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Tag: Google

How To Prevent And Recover From A Google Penguin Penalty, A Theory

Getting your website cut down to pieces after you’ve spent days, weeks, months on building it up from the ground up and getting it to rank really well on the search engines can totally ruin your day.  Once the Penguin update hit Google, this was the case for many sites, regardless of size, visibility and […]

Google’s “Hummingbird” Algorithm FAQ

Google likes to constantly keep on top of things by release updates to their search engine.  It seems that they’ve done it again.  This time, the update in question is a new search algorithm called Hummingbird.  The purpose behind this new Hummingbird algorithm update is to help return better results to the user.  Hummingbird came […]

Google AdWords: 10 Account Review Tips Revealed

With PPC not being cheap, naturally, you’ll want to make the most out of Google AdWords to maximize your advertising potential.  For those who aren’t as versed as some of the seasoned vets of SEO, setting an ad and just walking away, thinking that all the work is now done, you are making a mistake, […]

The Google Android App Gets Updated With Google Now

According to Search Engine Land, Google has released a new update for it’s Android search app.  Included improvements include Google Now cards and others. Available for the 4.1+ users, immediately updated Google Now cards have been updated from the original where they were only updated every 15 minutes. Here’s a look at the full list […]

Hashtag Search Is Released By Google, And Search Results Page Display Google+ Posts

According to Zaheed Sabur of Google, a brand new release this morning of another Google feature was unveiled.  By searching Google for a hashtag, you may end up getting Google+posts that use that hastag that is displayed on the right of the normal search results. At this point, the new feature will only be available […]

Google AdWords Debuts Ready Image Ads

In an article found on Search Engine Land, it seems that Google has introduced something new.  This something new is coming from the direction of Google AdWords that may change how things are done in advertising with display campaigns.  This new feature is called Ready Image Ads and Ready Ad Gallery.  These new tools, by […]

Ghost Rank 2.0 May Be Penalized By Google

There has been another target of the Google Penalizing Hammer.  The newest target: Ghost Rank 2.0.  According to SEORoundTable.com, Google has released some sort of search update, according to the chatter that has been going on over the weekend. According to a tweet made by Matt Cutts, he said, “They try to look super natural, […]

What To Do When Keyword (not provided) is 100% of Organic Referrals?

Lately, it seems that Google has been increasing the percentage of keywords (not provided).  But, they really did a number by increasing that number of keyword(not provided) even higher than before.  With such a high number, and the possibility of the keyword (not provided) percentage going even higher, how can a marketer possibly do their […]

Google Confirms Quietly Moving To Make All Searches Secure, Except For Ad Clicks

In the last month, it seems that Google has been making some changes.  They are encrypting all search activity with the exception of ad clicks.  Their reasoning for this is for extra protection for searchers.  Could it be to stop the NSA from spying? Who knows. Sometimes Google does funny things.  In the article written […]

How to Recover from an Algorithmic Penalty

Imagine this.  You’re the owner of a site, and you’re trying to get business to come to the site, but things just keep going wrong.   All of your pages are badly written, the site used a stock list of town names regardless of if they were related to the local geography, and all of […]