In fact, Google's Distinguished Engineer Matt Cutts is on record saying that .edu TLDs don’t carry more weight than other extensions. Much of this preoccupation stems from a belief that Google bestows magical SEO powers on .edu top-level domains...
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...
Shaun Andersentweeted that same day “Less backlinks available in Google Webmaster Tools by the looks of it - I am seeing about a third of the links once shown. Links that appear on a domain that isn't indexed in Google.
How can we as marketers and SEOs adapt to this change in user behavior to make sure our products, brands, and information is discoverable via non-search (i.e.not involving a visit to Google.com) interaction?
The beginner should pick a keyword with no more than 300 searches per month (critical: Use Exact match) and is marked as “Low” competition by Google. Google AdWords will show the competition level in their free keyword tool, as will many other tools.
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...
Google continued its clamp down of third party tools that 'scrape data' from Google. The Google black box For many this signified a tipping point and choice between scraping or having access to the Google adwords API.
This wonderful tool scrapes Google's suggestions, giving link prospectors instant access to the "problem space" around a given phrase. Majestic and Google aren't the only tools for opportunity research out there.
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...
Wells recommended setting up a separate mobile campaign from desktop campaign and noted that Google AdWords will syndicate on mobile to start (so you might want to prevent that from happening). In the 18-34 year old age group, 80 percent of those...
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...
In many foreign countries, Google’s presence is far more pronounced, while in others, a local or regional company dominates. In Europe, Google accounts for more than 90 percent market share. Meaning, if you're in Germany you will automatically be...
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...
Google noted that the criteria people use when choosing to purchase flights is "primarily based on cost and total travel time" and confirmed that this behavior lends itself to a type of ranking, saying, "We automatically set the filters to focus...
Starting with a reading of the Google paper “Webtables: Exploring the Power of Tables on the Web” (thanks William Slawski). A number of recurrent themes appear throughout the responses in “Critical Thinking” that should serve to direct further test...
Now the Google Directory is just gone: Visiting its former location gives you a message that Google just thinks you should use their search engine instead, and gives a link back to dmoz.org for those who are intent on using a directory.
Google's PowerMeter started "as a Google.org project to raise awareness about the importance of giving people access to data surrounding their energy usage. The service's API worked with "a variety of energy monitoring devices" and since it was...
But perhaps it's no coincidence that the oddly named Hotpot (a name Google was still trying to explain in their final blog post), which debuted in November, was merged into Google Places Friday as well -- perhaps as part of Google's bigger focus...
Basically, there is Google.com in the U.S.and Google.com abroad. What this means is that when users abroad go to Google.com, they don't get "American," "international," or "objective" search results. First and foremost, you'll want to rank on...
