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This day in search marketing history: January 14

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Nofollow couldn’t save the Google webmaster blog from comment spam. 2019: Google removed the ability to leave comments on Google Webmaster blog because “most of the time they were off-topic or even outright spammy.”. 2015: Return on investment rose as revenue outpaced the rise in spending. Also on this day.

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This day in search marketing history: January 12

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Google Panda was one of Google’s most significant spam-fighting algorithmsl First launched in February 2011 , the final confirmed refresh was Panda 4.2 , which started rolling out July 18, 2015. E-commerce sales jumped this holiday season as search marketers weathered Google updates. Google Panda becomes a core ranking signal.

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This day in search marketing history: January 28

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Google Now Supports Crawling & Indexing Locale-Adaptive Web Pages 2015: Google added support for webpages that dynamically changed their content based on IP origin or language settings. Does that sound like featured snippets? Because it was. We know from Google that featured snippets were introduced in January 2014.

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This day in search marketing history: January 29

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24: Google Takes Action On More Link Networks In Poland Also on this day Facebook testing brand safety topic exclusions for advertisers 2021: Citing advertisers’ brand safety concerns, Facebook said the feature would allow marketers to choose whether to show their ads alongside potentially sensitive content.

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This day in search marketing history: January 20

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Matt Cutts sticks a fork in guest blogging In 2014, Matt Cutts, the head of Google’s webspam team, took to his personal blog with a clear message: “Stick a fork in it: guest blogging is done; it’s just gotten too spammy.” ” This wasn’t the first time Google or Cutts had discussed the risks of guest blogging.

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This day in search marketing history: March 10

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Also on this day Russia-based advertisers can no longer reach global audiences on Google properties and networks 2022: This policy change took widespread ad suspensions from platforms across the industry into new territory by targeting businesses in Russia.

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This day in search marketing history: March 11

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The commission found that the “transaction would be unlikely to have harmful effects on consumers, either in ad serving or in intermediation in online advertising markets.” Static headlines now available for DSAs in Microsoft Advertising 2021: Marketers could now have full control over their ad text with Dynamic Search Ads.