After all, it's all about building relationships not links, so while it's easy to take away that content is still king, fellow Googler Amit Singhal hits the nail on the head when he says: "But fundamentally it's not just about content.
This is the type of branding and link building work a Googler would love. For a long time many publishers viewed link building as a practice that stood on its own. The purpose was to get links to drive search rankings.
Just when Yahoo kicked itself to the curb, it experienced an emotional rebound by hiring ex-Googler Marissa Mayer as Yahoo’s new CEO, who brought optimism and excitement for a potential Yahoo fairly-tale comeback.
Ex-Googler Andre Weyher, who worked on Google’s webspam team with Matt Cutts, was recently interviewed by Jayson DeMers and asked about the “biggest misconceptions or myths that he had seen about ‘bad links’ and link profile penalties in the SEO...
Back in August, Googler Maile Ohye outlined some best practices and provided some much needed insight into Google Webmaster Tool Parameter Handling. Duplication is negatively affecting the ability of your ranking pages to perform as well as they...
Heck, I've even had a conversation with a Googler who referred to infographics as "faddish" (another story altogether). Are you struggling with link building? Freaked out by Penguins and unnatural linking messages?
While talking with a Googler whom you might know, I was able to get a sense of what problems they have with link manipulation. I was recently wandering around some Facebook groups and saw this: Do you guys think that general web directories are...
As ex-Googler Marissa Mayer (now Yahoo CEO) explained in Steven Levy’s book “In the Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives”: Maria Montessori, the Italian physician and educator known for creating an educational model that essentially...
From conversations on one of the Google forums, a Googler suggested that because the pages were substantially similar from site to site (there was localized/localised spelling variations, but not a great deal more variation), that they didn’t...
That’s the official word from Facebook engineer and former Googler Lars Rasmussen, who was recently interviewed by the Sydney Morning Herald. Facebook is working to improve internal search for the social network.
A Googler (@google) July 24, 2012 A Googler (@google) July 17, 2012 If the last few days haven't been chaotic enough for you, what with all the confusing link warnings, brace yourself for some more fun.
Googler John Mueller revealed the fun Easter egg on Google+, noting “I remember making a version of this as a kid, trying to find self-sustaining elements, building 'gliders' that soared diagonally across the field, and generally just fascinated...
This countered what one Googler has said about how internal linking affects how sites appear in the SERPs. Two search blogs reported seeing different Google SERPs tests late last week. In one, Google Shopping results appear not within the organic...
We don't need to be running around after every (monthly) algo update post, every webmaster notification, word from a Googler's lips, screaming to the world that something is amiss and how they're out to persecute so-and-so.
In a Google web search help post, Googler Kelly Fee confirmed Timeline is history. As Google pushes fresh search results, a helpful Google search tool for historical searches quietly vanished earlier this month.
According to Googler Nirav Mehta, you can dive right into your YouTube sharing settings to enable the connection. YouTube is getting a batch of hot new features, including a "merch store" for music partners; a new sign-up process for indie labels...
Googler Kathleen Ko announced the feature, saying, "[T]oday we're rolling out a new option in Google+ settings: 'Who can notify you. Google+ is continuing its tradition of responding quickly and precisely to user requests.
Former Googler Sheryl Sandberg is currently heading up a program offering $50 advertising credits to as many as 200,000 small businesses in an effort to get them on board. The power and popularity of Facebook as an advertising tool is inarguable.
Interestingly, Douglas Edwards, former Googler and author of "I'm Feeling Lucky" about his time with the company, posted to Google+ that many of the executives are just too busy. These managers need to stand behind their product, he says, and...
At Facebook, former Googler Sheryl Sandberg is aiming to reach out to small businesses. Her plan for Facebook includes giving small business owners an advertising credit to try out Facebook advertising.
