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Practical Cybersecurity for Marketing Agencies

ActiveDEMAND

It should be easy to figure out who is responsible for security, there should be clear buy-in from every level of management, and it should be easy for any staff to raise a security concern and have action taken on it. An old employee downloaded it and shared it on Reddit.

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The History of the Google Algorithm

ClearVoice

What we now think of as “black hat” techniques, like buying links, no longer added SEO value. 2012 – Pirate The aptly named Pirate update generated negative rankings for Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) takedown requests. In fact, the opposite was true. Still, multiple copyright violations hurt rankings.

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An Overview of the Major Google Algorithm Updates of 2014

Hubspot

Pirate: A search filter designed to prevent sites that have a lot of copyright infringement reports (as filed through Google''s DMCA system) from ranking well in Google''s listings. It was first introduced in August 2012.

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Social Media Lawsuits Protect Yourself From Them | Guest Posts.

Convince & Convert

As far the legal aspect, all a trademark/copyright holder has to do is submit a DMCA request and Facebook has to review and take action on it. Notes app) from a copyrighted source that you don’t retain the license is in violation of Facebook’s TOS.

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Dot Your I’s and Cross Your T’s: Don’t Let Copyright Law Be Used Against Your Content Marketing

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

You hit “Publish”, the post is a hit, and everyone’s lining up at Whole Foods Market to buy your healthy treats. A “DMCA takedown notice” from GMO-full Food Co. then filed a DMCA takedown notice with Automattic requesting that the post be taken down on the grounds of copyright infringement. s abuse of the DMCA system.

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How Poor Website Security Negatively Impacts SEO Rankings

Single Grain

We still refer to our security certificates as SSL because it is a more commonly used term, but when you are buying SSL from Symantec you are actually buying the most up-to-date TLS certificates. Upon finding duplicate content, file a DMCA complaint with Google. What is the difference between HTTP and HTTPS?

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How Big Brands – With Help From Google & Yahoo – Finance Online Piracy

readwrite

The results, which named Google and Yahoo among the top offenders, used Google’s own Transparency Report to name the 10 ad networks with most takedown requests under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) for copyright infringement on pirated sites. But the general public has been relatively in the dark. .

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