Invariably, Google seeks out these techniques and penalizes them, resulting in lost rankings that can take months to recover.spot on Google. If an agency promises you the number one spot on Google, it sounds great.
As the SEO rumor mill spun this week with murmurs of the arrival of yet another significant Google update, I began to think back on all this year's changes and then back to all the algorithm changes of years past and it started me thinking about...
To learn more about my findings, and how to track Graph Search keyword data in Google Analytics, you can read my blog post on the subject. As Graph Search rolls out to more users, ranking well in place search could be an important driver of...
Although it's still premature to talk about "ranking" on Google Now's information cards, we can safely assume that current best practices for local SEO will play a key role in staying ahead of the mobile search game.
Google's algorithms ultimately determine match rates, quality scores, and ranking in their marketplaces. Third-Party (Google) Arbitration Both SEM and SEO managers are highly dependent on Google and its policies in helping them deliver against...
Since launching universal search results in 2007, Google has been integrating many more non-traditional search results, adding videos, news stories, sports scores, products, images, maps, and reviews into what was once traditional organic search...
While Google's Panda updates did help define "better content" through a user-focused lens, with Panda's future as part of Google's primary algorithm, it seems an opportune time to help redefine exactly what is "awesome frickin' content.
If you clicked a high-ranking link and then clicked back to the search results, they increased the number of results from 10 to 12. Google has experimented with seven results on many SERPs since last summer.
Looking at your entire index through the lens of a website indexation audit will allow you to gain an understanding of what Google sees and indexes. We do our best to be mindful of Google's Content Quality Guidelines and know that a human rater may...
Lastly, with Google authorship taking a strong foothold on rankings and the comments coming from Eric Schmidt about information that is tied to verified profiles ranking higher than "anonymous" content in search results, Google+ and authorship...
When it comes to social media, Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ dominate the conversation. Having a strategy that include multiple social media platforms, not just Facebook, Twitter, and Google+, helps many brands and marketers reach a wider audience.
A new analysis says Google Image Search traffic is down 63 percent on average. Making your mobile search faster – Google Inside Search BlogGoogle adds expandable sitelinks, or "quick links" (essentially sitelinks within sitelinks), as well as an...
Members of the network are indexed in Google, ranking for key terms and their brand, not excessively cross-linked to other network member sites, don't share the same ip address with the majority of the sites, aren't all owned by the same person or...
SSL Web Sites Don't Get Ranking Boost In Google – Search Engine RoundtableThere are no ranking advantages or disadvantages of having HTTPs websites, says Google's John Mueller. IDC: For Mobile Advertising Networks, Era of Dominance Is Over...
Google's computers determine the order of our search results using a series of formulas known as algorithms. Google Search Quality Team After you have meticulously completed a link audit and followed all of the steps necessary to emerge from a...
Unless you've had your head under a rock you've undoubtedly heard the rumblings of a coming Google Penguin update of significant proportions. To paraphrase Google’s web spam lead Matt Cutts the algorithm filter has "iterated" to date but there will...
Google Places was recently replaced with Google+ Local – a merging of Places and Plus that serves up your Google+ Local listing in Search and Maps results on mobile devices and traditional browsers. Here's a very condensed breakdown of the top five...
Google authorship has made it easier for small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) to get their brands in front of prospective customers, because they can now have their brand represented alongside their content within Google’s search results.
EMarketer report forecasts Yahoo will grow its U.S.search ad revenues by 7 percent to $1.23 billion in 2013, but still lose search share to Google and Microsoft. Google will take 73.7 percent of U.S.search ad revenues, while Microsoft will reach...
Many of you might think there is no longer any need for tools to monitor your ranking in search engines like Google. After all, just by visiting Google Webmaster Tools you get visibility, ranking and click through information for each region...
