Google is now receiving more copyright removal notices than ever in their history - they receive more notices every day than they did in all of 2009 according to their official blog. With so much information at their fingertips, the next natural step in search engine...
Google makes constant changes to their algorithms, as we've mentioned before they make over 500 changes a year. However, several changes have led to a new wave in ranking standards that was previously impossible: measuring user experience. User experience (UX) is a...
If you'll remember from two days ago, we started talking about the Consumer Decision Making Process. Today, we're going to continue that series and talk about the information search aspect. Decision Making Process: Need recognition Information search Alternative...
In between their 600+ algorithm updates every year, Google does try to make your life a little easier now and again with tools to help you navigate the SEO mess. They just released a set of educational tools for beginning webmasters (or anyone who owns a website)...
Google has a feature on Chrome that pre-renders the first result on Google's search results before the user clicks on the page, meaning that the load tiem is virtually instantaneous. This makes a big difference for the user experience because loading time is like...
You may not appreciate Google's 500+ yearly algorithm changes, but you have to appreciate their transparency in helping you to deal with the changes. Almost a year ago, Google rolled out a very heavy update to their algorithm called "Panda". Soon after they roled it...
Google released a new update today (although reportedly only affecting 1% of results) that penalizes sites with ads above the fold. In other, words, the less content you have above the fold, the more you will be penalized. The point of the release is to make it easier...
Google loves to shake things up, especially when it comes to their algorithm. Google announced another change today, and it could change up to 35% of the global results. The change mostly affects those who have news-driven topics or could be conceived as such. The new...
If you read anything about Search Engine Optimization, one item you'll pick up very quickly is the need for link-backs to your website. Now, I think that's a theory that intuitively makes sense to most people, but have you ever really thought about why they're so...
Today is the last day of our 5 part series on Upping your Google Quality Score and search engine ranking. Today is a little self-explanatory, but is still very important: building relevant content. Now, this should seem very self-explanatory, but you'd be surprised at...