YouTube Upsets Creators With Another Policy Change via @MattGSouthern

ADVERTISEMENT YouTube has again upset creators after implementing another policy change that may impact the content published by popular channels. After recently infuriating creators with changes to its monetization policies, YouTube has updated its harassment policy to no longer allow certain types of content: “We will no longer allow content that maliciously insults someone based…

Microsoft brings visual search to Windows search bar

Windows users can now initiate Bing visual searches right from the search bar, without having to open up a browser, Microsoft announced on Monday. The feature is first rolling out to U.S. users, with international markets to follow shortly after. Users can submit a full or partial screenshot to search for objects in an image.…

6 Easy But Stupid SEO Tactics You Must Avoid via @seocounseling

We all should know by now the top common black hat tactics to avoid. Most SEO professionals like to think of themselves as white hat, or at least gray hat. However, did you know that there are several white hat strategies that can seriously hurt your long-term SEO performance? The reason most of these white…

Understanding Biases in Search & Recommender Systems via @gregjarboe

One of the most thought-provoking presentations at TechSEO Boost was the keynote by Dr. Ricardo Baeza-Yates, the CTO of NTENT. It was entitled, “Biases in Search and Recommender Systems.” Spoiler alert: Bias is bad; delivering and monetizing the most relevant content based on user intent is good. Now, prior to joining NTENT in June 2016,…

SMX Overtime: Managing your online business reviews

Last month I spoke at SMX East about scaling online reputation management – specifically reviews. At the end of my presentation, “14 Tips to Scale Reviews Across Multiple Locations,” I fielded a number of fantastic questions from session attendees and wanted to follow-up on some additional ones. How do I convince clients to respond to…