Google has just made an announcement that it says will affect around 10-percent of “people’s daily information needs.” According to the number 1 search giant, surfers sometimes are looking for more in-depth information on the results pages. And this is just what Google is now going to give them. Mixed into the SERP’s with Google...Read More
On March 22, 2013 Google rolled out its Penguin 2.0 update (during the evening and right before the long Memorial Day weekend). Webmasters and SEO’s are still collecting the data about what has been affected and what’s not. When Penguin 1.0 rolled out it mostly impacted the homepage of websites. However, Penguin 2.0 is supposed...Read More
Many Google Adsense publishers have been stressed out over the years at the thought of being terminated from the program for invalid clicks. Well, now Google is considering changing some of the policies in order to give trusted publishers the benefit of the doubt. Google spells out what invalid traffic and click fraud is here....Read More
Is this another iteration of the Ghosts of Google past? In November 2003, the Florida update had online merchants and SEO’s reeling right before Christmas time. Winners and losers made a lot of noise during the holiday season that year. But, the burning question is could there be another Google update upon us this Cyber...Read More
I started doing SEO in 1999 on a part-time basis on my own websites. And about 5 years after that it became my full-time business. But, back in 1999 I actually hired an SEO consultant to work on my website. And, I inadvertently sabotaged the SEO work by rewriting all of the repetitive keyword laden...Read More
Google has had two major series of updates recently. One has been name Panda and the other one Penguin. They both target low-quality website and intend on dropping them in the rankings and promoting higher quality websites. Panda Update The intent of the Google Panda update is to drop low-quality websites in the rankings such...Read More
In the past, spokespeople for Google have stated that there is no such thing as an “over optimization penalty”. In the past they have also stated there is such a thing as an over SEO penalty. So, which is it? It doesn’t matter because in unusual fashion Google has announced an upcoming change to their...Read More
On September 22, 2011 two of the largest brand names on the Internet and in television will be presenting the Republican debates. Fox News will be holding the debates in Orlando, Florida and will be assisted by Google’s property Youtube. Youtube and CNN had teamed up in the past for presidential debates but there were...Read More
If over the past few months you’ve noticed your social news, press releases and local listings lagging, you probably thought that Google was asleep at the wheel. The world’s most used search engine has officially rolled out the Google Caffeine update. According to Google, however, this update is not an algorithm change. Caffeine is able...Read More
Because of a WiFi privacy breach search giant Google has decided to start encrypting data in the coming weeks. The problem was revealed in Ireland as part of the Street View service. According to the Official Google Blog, “This incident highlights just how publicly accessible open, non-password-protected WiFi networks are today. Earlier this year, we...Read More
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