The SEO Conch House Story: Scraped Amazon Content That Ranked Incredibly In Google Search

Matt Diggity interviewed the two of the six people who ran Conch-House.com, site that completely dominated the Google search results for a couple of months. In short, they posted 6,000 posts per day by scrapping review content from Amazon. The site grew to 6 million users and $19,000 per day within one month but the site was penalized by Google and no longer ranks now.

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Fancy Donuts At The GooglePlex

Fancy Donuts at Google

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Daily Search Forum Recap: June 9, 2023

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today...

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Google Ads Industry Wide Blocks For Trademarks Going Away July 24

Google is updated its Google Ads trademark policies to do away with the ability to have industry-wide blocks for trademarked terms. Instead, you will need to do this on the specific advertiser level.

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Google Checks To See If XML Sitemaps Change Before Reprocessing

Google's Gary Illyes confirmed that Google does indeed check to see if an XML sitemap has a change in it before reprocessing the XML sitemap file.

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Peter The Greeter & Android Mascot Together At Google

Peter The Greeter With An Android Mascot

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Daily Search Forum Recap: June 8, 2023

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web.

Google Ads API version 14 is out...

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Turkish Googlers Event In Dublin

Turkish Googlers

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Daily Search Forum Recap: June 7, 2023

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Bing Search Tests Short Search Menu With Fewer Options

Microsoft Bing Search is testing showing fewer options in the search bar menu below the search box. We saw this with Bing Image search before and now we are seeing this with Bing web search.

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Cool Space & Door At Google Boulder Office

Cool Space & Door At Google Boulder Office

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Daily Search Forum Recap: June 6, 2023

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web.

Seems like there is a Google search ranking algorithm update going on now, it's not confirmed by Google...

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Google Ads Advertiser Console Currently Down

The Google Ads interface and advertising console is currently down. It has been down for the past 40 minutes or so, going down a bit after 9am ET.

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Google View In 3D Product Results With QR Code To View On Mobile

The other day we reported that Google was showing 3D product images not just on mobile search but on desktop. Now, Google is testing showing a QR code that the searcher can scan with their mobile phone so they can quickly see the product in 3D, since that is hard to do on desktop devices.

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Google Search Local Library Book Availability

Google Search can now show you both e-book and physical hardcover book availability at a library near you. In 2017, Google offered this feature for e-books but now it seems available for physical books as well, although, I am not sure how new this is.

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Google Caviar

Caviar At Google Hong Kong

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Daily Search Forum Recap: June 5, 2023

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Bing Chat increased its limits...

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Bing Chat Increased Limits, Added More Travel Visuals & Expanded Bing Image Creator

Bing Chat now can handle 30 chat turns per conversation, up from 20, and a total of 300 chats per day. Also, the travel results can be more visual and Bing Image Creator works in all chat modes, not just "creative."

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Looking Bad Near Bad Looking Android Statue (Bad As In Good)

Looking Bad Next To Bad Looking Android Statue

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Daily Search Forum Recap: June 2, 2023

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web.

Google may be rolling out a new featured snippet style...

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Google Rolling Out Multiple Featured Snippets On Desktop Search

Google Search is now rolling out more featured snippets, this is not the new perspectives that it said would be coming at its Google I/O event, despite what I wrote in the original story. It is basically where Google shows more than one featured snippet, often two or three.

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Google Search Generative Experience Results Are Not Really Personalized

Google's all-new search engine, the Search Generative Experience, which began to rollout for some, is really not more personalized than what you get from Google's traditional search results. Google is currently not offering a more personalized search result set or AI generative answer based on who you are.

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Microsoft: Bing Chat To Work On All Browsers Soon

Microsoft will bring Bing Chat to all browsers and not force you to use Microsoft Edge to use Bing Chat, in the near future. When exactly, we are not sure, but Bing's CEO, Mikhail Parakhin, has been saying that on Twitter for numerous weeks now.

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Google Bard Can Now Provide More Precise Local Results

Google released an update to Google Bard last night that allows you to share your precise location with Bard for it to give you more accurate and relevant local results.

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"A Home Away From Home" Mural In Google NYC

A Home Away From Home Google NYC Mural

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