The emphasis of unstructured data by search engines Google, Bing and Yahoo is reinforced by their emphasis on the relationship of social data to websites and domains. However, with this validation comes confidence that Google Trends delivers...
It could be on-site issues or backlinks that made Google knock it down a few pegs. It's also about your competition, your market, Google's own self-serving agenda and most of all; it's about the end user.
Google has settled an investor lawsuit that paves the way for it to issue Class C shares. Google announced its intention to issue Class C stock last year, however the Brockton Retirement Board and shareholder Philip Skidmore sued the firm, claiming...
Google has filed a legal challenge to the U.S.government, demanding the right to reveal more information on the data requests it receives in the latest twist in the PRISM scandal. Since news of PRISM broke earlier this month, tech giants such as...
The Google Local Carousel beta test that we saw last month is now rolling out to all U.S.users, Google announced. With the new style of carousel listings, when a user searches for a local results, such as a restaurant or hotel, instead of the...
In April 2013, Google Sites, driven primarily by video viewing at YouTube.com, ranked as the top online video content property with 154.6 million unique viewers, followed by Facebook with 62.7 million, VEVO with 52.9 million, NDN with 45.3 million...
Google plans to give Internet access to the entire world by sending network-enabled balloons into the stratosphere. Right now in most of the countries in the southern hemisphere, the cost of an internet connection is more than a month's income...
Google's Penguin/Panda algorithm changes combined with the sheer volume of content being produced, makes PR a much larger component to effective SEO. Google wants quality content that is highly vetted.
Google currently supports microdata, microformats and rdf-a. Increasingly all search engine including Google are adopting schema.org markups as the industry standard for passing across semantic details about a web page.
Although Google, Bing, and Yahoo have stringent privacy policies, there have been enough people worried that they have begun looking at alternative search engines, particularly so-called “private search engines.
Google and Bing are both up, while the other top search engines comScore tracks (Yahoo, Ask, AOL) were flat or saw declines. Not surprisingly, Google led the way for search share in May, and grew its search market share to 66.7 percent, up from...
A new Google Webmaster help video with Distinguished Engineer Matt Cutts brings up a topic that most webmasters don’t think about – whether stock photography versus original photography has any impact on search engine rankings.
Adobe released their findings today on the impact of Google AdWords Enhanced campaigns on advertising click costs. To arrive at their conclusions they examined 100 U.S.advertisers spending more than $100 million between March and May of this year...
Did you catch Google's recent post on its webmaster blog regarding mobile website infrastructure and search results? I found it really interesting; Google announced changes to their algorithm which will favor sites with best-in-class mobile...
Google will take home more than half of all mobile advertising dollars this year as the company is poised to see record revenues for 2013. Research firm eMarketer said that Google is on pace to set a new record after more than tripling its mobile...
In a move designed to "dramatically streamline" the user experience, Google Analytics announced a redesign of the administration panel. According to the Google Analytics team: Google's aim is for a more simplified navigation area so that you can...
Good news for webmasters who have been struggling to identify links and pages that have been trigger warnings in Google Webmaster Tools. Google will now include example URLs in their emails warning webmasters about manual spam actions.
And, the "goals" that had been set up in Google Analytics did little to provide actionable information to really know what's going on, or whether things were "good". As I'm sitting here, I am awaiting a response from a client on renewal of their...
As the Penguin 2.0 dust settles the SEO pundits are racing to interpret what Google has done and what it means. But unlike many other industries where there are watchdog groups, checks-and-balances or elections, Google rules the Monarchy in SEO.
The quote involves Google Glass, the latest hot item from Google X: Parviz wants the world to see Glass in the context of Google X: It’s aimed at making access to knowledge so fast and seamless that it “fundamentally changes the meaning of knowing...
