“My Photos” — Google Now Lets Find Your Google+ Photos Within Search
Google now lets you search your private photos and the photos your friends on Google+ share with you. All you need to do is search on Google for keywords such as [my photos] or [my photos sunset] to bring up matching photos. You can even search for your friend’s photos such as [danny’s photos…
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Still Seeing Post-Penguin Web Spam In Google Results? Let Google Know.
Google’s next generation Penguin update is now live and webmasters and SEOs are carefully assessing how this update has impacted their web sites. Google is assessing things as well, how this has impacted the search results, search quality and searcher satisfaction. Google’s head of…
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Google Penguin 2.0 Has Landed – War on Spam Continues
The much anticipated Google Penguin update has finally become a reality following confirmation that the latest generation of the algorithm update has been rolled out throughout their search engine results pages and it seems to be causing a stir. Last n…
Penguin 4, With Penguin 2.0 Generation Spam-Fighting, Is Now Live
The fourth release of Google’s spam-fighting “Penguin Update” is now live. But Penguin 4 has a twist. It contains Penguin 2.0 technology under-the-hood, which Google says is a new generation of tech that should better stop spam. Matt Cutts, Google’s head of search spam,…
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Site Command Limited To 30 Results? Google Says A Temporary Domain Clustering Bug
Over the past day or so, we’ve been seeing reports that some of us can replicate ourselves, where the site command (i.e., site:www.domain.com) in Google was limited to only showing 30 results. The rumors were that with the recent domain clustering change Google pushed out this week has…
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Why You Should Be A Whore With Your Business’ Meta Data
Yesterday I talked about my initial thoughts on Google’s new Local Business Data Highlighter. Tyler Bell of Factual was quick to point out an important point: [View the story “Cheeky Google” on Storify] If you want to have the best chance of ranking for local queries in Google, you should definitely use the tools they […]
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Does Flagged E-Consultancy Link Indicate Where Penguin is Going?
There are signals that a new Penguin Update is coming and the signals say they might very well be targeting guestposts.
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Does Flagged E-Consultancy Link Indicate Where Penguin is Going?
How To Use Google’s Local Business Data Highlighter…So Far
Google’s new Data Highlighter for Local Businesses is definitely worth checking out for anyone trying to goose their local rankings. I have found it to be a bit buggy and it’s a new tool, so proceed with caution. Here are some basics on how to use it along with some tricks I have figured out […]
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Google’s Data Highlighter Supports 6 New Data Types
Google has quietly added support for six additional data types to the data highlighter rich snippet markup tool they introduced back in December. Google initially launched a visual rich snippet markup tool in December to allow less tech-savvy webmaster…
High Court awards Interflora damages in Google AdWords trademark row
In a case that seems to have gone on forever – it seems that the high court have taken the dramatic step of awarding Interflora damages in the long running case against Marks and Spencers – something that may have wider repurcussions for Google and the wider paid landscape as a whole. Justice Arnold ruled […]
High Court awards Interflora damages in Google AdWords trademark row
In a case that seems to have gone on forever – it seems that the high court have taken the dramatic step of awarding Interflora damages in the long running case against Marks and Spencers – something that may have wider repurcussions for Google and the wider paid landscape as a whole. Justice Arnold ruled […]
High Court awards Interflora damages in Google AdWords trademark row
In a case that seems to have gone on forever – it seems that the high court have taken the dramatic step of awarding Interflora damages in the long running case against Marks and Spencers – something that may have wider repurcussions for Google and the wider paid landscape as a whole. Justice Arnold ruled […]
High Court awards Interflora damages in Google AdWords trademark row
In a case that seems to have gone on forever – it seems that the high court have taken the dramatic step of awarding Interflora damages in the long running case against Marks and Spencers – something that may have wider repurcussions for Google and the wider paid landscape as a whole. Justice Arnold ruled […]
Google extends footprint into RTB display – launches Open Bidder RTB platform
Its interesting to see history almost repeating itself, within the display market as the Search Engine behemoths Google, Yahoo and Microsoft continue their war in other areas. Despite the fact that display advertising certainly pre-dates search, the co…
Google Glass Diary, Part 3: How Search Works On Google Glass
There are seven voice commands built in to this first “Explorers” edition of Google Glass. Two of those six are search-related: “google…” and “get directions to….” The others are “take a photo,” “record a video,” “send a…
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Google Notifies Sprint Of Spam Penalty; Seeks Advice In Google Help Forums
The latest large brand to be hit with a user generated content spam penalty notification is Sprint, the large U.S. wireless communications company. Similar to Mozilla’s penalty and BBC’s penalty, Sprint was penalized for user-generated content spam on a portion of their site that was…
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Google Drops “Translated Foreign Pages” Search Option Due To Lack Of Use
Google has quietly dropped the “Translated Foreign Pages” search filter from the Google search options menu. Google tells us the option was removed due to lack of use but they say they are still committed to making the web available to as many people, in as many languages as possible….
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Google’s Matt Cutts: Domain Clustering To Change Again; Less Results From Same Domain
Google’s head of search spam, Matt Cutts, posted a new video about a new change coming to Google’s search results related to the diversity of the results being displayed. Matt said that Google is launching “soon” a new change that will make it less likely to see results from…
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Mastering PPC: Red Alert! Search Engine Alerts & Notifications
Publishing this blog post the day before the release of the new Star Trek Into Darkness movie is pure coincidence totally planned from the start. In the Star Trek universe, if a crewman isn’t standing on the bridge, face to face with an enemy torpedo barrage, a red or yellow alert message coming over the comm […]
Study: Delaware Least Likely State To Use Google, While Yahoo Is More Popular In Southern & Midwest States
Using data from more than 35 million search queries performed in 2012, SEO company WebpageFX set out to determine search engine market share by state for Google, Bing and Yahoo. According to their study, Google dominates across the country, taking 70 percent or more of search engine market share…
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