YouTube now wants to know your real identity, not just your nickname. In efforts to create a ‘single unified product’ Google is self-canonicalising at every possible step and this is just one of them.
While editing one of my recent videos, I was offered to used my real name instead of my YouTube nickname:
As you can see my real identity was sourced from Google+ (which is known to reject profiles with made up names).
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In our latest observed case, Google+ reported only 25% of the +1′s on the page we monitored.
Is this a bug?
Navigate to Traffic > +1 Reports > Activity > All +1′s and you will see something like this:
We recently had a sudden surge of +1′s for that particular URL and expected a more dramatic jump in the cumulative +1 graph.
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Here’s what happens when Google+ offers you a vanity URL. Dejan SEO page was offered a custom URL so we took some screenshots. First, you will notice a dark gray bar saying “Your page is preapproved for the custom URL: google.com/+PageName [Claim URL] Learn More”.
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This is a stream/recording of the live hangout session with Dan Petrovic on Google+. We’re discussing ways of using Google Webmaster Tools to extract valuable data and intelligence about your website.
To join the hangout visit this page.
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I heard that Google was starting to issue vanity URLs to selected few active and verified accounts so I decided to hack my own together, ahead of time.
OK, so it’s not very useful as it doesn’t lead anywhere, but it was an interesting experiment.
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We tested the influence of small-scale click-through-rate on position of two pages on two new domains in Google. Two freshly registered domains (A & B) were used.
What did our test involve?
1. Search Google for “keyword”
2. Click on domain B in results.
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When Amit Singhal was a kid he watched Star Trek and dreamed of having a computer with all the answers…
Googlers talk about the future of search, information retrieval and human-computer interaction.
Amit suggests that questions “Where is search going?” and ” What is the future of search?” already have answers and most people who ask, already know it and simply want to verify that Google is up to make it happen.
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Have you ever done any guest blogging? Here’s a few tips on how to stay safe and avoid breaching search engine guidelines.
Choose Wisely
Google has 25,270,000,000 pages in their index. Imagine a tiny little fraction of their index to represent your guest blogging opportunities.
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Is Google purposely randomizing things just to mess with us? Let’s take a look at one patent and two SEO experiments.
In March 2011, I wrote an article outlining an interesting phenomenon I observed with PageRank distribution in a controlled test environment.
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My first computer was called Orao (not Oreo), which translates to “Eagle” and it featured a whopping 16K of RAM. According to Wikipedia, this 8-bit computer was a superior version to its predecessor Galeb (Seagull) and was released in 1984 as a standard school computer in Yugoslavia.
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