If you're doing deep searches in Google, and going back 5, 6 or more results pages deep, you can see the same site popping up with a cluster of results on those deep pages. The latest Google Webmaster video features Distinguished Engineer Matt...
Search has moved beyond just finding keywords, but it still doesn’t read all these billions of web pages and book pages for semantic content. What is being done to detect and remove results from larger sites when they don't have unique content that...
Making your mobile search faster – Google Inside Search BlogGoogle adds expandable sitelinks, or "quick links" (essentially sitelinks within sitelinks), as well as an experimental blue "Quick view" badge that only works with Wikipedia pages.
Google launches beta test allowing creators to connect Google+ pages to YouTube channels – The Next Web New program in beta lets creators link Google+ pages with YouTube accounts. Introducing "x-default hreflang" for international landing pages...
I suspect that amongst the SEO industry we are not alone.We want to retain the idea that SEO is about creating content which will earn its own distribution rather than SEO being a group of people building links to crap pages.
Googlebot, as it is widely known, has always been a text-based web crawler, capturing the web by recording and organizing sites and pages looking at the code that makes up a site. Look at almost any of the sites positioned in the top 10 search...
The default for excluded locations is “People in, searching for, or viewing pages about your excluded location. Instead of geo-targeting strictly by the searcher’s location, the default setting in AdWords is now “People in, searching for, or...
While Google touts the increased privacy and security of encrypting search queries and search results pages via HTTPs by default, it must be noted that Google’s advertisers still can gain access to search term referrer data.
Google said it can now more accurately identify official pages. Web History has launched for users with Google accounts in Malaysia, Pakistan, Philippines, Morocco, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Estonia, Kuwait, Iraq, Sri Lanka, Tunisia, Nigeria, Lebanon...
Google+ - Matt Cutts: Google's Head Of Web Spam Good as a first stop when you're looking at a redesign or A/B testing.month – Crazy Egg: Produces a heatmap of your pages based on user behavior such as clicks, scrolling, etc.and can break it down by...
Taking a step away from the hype and debate, Google Search Plus Your World was launched to solve issues regarding trust and authority of content by adding people, pages, and profiles that are all also fully integrated in search results.
Used for multilingual websites using substantially the same content on all web pages (e.g. Can be used when web pages have the same content in the same language targeting multiple countries. English pages for Australia, Canada, and the U.S.
Google used third party reviews improperly for its Place Pages. Google has used the riches from its dominance in search and search advertising to expand into video distribution with YouTube, smartphone software with Android and Web browsers with...
The +1 experiment started in March, webmasters got the button to add to their site earlier this month, Google has since added a +1 button to numerous properties (such as product pages and Blogger widgets), +1 counts – some of which are localized...
Its webmaster tools service gives you detailed reports about how visible your pages are within Google search results. Targeting location-specific search terms can be a great way of driving highly relevant traffic to your pages.
Does the page provide substantial value when compared to other pages in search results? Are the pages produced with great care and attention to detail vs.less attention to detail? Would users complain when they see pages from this site?
Google.co.uk appears to be testing out new placement locations for URLs on their search engine results pages. Search News & Headlines Around the Web Google Adds Quora, More Social Sites to Realtime Search Results by Danny Goodwin
Adding to that study is an interesting statistic from Google: that 162 million web pages mention the royal wedding. Google in March announced that it is powering the search results for the Official Royal Wedding site.
Check for old, not so good content: Remember, Google said individual pages can bring down a site's overall score. Much like the devastation unleashed on unsuspecting sites in the U.S.in February, today price comparison sites and many content sites...
Its purpose is to detect spammy web pages signals (e.g.pages with multiple display ad positions and very little content). Google calls for the UK to adopt American-style copyright laws - The Next Web Google's YouTube has bought digital video...
