To be fair, I can only be 99 percent sure that content, thanks to a Google engineer at a party at an SES Conference who confirmed it was "most likely the reason". Is Google's love affair with content marketing usurping SEO?
Former Google CEO shares vision in tech treatise (AP) provides a look at Schmidt's "exploration into the opportunities and challenges that lie ahead as the lines blur between the physical world around us and the virtual realm of the Internet.
This decline wasn’t concentrated on one particular client or keyword area, and none of our clients were penalised last year by Google, so I am satisfied that our efforts to convince other website owners to link to our client’s content are not at...
ES: A lot of people use Google Analytics today because it's a pretty effective free tool, can you tell us what some of the major flaws are with Analytics? NP: I also use Google Analytics because it covers a lot of basic analytical data points that...
Finally, in just the past two weeks and after x bad links pointed at his site he indeed got the notice from Google that his link profile was full of stinky links and he needed to fix it. Proxy Hacking – this one is so severe I will give no details...
While we may not be about to sell our services to them, the signals they send to Google are almost as important. They also know when that user is back whether you have Analytics (in the case of Google) installed or not.
While we must be aware, and understand, things like Google Panda/Penguin and other major changes in the algorithms, if we focus on doing “good marketing”, all other things should fall in line, and major algorithm changes shouldn’t be a concern.
The theory behind PageRank became part of the basis of the Google algorithm, and continues to be so today. The PageRank that we can see represented in the bar, a number, from a PageRank checker, etc.is updated infrequently and isn't the actual...
Editor's note: This story has been updated to include statements from Google, Bing, and UBL. The company has made no such announcements or claims, particularly in regards to Google. As a result, whenever Places appears on the first page of Google...
In the "vs Google" arena, the list keeps going: Google Music competes directly with Amazon MP3, Google Checkout faces Amazon Checkout, and YouTube covers the same territory as Amazon Unbox. While we spend a lot of time talking about the battle...
In addition to, or in the absence of, search queries, recent and historical browsing behavior can help us and Google to value and target different audiences appropriately. As a result, advertising on Google isn’t a direct auction where the highest...
Google AdWords gave us PPC data junkies a great new way to segment data in July. Well, Google isn’t telling us: side and bottom ads are combined into an “Other” bucket in the AdWords reports: Then, a couple of weeks ago, Google started showing PPC...
Google Webmaster Central didn't launch until about a year later, so this was a new and informative tool only found through paid analytics at the time. Though if Bing wants to get more people using their tools instead of Google, the move would be to...
Branding KPIs – Raising awareness via social media channels and measure it using a Google’s Insights for Search Tool This book covers more than just Facebook ad techniques; this is sure to be a business bestseller and is a title every marketing...
When I first found Search Engine Market Share, it looked really promising – an easy way to browse stats per country on a Google Maps mash-up. A crowd-sourced, public Google Docs file shows the market share of Google in multiple countries.
As we look at why Google's Panda Update dropped sites, the most important thing we must remember is that this is likely all based on data -- search logs, click-throughs, analytics, toolbar data, traffic, etc.
It can nicely supplement the Google Analytics app, while giving you some familiar features and tools while you're on the go. Google Analytics for iPad For many of us, the iPad has become our portable business tool of choice.
Black Hat SEO: Killing Your Competition With Google Sometimes the best tools available are advanced search operators at Google. The following partial list covers the main factors: Site audits allow us to benchmark and baseline a site's strengths...
So, when is the US Government going to seize the Google domain? The action against Torrent-Finder that only acts as a search engine of torrents - legal and otherwise - and is not hosting any torrents has online news blogs asking why other search...
Search results display product pricing, real-time in-stock status, and distance to the retailer through full integration with Google's Maps and Street View. Goodzer has a clean and simple interface and incorporates Google Maps and Google Streetview...
