Google Update Underway: But For Payday Or Panda?
There appears to be an update underway, one that will be rolling out over a “multi-week” timeframe according to Google’s head of search spam, Matt Cutts. The update was announced by Matt on Twitter in response to a question about why some of the search results look spammy. Matt…
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Google Logo Celebrates 161st Birthday Of Spanish Architect Antoni Gaudi
Today’s Google homepage is dedicated to Spanish architect Antoni Gaudi, the leader of Catalan Modernism. Born in 1852, Gaudi’s hometown in Catalonia, Spain is rumored to be Reus or Riudoms. An artist of many trades, including ceramics, stained glass, wrought ironwork forging and…
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Google Confirm New Update Ready – Will Take Until After 4th July To Complete
With Google consistently bringing new and ‘improved’ alterations to their algorithm in the form of various updates it seems that their fight to clean up the web is still very much in the early stages following reports that revealed that a car insurance website was able to generate over 1,000 referring domains in a very […]
Thought Google Analytics was all about SEO? Think again.
Within his recent LinkLove presentation, Will Critchlow talked about this idea of becoming a ‘full stack marketer’ and it’s an idea that resonates here at Distilled and the kind of direction we are working towards as a company. When it Continue reading »
Google Rolls Out AdWords Dynamic Retargeting For Retailers
In another move to beef up its retargeting offerings–and take on retargeting platforms like Adroll, Retargeter and Mediaforge–Google is rolling out dynamic retargeting to all AdWords retail customers with Google Merchant Feeds. The company is also piloting dynamic retargeting in the…
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Google Takes Street View Images From The Tallest Building In The World At Dubai’s Burj Khalifa
Google Maps adds another first today with Street View images from Burj Khalifa, the Dubai skyscraper that sands at 828 meters (2,716 feet) tall, making it the tallest man-made structure in the world. According to Google not only is this their first-eve…
Google Celebrates 2013 Gay Pride Month With Rainbox Encased Search Box For LGBT Related Searches
For a number of years, Google has recognized Gay Pride Month by adding gay pride-inspired art to the Google search box on the results page of LGBT searches. This year, Google is marking Gay Pride Month 2013 with a 3D-styled rainbow encasing the search box: Google’s past support for Gay Pride…
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Preview Google’s New Structured Data Dashboard Beta
A couple weeks ago, we reported Google opened up invite requests to join a beta of the structure data dashboard. I signed up immediately and yesterday, I, along with other webmasters received my welcome email to take a look at the report. To sign up, you can do so at over here – I am […]
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Google Drops Another Search Operator: Tilde For Synonyms
Google has quietly dropped another search operator, the tilde (i.e. ~) search operator. Google Operating System blog noticed the lack of support for the tilde operator over the weekend. Reportedly, Dan Russell, a Search Research Scientist at Google, co…
Duck Duck Go’s Post-PRISM Growth Actually Proves No One Cares About “Private” Search
Look out, Google! Duck Duck Go is on the rise, posting a 50% traffic increase in just eight days. Is this proof people want a “private” search engine, in the wake of allegations the PRISM program allows the US government to read search data with unfettered access? Nope. Google has…
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Google Advice On When To Submit Reconsideration Request & How To Clean Your Link Profile
Google posted a new article today answering common questions about submitting reconsideration requests and managing your backlink profile. Google Search Quality representatives, Kaspar Szymanski and Uli Lutz, co-authored the article, going through the …
Google Makes A Splash With Christoph Niemann Illustration To Mark The First Day Of Summer
Today’s Google Doodle by Christoph Niemann marks the summer solstice for searchers in the Northern Hemisphere with an animated illustration of five swimmers in Google-logo colored swimming caps, bobbing along on a wave that splashes back and forth. Google users in the Southern Hemisphere get…
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Google To State AG’s: We’ve Blocked Over 3 Million Bad Ads From “Rogue Online Pharmacies”
As part of its response to a potential subpoena by the Mississippi attorney general and accusations from The National Association of Attorneys General (NAAG) earlier this month that Google facilitates the sale of drugs without a prescription, among other illegal transactions, Google legal…
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Mississippi Attorney General To Subpoena Google For Illegal Sale Of Prescription Drugs
Mississippi attorney general Jim Hood will subpoena Google records and emails to determine if Google facilitated the sale of drugs without a prescription and other illegal products, including counterfeit copies of movies, games and music. “Google is aiding and abetting criminal activity and…
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Google’s take on SEO
It is safe to say advances in SEO can be measured on an exponential scale. There are more SEO techniques now than simply bulking up keywords in a page’s copy and exchanging links; the summit has risen higher.
Before the air gets too thin to breathe, it’s important to set our sights on base camp.
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Please, stop talking about AuthorRank
Gianluca Fiorelli discusses AuthorRank and what you should be doing about it
Post from Gianluca Fiorelli on State of Search
Please, stop talking about AuthorRank
DuckDuckGo Passes 3 Million Searches, Just 8 Days After Hitting 2 Million
Another week, another traffic record in the alternative search engine space. DuckDuckGo (DDG) tweeted this morning about its latest milestone: more than three million direct searches in a single day. As the company’s traffic page shows, it happened on Monday when DDG had 3,095,907…
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“The Usability Impetuous Behind Google+ Local…”
Aaron Bradley dropping some Local knowledge, along with a lot of other knowledge, in his fantastic post about the Semantic Web: “…search is no longer about words, but about the things to which the words on a web page describe and make reference…” “Why is this important? It’s important because when Google receives a user […]
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Google Officially Launches Knowledge Graph Carousel For Local Search
After reporting yesterday that the Google Knowledge Graph Carousel was showing up more frequently and for a wider variety of searches, a Google+ post today announced the official launch of Carousel for local search results. According to the announcement, when a user searches for …
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Data Analysis for SEO: Industry KPIs For A Mature Industry
As we move closer to the 20th anniversary of the launch of public search engines, a key industry trend in search marketing is the long called-for move to placing transparent, objective & measurable KPIs at the heart of search marketing, social & content campaigns. What KPIs give you an…
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