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Webmaster Academy – Simple Google Tutorial or Indispensable Resource?

With webmaster tools support forum, being as they are, fairly disorganized, I actually expected Google to give us something a bit more useful with more hierarchy a long time ago. Just going through some of the answer threads there can make my head hurt.

 

Google Suggest and Google’s Index not Working Together

In the recent barrage of updates we have seen plenty of improvements in Google search results and the way Google presents them. Now with Google knowledge graph[1] and other updates that improved search quality like character handling[2] we are expecting greatness from search results, but is that too much to expect from Google?

 

Webmaster Tools Redesigned and Improved

Some changes we like, some we don’t, but as far as I’m concerned, any update to Google Webmaster Tools is a welcomed update, especially if it’s goal is to improve usability.

gwt dashboard

Google just released a few changes to Webmaster Tools[1].

 

Backlink Reports in Google Analytics Social Reporting

What was one of the things that missed out when you log in to your Google analytics? Don’t answer, I’m sure there are tons of things we would like there or in Google Webmaster Tools, but Google thought that the best thing to add is a backlink report section.

 

Bing Search New Design & Maybe Even More

Bing has been loyal to their look for quite some time now, but with Google making massive changes to how they look, how they display results and what results they display they probably figured it was time for them to step in and change a few things as to improve the usability.

 

No More Video Store Rentals – Sit at Home and Rent Directly From Google Play or YouTube

For all movie fans across Australia there are some great news coming from Google. For those who are members of video clubs and are used to renting movies they don’t need to do it anymore.

movie rentals australia

Google has launched a brand new Movies page on YouTube Australia as well as Movies on Google Play[1].

 

Improved Top Search Queries Data in Google Webmaster Tools

As SEOs and webmasters we rely on data to make online business better, as such we need webmaster tools, analytics and the like. So any improvement to these tools is a great asset to all of us. We already had a few improvements to top search query data, but there is more.

 

How to Change the Location of Your Content the Right Way

Google was very busy on their webmaster central blog yesterday, namely they published 4 posts. The most noted one was announcing a new algorithm change to fight web spam.

change of address

The other three talked about images and how Google ranks them, changes in GWT, as well as a great post explaining the best ways to move your content to a new location, which is what we are going to go over.

 

Google Algorithm Change Directed at Webspam

Can anyone say over-optimisation? Online community has been buzzing about over-optimisation lately, but we don’t know what it is exactly or whether such penalty/update exists. But as things stand now, it seems that something similar is going to happen in a few days.

 

Crowdsourcing – A Powerful SEO Weapon

For those who are not familiar with the term crowdsourcing, it is when a group of people, small or large, contributes to a single project you are working on. That is a basic concept, but in the SEO world crowdsourcing can be used for many purposes.

 

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