A month ago, a huge change occurred with Google in terms of search privacy. Google is now routing all searches through its Google Secure Search service. Many people are wondering why would they bother doing this? Not only that, but why not focus more on closing some security loopholes that leaves search data vulnerable? In […]
When Hummingbird first came out, and then announced a month later, people did nothing but praise Google’s newest algorithm. But, as we’ve seen in the past with Google, thing may not always be what they seem to be. When Panda came out, bad content was thrown out the window. After Penguin, low-quality links got stopped […]
Google has set a standard for mobile best practices. But, what to Fortune 100 brands does the best job at living up to the best practices set up by Google? It seems that the answer lies in quite a few well known companies. These companies include: Coke FexEx TIAA-CREF Walgreens Liberty Mutal The names that […]
Yesterday a video was posted by Matt Cutts, the head of Google’s search spam, stating that geo-location or redirected users based on their location isn’t spam. Google feels that a site that utilizes geo-location techniques isn’t doing anything spammy. Although, to be clear, what Google does consider spam is when your site redirects GoogleBot to […]
Today, Dr. Peter J. Meyers posted an article on Moz. In the article, Peter wrote about how Google’s search result pages seem to be evolving all the time. He noted that there seems to be new SERP features in isolation all the time. So, Peter had an idea. He was going to put together a guide. Not […]
Is it possible? Could it be that SEO is actually dead? Keywords is a (or could you say IS the) key SEO tool for bringing potential customers to a site is starting to look pretty grim now that (not orovided) is rearing it’s ugly head. For the people over at Moz, at first, their (not […]
Yesterday on Twitter, Matt Cutts, Google’s head of search spam, stated that Google isn’t going to be putting out a new update for Google Toolbar PageRank this year. Cutts would be quite surprised if an update to PageRank happened before 2014. The last time an update was released, it was back in February of 2013, […]
Last night, a Google developer advocate, IIya Grigorik, announced that Google has made a slight tweak to the mobile search experience. This small tweak will help speed up the mobile search experience on mobile Safari and Chrome by 200-400 milliseconds. The way Google is doing this is by implementing a <a ping> attribute. With this […]
Everybody loves the taste of freshly baked bread. They also love freshly squeezed orange juice in the morning. Freshness is great. Apparently, even Google loves things that are fresh as well. They love fresh new content as well. For a while now, Google seems to have increased hyper-fresh content in SERPs. But, how can you […]
With the creation of the Google Keyword Planner, which came to replace the Keyword Tool came some negative feedback. The Planner seemed to be missing some useful functions that people came to rely on. There was no match type data for search volume, no device targeting, no local vs global monthly searches, and the ability to […]