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Google is killing off exact and phrase match in AdWords, Google Webmaster Tools Now More Important for Link Discovery and Cleanup. Google DMCA Notices Reach Record High. Plus, Jim talks to Rustybricks newest employee, an old crotchety Englishman named Lenny. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Google is prepping to issue penalties for content spam guest blogging (vs link spam)?Google Penalties Reappearing In Manual Spam Action of Webmaster Tools. Why 3 Google executivess have left for Chinese companies in a year? Google takes a page from the Pentagons radical ideas factory DARPA. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Jim, Dave and guest host Jennifer Slegg speak with Danny Goodwin who announced he is Leaving as Editor at Search Engine Watch, plus Google Domains Invites Available Through Google Employees andGoogle Updates Local Search Algorithm (called Pigeon) With Stronger Ties To Web Search Signals . Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Jim welcomes gust host Jennifer Slegg, founder of the SEM Post, to discuss headlines including: Google Rewrites Quality Rating Guide – What SEOs Need to Know; Engineers Workon Google Penguin Algo Update;  Is Web Analytics Dying? Facebook second quarter earnings:  788 million dollars  up from 331 million last year. Facebook stock  more than doubles  year to year. Advertising Inquiries: https://redc...

Microsoft to cut 18,000 jobs, reported to affect marketing, engineering and other areas where there is overlap from Nokia merger; Testing robots.txt files made easier; State of the Industry Real SEOs Solve Problems; A New Google Sandbox. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Jim welcomes  the Director of Digital Strategy at 435 Digital and Tribune Company  Carolyn Shelby. They discuss Gated Content;  Matt Cutts Takes Leave of Absence; 10 Lies You Should Never Believe From SEO Gurus;  Europe starting to see the flaws in the right to be forgotten ruling and Google executives death on Santa Cruz yacht turns lurid with prostitute arrest. Advertising Inquiries: https://red...

Is Google Respecting the Right to be forgottenasGoogle has informed journalists at the Guardian that pieces they wrote have been removed in compliance with the new EU regulations regarding the Right to be forgotten. Facebook Found Manipulating Users Emotions as a Social Experiment? PlusCommunity gets its sixth season, courtesy of Yahoo,Google social network Orkut is closing on September 30th.andJa...

Alan K'necht, partner atDigital Always Media, discusses How Universal Analytics Is Different And What You Should Be Doing Now. Plus,Google to Remove Author Images from Search Results;Bings Duane Forrester Says Adding Schema Markup Is Important For Search EnginesandGoogle announces Android L with Material Design at Google I/O. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Ou...

BC Supreme court orders removal of global search listing;Supreme Court of Canada Upholds Internet Users' Privacy;The Amazon Fire Phone;Google: Avoid Using The noscript For Content You Want Google To Trust ;302 Redirected Links Can Cause Google Manual Actions;YouTube Is About To Delete Independent Artists From Its Site Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https...

Writer/director Dominic H. White of the newly released motion picture DSKNECTD, discusses  the various ways technology may be profoundly changing the way we interact with others, and also discuss the pros and cons. Also, Jim and Dave host a World Cup Fan Roundtable with Thom Craver (Internet Marketing Ninjas), Simon Heseltine (AOL) and Eric Lander ( D50 Media). Advertising Inquiries: https://redci...

28 Percent of Webmasters Say Googles Panda Update Penalized Them;  How Google Ranks Pages That Don’t Get Many Links. Plus Mike Roberts, the founder of  from SpyFu, discusses his company web scraping software gives cost per click and search volume statistics on keywords and uses that data to approximate what websites are spending on advertising. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands P...

Jim helps us to Understanding BitCoin with Stephen DeMeulenaere, thefounder of Complementary Currency Resource Center and fellow atQoin. Also, we learn howGoogle to test self-driving cars Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Bad week to be EBay eh? AMajor hack compromised millions of profiles. The full ebay user database dumped with 145, 312 663 unique records? GooglePanda Bears Picnic as many were Hit hard by Google Panda 4.0 as Jim and Dave discuss thePanda Winners and Losers. Also, Colleen Hardwick from PlaceSpeaks wows our hosts talking about data. Related articles across the web Google Penguin and Panda Updates;...

Future ClickZ Live Speakers: Pay to Speak? We hear the buzz regarding this growing rumor. Plus, we get an account of the Keynote ClickZ Live Toronto whereTwitter Canada MD Kirstine Stewart where theFormer EVP of CBC discussesl How Twitter Fits into the Vast Digital Marketing Ecosystem. Related articles across the web Google Penguin and Panda Updates; SMX Toronto 2012 Recap SES Conference Renamed C...

Danny Sullivan on Return of SES;Google Will Not Devalue Links Soon Says Matt Cutts. Also,Google, Netflix, And Others Sign Letter Opposing The FCC's Internet Fast Laneas the FCCs new net neutrality proposal will pass is causing venture capital firms to stop funding startups with services that rely on fast Internet connections for videos, music or other services. The fear is that such companies...

Marty Weintraub explains how aimClear isExpanding Into Social Media Journalism bybuilding a five-thousand square foot multimedia production studio to do social media journalism at his office in Duluth, Minnesota. Related articles across the web Expanding Internet Marketing to Asian Markets Google +1 Button Goes Red and Gives Thanks; How To Blog Posts Conversion Optimization and Sketchy SEO Gmail H...

Dana Lookadoo recalls her near-fatal bike accident and long recovery process and Laura Lippay joins is to discuss some artisitic submissions of paintings (a head-shot Panda and a bloody teared Penguin)for aneBay Auction to help Dana financially with her recovery efforts. Jim and Dave also welcomeDamienPatton from Ban.jo, asocial discovery app that providesprovides real time content discovery by lo...

Googles Matt Cutts Knows 90 Percent Of Your SEO Questions;Google Starts Blocking Access to Paid Search Keyword Data;Google Takes Down 7 Japanese Link Networks. Also, Jim introduces us to theRunnymede Robotics team seeking funding to get to the FRC World Championships in St. Louis. Related articles across the web Google Robot Obsession; Matt Cutts Defines Stitching Content; Google Manual Penalty Sa...

ClickZ Live New York 2014 Highlights: Chair Mike Grehan Resigns;Google launches April Fools Pokemon hunt on Google Maps;Google: PageRank Not Popularity Topical PageRank Helps and Authority On Subjects Coming, Related articles across the web April Fools: Pokemon hunting comes to Google Google Adwords Third Party Ad Serving Life After Google Encrypts All Organic Search Keywords; Mega SERPS; Google:...

Recapping their Pubcon New Orleans 2014 presentation onSocial Media Analytics , Alan Knecht from Digital Always Media and Adam Proehl fromNordicClick. They discuss the importance of context when reporting your metrics, the dangers of allowing a young intern to manage your Social Media and how to get people to care about your social media efforts. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands...

MyBlogGuest Publishers Receiving Google Penalties, and one of those publishers,Ann Smarty from MyBlogGuest andInternet Marketing Ninjas Responds to Googles Action Against MyBlogGuest. MyBlogGuest is a well-known service that helps pair writers and blogs for guest blogging. Related articles across the web Ann Smarty of MyBlogGuest Responds To Google Penalty by @mattsouthern Google's Matt Cutts...

Return of the Keyword? Google Makes It Official: New Search Results Design Goes Live For All;Google Now Targeting Italian and Spanish Link Spammers;Google To Publishers Concerned Over The Knowledge Graph; Searchers Still Need Your Content   Related articles across the web Google Search Algorithm Gets Fresh Change SMX Advanced 2009 Recap AdTech New York 2009 Recap Google Launches Media Tools For Re...

Google Indexing Bug Causes The Web To Read Lorem Ipsum;Tweet Showing How Google Itself Is A Scraper Site Goes Massively Viral;As Google Upgrades Google Maps Business Listings, Conflicts Happen Including Duplicate Listing Issues Related articles across the web   Odd Google Indexing Bug Causes The Web To Read "Lorem Ipsum"   Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-O...

Apple is having a bad week:,Retires Snow Leopard, 1 in 5 macs at risk;Another bug in iPhone means more problems for users;Google teasing 34 cities with Fiber Also, Project Ara is announced, site goes live. We learn about theAmbitious 2 year plan to create modular smartphone, while explaining why Google bought and soldMotorola but kept the Advanced Technology and Projects (ATAP) group. Related arti...

Jim and Dave welcome Canadianbroadcast producer and personalityTerry O'Reilly, best known as host of theCBC Radio OneseriesO'Reilly on Advertising,The Age of Persuasion, and most recentlyUnder the Influence. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy