seoClarity: It’s First Place or Nothing When it Comes to Mobile Search Ranking A recent study on CTR data from … [Read more...]
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So Far, Less Than 1% of U.S. English Queries Affected by Penguin 3.0
The much awaited update to Google’s Penguin algorithm has finally begun its roll out, and while current updates … [Read more...]
Penguin 3.0 Announced; Begins Roll Out
Google Penguin 3.0 Has Officially Begun Rolling Out It’s been a long time coming, but it looks like the latest … [Read more...]
Google’s Updated Piracy Algorithm Takes New Aim at Online Pirates
Google Updates its Piracy Algorithm after Two Year Wait In order to ramp up its continuing efforts against piracy, … [Read more...]
Google Voice Search Predominantly Used by Teens
Google Study: Teens Using Voice Search More, Adults “Getting the Hang of it” A new study commissioned by … [Read more...]
Moz: Local Search Ranking Factors Following Same Trends
Moz: Local Search Ranking Factors Still the Same; Pigeon and CTR Emerging For the seventh straight year, Moz conducted … [Read more...]
Report: Facebook & YouTube Most Affected by Right to be Forgotten
Facebook & YouTube Among Top Sites Hit by the Right to be Forgotten Directive Google recently published its … [Read more...]
Search Marketing Groups Push for Code of Ethics
Search Marketing Code of Ethics Pushed for by SEO Organizations Leading search engine marketing organizations are … [Read more...]
Google Adds HTTPS support to SafeSearch Options
Google Updates SafeSearch Options for Network Administrators, Adds HTTPS support Google has made a new update to … [Read more...]
New Study Examines Organic CTRs on Google’s SERPs
New Study Examines Organic Click-Through Rates on Google’s SERPs A recent study by Advanced Web Ranking took a new … [Read more...]
Panda 4.1 Winners and Losers Revealed
Panda 4.1 Arrives: Who Are The Winners And Losers? Just under a week of its “slow rollout,” Google’s … [Read more...]
Google: New Panda Update is Rolling Out
Google Launches New Panda Update Four months since Google released Panda 4.0, the search engine giant announced the … [Read more...]
Google Enhances Search Listings With Structured Snippets
Google’s New “Structured Snippets” Showcase Snippets of Data Under Search Results Google has just … [Read more...]
Google Hits Sites Using Private Blog Networks
Google Sends Manual Action Penalties to Sites Using PBNs In an effort to prevent sites that make use of “thin … [Read more...]
August comScore And StatCounter Analyses Reveals Google’s Dominance
comScore And StatCounter Analyses Reveals Google’s Dominance In Search Engine Market Share Google continues to … [Read more...]
Google To Determine Search Results Based on TV Viewing
Google Obtains Patent; Uses TV Programming to Influence Search Results After using different signals—such as … [Read more...]
Apple’s iOS 8 Arrives With Improved Search Features
Apple Enhances iOS 8’s Search Features with Bing Results, DuckDuckGo, and Hey Siri Apple is set to release iOS 8 … [Read more...]
Bing Introduces Spam Filtering Mechanism
Bing Sets Up Spam Filtering Mechanism to Detect URL Keyword Stuffing Bing has just announced in a blog post that they … [Read more...]
Survey: Google is Seen as Being More Trustworthy than the U.S. Gov
Survey: More Americans Trust Google than the U.S. Government with their Personal Information According to a recent … [Read more...]
Google Faces 1M Link Removal Requests Daily; Receives 7.8M in One Week
A new record has been set for the number of URLs that Google has been asked to take down from search results over … [Read more...]
Bing Has Just Introduced Conversational Search
Bing Introduces Conversational Search In an attempt to directly provide answers and continue the conversation at the … [Read more...]
Google Webmaster Guidelines: Low-Quality Guest Blog Posts are Spam
Google Webmaster Guidelines Update: Low-Quality Guest Blogging Now Considered to be Spam Google has just updated its … [Read more...]
Google Encourages All Webmasters to Use HTTPS for Broader Security
Google Encourages All Webmasters to Use HTTPS for Broader Security; Gives Secure Sites Ranking Boost In an effort to … [Read more...]
Is Google the New Wile E. Coyote?
Five Times Google Has Penalized Itself for Violating its Own Webmaster Guidelines When it comes to search engines, few … [Read more...]
Cyber-attack & Algorithm Changes Impact eBay’s Q2 2014 Earnings
A prominent cyber-attack, as well as Google algorithm changes and an alleged manual penalty, affected eBay’s … [Read more...]
Google’s Latest Search Quality Rating Guidelines Has Been Leaked
Online marketers have been on high alert ever since Google’s Search Quality Rating Guidelines was leaked a few days … [Read more...]
Google Removes Profile Pictures and G+ Circle Counts from Authorship
Google announced today (via a post by John Mueller, Webmaster Trends Analyst at Google) that it would be revamping the … [Read more...]
Google Announces Android App Indexing for All Developers
There were many announcements at the Google I/O 2014 developers’ conference this morning. Among other developments, … [Read more...]
How Google Assesses the Quality of Content with Few Inbound Links
Matt Cutts Explains How Google Assesses the Quality of Content with Few Inbound Links In a video posted today on … [Read more...]
Google’s New “Right to be Forgotten” Form Now Available for EU Users
Google Releases New Search Removal Request Form in Compliance with the EU’s “Right to be Forgotten” … [Read more...]