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Google Quality Rater Guidelines 2014

Bill Hartzer

I just got ahold of the latest copy of Google’s Quality Rater Guidelines, with a date of March 2014. Now, I have gotten a copy of the guidelines, and have set up the “pay with a tweet” service in order for you to download a copy of this document. Part 2: Utility Rating Guideline.

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Google Adds Report Spam, Paid Links, Malware Page to Quality Guidelines Navigation

Bill Hartzer

In the past 24 hours, Google appears to have added a new page as a part of their quality guidelines: a page that explains how to report spam, paid links, malware, and other problems. Previously this page was not a part of their quality guidelines located here. Objectionable Content. Paid Links. Copyright Issues.

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How to analyze results from Google PageSpeed Insights

Razor Social

You ran Google Page Speed Insights test and you got a low score but the stats displayed are a bit confusing? Google wants to provide the best possible user experience to users. Google wants to provide the best possible user experience to users. What is Google PageSpeed Insights? Guideline: Time to interactive.

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Using Google AdSense Hurts Mobile User Experience, Violates Google’s Own Guidelines

Bill Hartzer

Adding Google AdSense to your website hurts the mobile user experience on your website and violates Google’s own suggested guidelines. Using Google’s own Pagespeed Insights tool , I found that there is one particular section of the results, under User Experience, that gave me a score of 99 out of 100.

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Dark Social in 2023: Here’s Why (and How) You Should Track It

Hootsuite

Dark social is sharing content or mentioning brands on private social media channels, including through direct messaging, email, private groups, and more. Private social media channels , such as closed Facebook Groups, private subreddits, or personal profile content shared only with friends/followers. URL shortener. dark social.

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The Anatomy of a Google Reconsideration Request: Manual Link Penalty

Bill Hartzer

As you know, I have helped numerous businesses and site owners respond to Google’s manual link penalties. And get those manual link penalties removed or revoked by Google. And not all sites have received manual link penalty messages from Google. Documented everything in a Google spreadsheet.

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Google Not Following Own Best Practices for Own Web Site

Bill Hartzer

But that doesn’t always happen, even if you are Google. I have uncovered a few instances where Google is not following its own standards when it comes to the industry’s best practices. And Google is not just doing this a few times: Google is doing this over 26,000 times ! Post on Google Buzz.

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