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.…
Dejan SEO is sponsoring the Digital Summit Conference… for the first time this year, to be held in Atlanta over the 9th and 10th of May. Following the success of the 2011 event, the conference is set to be the biggest event of its kind with over 50 presentations by more than 75 different speakers and almost 1,500 attendees converging on the Georgian capital.
Let’s take a look at some of the confirmed ranking factors and find out the reasons behind Google’s social focus.
Part 2 of the Search Quality Series by Dejan SEO
Our first search quality article discusses the link graph theory, co-citation, social graph, knowledge graph and top-level spam detection techniques.…
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.…
Here’s an interesting glitch in Google exact match search. The bug breaks down into two parts, one directly related to the exact match search and the other to suggested search feature.
We searched for the following (in quotes): “Today we’re improving the performance of the +1 button and the” and the results seemed normal, but upon closer inspection it was clear that an exact match was missed.…
Researchers are working on ways to discover fake reviews by detecting organised groups of review spammers.
Researchers at University of Illinois at Chicago and Google have just introduced a new spam-fighting metric called GSRank which is a product of behavioural observation of spammer groups.…
Chubby lock service is a distributed system meant for coarse-grained activities. Although it was initially designed for activities in Google’s distributed systems, it is currently used widely as a repository and name service for configuration information. It provides low-volume but reliable storage for loosely-coupled distributed systems made up of small machines that communicate via high-speed networks.…
Review of the first empirical study of Google+ platform in the context of selective sharing.
Real-World Sharing & Social Networks
Sharing information is a crucial part of human interaction and communication, however in the offline world we manage the information we disclose in a natural and effortless way.…
Can anyone guess what a driving school and a userstyle for Google docs have to do with one another? Well, as it appears, a whole lot of traffic, as a matter a fact, a 1500% increase in traffic. I recently wrote about fun branding, but this is a great example how something clearly unrelated can be of great use for a brand online.…
Matt Cutts clarifies the error that has caused major fluctuations in Google rankings this week.
In the light of recent search quality efforts an innocent glitch at Google has cause much disruption and concern among webmaster and the SEO community. As usual most quickly jumped to conclusion that their website may be “penalised” for bad links and some thought they were a victim of “link attack” by competitors.…
