This day in search marketing history: January 29 – Search Engine Land

Google penalizes French link network

In 2014, Google’s Matt Cutts tweeted, “Today we’re taking action on a French link network that violates our quality guidelines (Buzzea).”

Buzzea was less than thrilled about being called a link network, saying they “oppose this assertion since we never stopped wanting to keep the ethical side of sponsored articles focusing on quality and natural links created.” As a result of the penalty, Buzzea officially called it quits.

Read all about it in Google Takes Down Another Link Network, France’s Buzzea.

This was hardly the first link network Google had gone after:

Buzzea would be just the first of several link networks Google identified and took action against later in 2014:

Also on this day

2021: Citing advertisers’ brand safety concerns, Facebook said the feature would allow marketers to choose whether to show their ads alongside potentially sensitive content.

2020: URLs shown in featured snippets that appeared in the right rail of Google desktop…

Read Full Story: https://news.google.com/__i/rss/rd/articles/CBMiR2h0dHBzOi8vc2VhcmNoZW5naW5lbGFuZC5jb20vc2VhcmNoLW1hcmtldGluZy1oaXN0b3J5LWphbnVhcnktMjktMzkyMzM20gEA?oc=5

The post This day in search marketing history: January 29 – Search Engine Land first appeared on SEO, Marketing and Social News | OneSEOCompany.com.

source: https://news.oneseocompany.com/2023/01/28/this-day-in-search-marketing-history-january-29-search-engine-land_2023012839841.html

Your content is great. However, if any of the content contained herein violates any rights of yours, including those of copyright, please contact us immediately by e-mail at media[@]kissrpr.com.