Quick roundup of all the SEO and marketing news from Aug 2014. I will be presenting on this at the Melbourne SEO Meetup on Sep 3rd. Blog post with more info on these : http://blog.saijogeorge.com/seo-news-roundup-aug-2014/ Get in touch with me on Twitter : @Saijo_George

1. I still think Google+ is
awesome
TRUE FALSE
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2. SEO News - Aug 2014
By : Saijo George
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3. .. and you are ?
• I am Saijo George.
• I work as an internet marketer at Envato , the folks behind sites like
ThemeForest.
• You can follow me on @Saijo_George, and checkout some of the stuff
I write about on blog.saijogeorge.com and a few other industry blogs.
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4. Aug 1 - 10
• A possible 2nd update to Google Pigeon – a local search ranking
algorithm change.
• Your Google My Business listings - Google Place Listing - Google Local
Business listing can be automatically verified if your website URL is
already part of your verified sites in Google Webmaster Tools for
certain categories. (more info)
• A/B Tests for Publisher Logo in SERP on mobile, sourced from KG
(more info)
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5. Aug 1 - 10
• GWT shows you a copy of the reconsideration request.
• Google News Publisher Center (more info) – verify ownership, add
labels and new sections.
• Updates to shipping configuration tool in Google Merchant Center
(more info)
• SSL will give you a slight ranking boost in SERP (more info) – real-time
algo, works per URL not domain (more info)
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6. Aug 1 - 10
• How Google Works a book by Eric Schmidt (more info)
• Possible Panda update 8th Aug
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7. Aug 11 - 20
• GMT warning for faulty mobile redirects (more info)
• GWT Fetch as Google now offers syntax highlighting
• Google AdSense Publishers gets pushed on to New Dashboard
• Webmaster Guidelines updated to include reference to low-quality
guest blog posts
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8. Aug 11 - 20
• New tool to Convert PLAs campaigns to Google Shopping ad
campaigns. (more info)
• Bing launched Conversational Search (more info)
• Forced close variant matching (misspellings, singular and plural
forms, acronyms, stemmings, abbreviations and accents) for all exact
and phrase keywords in Adwords. (more info) .. Bing too in US
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9. Aug 11 - 20
• Link network ~Rankseller.de~ & ~Teliad.de~ customers gets manual
penalty. (more info)
• Negative SEO extortion emails (more info) (Google Responds)
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10. Aug 20 - 31
• AdWords Launched Website Call Conversions – AU supported
• App Deeplinks on Search and YouTube Ads (more info)
• Facebook vs Click Bait - Click-Baiting Headlines & Links Within Photo Captions
(more info)
• Authorship is done – social aspect of it works, G claims they are not processing
the data, GWT authorship dashboard , RichSnippet testing tool is gone,
inpostauthor advance search is gone.
• Author Rank/ good guy algorithm ? Will they figure out all that by themselves?
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11. Aug 20 - 31
• Pinterest Analytics for business accounts
• Twitter Analytics for everyone
• Knowledge Vault - The next version of KG?
• Taking bets on Penguin 3.0
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12. Twitter : @Saijo_George – I usually tweet about #SEO and #design
Site : blog.saijogeorge.com
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13. Check out my curated list of SEO tools
http://saijogeorge.com/best-marketing-tools/
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