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Google announced several (40, in fact) search algorithm changes it made in the month of February 2012. The changes (which, as mentioned in previous announcements, now come with codenames for easier reference) address a variety of user...
Bing seems to have taken a page out of the Google personalization playbook (or at least deepened its relationship with Facebook) by releasing LinkedPages this week. The feature, which nicely complements Bing's previous effort last...
The end of domain parking is near. Google last month indicated that parked domains were in their crosshairs and would be deprecated on the search results pages. And the fight waged against domain parking is continuing as Google has...
AdWords advertisers have had advertising sitelinks at their disposal for quite some time and, by all accounts, they seem to work pretty well. According to Google, in fact, the click-through rate is 30 percent higher for advertisements...
Like it or not, tablets are the next big thing. In fact, it is predicted that there will be more than 82 million tablet users in the U.S. by 2015, according to Forrester Research. And, although they are still seen as luxury items by...
Google has made several improvements to its AdWords Search Funnels, a tool initially released in 2010 that enables advertisers to better understand the series of search impressions and clicks that ultimately result in conversion. Google...
Google recently announced several new search quality highlights that were rolled out in January. Perhaps more than any other "theme" from this round of updates, however, freshness seems to be the focus. Google has essentially...
Google’s new page layout algorithm update may force many Web workers to reconsider from where exactly they will receive their next check. The change essentially analyzes the layout of a webpage and the amount of content immediately...
Apps are hard to escape these days. Not only do they take up the screens of our smartphones and tablets, but they can also be downloaded on social networks and browsers too. And finding really useful apps can be like digging for gold...
It wouldn’t be outrageous to assert that page titles are the most important information that most searchers take into consideration when skimming SERPs. Their significance is underscored by the fact that on all major search engines...
Google’s Blogger platform announced recently that it is now offering threaded comments. While other popular blogging platforms (most that I've come across recently in fact) already have threaded commenting as a core feature...
Google’s affinity for all things speedy is no secret. That is why it should come as no surprise that it has made yet another foray into making the Web even faster - at least as it relates to fonts. On its official Code blog,...
December's list of Google search quality highlights is out and there are quite a few that you may want and pay close attention to you. Google has even added some codenames to the individual changes - which certainly makes it easier...
Yahoo's search influence may be waning, but it seems to be all good news for Bing. In under three years, the Microsoft-owned Bing, which actually powers Yahoo Search, crept up to almost tie Yahoo's share of the search engine...
This week Google released Author Stats within its Webmaster Tools product. Authorship annotations ( read more here ) are fast becoming a must-have element on websites as they provide greater visibility on the SERPs. The new report...
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