Google Penguin Tightens the Noose on Manipulative Link Profiles [Report]
– searchenginewatch.com/seo
A new report says that Google’s Penguin update is getting stricter. Initially, websites with about 80 percent manipulative links saw their rankings demoted. Now Google Penguin is hitting sites with link profiles composed of 65 percent of bad links.
Open Letter To EU Competition Commissioner Exerts Pressure For Tougher “Vertical Search” Settlement With Google
– searchengineland.com
Late last week a group of Google critics, rivals and complainants sent an “open letter” to EU competition commissioner Joaquín Almunia asking him to focus on the “vertical search” or “search neutrality” dimensions of the Google antitrust case. The letter says,…