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>that shortly after this made the rounds in the marketing communities I'd love to read more about this. Do you have any recommended "marketing communities" tha

>that shortly after this made the rounds in the marketing communities I'd love to read more about this. Do you have any recommended "marketing communities" that I should visit?

vgeek 5y ago
https://searchengineland.com/google-ebay-penalty-cost-197031 https://searchengineland.com/google-ebay-penalty-cost-197031 This relates to the ebay penalty. I think one of SEland's founders actually left to take a job at Google as an evangelist. You can probably search for "ebay seo penalty" and find more references. Other notable penalties that were well documented include RapGenius and GV backed Thumbtack and Nest, which quickly had their penalties reversed if I recall correctly. https://seobook.com/blog https://seobook.com/blog is the only place I follow any more, since it is more critical of the digital marketing ecosystem. There are so many snake oil salespeople and clueless marketers, so this is a refreshing commentary. https://seroundtable.com https://seroundtable.com is good for rumors and breaking news. https://www.seobythesea.com/ https://www.seobythesea.com/ a more technical blog that frequently examines Google's patents.
- JustARandomGuy 5y ago
  Very kind of you. Thanks.
- marc_io 5y ago
  Thanks for the links, but regarding seobook.com/blog: it is quite strange to see a blog about SEO without HTTPS, which is a ranking signal since 2014 (1). (1) https://developers.google.com/search/blog/2014/08/https-as-ranking-signal https://developers.google.com/search/blog/2014/08/https-as-r...
  - stavros 5y ago
    Not only without HTTPS, but actively stripping it, too!
  - vgeek 5y ago
    No idea why he doesn't have https enabled, but he probably knows it is disabled and explicitly wants it that way. He has covered plenty of technical SEO topics, but is more of a commentary on the industry now. I'd probably filter out the politics, but a good majority of the marketing/advertising content is spot on.

>that shortly after this made the rounds in the marketing communities I'd love to read more about this. Do you have any recommended "marketing communities" that I should visit?

vgeek 5y ago

https://searchengineland.com/google-ebay-penalty-cost-197031 https://searchengineland.com/google-ebay-penalty-cost-197031 This relates to the ebay penalty. I think one of SEland's founders actually left to take a job at Google as an evangelist. You can probably search for "ebay seo penalty" and find more references. Other notable penalties that were well documented include RapGenius and GV backed Thumbtack and Nest, which quickly had their penalties reversed if I recall correctly. https://seobook.com/blog https://seobook.com/blog is the only place I follow any more, since it is more critical of the digital marketing ecosystem. There are so many snake oil salespeople and clueless marketers, so this is a refreshing commentary. https://seroundtable.com https://seroundtable.com is good for rumors and breaking news. https://www.seobythesea.com/ https://www.seobythesea.com/ a more technical blog that frequently examines Google's patents.

JustARandomGuy 5y ago
Very kind of you. Thanks.
marc_io 5y ago
Thanks for the links, but regarding seobook.com/blog: it is quite strange to see a blog about SEO without HTTPS, which is a ranking signal since 2014 (1). (1) https://developers.google.com/search/blog/2014/08/https-as-ranking-signal https://developers.google.com/search/blog/2014/08/https-as-r...
- stavros 5y ago
  Not only without HTTPS, but actively stripping it, too!
- vgeek 5y ago
  No idea why he doesn't have https enabled, but he probably knows it is disabled and explicitly wants it that way. He has covered plenty of technical SEO topics, but is more of a commentary on the industry now. I'd probably filter out the politics, but a good majority of the marketing/advertising content is spot on.