So we move forward – and combine these two brilliant marketing methods into a beautiful love story that can help you dominate the search engine results. You can attribute some of this success to the authorship associated with my Google+ and our...
AltaVista was one of the original search engines on the web, and was established well before Google hit the scene. It launched in 1995, and it wasn’t until 2001 that Google began serving more searches and AltaVista.
End users are demanding this more and more, and search engines like Google and Bing want to give end users what they want. While Google has now rolled the Panda algorithm into the main algorithm, many publishers have never recovered from the many...
A simple snapshot of organic search traffic trends pulled from Google Analytics provides a useful graph to see how SEO efforts have grown traffic over time. Essentially, the index reflects how often a website shows up in the search results.
Two search agencies independently conducted experiments of their own to see where people click when presented with the new carousel in Google local results. Google officially rolled out its local carousal results to all U.S.users last week for...
When Google announced their move to enhanced campaigns in February, many thought that Google had gone too far. Once I got past the fact that Google had just forced a massive organizational change on us and everyone else, it started to become clear...
The most common example of this are the Google AdWords listings in the Google search results. FTC also brings up social listings, such as the ones you see in Facebook’s Graph Search, or even Google+ influenced personalized results where some...
When you placed the tilde sign immediately in front of a keyword, Google would also include synonyms for that word in their search results. Unfortunately, Google has quietly dropped support for the tilde sign in Google search results.
To fuel creativity even more, you can copy keywords and drop them into Google search, Google Trends, BuzzFeed, Quora or Yahoo Answers for Qfor inspiration. With keyword search data, typically we're grabbing estimated monthly, exact match searches...
We do know that advertisers participating in Google Grants will be given a lower priority in the results. In a January post on Search Engine Watch, Amman Badlani talked about recent changes to the Google Grants program, which would place all ads...
Google's Knowledge Graph - showing information directly on the search results page -and the presence of the 'Carousel' results are just two of the game changers making local SEO a moving target. Good reviews, content, and engagement on search...
Parked domains are placeholder sites with little unique content, so Google doesn't typically include them in search results. Site appears to be cloaking (displaying different content to human users than is shown to search engines) or redirecting...
To find keyword ideas, one tactic Beckman recommended is going to Google and typing in words in the search box to see what Google provides as Autocomplete results and also related searches. You should also take a look at the relatively new Google...
According to the study, the top listing in Google's organic search results receives 33 percent of the traffic, compared to 18 percent for the second position, and the traffic only degrades from there:
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. For years I have been emphasizing awareness of the social and search community...
With the new style of carousel listings, when a user searches for a local results, such as a restaurant or hotel, instead of the traditional vertical listings most users associate with Google search, there is now a horizontal carousel which...
For example, today Google gives you the ability to have your author picture appear next to your listing in search results with some links to your stories. People are publishers and, as Google evolves, people and the content they produce are...
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.
Did you catch Google's recent post on its webmaster blog regarding mobile website infrastructure and search results? To me this is a much more worthwhile innovation than Google's recent efforts to alter results based on link metrics; while quality...
Numerous "search results" pages were indexed and driving loads of traffic but no sales. 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...
