Google’s Mobile Search Revenue To Top 30 Percent, Desktop To Fall To 43 Percent By 2015 [Forecast]
In its latest look at mobile ad revenues, eMarketer estimates Google is generating nearly one-fifth of its US advertising revenues from mobile search, coming in at 19.1%. In yet another indication of how fast the mobile ad market is growing, only two y…
Your Small Web Site Not Ranking Well In Google? Matt Cutts Wants To Know About It.
Google’s head of search spam, Matt Cutts, asked last night via Twitter for webmasters and SEOs to fill out a survey on the topic of small sites and Google rankings. Matt Cutts asked “if there’s a small website that you think should be doing better in Google, tell us more here. The…
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Google Gets 5,000 Reconsideration Requests Per Week
Google’s head of search spam, Matt Cutts announced in a recent video answer that Google receives about 5,000 reconsideration request per week through Google Webmaster Tools. In January 2013, Google said they had taken manual action on 400,000 different web sites and averages about 5,000…
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Google Dwarfs Bing & Yahoo As Traffic Source For Major News Sites
Google is said to have about 65-70 percent market share of searches in the U.S., but for many publishers, Google’s share of incoming search traffic is much higher. That’s certainly the case with major news sites like Reuters, Mashable, Dallas Morning News, The Next Web and others that…
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Google – Don’t Be Evil
It’s easy to second-guess the actions of a major corporation looking from the outside in. Remember how much a company has contributed to your personal and professional life.
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Google – Don’t Be Evil
Bing: Here’s 7 Ways Our Image Search Is Better Than Google
Microsoft’s Meenaz Merchant, Senior Program Manager at Bing, posted a behind the scenes look at why Bing is a better image search engine than Google. Here are the seven examples on scenarios on why Bing is better than Google with image search, as described on the Bing blog. (1) Entity…
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Shatner’s Tweet Hints That He May Like Bing Just As Much As Bing Likes Captain Kirk
In a brief exchange on Twitter yesterday evening, the original Captain Kirk gave Bing a shout-out, recommending the Microsoft search engine could possibly enlighten a fellow Twitter user. William Shatner responded “I hear Google pr Bing helps with that problem” after @Andypops1 tweeted…
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Report: Google’s Not Provided Reached 49% & Much Higher In Technology Industry
BrightEdge has released a report showing that for the 8,400 brands they tracked over the last quarter, 49% of the queries collected did not provide (i.e. not provided) search query data due to Google’s secure search. 49% was the average, in fact, it is higher for the technology industry….
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Google Expands Their Web Definitions
Google announced on Google+ that they have overhauled the web definitions interface and results adding a lot more meat and details to your definitions queries. The new options include an expandable box that contains additional synonyms, ways to use the…
Google Admit They Recognise That You Are Confused About Manual and Algorithmic Penalisation
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Are Google creating themselves a problem with Google+ Local
Its been interesting watching the increasing encroachment of the Zagat recommendation framework into the mainstream Google results over the last couple of months. During the last 12 months, Google’s local framework – which lets be honest was never particularly great to start with – has undergone a significant overhaul and has now been incorporated into […]
Google Responds To #GoogleGate: AdWords Account Manager’s Accidental Voice Mail Recording
Earlier this week, Martin MacDonald, inbound marketing director at Expedia EAN, in a post on his website titled “#GoogleGate – Can you Trust Google?,” embedded a voice mail recording a Google AdWords account manager unknowingly left for a client. Presumably thinking he’d…
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Google’s Matt Cutts: Once Again, +1s Have No Direct Impact On Rankings
Google’s head of search spam, Matt Cutts, said once again that Google’s +1 data has no direct impact on their web search ranking algorithm. Moz published a story today named Amazing Correlation Between Google +1s and Higher Search Rankings in which Matt Cutts responded to in Hacker News…
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What The Heck Is AdWords Quality Score And Why Does It Matter Anyway?
Last month, Google announced some changes in how Quality Score is being reported. While it’s been described as just a reporting change (as opposed to a change in how Quality Score is calculated), some of my respected colleagues have pointed to the news as evidence that Quality Score somehow…
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Google Tests Search Results Overview Snippets Overlay
Google is testing a new search feature within the search results to show you a search result snippet overlay with additional details about that search result. The interesting fact is that this overlay doesn’t have text from the search result itself, the text may be sourced from Wikipedia or…
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Demystifying Link Disavowals, Penalties & More
Findings from a recent Google Webmaster Hangout on Air (video) demystify link disavowals, penalties and more. Read on for the official word from John Mueller, Webmaster Trends Analyst from Google and friend to webmasters everywhere. First, Some Background Last month, I introduced Five Steps To…
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Google Account Manager Caught Breaking Terms of Service on Voicemail
A voice mail recording of what appears to be a Google account manager seems to reveal how Google is willing to ignore its own TOS in favour of profit.
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Google Account Manager Caught Breaking Terms of Service on Voicemail
Google: We Prefer To Assess Reconsideration Requests On Links Within Webmaster Tools However…
What does a webmaster do when they receive a manual action from Google telling them they have a penalty because of paid or bad links pointing to their site? Google has told us back in June that you should use Google’s “links to your site” report within Webmaster Tools to analyze bad links pointing…
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Over 19 Billion Searches In July, Google And Bing Both Up
Earlier today comScore released July 2013 US search market share data. The figures reflect modest growth for Google, stasis for Bing and contraction for everyone else. Google bumped up slightly from last month to 67 percent market share, while Bing hovered just below 18 percent. Yahoo lost a tenth…
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Google SERP change – what impact will it have?
It would appear Google are in the midst of a SERP test (as identified by my trustee sidekick Dan Bell) which could provide a significant boost to brands on brand related searches. In the test highlighted below, the relevant brand result appears to have a number of significant enhancements which significantly improve the “standoutedness” of […]