Did you know that Google will make upwards of 500 changes per year to their search algorithm? This is an ongoing process to optimize search results and deliver a better, more relevant user experience? It is not very often that we, as the average Google user, get to see very deep into the algorithm that drives ...
There's no disputing who the king of search is from a shear volume standpoint. Google stands heads and shoulders above everyone else, and by a long ways. To illustrate the difference, or the dominant position that Google has in the search market, check out this graph from Alexa.com: But there's one area where Google is actually ...
According to AllThingsD, Belgian newspaper consortium Copiepresse has been removed from both Google News and the main Google index. Google states that the move was necessary according to terms reached in a copyright infringement case that was brought by Copiepresse. However, Copiepresse is fighting back stating that Google removed their site from the index because of ...
I just finished reading a post about an SEO strategy for WordPress called PageRank Sculpting. The post talked about how you wanted to add a "no follow" attribute to categories and tags in order to prevent giving away PageRank unnecessarily and drive more PR (PageRank) juice to the posts of your blog. I have to be honest ...
Taking a look at a Business Insider chart today I noticed something strange about the overall search market. There's the obvious, that Google dominates the search landscape. But there's another interesting take a way by looking at the chart below, and that is, why in the world has search growth seemed to stall? And I mean, stall completely. None ...
Google is looking to find new, innovative ways to increase the quality of the search results you see when you "Google" something. According to Matt Cutts, Google's lead search engine spam engineer, in 2010 Google made a couple of changes to their algorithm that has dramatically improved the quality of search results. Primarily the focus has been ...
For some reason, this really caught me off guard. I mean, I know I share a ton of information via my Facebook profile and Facebook Fan Page. Not to mention that Google Reader is my life-line to up to the minute news and information. But I guess I've never seen before exactly how Google aggregates ...