short, most of the time, commenting and leaving links to your site or resources is not directly spam but like anything, it can be abused. Matt offers some tips on how to…

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