Ensure these four are in the list: http://blogsearch.google.com/ping/RPC2 http://rpc.pingomatic.com/ http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping http://www.feedburner.com/fb/a/pingSubmit? Why this is good for SEO: WordPress’ default setting sets all pages...
Here's a very condensed breakdown of the top five factors that drive Google's local search algorithms: Generally, a structured citation has the schema.org mark-up, which allows the search engine spiders across Google, Bing and Yahoo to read the data.
When the report is complete you will probably notice that the links on the list are from domains that have been deindexed by Google. The links designated as SUSP 7 and 9 are the ones you may want to investigate further as these are many times found...
If you haven’t heard about NAP data in your Google+ account profile, you better figure it out because your smiling child beat you to it. Go to getlisted.org and bask in the glory of knowing that you are about to get connected with the kids and hard...
However, I would say that the true precursor to Google Knowledge is Google.org's social good project, Google Crisis Response. To the Google.org team, looking at the search query data and speed of response from the current process, that they would...
Unlike Google, Bing doesn’t require that you’ve removed or redirected the original content. Like Google Webmaster Tools (GWT), Bing's Webmaster Tools provides some great data for webmasters to use and address potential SEO issues.
Google+ The Olympics use of Google+ has proved meaningful for engagement and activity. Over 300,000 users have the London 2012 Google+ page in their circles, with many posts receiving well over 50 comments and +1s.
Late Friday, heading into the long weekend, Google’s head of webspam Matt Cutts announced a Penguin data refresh now known as Penguin 1.1. A) Remove all of the crap sitewide links, weird anchors first, B) continue building good links and C) take...
Ever wonder what Google looked like back in 1998? FREE – Search Status: Gives access to PageRank on the fly but also, with the click of a button gives fast access to Google caches, Trends, related links and more.month – MetroFax: There are many...
A consortium of the major search engines - Google, Microsoft and Yahoo. Search engines, and in particular Google, have begun using the data in rich snippets. Google provides a rich snippets testing tool, which you can use to test your markup and...
In the past four years or so, we’ve seen varying levels of hysteria over Google Suggest (later renamed Autocomplete), Search Options, Social Search at the bottom of the SERPs and later incorporated in organic results, Realtime Search, Google...
Google today has posted some "myths and facts" about Google's privacy policy put out by the likes of Microsoft and FairSearch.org. The great Google privacy policy change freak out continues. In the latest developments, Google has defended its...
In addition to Google, here are some other stats the LA Times reported out of the mass online protest yesterday: million people signed a similar petition to Google’s at Avaaz.org. In September, Senators questioned whether Google had too much power.
In Europe, Google accounts for more than 90 percent market share. Meaning, if you're in Germany you will automatically be directed to Google.de. In many foreign countries, Google’s presence is far more pronounced, while in others, a local or...
Nonetheless, following six months of discussions, Google, Yahoo, and Bing came together to launch schema.org in June, where they agreed microdata would be the standard that webmasters can use. Shashi Seth, a Google and eBay veteran who joined Yahoo...
The search industry has been watching and waiting to see what Google will do in the flight search vertical since Google's acquisition of ITA, which was given the 'all-clear' by the Department of Justice five months ago.
There has been a lot of speculation about why the push for real names on Facebook and now Google, with Google taking a much harder line than even Facebook, not allowing for even the simplest derivation of “nyms” (pseudonyms).
Starting with a reading of the Google paper “Webtables: Exploring the Power of Tables on the Web” (thanks William Slawski). I need to add “The Blind Five Year Old” – to my reading list; as recommended from Jahnelle Pitman (thanks) and completely...
Tech for good - catching up on Google.org - Official Google Blog Driving results on mobile with AdMob - Google Mobile Ads Blogs A civil liberties group in Australia is criticizing Google's decision to pull ads by the Wilderness Society that brought...
Google's Add / Submit URL Form Goes Offline - Search Engine Roundtable Google CEO Eric Schmidt: "There is what I call the creepy line. The Google policy on a lot of things is to get right up to the creepy line and not cross it.
