Tweet The Google News news_keywords meta tag is now available to all publishers that are approved for inclusion. It is nice that Google News is trying to accommodate publishers and allow for more witty, print-style headlines. But in the bigger picture encouraging the use of this tag has as many potential cons
Continue Reading →Tweet We’ve all been waiting for it, and now it’s here: Google’s monthly list of algorithm changes for May. This time, it’s 39 changes (less than last month). Of particular note, Google says it made a couple of adjustments to Penguin: Improvements to Penguin. [launch codename "twref2", project codename "Page Quality"] This
Continue Reading →Tweet As expected, Google has finally released its big list of algorithm changes for the month of April. It’s been an interesting month, to say the least, with not only the Penguin update, but a couple of Panda updates sprinkled in. There’s not a whole lot about either of those
Continue Reading →Tweet The SEO community has been in a bit of a buzz over the last few weeks. Google, dominant in so many territories, has begun to email tens of thousands of site owners with warnings. Google’s warnings include alerts of traffic drops, traffic spikes, out of date software but also
Continue Reading →Tweet Google is giving its tried-and-true web-search formula a makeover as it tries to fix the shortcomings of today’s technology and maintain its dominant market share. Over the next few months, Google’s search engine will begin spitting out more than a list of blue web links. It will also present more
Continue Reading →Tweet Google+ is Google. Google announced this week that Google+ now has over 90 million users. That’s pretty impressive, considering it’s only been out about half a year. It may help, however, that it comes as part of just signing up for a Google account now. Google+ began on an
Continue Reading →Tweet Last week Google+ recorded its 3rd largest week in terms of total US visits for the week ending Nov. 12, 2011 receiving more than 6.8 million total US visits. The growth represents a 5% increase versus the previous week and a 25% increase compared to a month ago. The
Continue Reading →Tweet Last week Google+ recorded its 3rd largest week in terms of total US visits for the week ending Nov. 12, 2011 receiving more than 6.8 million total US visits. The growth represents a 5% increase versus the previous week and a 25% increase compared to a month ago. The
Continue Reading →Tweet Among SEO professionals, there isn’t always consensus on precisely which and to what degree site factors contribute or detract from rankings on Google because the factors actually vary by industry. There are indeed, a number of contentious issues: markup and content quality, use of title tags, site organization and
Continue Reading →Tweet Google has introduced two new link elements to show Google the schematic relationships of documents that span multiple pages and better identify duplicate content. Google also emphasized they want to show single-page versions in search results. Pagination & SEO Simply, pagination is the sequential numbering of pages. In reference
Continue Reading →Tweet Google has applied the tweak brush to its search result pages and improved the way that web site links are returned. The changes were introduced with a blog post that explained that by making web site links clearer on its returns page Google hoped to save searchers time and
Continue Reading →Tweet A Google Webmaster Tools user found a security hole that allowed him to delete any web page from Google’s index. Luckily, once the exploit was reported, Google had it patched within seven hours. The “Let’s Hack the Index” Exploit James Breckenridge, a web project manager and SEO, was attempting
Continue Reading →Tweet A Google Webmaster Tools user found a security hole that allowed him to delete any web page from Google’s index. Luckily, once the exploit was reported, Google had it patched within seven hours. The “Let’s Hack the Index” Exploit James Breckenridge, a web project manager and SEO, was attempting
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Continue Reading →Tweet The speed with which your pages load can be hugely important, not only in terms of visitor satisfaction but also where you rank in search engines [see: What is Site Speed and How Does it Affect Google Rankings?]. Therefore, it is vital that all sites keep a close eye
Continue Reading →Tweet We all know there have been a ton of updates to Google as of late. Many of these updates will affect search engine optimization as we know it. In particular, Google is now displaying an option to block results from certain websites. While websites will only be blocked when
Continue Reading →Tweet We all know there have been a ton of updates to Google as of late. Many of these updates will affect search engine optimization as we know it. In particular, Google is now displaying an option to block results from certain websites. While websites will only be blocked when
Continue Reading →Tweet Now that Google have officially confirmed that site speed has become a ranking factor, we explore the implications this could have for your website. To answer the first portion of the title, site speed (or page load time) is a measurement of how fast your website loads. This is
Continue Reading →Tweet It’s official, what was suggested websites and the people that own them take seriously back in February 2010 has become a reality in February 2011. The latest algorithm update, officially referred to as Google Panda, has impacted sites that apparently were not practicing Google Caffeine based SEO Internet Marketing much
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