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Google Confirms Panda 3.2 Update In 2012, Google has continued its Panda Update with a Panda 3.2 update rolled out on January 18, 2012 (estimated date of the roll out). Google has revealed to search industry professionals that it has done a data refresh of the Google Panda algorithm with no algorithm changes. Webmasters experiencing ranking changes were discussing this on the WebmasterWorld forum for the past couple of days.
Presenting Google's Whole New Submit Content Page Google has a newly redesigned Submit Your Content page. The URL submission tool page has also been updated. You can now submit content at google.com/submityourcontent.
Google Rolls Out New Privacy Policy Google Inc. has announced through their official blog that they will be changing their current Privacy Policies and Google Terms of Service. These changes will assist Google to link their users across all Google products like Gmail, youtube, Google+ and so on. Google has indicated that the changes will be reflected in just over a month.
Punctuation Search Results Upgraded By Google In a fresh upgrade involving punctuation marks, Google has updated its search results. So, now when you search for a ; as in semicolon, you will now get search results. While some of the results are relevant, some may be not (the search for / slash reveals a music band with the same name on top). Here is what the search for ! reveals:
Now Download Search Queries Data In GWT Google has provided programmatic access to the search queries data in Webmaster Tools with Python. The Python script for downloading search query data was brought by Google in December 2011 and now has new download options that make the data download highly more useful.
Google AdWords Expands Automated Rules ...Includes Undo Option! Automated Rules is a time saving feature that allows auto-scheduling of changes to your account, based on user-defined criteria. Based on feedbacks from previous users, Google Adwords, through their official blog, announced that they have made automated rules even more user-friendly and flexible.
Google's Doodle Blackened In Protest Of SOPA & PIPA Yesterday, Google joined Wikipedia and other sites in the protest against Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and Protect IP Act (PIPA) being debated in Congress. Google has a link on its home page leading people to sign up in the protest against SOPA and PIPA. The link also notifies users of Google's opposition to controversial antipiracy bills before the Congress.
Bing Ousts Yahoo! Takes The No 2 Position In December Bing is the second most popular search engine in the US (finally!), pushing Yahoo! to the third spot. The number one position is held by Google (no surprises there) as revealed by comScores latest figures. At present Bing has a 15.1% market share in the United States, a gradual increase from its humble beginnings in June 2009 with an 8.4 percent market share.
Google Expands Flight Search Google's Flight Search feature was launched in September 2011. Though Google hasn't shared the exact number of routes added but have hinted that Flight Search has expanded to almost double its size since inception.
Google Introduces Search Plus Your World Google yesterday added a new dimension to its existing search engine by introducing, Search plus Your World. This feature will integrate personal results, mainly from Google+, into SERPs. This essentially means that information like People, Pages and Profiles will now be seen on the result pages. Lets have a closer look at the features :
BBC Catches Google Running Illegal Ads In UK According to a sensational investigative report, British Broadcasting Company(BBC) claims that Google is in hot water again. BBC has blamed Google.co.uk for running ads for illegal Olympic ticket resellers, ads for cannabis and ads for fake UK passports and identification cards.
Google Launches Author Stats Google is working to improve the authorship results in search, and in the line of the same, has launched Author Stats. This new tool located in Webmaster Tools lets authors know the frequency of their content showing in search results.
44% Of World Advertising Market Owned By Google As compared to 2006, Googles share of the global advertising market has increased by 10% or from a 34.9% in 2006 to 44.1% in 2010! this phenomenal growth has established Google firmly as a Juggernaut in online advertising. ZenithOptimedia has prepared this financial report,that shows that Google is growing unaffected by the economic slowdown.
Google AdWords Help Center Gets Redesigned Moving on with its renovating, refreshing and redesigning mission, Google has given a facelift to the Google AdWords Help Center. This was announced in the Google AdWords Help forum, where Google described that they are testing a new design for the Help Center.
Top Of Page Bid Estimate Support Added By AdWords Editor New estimated top page bid metric was introduced by Google AdWords in September this year, and now the latest Editor Update Version 9.7.1 has been released by the company.
The Google Story - Evolution Of Search Having trouble keeping up with the changes Google has made to their search algorithms over the years? Well let Google help you. The search engine has released a short video putting forward a few of its key milestones in search over the past decade.
The Sun Sets On Yahoo Site Explorer What's Next For Backlinks Research? 21st November saw the end of the road for the Yahoo Site Explorer, as it was rolled in to Bing Webmaster Tools. This means that you will lose the invaluable information you got about the competition, and will only get to know the information of the sites you own .
Google Brings On Board Verbatim Search In the last week of October, Google stealthily removed the + search operator from its set of search tools. By adding a + before a search term, made it mandatory that the specific words showed up in your search results. But, this tool was removed by Google as it considered the double quotes a better way of searching specifically.
10 New Google Algorithm Tweaks Whenever Google makes a change in its search algorithm, it makes for big news. The search engine has recently revealed a compilation of the latest algorithmic tweaks it has made. Google's Matt Cutts, has posted a blog about the recent 10 algorithm changes made by Google.
Winners & Losers Of Google's Freshness Update Google rolled out a freshness update in its Caffeine algorithm, that impacted 35% of the searches made. Now, SearchMetrics has compiled a list of the biggest losers and winners post the update. Most sites that have benefited from the update are major brands and a variety of news sites. News sites is not a surprise as the update was aimed at rewarding fresh content, the fresher the better.
Local Search More Prominent In New Google Places SERP Google's road to local has just been altered, and the local search stakes have been raised by the search engine in Google Places. These changes in the local results SERPs on Google search was announced by Google recently.
Google Search Now Indexing Facebook Comments! This one is a big news- Google is now indexing AJAX and JavaScript content. This means that the text from comments on Facebook pages will now show up in Google search results. What Is The Big News? The comments made on blogs and sites via the Facebook comments box are now being indexed by the search engine.
Google's AdWords Introduces New Location Targeting The location targeting interface for AdWords just got a makeover. Google announced that the changes include an easier way to find locations, and a new column that tells the reach (number of users) of Google properties. The location target limits have also been increased from 300 to 10,000, and a new Polygon targeting migration tool has been added.
Google's AdWords Introduces New Location Targeting The location targeting interface for AdWords just got a makeover. Google announced that the changes include an easier way to find locations, and a new column that tells the reach (number of users) of Google properties. The location target limits have also been increased from 300 to 10,000, and a new Polygon targeting migration tool has been added.
Rel=Author Gets A New Look Google has improved the look of authorship in its search results. That is the results that use the rel=author markup have been changed slightly. Post a few weeks of tests, the new markup is being displayed in Googles search results.
Google Introduces Bid-For-Calls In AdWords Google is launching a new AdWords feature titled bid for calls. It is a PPC as in Pay Per Call add on for the PC. It is not like Click to Call at all, but is different. The new program will launch in the US and UK in the beginning, before reaching other countries.
SEO Is Not Spam - Finally Says Google "We dont consider SEO to be spam," " this is the Google view as presented by Matt Cutts. Matt is the head of Google's anti spam squad. And now the Google's new definition of SEO- "SEO is a valid way to help people find what theyre looking for via search engines."
Bing Falls Short From Google In Page One CTR There is no big fight over who wins when it comes to Google and Bing searches. But a new study from Slingshot digs a bit deeper and studies the click through rates for the top 10 searched on Bing and Google. Also the study brings out a comparison of user behaviors on these two search engines.
Now Bing Powers Yahoo Organic Search... ...All Over The World Barring Korea. It's official now. Yahoo search is powered by Bing, whether it is a desktop search or a mobile one. Yahoo has given the lead to Microsoft Bing.
Google's Move To Encrypted Search ...SEOs Cry Foul - Accuse Google Of Double Standards. The search industry in an uproar after Google's announcement that they will now encrypt searches and outbound links by default, for signed in users. With the SSL in place, the SEOs and webmasters will not get the valuable search query string via the referrer. The fact that this data will be available to AdWords advertisers, has really angered the search community. The assurance by Google that only 10 percent of searchers will be impacted by this, but the data still remains significant
Google's Move To Encrypted Search ...SEOs Cry Foul - Accuse Google Of Double Standards. The search industry in an uproar after Google's announcement that they will now encrypt searches and outbound links by default, for signed in users. With the SSL in place, the SEOs and webmasters will not get the valuable search query string via the referrer. The fact that this data will be available to AdWords advertisers, has really angered the search community. The assurance by Google that only 10 percent of searchers will be impacted by this, but the data still remains significant
Google's Move To Encrypted Search ...SEOs Cry Foul - Accuse Google Of Double Standards. The search industry in an uproar after Google's announcement that they will now encrypt searches and outbound links by default, for signed in users. With the SSL in place, the SEOs and webmasters will not get the valuable search query string via the referrer. The fact that this data will be available to AdWords advertisers, has really angered the search community. The assurance by Google that only 10 percent of searchers will be impacted by this, but the data still remains significant
Google's Move To Encrypted Search ...SEOs Cry Foul - Accuse Google Of Double Standards. The search industry in an uproar after Google's announcement that they will now encrypt searches and outbound links by default, for signed in users. With the SSL in place, the SEOs and webmasters will not get the valuable search query string via the referrer. The fact that this data will be available to AdWords advertisers, has really angered the search community. The assurance by Google that only 10 percent of searchers will be impacted by this, but the data still remains significant
Now Listings Being Updated Automatically In Google Places If your business is on Google Places, then the address and related information will be updated automatically with the information that Google will gather from users and third parties/trusted sources.
Google+ Gets Real With Search And Hashtags Google+ knows how to keep it coming. The social platform has now launched Real time search as well as hashtags support. So, people can keep track of live events as well as contribute to them too. Whether it is a hot news story or an important event or a FIFA match that has everyone interested, users on Google+ can follow the latest updates now.
Google Page Speed Online Comes Out Of Labs The wait is over as the Google Page Speed Online has finally come out in the open from the Google Labs. Now. You can get to know the speed of your site, by dropping it on the search bar given right at the center of the tool page.
Ex-Google Search Team Opens A SEO Firm Five SEO and internet services companies located in different parts of the globe have come together and formed a Search Quality Alliance. These five companies are run by former team members of the Google Search Quality team.
GWT And Analytics Integration SEO Reports Now Available Good News For Webmasters! The Search Engine Optimization reports in Google Analytics based on Webmaster Tools data, that were promised by Google in June, are available now. These reports are a Google Webmaster Tools integration with Google Analytics, and let you see the search query data from Webmaster Tools directly in Google Analytics. And now, Google has announced that this feature is now accessible for all.
Google Rolls Out Quality Improvements In AdWords Globally In its attempt to provide for the best user experience, Google is now rolling out a new algorithm that will give more consideration to landing page quality when it comes to AdWords Quality score. This new algorithm has been quietly tested in Spain, Portugal, Brazil and other parts of Latin America.
Survivors And Victims Of Panda 2.5 Google's latest Panda Update 2.5 hit on the 28th September, and soon after the confirmation of the update, details have started coming out about the winners and losers post the update.
Now Get Real Time Reports With Google Analytics To begin with, Google Analytics will have a new look next week. Secondly, it will have a new set of reports called "Real Time." This was just announced by Google and the reports will be under the 'Dashboard' tab and will show you whats happening on your site as it happens!
Search Revenue For The First Half Of 2011 The latest Internet Advertising Revenue Report from IAB reveals that search advertising leads online advertising, with its revenue touching $7.3 billion in the first half of 2011. The period has also witnessed online advertising script a signal growth, generating a record revenue of $14.9 billion.
Key Factors In Google News Rankings Andrew Shotland of Local SEO Guide has come up with a full fledged web site, wherein he has tried to document the top 10 positive as well as negative factors as far as Google News ranking is concerned. According to him, the top 10 positive ranking factors are:
Can Reading Level Fix Panda? When Reading Level was launched in December last year, we never thought it was possible. Google indexes the website content on the basis of volume, depth and originality.
Google News Introduces Standout Tag Option Now online news organizations can ensure that a significant news published by them is more likely to catch the notice of target readers. Google News has rolled standout tag option for the US edition. Upto 7 news can be tagged per week, Google News will mark these tagged pieces as featured on Google News and News Search Results.
Initiative From Bing To Facilitate Your Daily Deals Searching Bing has announced the launch of a new deals site. However, bing.com/deals is a partnered venture between Bing and other deals sites, such as Groupon, LivingSocial, Nordstrom and Target.
Microsoft's Plan To Make Bing Profitable Microsoft is planning to make Bing profitable in the next several years, by enhancing the precision and relevance level of the service offered by the search engine. Bing has already started that initiative by giving data and information, such as flight data, product results, sports information, etc.
Checking Out Bing's New Action Buttons Bing has come up with Action Buttons aimed at facilitating booking of flights and hotels, renting cars, etc. The service entails searching across seven popular categories- airlines, rental cars, couriers, hotels, restaurants, banks and software downloads.
Yahoo! Bing Transitions Expand To Asia Markets Yahoo! and Bing have expanded combined search engine operation service for the Asian users. The markets that will come under the purview of this service include...
New Designs For Yahoo's Search Results Pages In a fresh attempt to better the Yahoo! Search experience by presenting the most relevant content in an organized manner, Yahoo has introduced newer designs for search results pages. According to Yahoo, We have been working to unify the search experiences across web, multimedia, and vertical search results pages with a design that is clean and intuitive.
Now Block Sites From Anywhere On Google Google is going full steam ahead with its quality user experience and relevant search results agenda. In the keeping of this, the search engine now allows signed in users around the world to tell Google whether a site is useful or not.
Google Announces Better Notifications For Penalties Google has improved their mode of communication with webmasters with regards to both manual and automated penalties.
Application Rich Snippets From Google After rolling out the snippets for List Pages, Google has come up with application rich snippets, which will help users searching for various applications to evaluate the search result relevance in a better way.
Celebrity Endorsement Advertising Programme From Google Google has started testing a new advertising programme, wherein paid search results on the Google Adwords system will be displaying celebrity endorsements as annotations at their bottom. It was introduced by Christian Oestlien, Lead Product Manager on the second day of SMX East, 2011.
SMX: Which Way Google The session Which Way Google started off with the challenges faced by the search engine giant Google regarding information and privacy and the direction it was likely to take in the future. The panel constituted of:
Market Share Drops For Google The comScore and Hitwise findings of the search engine market share present an interesting data. As per comScore, Google has experienced a below 65% drop in its US market share, for the first time since September 2009.
Google AdWords Sitelinks Now Expanded Sitelinks was first announced back in 2009. Sitelinks was devised to allow users to extend the value of your existing AdWords ads by providing additional links to content deep within your sites With Ad Sitelinks, you can point to specific information on your site such as gift registries, special deals, holiday or event-related promotions, and store locators.
Google Places Error: Listings Tagged As Permanently Closed Just days after the noted Google Place error of We Currently Do Not Support The Location, the New York Times article has reported another rather important issue of Google Places spitting out the Permanently Closed error.
Yahoo Search Algo To Transition To Bing For India, Whilst Google Eyes Southeast Asia! Back in August 2010, Yahoo! announced the transition of its US search results property to Microsoft Bing.
Google Rolls Out New Snippets For List Pages Google has announced the release of new snippets for web pages that comprise lists. These snippet improvements set out to distill information from long lists and show them in bullet-points. The new snippet format alters the previously available meta descriptions.
Google+ Impact on SEO Google+ is creating gigantic waves, as of now, the gates are not open, but businesses are waiting in line to get their pages on the social network. In waiting are the SEO experts too. Most have already started experimenting with the various features of Google+- tweaking and testing the same to see their effect on search.
Google To Pay $500M To Avoid Prosecution On Drug Ads Google is to shell out one of the largest financial penalties, a colossal $500 million in order to avert Department of Justice's criminal prosecution. Google was alleged to be profiting from advertising Canadian pharmacies illegally selling prescription and non-prescription drugs.
Now Bing Webmaster Tools To Show Integrated Data From Yahoo! Bing's Webmaster Tools now shows integrated data from Yahoo Traffic in some reports and areas. The integration began on the 12th August, however, September will the first month that will see complete merger of the combined data.
Find Related Web Content With Google's New Browser Extension! Your browsing sessions can now be better, more relevant and related. A new free tool has been added by Google that leads you to browse useful and related web content, when you are looking up something.
Google Sitelinks Expands to 12 Pack! Google has announced the expansion of sitelinks to provide a better search experience to the user. This expansion has also taken place in the way these links are organised and presented on the search engine. This is how the sitelinks looked before the changes:
Google+ To Power Realtime Search Soon There's good news for all the Google Realtime Search fans, the service is soon coming back. This time around, though it will incorporate data from Google+ in addition to that other social networks, as reported by Mashable.
It's Time For Transition; From Yahoo! UK Organic Search Results To Bing Yahoo! is sending out updates announcing the migration of its Yahoo's European organic search results to Bing's search index tomorrow. The email sent out by Yahoo! reads as following:
Google Buys Dealmap The Dealmap has announced that it is now acquired by Google. However the terms of this deal are yet to be disclosed by either parties. For those who are not familiar with The Dealmap services, it is a website that propagates local discounts and deals via mobile, emails and Twitter by showing the deals' location on Google Maps.
Google Releases Page Speed Service Yesterday, Google released, yet another addition to its web page speed service clan, Page Speed Service. An online line service which will automatically load your web pages faster. The clan till date, sans Page Speed Service, consisted of, Page Speed browser extension, Page Speed Online API and mod_pagespeed, an Apache module.
Now Find Your Perfect Hotel With Google Hotel Finder Quit using Google Maps to find that perfect hotel for your holiday or business trip. Google has introduced its new experimental search toolbar, Hotel Finder, to help you find your perfect hotel.
PPC Ads Do Not Cannibalize Organic Traffic A latest Google study has declared that paid search ads give you a 89% incremental lift in traffic. Now this is much more than traffic one expects from organic search. This study has been conducted by Quantitative Management Team at Google, and claims that paid search ads are much more effective This study also lays to rest any claims that the Paid search ads cannibalize organic traffic.
No Google Toolbar For Firefox 5! Earlier this week Google Announced that its toolbar supports only versions leading to and including Firefox 4. For Firefox 5 and other versions upwards, Google Toolbar is not available. Google has been providing the Firefox browser with its support since 2005 and after all this time they have now decided to drop this support for the version upwards.
3rd Party Review Counts Are No Longer Shown On Google Places Search It appears, in the Google Places search result, of the main searches, the third part reviews whilst still being linked...
Google AdWords Top 20 Most Expensive Keyword Categories! Google, last week announced a massive rise of 32% year on year in their revenue which equaled to a whooping $9.02 billion of revenue in the Q2 2011 earnings.
Top Vs. Side: The New AdWords Report Segment Revealing This Vital Distinction! A report published by Google, AdWords report segment revealed notation of a big divide between the performance of #1 ads based on their position. The report suggests, that the #1 ads that appear on the top of the search result perform better, or, end up getting more clicks and more conversions, as opposed to the #1 ads on the right.
Subdomains: Your Answer To Google Panda Update? According to an article published yesterday in the Wall Street Journal, HubPages, a leading publisher of contents from various authors, was one of the many websites which were most hit by Google's Panda Update can be revived once again. All thanks to subdomains.
This Year End To See The End To Yahoo Site Explorer! Yahoo! has announced they are going to pull the plug on one of our favorite SEO tools, Yahoo Site Explorer by the end of this year. The tool saw the light of the day on September 29, 2005.
Google+ First Hand Review! Talking about Google's services always makes me super excited, perhaps because I subconsciously know that the sole purpose of its existence is to reassert its excellence. Especially this one, as it has been a long time coming after enough speculation and anticipation for the answer to Facebook's growing supremacy, to my ecstasy, Google finally announced...
Local Search Ranking Factors - 2011! David Mihm has published his annual survey of SEO Experts. This report has feedback from 33 bloggers and practitioners. There are two key areas in which it differs from previous years.
Big 3's Joint Effort: Schema.org! Google, Bing and Yahoo! Have announced their coming together to with schema.org which is for the webmasters to help search engines their websites better. This in turn can be done by adding the markup to the websites' pages.
90 Day Penalty On J. C. Penney Lifted? J. C. Penney was penalized for a period of 90 days by Google, in February, 2011, for not conforming to their guidelines while optimizing their site for search. The report of J. C. Penney's excessive link building which eventually led to their penalty...
Finally Official Google Search Blog Launched! No! they didn't have one before. If you notice, all those news you've been receiving (along with the ones regarding search as well) have been either posted the Official Google Blog or the Webmaster Central Blog or other help centers or forums.
Create AdWords Accounts in MCC without email addresses Google has added a new feature in their My Client Center (MCC). This feature will allow AdWords advertisers to create new AdWords accounts without login or password.
Facebook Data Incorporated Into Bing For Better Search Experience! Bing announces the incorporation Facebook data into their search results. The company said that with this latest update, Facebook and Bing users can bring the "Friend Effect" to Bing search.
Google News Releases New Changes Adding Variety And Multimedia! Google News has released expandable stories, and other changes that will give you more stories and reduce mess while you search and read news. Google includes these changes right when Google News is losing visitors.
Second Wave Of Help From Google For Sites Attacked By Their Panda Update! Google has released another post that advises sites that may have been affected by their Panda/Farmer update. Google said that webmasters should focus less on the company's current ranking algorithms or signals, instead work on delivering a better user experience on their sites.
Another Link Scheme Case By The New York Times The New York Times has come up with yet another paid links story. The daily published a story that reveals some popular online flower sellers, that rank on top of search results, allegedly purchased links. The article called Trying to Game Google on "Mother's Day Flowers" named FTD, Teleflora, 1800Flowers.com and ProFlowers which are well known names when it comes to online flower sales.
Google Instant Previews For Ads Launched For All Users Google had been running tests on its Instant Previews for Ads, the company's latest instant preview option, now it is available for all users. An AdWords blog reports that Google users running a search can now preview an ad's landing page by clicking on the icon next to the ad in the returned search results.
Google Updates Autocomplete Suggestions! Google has updated of the Google Autocomplete feature. The autocomplete operates by predicting searches as you are typing your search keyword or set of keywords. With their Google Instant, autocomplete suggestions improves and accelerates your search experience according to the company. This latest update targets to further improve the feature with searches that has been rarely or even never been searched before.
Google Introduces Toolbar 7! The latest Google Toolbar version Toolbar 7 is out with a fresh, clean look that personalizes Toolbar with the tools you use most. Google says that the new toolbar will be even faster with the Toolbar Instant.
Google Removing Videos From Google Video To Provide Search Services Only! Google is removing all the videos on Google Video and making it even more search focused rather than host videos. The upload feature has been disabled back in January, 2009 and now with this announcement, they will disable the playback of already uploaded videos too.
SEMPO State of Search Marketing Report 2011 Spread the love before that the data please! Respecting one of the oldest rules in the online world, we bring you the findings from the latest State of Search Marketing Report 2011. Here is the grub (The good news first " the SEM industry is projected to grow by 16% this year to a value of $19.3B, the corresponding figures for 2010 were 14% and $16.6B):
Google's Panda Update Goes International Google's Panda update, a major search algorithm change to tackle content farms, that was released only in the US in February has now gone live across the globe. It will affect all searches using English language on Google including both English speaking countries and English searches in non-English countries as well. Additionally, there are also some minor updates reported.
Hotel Ads For Google Maps, Places And Gmail Google has released a brand new way of advertising for hotels. It is not yet named officially by the company but he media has labeled it as hotel ads and users have one more reason to be delighted.
How Google Instant's Autocomplete Suggestions Operate Today, when you use Google to run a search you notice that before you even finish typing your keyword Google offers you suggestions. This automatic suggestions are offered by a feature called Google Instant, which the company has come up with, to make your search faster and easier and to give you a better search experience.
Bing Introduces App for iPad! Bing has created an app that is beautiful and functional for iPad. The Bing for iPad app is available for free download at the Apple App store. With the app, Bing assures to make your browsing quick "with the swipe of your finger," and will add more to the traditional search experience with rich graphics and unique features.
Google Presents The +1 Button!
Yahoo! Launches Search Direct! Yahoo! has announced the launch of a beta version of Yahoo Search Direct, calling the event the beginning of the beginning of a new era in search (that! we'll wait and see). Search Direct claims to give its users 'answers' and not just 'links.' Here's an excerpt from the post that elaborates how Search Direct works:
Google Improves Location Targeting On AdWords! If you have been using the Location Targeting option on the Google AdWords, here is a good news for you. Google has added more tools on AdWords...
Google Encourages TV Show Owners To Tag Video! Google wants owners of TV shows to tag their online videos using the 'additional fields' that they have added. A Webmaster Central Blog post said...
Keyword Domains' Ranking Could Be Lowered By Google Just when you thought the news of Google's algorithm updates, for improved search quality and spam cleansing, has taken a back seat " Matt Cutts has more. The leader of the anti-spam team of the company said that Google is looking forward through the rest of the year at other changes we can make to try to improve search quality.
Google's Nonprofits Program For Nonprofit Organizations If you are changing the world, Google wants to help, well with free domains, hosting and Adwords money. Before you draw any otherwise conclusion, these offers are a part...
Google's Nonprofits Program For Nonprofit Organizations If you are changing the world, Google wants to help, well with free domains, hosting and Adwords money. Before you draw any otherwise conclusion, these offers are a part...
Google Adds Instant Video Previews To Video Search! Google has added the Instant Previews for videos option to its video search results. It is an enhancement to the pre-existing Instant Previews feature. With it, now you can preview videos instead of watching the full clip of all the videos returned for your video search.
New Information On The Google Farmer Update A session at the ongoing SMX West, 2011, included Associated Content's founder, Luke Beatty. The session's main focus was on what useful lesson can be learned from content farms. It also discussed the steps that the sites that took the Panda's (or Farmer update) blow to get their lost ranking positions back.
Hugo Boss Next In Google Spam Busters' List Remember the chastening of JC Penney, Overstock and Forbes.com by Google? Well, now it is Hugo Boss who beeped under Google's spam scanner.
Google's Panda Update Has Webmasters And SEOs Speculating A recent interview of Google's Matt Cutts and Amit Singhal by Wired.com on the Panda update has seem to get hundreds of SEOs and webmasters pondering upon. Webmasters and SEOs are analyzing each word and phrase, of the rather brief interview, on a Webmaster World thread.
Google's Panda Update Has Webmasters And SEOs Speculating A recent interview of Google's Matt Cutts and Amit Singhal by Wired.com on the Panda update has seem to get hundreds of SEOs and webmasters pondering upon. Webmasters and SEOs are analyzing each word and phrase, of the rather brief interview, on a Webmaster World thread.
Google Adds Optimize For Conversion Option To AdWords Google has announced that it has added a new option in AdWords. This new option called 'Optimize for conversion' is included in the ad rotation settings, adding one more option to the two already present - Optimize for clicks and Rotate.
Google Makes Substantial Change in its Search Algorithm to Tackle Content Farms! Google has announced that it has made a huge change in their search algorithm to provide better search results.
Google Changing Titles And Descriptions or ''Snippets'' of Your Website in SERPs! A Google Webmaster Central blog post announced that Google is changing the titles and descriptions or snippets of your website in search results. In the same post, Google also gave suggestions and guidelines on how to create good meta descriptions, descriptive page titles and prevent search engines from displaying DMOZ data in search results for your site.
Google Notifies Forbes.com For Selling Links! Google has notified Forbes.com, Forbes magazine's website for selling links on their site, for the second time. This event came to notice when Denis Pinsky, the Digital Marketing ...
Google Links Webmaster Tools To Analytics A Webmaster Tools Central blog says that Google has made an update that enables a site owner to link Webmaster Tools to Google Analytics. This means if you have sites that are verified by Webmaster Tools you can now link it to your Analytics profile that uses the same Google account (that you use for the site).
Google Updates Webmaster Tools Search Query The Search Queries, a feature in the Google Webmaster Tools has been updated. This feature that comes with the Webmaster Tools to analyze and fetch the user (webmasters) a visual representation, through graphs and tables, of their sites presence in the Google search results.
Google Plans To Audit AdWords Resellers Come April 1, 2011, and Google will start auditing selective agencies, resellers and other third parties (that use AdWords). At the same time, Google will continue to investigate any...
Google Releases Hotpot Worldwide Google's recommendation feature the Hotpot is finally available in regular Google search results. To top it off, you can share your recommendations with all your friends worldwide and vice versa. Hotpot is available in 38 new languages including Chinese, French, German, Italian, Korean, Spanish and more. This means people can also share their recommendations in their native language.
Google Adds Update Alerts to Google Maps For all those who have been curious or have posted queries in the Google Maps Help Forum asking when will update the maps and content of their homes or offices?
Google Ads More Cities And Regions To AdWords Google has announced that it will enable AdWords advertisers to reach even more customers in local markets with its additional 17 countries location targeting feature. This increases the number...
Google's New Content Farm Algorithm In Action Google had announced earlier this month that it will Focus on Content Farms in 2011. In regards to the same they have launched two major algorithmic changes focused on content farms and low-quality sites or spammy sites that are noticed in Google search results. Well, the algorithmic changes were approved, launched and in action now.
Google Releases New AdWords Design The new homepage features the same account alerts summary and an account performance graph, but you can now customize it (homepage) to suit your own conveniences.
Bing Improves Destination And Hotel Pages The Bing team has announced that it is updating the destination and hotel pages. The news that was announced through the Bing team's blog post added that with the latest improvements...
How To Use Webmaster Tools Like An SEO Yes! You can use some features in the Webmaster Tools like you were an SEO for googlestore.com. Maile Ohye, Developer Programs Tech Lead,
Google Is Ending Real Estate Map Results Lat Long, Google's Earth and Maps team's blog, announced that they are excluding the real estate search & listing feature from Google Maps. This comes as a rather surprising news as the option was just introduced in July 2009. It has run for only a mere 7 months duration and available in the US, Australia, New Zealand, the UK and Japan up till now.
Bing Releases New Image Result Page As part of their effort in "delivering a more intuitive and visual image search experience" to its users, Bing introduces a brand new landing page for image search.
Google Set To Focus Attention On Content Farms Matt Cutts, Principal Engineer at Google, in his 1/21/2011 blog post titled 'Google search and search engine spam' warned content farms. He pointed out that there have been many stories...
Eric Schmidt Steps Down As Google's CEO Google's co-founder Larry Page is replacing Eric Schmidt as the search engine giant's Chief Executive Officer! 'An update from the Chairman' post of Google blogged the news in the outgoing Chairman's own words. The official take over by Larry will happen on the 4th of April, this year.
Eric Schmid Steps Down As Google's CEO Google's co-founder Larry Page is replacing Eric Schmidt as the search engine giant's Chief Executive Officer! 'An update from the Chairman' post of Google blogged the news in the outgoing Chairman's own words. The official take over by Larry will happen on the 4th of April, this year.
Yahoo! UK Could Soon Be Powered By Bing We have been tailing the Yahoo! and Microsoft Search Alliance's movement. The first part of this global transition of Yahoo's search results to Microsoft saw Bing powering the Yahoo organic...
Google Now Links to Competitors in Music Video Search Results Google recently announced that it will be linking to competitors video sites when someone searches for music video.
Google Making Changes To Its Google Maps UI Google is making changes, as it seems, in its Google Maps UI. As a result, users are expected to get new navigation controls in the Google Maps.
Google Changes URL Domain Appearance Making variations to the search results pages, Google has now announced the change in the appearance of the domain portion of the URLs.
Goolge Adds New Features ToThe AdSense Interface Google has announced some new features for AdSense interface to enhance the user experience: Home and Performance Report pages will now show page level ...
Yahoo! And Microsoft Search Alliance Add More Countries The Yahoo search blog announced on January 13th, 2011, that the Yahoo! and Microsoft Search Alliance team is now serving in three new countries - Australia, Brazil and Mexico.
Toyota's Latest Navigation System Adds Bing For Search The January 4 announcement of Toyota Entune at the CES (Consumer Electronic Show) in Las Vegas has Bing in it. It gives Bing its maiden in-car search capabilities deal.
Toyota's Latest Navigation System Adds Bing For Search The January 4 announcement of Toyota Entune at the CES (Consumer Electronic Show) in Las Vegas has Bing in it. It gives Bing its maiden in-car search capabilities deal. Entune is Toyota's latest navigation system which will be featured in select Toyota models this year.
Google Advises Against Any Duplicate Content In a Google Webmaster Help thread, JohnMu from Google advised a webmaster that there should be no duplicate URLs or session ID based URLs listed in a Sitemap file.
Cutts Adds Confusion About Cloaking Targeting Matt Cutts' 26th December 2010, tweet of mere 136 character "Google will more at cloaking in Q1 2011. Not just page content matters; avoid different headers/redirects to Googlebot instead of users." has rather hit a confusing note amongst many SEOs and Webmasters on the web.
Cutt's Adds Confusion About Cloaking Targeting Matt Cutt's 26th December 2010, tweet of mere 136 character "Google will more at cloaking in Q1 2011. Not just page content matters; avoid different headers/redirects to Googlebot instead of users." has rather hit a confusing note amongst many SEOs and Webmasters on the web.
Search Engine Review: Blekko Blekko, the new search engine founded by Rich Skrenta has finally been launched to the public on November 1, 2010. The goal of this new search engine is to be able to provide useful...
Google Adds Hacked Site Notification For years, Google have been providing notices for malware in their search results, with a separate warning page. On Friday, December 17 (2010) a new notification for hacked sites has been added to Google's search results. This addition will help users avoid sites that may have been compromised and altered by a third party, usually for spam.
Google Updates Webmaster Tool For The Holiday Prompt with solutions and ever ready to please its users, Google has updated the Webmaster Tools, 'Just in time for the holidays'. Happy should be all the people who requested for this to be done. The "Search queries" and "Links to your site" features were updated and announced on Google's Webmaster Central Blog on 10 December.
Google Adds New Tool To Keywords Google has added a few new features to the Keyword Tool that was released back in September 2009. This news was announced on the Google AdWords Blog.
How Google And Bing Use Social Signals This is a very interesting account of an interview of Google and Bing by Danny Sullivan at Search Engine Land on how social signals, mostly Twitter and Facebook, impact their ranking algorithms. The title of the interview is 'What Social Signals Do Google & Bing Really Count?'.
Google Changes The Way It Ranks Search Results In reaction to an article A Bully Finds a Pulpit on the Web by David Segal in The New York Times, Google announced on December 2 that it had changed the way it ranks search results...
Yahoo! Launches Search Trends Site On November 16, Yahoo launched "Yahoo Clues" to provide users a better insight and more reliable data about the popular search terms. The service however is still in its beta.
Google Rolls Out New AdSense Interface
Google Tests Out New Demo Slam Bid goodbye(hopefully) to the days of boring tech-demos. Demo Slam is here. It is supposed to pep up those boring demos and to generate interest among users.
Yahoo Begins Shifting Ads To AdCenter
Google Bring Enhancments To Their Privacy Policy
Yahoo Search Giving Local Search Results It has been announced by the Yahoo Search blog that it is launching an advanced Search Assist feature which would help the user to get the closest geographical suggestions...
Google's Search Adds Single Page Domain Results Yet another change on Google, and this time Google has tweaked its ranking algorithm so to allow, a large number of results from a single site on a single page. According to Google, this improvement is essentially for users to find better and deeper results from a single site.
Google's Search Adds Single Page Domain Results Yet another change on Google, and this time Google has tweaked its ranking algorithm so to allow, a large number of results from a single site on a single page. According to Google, this improvement is essentially for users to find better and deeper results from a single site.
Google's Search Adds Single Page Domain Results Yet another change on Google, and this time Google has tweaked its ranking algorithm so to allow, a large number of results from a single site on a single page. According to Google, this improvement is essentially for users to find better and deeper results from a single site.
Google Acquires ITA For $700 Million Google has announced, that it has acquired ITA, a Boston based software company for $700 million. ITA specializes in the collection and organization of the airline data, details...
Google Make Their News More Social Google has done some very interesting changes in the homepage of Google news. According to Google, they have replaced the old look of the google news...
Google Adds Sunrise And Sunset To Search Results This week Google has given a surprise to its users by launching two new search features called as the Sunrise and Sunset. These search features will let the users know the exact timings...
Larry Cornett Leaves Yahoo Larry Cornett, one of the recognizable faces at Yahoo, has announced to depart himself from Yahoo and said that it's time to move on to some other opportunities.
Google Removes AdWord Report Center Google AdWords Blog has reported that they are going to retire the Adwords reporting center tab very soon. The reports that were used to be under the reporting center tab will now be shifting to the campaign tabs, where the users used to maintain their files and other reports.
Google Adds 'Analyze Competition' To AdWord Tools Now, apart from your own progress and performance, you can measure your competitor's performance too with the help of Google AdWords new tool called, 'Analyze Competition'. So, the advertisers can calculate the range of the competition over the past two weeks with the help of this service.
Google Adds 'Analyze Competition' To AdWord Tools Now, apart from your own progress and performance, you can measure your competitor's performance too with the help of Google AdWords new tool called, 'Analyze Competition'. So, the advertisers can calculate the range of the competition over the past two weeks with the help of this service.
Google Adds 'Analyze Competition' To AdWord Tools Now, apart from your own progress and performance, you can measure your competitor's performance too with the help of Google AdWords new tool called, 'Analyze Competition'. So, the advertisers can calculate the range of the competition over the past two weeks with the help of this service.
Are You Ready For Google Caffeine? This is the tone that most of the blogs and discussions in forums have taken. Everyone is anxious about when it will come, what it is and what effect it will have on site rankings, but no one has any concrete information to share.
Google Announces Significant Changes To Webmaster Tools Google has announced some significant improvement in the data provided by Top search queries feature in Webmaster Tools. We previously just reported the average position at which...
2010 Forecasts 14% Growth Increase in the SEO Industry The 6th SEMPO Search Engine Marketing Report is out. The report is an outcome of an online survey of almost 1,500 client-side marketers (advertisers) and agency respondents, from across 68 countries. Here are a few important points from the report:
New iPhone Search Apps from Yahoo! Yahoo! has passed over its search duties to Bing. The result has been greater focus on mobile search, and has it not been good so far! Yahoo! Sketch-a-Search & Yahoo! Search app for iPhone are two cool new applications launched by the search-turned-into-search experience major. If one glosses over the superlatives and claims of them being very new, the new applications for iPhone...
New Reports on Google AdWords Conversions The new reports are all about seeing sales as a process than a one-click act. Google AdWords used to attribute the conversion to the last ad someone clicks before making a conversion.
Yahoo! Ranking Algorithm Update Yahoo! Search Blog has announced another periodic update to its ranking algorithm. The Yahoo! Search engineering teams are rolling out updates to crawling, indexing, and...
Finally, Shared Site Ownership Is Possible Finally, shared site ownership is possible without having to go through the meta tag or HTML file verification process.
Check Your SEO With Google's New Report Card Google is getting serious about optimizing its own product sites. The new *Google SEO Report Card* is an extensive analysis of more than 100 main pages of Google products.
Check Your SEO With Google's New Report Card Google is getting serious about optimizing its own product sites. The new *Google SEO Report Card* is an extensive analysis of more than 100 main pages of Google products.
New Social Media Experience from Yahoo! and Twitter Whether its posting new Twitter feeds with content from Yahoo! or checking out the latest tweets from their online friends or seeing the public updates, Yahoo! will provide...
Google Adwords offers Free Online AdWords Classes
Social Media In Gmail With Google Buzz Google has announced its new Gmail social sharing element- Google Buzz, to let its users enjoy the new social networking experience. It has the tagline "Go Beyond Status Messages"...
Google'a 1GB/sec Fiber Optic Broadband Plans Google announces the experiment to build and test ultra high-speed broadband networks in some trial regions of US. Its planning to deliver 1Gb/sec broadband service to the Americans...
Google'a 1GB/sec Fiber Optic Broadband Plans Google announces the experiment to build and test ultra high-speed broadband networks in some trial regions of US. Its planning to deliver 1Gb/sec broadband service to the Americans...
Google's First Super Bowl Commercial
Bing Prepares for 2010 Winter Olympics Bing has announced its new search features for the upcoming 2010 Winter Olympics slated to begin this Friday in Vancouver. The two amazing search features Instant Answers and...
Google Analytics Goes Multi-Lingual
Google Analytics IQ Passing Score Raised From 75% to 80%
Google Rolls Out Social Search In Beta Google's official blog announced the launch of the beta version for its Social Search. The effect of this will be that now on all web and image searches will have...
Yahoo! Updates its Search Index!
Google AdWords Now Targets Ads Based On Mobile Devices Google advertisers can now target ads based on devices and carriers of the users. This will enable better results if the messages delivered are device or carrier specific too.
Now Google Serves Location-Based Search Suggestions... ...On Your Phone. Google Mobile has launched an all new localized search suggestions feature for the iPhone and Android phone system users. Based on the users current or last location...
Improved Yahoo Sponsored Search For Better Advertising... ...In 2010! Yahoo! is planning to launch its enhanced Sponsored Search with two add on features next week. Network distribution and AdWords Import features are aimed at providing...
New URL Policy on AdWords Display for Hosted Domains
Read Online News Just Like a Newspaper by Google Fast Flips Reading news online on Google News has now become easier and user friendly than ever before as Google has introduced a new Fast Flip technique where in you can flip through...
Google India Opens Health Clinic For Sites! In first of it kinds, the analysts from the search quality team of Google labs India have opened a site health check clinic for your websites. The team will do a thorough analysis of...
New AdWords Optimization Center Launched by Google!
Google's New Yearly Page Rank Update Is Here!
Google's New Yearly Page Rank Update Is Here!
Googles New Yearly Page Rank Update Is Here!
Google Suggest Introduces Universal Search Features Google is expanding its Google search services for its users. The next time you query Google, you'll experience a new service added to Google. In every query, Google provides some suggestions.
Google Starts The New Year Countdown New Year is just around the corner and Google has begun the countdown for the New Year already. Without giving any query to Google, just click on the Im Feeling Lucky option on the Google homepage.
Bing Announces Top Ten Searches Of 2009 Bing revealed the list of top ten most searched topics and events for the year 2009. As we are moving towards the end of 2009, it is the perfect time to look back at the top...
New Dynamic Parameters in Google AdWords... ...Allows Inclusion of Numerical Values. In a recent announcement made by Google AdWords API Blog, two vital parameters have been introduced in the ad copy for...
Google Coming up with More Relevant New Search Ad Formats The latest Google blog is talking about the New search ads format introduced to provide richer and more informative search results to researchers on Google Adwords.
Good Just Made Holiday Deal Hunting Easier As Black Friday is round the corner, consumers in the U.S have started looking out for the best deals on electronic products in neighborhood as well as online stores.
Google Experiments With Search Results Google has been experimenting a lot on their homepage and it has now shifted to search results as well. The team at present is testing a permanent left sidebar in the search result, which will display results in three columns including organic results, new sidebar and search ads.
Google Releases New Software Notification To Webmasters In an urge to come up with something new everytime, Google team will now be sending the updates about new versions of software packages and plugins to webmasters...
Webmasters Discuss The Usefulness Of Watermarked Images Maile Ohye, the Developer Programs Tech Lead is talking about the pros and cons of watermarked images in the Official Google Webmaster blog.
Google Refines Image Search Google has released Google Image Swirl, a similar images explorer that is using the wonder wheel flash visualization from web search results.
Google's SERPS with New Site Hierarchies Display! Google has rolled out an improvement that will replace the URL in some of the search results with a hierarchy that will show you the exact location of the page on the site.
Bing - Out of Beta Tag for Handling Search Overload in the UK It is true that Internet has drastically grown in the past few years and has become more complex, but Search Engines are still on the verge of evolution. In order to make search...
Google Surprise PageRank Update
Site Speed Might Become Another Google Page Ranking Factor Google Engineer Matt Cutts has recently told Web Pro News in an interview about how Google may rank websites in future. He has hinted that ranking would somehow be affected by...
Google Expands Product Ads In the recent blog, Google has announced that it is expanding the product ads within AdWords listing. After testing the Product Listing Ads for a while, the team has finally said that searchers in the U.S will be able to see product ads more frequently.
Bing Works With Wolfram Alpha for Better Search Results After integrating Twitter to its search results, Microsoft is now collaborating with Wolfram Alpha for getting its computational algorithm technology into the search results of Bing.
Google Introduces New & Improved Keyword User Interface Google webmasters have announced a brand new user interface for Google's keywords feature. Referring to the announcement as post-Halloween treat, the Official Google Blog says that data will now be updated on daily basis and will provide details on how often the team finds a specific keyword. A handful of URLs containing...
Google Buys Gizmo5 for $30 Million
Google Aquires Admob
Google Makes Conversion Tracking Easier
Making your Site Ready for Holidays
Google Commerce Search for Better e-Commerce Searching Now e-commerce searching will be as easy as using Google.com with the introduction of a new enterprise product "Google Commerce Search. The Google team feels that holiday season...
Yahoo Testing Real-Time Search!
The New MSN Homepage with Bing Search Package is Out! The MSN Homepage is out with a new, streamlined and less cluttered look. While marking another milestone in the history, the MSN team has finally succeeded in making a page that...
Google Increases Relevancy and Choice... ...in Search Ads by Launching Sitelinks. Google has made a new addition to AdWords by introducing Sitelinks. These are links to deeper pages on the website. Sitelinks are getting showed...
Bing For Mobile is Out! An updated version of Bing for mobile browser has been recently released and is live at m.bing.com. The addition will serve as a great resource for map search...
Google comes with October 2009 Toolbar PageRank Update! In contrast to the bold statement that Webmasters shouldn't solely focus on the PageRank, Google has come up with the Google Toolbar PageRank update last night.
Similar Images Moves Further from Google Labs Google has announced in its recent official blog that Similar Images feature will now be graduating from Google Labs to become a permanent feature in the Google Images.
Google AdWords Testing New Interface,,, ...for My Client Center. A recent post on the Inside AdWords blog is talking about Google Adwords testing the new interface for My Client Center. From this week onwards, you will see a link appearing on the...
Google Out with 4 Minor Updates for the Week With Apple releasing product refreshes and Microsoft releasing Windows 7, how could Google remain behind in announcing updates. After introducing 3D building maker this month,
Google Gives Green Signal to Online Reputation Management! Google has given official endorsement to reputation management, which is certainly a great news for reputation management consultants.
New Introductions Made in Google Website Optimizer Google has done a couple of updates in Google website Optimizer, which would be beneficial for the users who do landing page testing.
Smarter Google Analytics Makes Tracking Easier Google has announced the launch of a new Analytics feature Intelligence that will be of great use for Webmasters. Along with providing a screenshot...
One Million Views For Google Webmaster Video Google has hit one millionth video view on the official webmaster video channel, where it has been making and posting videos. Through these videos, Google...
Yahoo Site Explorer Improved Yahoo! has added more detailed information to the Site Explorer, which is an amazing tool to check the number of pages of the site indexed...
Google AdWords Campaign Insights Google AdWords will soon be launching its new ad campaign impact measurement tool Campaign Insights. The tool will help in measuring the...
Google Squared Sorting and Exporting Google has made a number of improvements in the amount and quality of information visitors can find with Google Squared. It has also...
Yahoo Serving BOSS Sponsored Ads
Google Earth 3D Building Maker Tool Google has launched a new tool Building Maker, which will compliment with Google Earth and Maps products. This online tool will help users in creating...
Google Webmaster Tools, Malware and Fetch A recent Google Webmaster blog is talking about the release of new features Malware Details and Fetch as Googlebot under the Labslabel.
Google Board of Directors Resignation
Google: HTML over XML Sitemaps The latest Seorountable blog post is talking about why HTML sitemap is better than XML sitemap. Here is a video in which Google's Matt Cutt answers SEO...
Google Is Still Working On The Content Duplication Issue It seems Google is working hard on the content duplication issue. After introducing a new parameter for handling duplicate content problems, Google is now talking about reunifying duplicate content in its latest Google Webmaster Official Blog.
New Parameter for Google's Duplicate Content
Ask Deals - Helping You Find the Best Deals OAKLAND, Calif., October 6, 2009 " Ask, a leading search engine and operating business of IAC (Nasdaq: IACI), today announced the launch of Ask Deals, its proprietary database of more than 1 million high-quality savings offers from national and local merchants across hundreds of product categories. Ask Deals scours the Web for all the deals available online " from cheap Halloween...
Google More Refined Searching with New Options It was a year ago when Google started adding search options to SERPs in order to give more refined results by time or to change the trend of...
Google Introduced a New Search Feature After the recent attempt of Google to provide more accurate and detailed search results, it has now come up with the latest web search feature. It will help users in keeping themselves updated with the latest trends on the World Wide Web. Everyone is familiar with the Hot Trends, which is known for listing the fastest rising search terms on the search index. This latest trend will...
Google Does't Use Meta Keywords According to an official Google Webmaster blog, Google does not use the "keywords" meta tag in web search ranking now.The search giant believes that keyword...
New Ad Campaign for Yahoo Yahoo has announced the launch of their forthcoming branding campaign, which is more than just an advertising campaign. This campaign will revolutionize...
Google Wants More Accurate Search Results The Official Google Blog is talking about the new features that have been introduced by Google to give faster search results to visitors. Apart from adding the name anchors for identifying sections of pages, Google has also come up with following additions: Google Sidewiki, which will display the information posted by others for a particular search result. Search Snippets with which...
Google Parameter Handling For Webmaster Tools
Yahoo Top Queries Addition
Google Adwords Bidding Tutorial Last month, Google launched Bid Simulator in AdWords. The idea behind launching this was to help people know their value per click as well as cost per click.
Bulk Listing Verification in Local Business Listings Earlier Google Maps Guide, had announced a new verification form for bulk uploads for business owners to upload their business listings to Google Maps.
reCAPTCHA Bought by Google
Microsoft Mobile Behavioral Targeting Microsoft has launched their Mobile Behavioral Targeting Solution, which means all of the powerful behavioral targeting options, categories and...
Fast Flip Google News Reading If you have read the online news, you might have experienced that browsing is really slow. A media-rich page loads dozens of files and thus it takes...
Microsoft's New Image Ads AdCenter blog-Microsoft Community on Tuesday announced a pilot for new Image Ads offering in the U.S from Microsoft. Microsoft is looking...
WordStream's Free Keyword Tool WordStream has launched a free keyword research tool that is meant to mange keywords to help in your search marketing efforts. This is to provide quality...
Google, Facebook, Yahoo and SearchMonkey
Restricted Google Results A recent blog comes up with the update that while expanding the options on a Google search result page, you can restrict the results to things such as the past week, the past 24 hours, or "Recent results".
Google Pulled Out of SOAP Search API
Yahoo PPC Reports With New Features Yahoo has just added some new and interesting additions to their PPC reports enabling you to see where your ads are. Before this, Yahoo had...
Bing Goes Visual! Of late, Microsoft has conducted a study that shows that images give the users 20% faster search results than the text only. Hence, it has become clear that images play a key role in various search activities for movies, cars, news and different products. It seems like Bing has seriously followed the above study for search results. Yesterday, Bing in a blog post announced new Visual Search feature...
Know if Your Ad is in Bing with New AdCenter Feature
AdWords With Opportunities Beta Test Expansion Earlier Google AdWords had added some languages to their Beta Web Interface, now the news is that the search engine is expanding its...
Google Homepage Changes Just a few days ago, Google patent was approved for its unique homepage design, has now come up with changes to the homepage to simplify it more.
Google China Lee Resignation Kai-Fu Lee, the President of Google Inc China, who has helped Google to strike lucrative deals in the past is now leaving the company to start a new project.
Suicidal AdWords Advertiser? Search Engine Roundtable blog reports that a Google AdWords Help thread had an Indian advertiser who was threatening to suicide, in case Google didnt respond to him in the next few hours. The surprising fact in this case was that this advertiser did not kill himself after not getting any response from Google in few hours. Google did reply to him a day or so later, explaining that...
Economic Sectors Tracked Google Domestic Trends
Bing and Ping, Facebook and Twitter Bing is preparing a new feature called Bing & Ping. This will be very useful for sharing search results through various places, like Facebook...
Google Online Ad Executive Gone David Fischer, who was handling online operations in Googles AdWords, AdSense, and Book Scanning programs (among others), is on his way to new role.
Google News Publishers SEO Tips In a recent post on Google Webmaster Central blog, some interesting tips for optimizing Google News search results have been provided for...
Google Webmaster Tool - Rich Snippets Few months back, Google released rich snippets in the search results. That meant Webmasters could mark up their HTML with richer data using micro...
Google News With Suggestions
Leaving Ask For Bing? Ten days ago, there were reports that Antonio Gulli left Ask.com after heading up their technology team for four years in the European R&D center.
51 Languages in Google Translate s there are millions of Googlers living and working in dozens of countries, but the products and services on Google are used in more countries.
Tips About Image Optimization From Bing Todd Schwartz on Bing's Blog is giving some tips on optimizing the photos and graphics for image search. He is talking about optimization...
AdWords API v2009 from Google This is surely a good news for all advertisers who can now use the new beta version i.e API v2009 of the AdWords. Google AdWords API first released the...
Yahoo Video Search
Certified Ad Networks To Compete with Google A recent post on the Inside AdSense Blog revealed that Google is all set to allow multiple Google-certified ad networks to compete with AdWords...
Yahoo Search Product Enhancements
Google Web Search for August 2009 To Be Updated? Of late, people have been noticing changes in Google web search. So, is this Google web search update for August, 2009? Maybe! Over the last weekend...
Search Ranking with Minute SEO Changes
Ask.com Losing Employee: Antonio Gulli
Google Images Updated Search It was in March that Google had updated its mobile search image just for the sake of iPhone and Android gadgets. But now the good news is that they have...
Matt Cutts Video: UK Results Of late, some UK Google users have been noticing that search results pages are showing more results from .com sites as compared to earlier.
Microsoft To Boost Verizon Mobile Ad Solutions The Microsoft Advertising Blog reported that Microsoft advertisers are now offered with the option to purchase high quality, premium on-deck display inventory...
New Font Styles in Google AdSense
Google's New Enterprise Search Tools The Official Google Blog has reported the launch of two new tools for Google Enterprise Search. The tools- Side-by-Side search and new...
Changes To Google AdSense Contextual Targeting A recent post at Google AdSense Blog lets us know that Google is going to make changes to the AdSense's contextual targeting algorithms in order to...
Bing: Locate Other Domains on an IP Want to know which other domains or websites are hosted on a web server that hosts a particular domain (may be yours)? Well, it's all very easy now!
Google AdWords: A New Way To Run Local Ads Google has came up with a new way to run local ads in the new AdWords interface. It's called Location Extensions that allow advertisers or business...
Bing Boost With Cashback In an attempt to encourage searchers to use Bing more, Microsoft has come up with a great idea recently. Microsoft announced a Bing stimulus package...
Bing Tune Up and Tweaks Over the past few months, discussions have been going on in the Webmaster Center Blog regarding how to optimize a site! Recently, Kristin Meldahl of Bing...
Doug Cutting of Yahoo Joining Cloudera
Getting To Know Google on Caffeine A Google expert team has been working on a project of next generation architecture" for Google's search (read Caffeine index), yet to be finished. According to Google, the new architecture focuses on dimensions like indexing, crawling and ranking changes. Google is not incorporating these changes into their existing infrastructure. The new infrastructure lies underneath Google's search engine.
Google: How Do You Use Webmaster Tools?
Adobe PDF Documents with SEO When it comes to search marketing, utilizing SEO to optimize the indexing and presence of PDF, as well as other document types comes across as inevitable.
Microsoft adCenter on Illegal Pharmacy Ads A report from LegitScript.com and KnujOn was doing the rounds earlier this week which stated that 89.7 percent of Bing's ads for online pharmacies...
Bing Search Updated Again After a July update less than two weeks ago, Bing is updating again. Many webmasters are noticing a search results update on Microsoft'search engine.
Google Closer To Organic Results James Carswell has reported that Google has shifted the search ads on the right hand side of the search results page, or more precisely, closer to the free results.
Bid Simulator for Google AdWords Google has recently rolled out a new feature called Bid Simulator for AdWords in an aim to show advertisers the potential impact of a bid on...
Google Ad Campaign Google is launching a rare commercial campaign in an attempt to boost the sales of its online business applications. The company is leasing billboards...
Better Local Business Search Results on Yahoo Yahoo! has made a change to the Yahoo! Shortcut.Yahoo! Shortcut appears at the top of the Yahoo Search results page when users search for a local business.
Google CEO Steps Away From Apple Google CEO Eric Schmidt has stepped out from Apple's Board of Directors, days after Apple's App store rejected Google Voice Application for the iPhone.
Google: Contextual "Show More Results" Link Google seems to be testing changes to its show more results from feature and has come up with a wider use of the feature. Google removed the...
AdWords Interface Improved and with New Features Recently, Google has removed the beta from its new interface for AdWords. The new interface makes online campaign management faster, easier and clearer.
Google AdWords Address Addition Google AdWords Blog informs about a new way to run local ads via Location extentions. With the help of this feature advertisers will be...
Google Maps Street View Zoom Navigation The Google team is constantly updating Google Maps with new features. After adding new search layers for iphone 3.0 users that allowed...
Google Maps Updates Mobile Version Google introduced Search with My Location for iPhone 3.0 that allowed users to locate specific location without even inserting the exact place where they are.
Google Conversion Optimizer Announced Google AdWords announced that Conversion Optimizer is now available to more ad campaigns. Any ad campaign which had at least 15...
Google Webmaster Tools With an Update The team of Google Webmaster Tools has named their current update as Summer Shine. For every update released they have code names.
Fresh New Yahoo Homepage New & Improved Yahoo Homepage Launched. Yahoo recently launched its new and improved homepage for web users. For months the forthcoming of Yahoo homepage had been known, but it was released yesterday around 4:30 Eastern. However, Yahoo will not replace the older homepage for now, rather an opt-in choice will be provided for interested users.
MSNBot 2's Workload Revamped by Bing Microsoft recently announced that it's going to ramp up MSNBot 2, which is currently in beta version. Webmasters may now notice the new bot in their log files.
India Google Analytics Conference One of the main difficulties that most marketers face is to identify best metrics , which will complete a sales cycle or improve customer's loyalty.
Google Location Search for iPhone The Google Mobile Blog recently reported the launch of Search with My Location for iPhone 3.0. With the help of this feature, iPhone users will be able...
Google Calender Labs In the month of May, Google Calender had come out with new tasks features and now a new Lab section has been added to it. It is quite similar to Gmail with...
Your Q&A With Matt Cutts Google's Matt Cutts has been uploading a lot of videos, mostly on SEO topics. He has tried to answer some of the previously asked questions through these videos.
Twitter's & Bing's Powers Combined! BingTweets To explore more options in real-time search, Bing in association with Federated Media and Twitter has released BingTweets, which is described as:
Google Twitter Accounts Listed
Better Results For a Virtual Trip To Places with Google Well, we all have been benefited from Google Maps for a long time now when it comes to search for locations worldwide. ut, how about getting a more...
Bing is Still Growing - Search Engine Share Data
Creative Filter on Google Image Search Yesterday, Google announced the launch of a new feature on Image Search. This feature will help you find free images while giving...
Google Maps Gets Even Easier There is always something happening in Google Maps. The latest is that it unveiled a new directions gadget, which proves helpful for businesses, such as...
Google's Shrunken Search Results There are reports that Google has made changes to the way it uses to display search results. Since there is no official announcement for the same, it can be...
Google SafeSearch Switch Google image search has made it easier for users to toggle the SafeSearch by including settings switch menu on the results page. Earlier, instead of directly...
Google Adds Blog Search Tools Recently, Google has rolled out some of the most requested features at its Google Blog Search homepage, which was launched last year. RSS feed and Atom feed are two of the new tools, that locate in the left-hand column of the Blog Search front page. Readers can now click on the links under Subscribe to subscribe any topic or story in any feed reader, such as Google Reader.
Matt Cuts Talks About Over Optimization
Author Search Feature for Google News You can now get details about your favorite author/journalist by searching their name on Google News There are three different methods of doing this:
From Google To Webmasters: Tips for Beginners Have you ever thought how a duplicate content is handled or how can you report about a hacked site? If you are a webmaster beginner or owner of a...
Yahoo's "My Display Ads" The self-serve display ad marketplace Yahoo My Display Ads" has been launched by Yahoo. The marketplace is meant for ads on Yahoo sites and the...
Yahoo's "My Display Ads" The self-serve display ad marketplace Yahoo My Display Ads" has been launched by Yahoo. The marketplace is meant for ads on...
300 Million Q&A Database from Ask.com
Bing with Explore Pane, Organized Search Results Microsoft has now added Explore Pane, a new feature in the search engine Bing. The feature is one of the ways to improve the pattern...
Microsoft's Unsafe Image Filter Made Easy Microsoft has recently introduced two new methods for making Bing image and video search safer for the users. The very first step taken by Microsoft...
Bing Instant Answer Translation The best part about Microsoft's Live Search that is also present in Bing is the Instant Answers. You can get instant answers on shopping, travel and sports.
New Google Webmaster Tools Features A few weeks ago, Google had launched a preview of their new Webmaster Tools interface. In response, they received a lot of constructive feedback such as:
Google Translator Toolkit - Easier and Faster Google recently launched a powerful yet easy-to-use translator " Google Translator Toolkit. The Translator Toolkit is known for its faster and easier translations.
Bing and Google New Comparison Tools Ever since the launch of Bing by Microsoft, many webmasters have been trying to compare Google and Bing, to find out which one is best among the two.
Bing Added to Google Analytics Report
Microsoft Team Answers Bing Questions Rebranding of Live Search to Bing has created a lot of concerns among users. To solve this issue the Microsoft's adCenter team has finally took to its blog.
New and Faster AdWords Interface
Google Maps Updates Guidelines Google Maps recently updated its business listing quality guidelines. The new guidelines are considered to be a big relief to those who have noticed an...
Photos Included in AdSense Link Units
Google Fixes Webmaster Problems Google has made two quick announcements about bug fixes and Google Webmaster tools just two days back. The first announcement was related...
Google Updated Toolbar PageRank Again
MS Live Search Sports Pattern After the surprise upgradation of Microsoft Live Search sports update pattern, Yahoo and Google has followed suit. Although both Yahoo and Google had sports...
Ask Not Renewing Looksmart
Google Search Results With More Visuals Here we go again. That is what Google must feel when they start new experiments. Once again Google is at its experimenting end. Its seems to test a new feature...
Google Updated News and Blog
Ask.com Gets Better It seems Ask.com cannot have enough and be satisfied. The site has been remodeled and redesigned several times within past 4-5 years.
Google And Who Is Leaving
Google Friend Connect Adds New Recommendation... ...Gadgets To Your Site! Google recently added another feature to its Google Friend Connect " New Recommendation Gadgets. The new addition will inform you about...
Oops! Google Services Down in Various Cities One of the recent ZD.Net reports that Google services have drastically gone down in various cities. The report also indicated outages in New York, San Francisco...
$201K Profit Per Employee at Google!
Google Updates Its Policy on Trademarks... ...in AdWords Ad Text! Google has updated its policy on Trademarks in AdWords Ad Text. According to the new update, trademarks will only be allowed as ad text...
New Google Calender Tasks Released!
MSN City Guides Gets a Makeover With Live Search... ... and Live Maps! MSN recently announced its new version of MSN City Guides, which includes Live Search and Live Maps options. The new integration will make it easy...
New Webmaster Tools Layout & Design! Google has announced a brand new Webmaster Tools design. Following are some of the highlights of the new design:
Google Announces AdSense Ads with Doubleclick.net... ...Clickthrough for Feeds Update. Google AdSense for Feeds recently announced that its ads will now run using the googleads.g.doubleclick.net clickthough URL...
Google Maps Publishes an Authoritative Description... ...on Duplicate Records Removal Process. It is very common for a business location to have multiple business listings in Google Maps. These records are provided by...
Live Search Mobile Launches MSN Video Search... The Live Search mobile team recently launched two new features - MSN video search and MLB dashboard. The new features are expected to make mobile search more smoother and faster.
Google Trends Gadget
Microsoft Kumo to Launch June Second As we all know that Microsoft is going to rebrand its search engine Windows Live Search with a brand new name called Microsoft Kumo.
More Languages for Google AdWords
Business Cards Give Away: Google and iPrint
New Search Results in Google SERPs According to one of the Search Engine Journal posts Google has came out with yet another addition for its search results, which included number...
Google Webmaster Forums in Multiple Languages
Microsoft Live Search SEM 101 Microsoft Live Search Blog announced the launch of a series of SEM blog" SEM 101. The aim behind the launch is to train people in promoting their websites.
Google Search Addition Inside Gmail Gmail labs added Google Search Box to Gmail Inbox interface. The new option provides the feature to search Google even while chatting or reading your mails.
Microsoft's Addition to Live Search 411
AdSense Policies Updated AdSense recently released new policies for link sellers and publishers. The new AdSense policies have been reorganized to take everything into consideration.
Google Public Data Search and Charts In the recent Wolfram Alpha demonstration, Google announced the launch of their structured data feature. The new feature enables you to compare and find public data. The feature will make way for public data to take a more centralized approach in informed public conversation. For example, if you search for population with a U.S. state or county, you will see estimates like this:
Google for Advertisers Site Google rolls out a new site called Google for Advertisers. This site is expected to provide useful information about Google's various marketing solutions.
Google Sitemaps Research
Google's Sitemap Research
Microsoft Live Search 411 Microsoft recently announced Traffic, a new addition to its Live Search 411 (1-800-CALL-411 or 1-800-225-5411). The company has tied up with INRIX, a leading...
Microsoft Global Live Search Local Listing A few days ago, Microsoft launched a new version of Live Search Maps. With the help of this feature you can update your listing.
Google Updates Keyword Suggestion Tool One of the recent posts by Site Visibility informed that Google has updated their keyword suggestion tool. In fact, even we also noticed the same thing.
Google Toolbar Labs With New Features Google recently introduced Google Toolbar Labs. The primary aim of this forum is to build new and innovative ideas for its Toolbar. Google also...
Expired Domains and Google Thoughts Barry Schwartz in one of his recent posts talked about expired domains and domain name transfers in Google. The topic has been discussed for a long time.
Google Analytics Data Export API Google users can now develop client applications that download Analytics data in the form of Google Data API feeds, with Google Analytics Data Export API.
Google's Google Profiles Google recently launched Google profiles in their main results, to give you a better control over what people find when they search for your name.
Search By Similarity for Google Image Google has come out with a new experimental tool that will enable you to click on a similar images link present beneath the image search results.
Launching of Google Toolbar 6 for IE
Microsoft Live Search Cashback Program Microsoft announced the improved cashback shopping site. It will integrate Live Search Products (shopping vertical within Live Search) and cashback.
Google Ranking Data According to the recent post at blogstorm that a new referring URL format for Google users. Now, when a user clicks on a result URL in Google, the...
To Be Laid Off From Yahoo According to one of the NY Times reports, Yahoo! is planning to layoff some more of its employees for the third time sinche the first quarter of 2008.
Local Business Center User Guide
Mobile Google Maps - Bugs Fixed
Coming Soon: New Interface for AdWords
Google Rank Changes Over Time In a post by Randfish, he brings focus on the changes of Google's ranking system. Importance Levels of Various Ranking Factors in Google's Algorithm Over Time
Google Latitude
Color Selection in Google Images After adding filters for photos and images, Google Images has now added color selection tool to the interface, according to Ionut reports. With this...
Generic Results on Google One of the recent Google posts announced that Google is now showing more local results for generic queries, but now it is officially confirmed.
Yahoo to Update Search
Google Image Search Suggestions In one of our previous post, we informed you about Google search suggestions being launched internationally. In addition, Google has...
Google India Election Center
Local Search Results in Google Maps Google continues to make its search results more localized. The new improvement is believed to make searching information more simple and easy.
Google Suggest and Local News
Yahoo Search Update Sometime Soon? It has been more than a month since Yahoo Search made an update. There has been a lot of discussion going on in various forums about changes at Yahoo.
Localized Google Suggest
Blog Search Algorithm from Google Google finally releases its Blog Search detector algorithm. With the help of this algorithm Google Blog Search will match blog posts with relevant queries.
Announcing: MSN Windows Live Search Yesterday Live Search finally unveiled the much anticipated internet new brand" MSN Windows Live Search on kumo@microsoft.com.
AdWords Web Interface to More Users
Withdraw AdSense for Video Support
Google's Experiment: Wonder Wheel Google recently uncovered its Wonder Wheel experiment. It was an experiment based on Google's search results. To understand the experiment better...
Google for Blackberry: Voice Search & My Location Recently, Google released additional features for Blackberry with Google Mobile App. The two new features are Google Voice Search & My Location.
Live Search Instant and Active Answers
Google Insight Addition Do you remember Google Insight? Yes, it was a product launched by Google, which offered more flexibility and functionality in terms of understanding...
Google Image Search: Specific Color
Google: Numbers No Longer Required in URLs Webmasters are no longer required to include three digit numbers at the end of the URL to be in Google News. However, they need to submit a...
Yahoo CMO Elisa Steele Yesterday, Yahoo! Inc. named Elisa Steele as the new CMO (Chief Marketing Officer) of the company. She will be responsible for Yahoo!'s brand, its global...
Live Search Guide for Penalized Sites
Bug in Google AdWords Tool Recently, the Forums at WebmasterWorld and Search Engine Watch have webmasters complaining about a bug in the Google's Keyword Tool.
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