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Phishers Certainly Are Using AMP Pages Effectively

Mr-X on Wed, 2016-10-26 08:26.

Business Issues

Be aware that if you get an email from google.com/amp, it could be from a phishing site.

Phishers Certainly Are Using AMP Pages Effectively

Mr-X on Wed, 2016-10-26 08:26.

Business Issues

Be aware that if you get an email from google.com/amp, it could be from a phishing site.

Google AdSense and Facebook Ban Ads for Fake News

Mr-X on Wed, 2016-11-16 08:39.

Publishing & Content

Fake news sites are hopefully going to have a lot more difficulty staying afloat in the near future.

Will the Front Page of Google SERPs Be Fully Paid Search in the Future?

Mr-X on Mon, 2016-12-05 09:20.

Search marketing

Google is testing a new format for the front page that pushes organic results so far down the page that they're almost off of it.

There's No Such Thing As Google Sandbox

Mr-X on Tue, 2016-12-13 08:29.

Search marketing

Paranoid SEOs who love to blame Google for everything also love to whine about the "Google Sandbox." But, according to Google, there is no such thing.

Google: We Do Not Throttle or Restrict Traffic

Mr-X on Thu, 2017-01-05 12:50.

Search marketing

It's a long-running conspiracy theory in SEO that Google throttles the traffic it sends to sites. Some webmasters have, in the past and up to today, noticed strange patterns with their traffic.

Jigsaw, a Division of Google, Unveils New Machine Learning Tool to Remove "Toxic Comments"

Mr-X on Thu, 2017-02-23 08:48.

Publishing & Content

We can all guess at what "toxic comments" are. There are enough of them on the web that it's a pretty easy "know it when you see it" judgement.

Large recent DA drop? 3+ full points. Possible cause per Rand @Moz

GrowMap on Fri, 2017-02-24 13:14.

Search marketing

I track about 200 sites in the small business / marketing / social media / tech niche and almost all of them saw about a 3+ point drop in DA all at the same time.