Somebody at Google has decided to use more rel=”nofollow” throughout Google+ and here’s an example:
URL within the post is nofollow, comment URL is nofollow, comment poster URL is nofollow (that was always like that) and the shared post URL is also nofollow.
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Your host, Martin Reed will guide you through authorship markup and rich snippets. We’ll be discussing impact on CTR in search results, implementation statistics and the issue of rich snippet and review spam. We’ll use real data samples in our demonstration.
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Google applies the Erdős number concept to the Hollywood movie industry. The new feature displays the calculation of the “shortest path” algorithm showing degrees of separation from Kevin Bacon aka “The Bacon Number”.
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How to do SEO within search engine quality guidelines and what to do if your traffic and rankings are affected. This will be a basic-level presentation followed by a free-form discussion and questions.
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A new Google Knowledge Graph feature was discovered today by Gyi Tsakalakis. In the source code it’s marked up only as “KL” but Googlers refer to it as the Knowledge Carousel.
What was the original name? If I could take a guess it would be something like:
Here’s how it looks like for Jamie Oliver “TV” triggered search:
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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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