Google Crashes Facebook Home’s Easy Updating Party, Now Requires All Play Apps To Be Updated Through The Play Store – TechCrunch"An app downloaded from Google Play may not modify, replace or update its own APK binary code using any method other...
A non-cynical view of Google’s most recent algorithm changes (Penguin, Panda…) suggests the motivation behind them – reducing web spam in search, punishing links in bad neighborhoods etc.is at least, in part, driven by a move towards a "long-term...
While we must be aware, and understand, things like Google Panda/Penguin and other major changes in the algorithms, if we focus on doing “good marketing”, all other things should fall in line, and major algorithm changes shouldn’t be a concern.
Editor's note: This story has been updated to include statements from Google, Bing, and UBL. As a result, whenever Places appears on the first page of Google results, and you are in the Local Paid Inclusion program, you should appear in that area...
But the "Online Communities" session covers this area and the "Blogging for Business" and "SEO Through Blogs & Feeds" sessions he just must have missed. Remember, one of the company's founders, Dave Pasternak's statements about SEO "not being...
The last thing you need in the Google index is an error page. The call to the server generates a 301 redirect to the custom 404 page described above, but most important, it returns a "Server Response" of 404 not found.
My company has successfully distributed press releases through this channel into Google's universal results. Standard Visibility: Basic submission, inclusion on Google and Yahoo News, two-day distribution, $80.
Tim's company, SiteTuners, offers tools for this purpose, as does Google with Google Website Optimizer. It's an excellent and comprehensive guide to landing page optimization, and this column will extract some of the key concepts Tim covers in the...
Bill Slawski Uncovers Patent Info About Google Quality Scoring"A trio of patent applications from Google look at estimating the likelihood that an advertisement is a good one, in a method that goes beyond counting click-through-rates (CTR...
Google Updates Display of Top AdWords Ads AdWords ads appearing above search results on Google.com now have a new look, according to the Inside AdWords blog. AOL Launches Google-Powered Search Marketplace As they said they would when they expanded...
The amount of click fraud detected by Google remains in single-digit percentages of total clicks, and the amount that slips through to advertisers is just 0.02 percent, according to Google. Google Content Will Report Publishers, Allow Separate...
A longer version of this story for Search Engine Watch members covers more of Cutts' talk, including a look at Google's indexing practices, and conspiracy theories debunked. When it comes to the cold call e-mails from companies offering tricks to...
Google Clarifies Some Webmaster GuidelinesGoogle has made some minor changes to its Webmaster guidelines, which appear to be aimed at clarifying policies rather than substantially changing them. Using Google Webmaster Tools to increase your link...
Google Groups Becoming a Gold Mine for SEO InformationGoogle Groups recently relaunched with a new look and feel. Google Webmaster Team Clarifies NofollowGooglers confirm that Googlebot will not follow the rel="nofollow" tag.
Webmaster Radio’s Jim Hedger caused quite a stir with his exposé on botnets, click fraud, and terrorists profiting from Google's AdWords program. Google Apps Gets aDFor Domain Registration, that is. Shoemaker said he had made $2 million over the...
The world's first private woman space tourist Anousheh Ansari made a long distance call to the Googlplex to talk with Google co-founder Larry Page. Google has highlights of some of their call here; including space fun, space food, space...
Google Sued Over Personalized Search Patent eBay Signs International Paid Search Deal With Google - eBay has reached a deal with Google to offer up paid search ads eBay's sites outside the US and do click to call in both the US and internationally.
The Google Image Labeler game is designed to help Google improve its image search results through tagging -- and feels like a catch-up game with human-powered efforts that Yahoo is embracing via Flickr.
Google, Yahoo and MSN are also monitored by a combination of digital tracking systems. What do Google, Yahoo, AOL and Microsoft's MSN know about you? If you've logged into Google, Yahoo or MSN to use any of their services, chances are when you...
Today's search podcast covers Yahoo's stock dropping on delays with its new ad system; keyword prices dropping; Google Finance getting cool conference call transcript links; Yahoo makes it easy to learn your house's worth; a semantic web...
