While managing our Google+ page today I noticed an ad for Adwords Express in the promo bar. It was suggesting that I can pay for more followers through advertising in search, maps and mobile (display is also available).
Right click revealed the following URL for the promo image: https://ssl.gstatic.com/s2/oz/images/promos/awx-32.png (AWX = AdWords Express).
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Author Rank is a popular concept in the SEO industry and one of the hottest topics in 2012. What I find strange about the whole thing is that nobody has any shred of proof that Author Rank plays any role in Google’s search algorithm today.
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Today we spotted a SPYW (Search Plus Your World) result in Google Australia and here’s how it looks like:
Notice the little person icon left from the result title? The feature was enabled for a session or two and then disappeared.
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Today I spotted a new search option on Google – “Applications”. Not sure if I’ve been blind or this is a completely new option in the “More” section.
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SEO industry has a knack for turning perfectly legitimate marketing disciplines into… something spammy. This is exactly what happened to the idea of press releases and the way they are distributed and picked up.
Googlers are aware of PR submission websites and very likely have ways of algorithmically handling well-known sources (PRWeb, PRWire…etc).
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In today’s hangout with John Mueller from Google we found that Google tends to ignore content which seems to be off-screen (e.g. -9999px). We asked whether a portion of a website could be accidentally treated as hidden content and not trigger that page in search results for the search terms contained within the falsely detected hidden section.
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Any real user of Google+ knows by now that Google+ launched Google+ Communities, social network version of forums, message boards, discussion boards or even Q/A sites. You can read up on the announcement from Google blog or check the Google+ Communities yourself.
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For all webmasters looking to score some traffic from other search engines and not just Google there is a good news, Bing just published their webmaster guidelines.
As you can see in their announcement yesterday Bing webmaster guidelines are covering just the very basics unlike Google webmaster guidelines.
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In our two recent experiments we created a number of pages copied from other domains, both cases got much attention but it seems it also got the attention of Google’s search quality algorithm.
Today we’ve received the following message:
This is good news for all webmasters out there and a sign that Google does care about us and our content.
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Google+ has recently started asking users to complete their profiles similarly to LinkedIn. Now if you think you’re safe by ignoring their incentive, think twice!
Your circles can now supply additional (valuable) data about you to Google through this handy little feature:
In the screenshot above you can see the link inviting users to enter private notes about their contacts, for example their nickname, email, phone, address and notes:
Once you save the custom notes they become part of users’ profile, visible only to you… and Google?
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