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Webcology

WMR.FM Formerly Webmaster Radioredcircle.com

Webcology takes a deeper look at the ecosystem of the Internet as it affects webmasters and web marketers from the points of view of two well known web marketers, Jim Hedger and Kristine Schachinger. Based on interviews with special high-profile guests or panels, Webcology introduces, explores and explains how the various segments of the web marketing world work.

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Episodes

Google Inbox: Pros And Cons; Big 3rd Quarter For Baidu

Montreal woman wins cash from Google for Street View cleavage; Google Inbox: Ten Pros And Cons; Chinese Search Giant Baidu Reports 2.2 Billion dollars In Revenue For 3Q 2014; Google wants to detect cancer earlier with a tiny pill in blood. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/webcology/donations Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy...

Oct 31, 201454 min

Amazon Is Main Competitor to Google? Google Admits Spam Is A Hard Problem For User Generated Content Sites

Google Same-Day Delivery Expands; Schmidt Says Amazon Is Main Competitor; Google Admits Spam Is A Hard Problem For User Generated Content Sites; Is It Too Late To Disavow Links Once They Show In Google Webmaster Tools; Google Now Testing Mobile-Friendly Text Notices In Search Results; New Eye-Tracking Study from Gord Hotchkiss. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/webcology/donations Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/priva...

Oct 16, 201456 min

Canadian Shoppers Consult Smartphones Before Buying; Facebook Hyper-Local Ads

Canadian shoppers wont make purchases in-store before pulling out their phone, suggests report. Facebook Launches Hyper-Local Ads. Google+ isn’t dying anytime soon, says Googles new head of social media David Besbris. TopSEOs removed from Google index. Plus, we get a look into the Google Cloud Platform with Jeff James from Petri, and a PubCon 2014 with David McKenzie-Kong from Beanstalk SEO. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/webcology/donations Advertising Inquiries: https://redcir...

Oct 10, 201455 min

SEMPO Organizes Search Marketing Code of Ethics Meeting

SEMPO and Other Leading Search Marketing Groups Unite in Call for Delegates to Frame Search Marketing Code of Ethics as an Initial Organizational Meeting is set to be held at Pubcon 2014 in Las Vegas. SEMPO President Emeritus and SEO Rockstars host Chris Boggs fills us in. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/webcology/donations Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy...

Oct 03, 201453 min

Matt Cutts Returns ,Taunts Black Hat SEOs ; Google Severely Hits Private Blog Networks

Google Senior Engineer Matt Cutts Returns ,Taunts Black Hat SEOs; Google Severely Hits Private Blog Networks; Also, Yahoo was, for a time this week, completely worthless, at least on paper. Jim and Dave explain how that went down. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/webcology/donations Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy...

Sep 25, 201456 min

Apple CEO Tim Cook Accuses Google Of Gross Privacy Violations; Google News Publi

Tim Cook Accuses Google Of Gross Privacy Violations. Google News Publishers Reporting HTTPS Migration Going Smoothly; Webmasters Reporting Google Sitelinks Searchbox Now Taking Queries To Their Sites; Apple Tries to Distance Itself From Facebook and Google on Privacy; Bing: 130 Million URLs Removed For URL Keyword Stuffing. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/webcology/donations Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy...

Sep 18, 201454 min

Facebook Testing Self-Destructing Status Updates? More Penguin and Google Algori

More Penguin and Google Algorithm Update Info; Google Hangouts now offers free voice calls to numbers in the US and Canada; The Economic Viability of Live Digital Conferences; Facebook Testing Self-Destructing Status Updates After Specified Time; Google Knowledge Graph Now With In The News Box. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/webcology/donations Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy...

Sep 11, 201455 min

Facebook Testing Self-Destructing Status Updates? More Penguin and Google Algorithm Update Info

More Penguin and Google Algorithm Update Info;Google Hangouts now offers free voice calls to numbers in the US and Canada; The Economic Viability of Live Digital Conferences; Facebook Testing Self-Destructing Status Updates After Specified Time; Google Knowledge Graph Now With In The News Box. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/webcology/donations Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy...

Sep 11, 201455 min

SEOs! - Here Come the Holidays! Could DuckDuckGo Overtake Bing?

Hey SEOs! - Here Come the Holidays! Google Hangout Box Now Appears In Search Results; Google will refund at least 19 million dollars to parents billed for purchases their children made; Disavow File Now Enough For Inorganic Links; Could DuckDuckGo Overtake Bing? Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/webcology/donations Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy...

Sep 04, 201455 min

Why You Should Care About PageRank; Amazon Plans Their Own Online Advertising

Jim and Dave discuss Why You Should Care About PageRank; Eric Schmidt says unbreakable encryption is coming;Amazon is planning to launch their own online advertising program, which includes replacing all of Googles ads; Google Wins 1.3 Million Dollars From a Patent Troll; Google Spam Patent Reverse Engineers Local Listings. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/webcology/donations Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy...

Aug 28, 201454 min

Google AdWords Takes Out Exact and Phrase Match; Google DMCA Notices Reach Record High

Google is killing off exact and phrase match in AdWords, Google Webmaster Tools Now More Important for Link Discovery and Cleanup. Google DMCA Notices Reach Record High. Plus, Jim talks to Rustybricks newest employee, an old crotchety Englishman named Lenny. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/webcology/donations Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy...

Aug 21, 201455 min

Google Penalties for Content Spam Guest Blogging and Manual Spam Action of Webmaster Tools

Google is prepping to issue penalties for content spam guest blogging (vs link spam)?Google Penalties Reappearing In Manual Spam Action of Webmaster Tools. Why 3 Google executivess have left for Chinese companies in a year? Google takes a page from the Pentagons radical ideas factory DARPA. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/webcology/donations Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy...

Aug 14, 201454 min

Search Engine Watch Editor Departs; Google Domains Invites Available

Jim, Dave and guest host Jennifer Slegg speak with Danny Goodwin who announced he is Leaving as Editor at Search Engine Watch, plus Google Domains Invites Available Through Google Employees andGoogle Updates Local Search Algorithm (called Pigeon) With Stronger Ties To Web Search Signals . Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/webcology/donations Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy...

Jul 31, 201456 min

Google Rewrites Quality Rating Guide; Is Web Analytics Dying? Huge Facebook Q2 Earnings

Jim welcomes gust host Jennifer Slegg, founder of the SEM Post, to discuss headlines including: Google Rewrites Quality Rating Guide – What SEOs Need to Know; Engineers Workon Google Penguin Algo Update; Is Web Analytics Dying? Facebook second quarter earnings: 788 million dollars up from 331 million last year. Facebook stock more than doubles year to year. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/webcology/donations Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Ou...

Jul 24, 201456 min

Microsoft To Cut 18,000 Jobs; Real SEOs Solve Problems; A New Google Sandbox

Microsoft to cut 18,000 jobs, reported to affect marketing, engineering and other areas where there is overlap from Nokia merger; Testing robots.txt files made easier; State of the Industry Real SEOs Solve Problems; A New Google Sandbox. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/webcology/donations Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy...

Jul 17, 201454 min

10 Lies You Should Never Believe From SEO Gurus; Gated Content; Flaws in EU Rig

Jim welcomes the Director of Digital Strategy at 435 Digital and Tribune Company Carolyn Shelby. They discuss Gated Content; Matt Cutts Takes Leave of Absence; 10 Lies You Should Never Believe From SEO Gurus; Europe starting to see the flaws in the right to be forgotten ruling and Google executives death on Santa Cruz yacht turns lurid with prostitute arrest. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/webcology/donations Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-...

Jul 10, 201455 min

Is Google Respecting the Right to be Forgotten; Facebook Found Manipulating Users Emotions

Is Google Respecting the Right to be forgottenasGoogle has informed journalists at the Guardian that pieces they wrote have been removed in compliance with the new EU regulations regarding the Right to be forgotten. Facebook Found Manipulating Users Emotions as a Social Experiment? PlusCommunity gets its sixth season, courtesy of Yahoo,Google social network Orkut is closing on September 30th.andJason Calacanis Wants Revenge Against Google andMatt Cutts For Destroying Mahalo. Support this podcast...

Jul 03, 201456 min

How Universal Analytics Is Different And What You Should Be Doing Now

Alan K'necht, partner atDigital Always Media, discusses How Universal Analytics Is Different And What You Should Be Doing Now. Plus,Google to Remove Author Images from Search Results;Bings Duane Forrester Says Adding Schema Markup Is Important For Search EnginesandGoogle announces Android L with Material Design at Google I/O. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/webcology/donations Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy...

Jun 26, 201455 min

British Columbia Supreme Court Orders Removal of Global Search Listing; Supreme Court of Canada Upholds Internet Users' Privacy

BC Supreme court orders removal of global search listing;Supreme Court of Canada Upholds Internet Users' Privacy;The Amazon Fire Phone;Google: Avoid Using The noscript For Content You Want Google To Trust ;302 Redirected Links Can Cause Google Manual Actions;YouTube Is About To Delete Independent Artists From Its Site Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/webcology/donations Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy...

Jun 19, 201454 min

DSKNECTD: How Technology Changes The Way We Interact; World Cup Fan Roundtable

Writer/director Dominic H. White of the newly released motion picture DSKNECTD, discusses the various ways technology may be profoundly changing the way we interact with others, and also discuss the pros and cons. Also, Jim and Dave host a World Cup Fan Roundtable with Thom Craver (Internet Marketing Ninjas), Simon Heseltine (AOL) and Eric Lander ( D50 Media). Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/webcology/donations Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt...

Jun 12, 201455 min

Google Panda Update Penalities; SpyFu Web Scraping Valuable Data

28 Percent of Webmasters Say Googles Panda Update Penalized Them; How Google Ranks Pages That Don’t Get Many Links. Plus Mike Roberts, the founder of from SpyFu, discusses his company web scraping software gives cost per click and search volume statistics on keywords and uses that data to approximate what websites are spending on advertising. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/webcology/donations Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redc...

Jun 05, 201455 min

Understanding BitCoin; Google Driverless Cars

Jim helps us to Understanding BitCoin with Stephen DeMeulenaere, thefounder of Complementary Currency Resource Center and fellow atQoin. Also, we learn howGoogle to test self-driving cars Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/webcology/donations Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy...

May 29, 201455 min

Major Hack: Bad Week to be eBay; Google Panda Bears Picnic

Bad week to be EBay eh?AMajor hack compromised millions of profiles. The full ebay user database dumped with 145, 312 663 unique records? GooglePanda Bears Picnic as many were Hit hard by Google Panda 4.0 as Jim and Dave discuss thePanda Winners and Losers. Also, Colleen Hardwick from PlaceSpeaks wows our hosts talking about data. Related articles across the web Google Penguin and Panda Updates; SMX Toronto 2012 Recap Hacker Prevention and Website Privacy and Safety Awareness Hacksymetric Warfar...

May 22, 201456 min

Future ClickZ Live Speakers: Pay to Speak Rumor? Click Z Live Toronto 2014

Future ClickZ Live Speakers: Pay to Speak? We hear the buzz regarding this growing rumor. Plus, we get an account of the Keynote ClickZ Live Toronto whereTwitter Canada MD Kirstine Stewart where theFormer EVP of CBC discussesl How Twitter Fits into the Vast Digital Marketing Ecosystem. Related articles across the web Google Penguin and Panda Updates; SMX Toronto 2012 Recap SES Conference Renamed ClickZ Live; Google Feature Requests For Webmaster Tools SEO Then and Now Support this podcast at — h...

May 15, 201456 min

Danny Sullivan on Return of SES; Google Will Not Devalue Links Soon Says Matt Cutts

Danny Sullivan on Return of SES;Google Will Not Devalue Links Soon Says Matt Cutts. Also,Google, Netflix, And Others Sign Letter Opposing The FCC's Internet Fast Laneas the FCCs new net neutrality proposal will pass is causing venture capital firms to stop funding startups with services that rely on fast Internet connections for videos, music or other services. The fear is that such companies may need to pay a ransom to large ISPs in the future, and those fees could dramatically impact their pro...

May 08, 201457 min

Expanding Into Social Media Journalism

Marty Weintraub explains how aimClear isExpanding Into Social Media Journalism bybuilding a five-thousand square foot multimedia production studio to do social media journalism at his office in Duluth, Minnesota. Related articles across the web Expanding Internet Marketing to Asian Markets Google +1 Button Goes Red and Gives Thanks; How To Blog Posts Conversion Optimization and Sketchy SEO Gmail Hacked in China; Standardized Search Results Facebook Graph Search Impacting Business Pages Facebook ...

May 01, 201456 min

Dana Lookadoo and Her Road to Recovery; Social Discovery App Ban.jo; Google Terminology Changes

Dana Lookadoo recalls her near-fatal bike accident and long recovery process and Laura Lippay joins is to discuss some artisitic submissions of paintings (a head-shot Panda and a bloody teared Penguin)for aneBay Auction to help Dana financially with her recovery efforts. Jim and Dave also welcomeDamienPatton from Ban.jo, asocial discovery app that providesprovides real time content discovery by location across multiple social networks. Also, Thom Craver from Internet Marketing Ninjas drops in to...

Apr 24, 201455 min

Google Starts Blocking Access to Paid Search Keyword Data; Matt Cutts Controversial Interview Post

Googles Matt Cutts Knows 90 Percent Of Your SEO Questions;Google Starts Blocking Access to Paid Search Keyword Data;Google Takes Down 7 Japanese Link Networks. Also, Jim introduces us to theRunnymede Robotics team seeking funding to get to the FRC World Championships in St. Louis. Related articles across the web Google Robot Obsession; Matt Cutts Defines Stitching Content; Google Manual Penalty Sandbox Google? Link Schemes; Matt Cutts on Expandable Hidden Text; ?BlackBerry? lays off 250 Majestic...

Apr 11, 201455 min

ClickZ Live New York 2014 Highlights; Google Launches April Fools Pokemon Hunt

ClickZ Live New York 2014 Highlights: Chair Mike Grehan Resigns;Google launches April Fools Pokemon hunt on Google Maps;Google: PageRank Not Popularity Topical PageRank Helps and Authority On Subjects Coming, Related articles across the web April Fools: Pokemon hunting comes to Google Google Adwords Third Party Ad Serving Life After Google Encrypts All Organic Search Keywords; Mega SERPS; Google: Retiring PageRank? Page Speed Ranking Factor Not More Important On Mobile Search; Yahoo Defeats Goog...

Apr 04, 201455 min
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