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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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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Bing made a new move to improvem the data provided to webmasters through Bing Webmaster tools. The new change affected the activities widget found in the Bing WT dashboard.
Vincent Wehren wrote in the announcement post:
“For the metrics Clicks from search, Appeared in search, Pages crawled, and Crawl errors we will now show you the percent change for the selected date range (as selected in the date selector near the top of the dashboard) compared to the prior date range of the same length.
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With a few new updates to Google Webmaster Tools, Google team decided to add one more, one that compliments the recent addition of crawl errors alerts [1].
GWT now offers alerts for search queries [2]. Javier Tordable of Google wrote:
“The Search Queries feature in Webmaster Tools shows, among other things, impressions and clicks for your top pages over time.
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Google’s massive list of June and July updates: Trimmed, merged and organised into five main areas: quality, query understanding, images, snippets and other.
Page Quality:
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Amit Singhal posted a new update on the Google’s Inside Search Blog relating to a new update to their search algorithm that is going to start next week.
The new signal that will be enlisted into over 200 existing signals is the number of valid copyright removal notices that Google receives for any website out there.
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It’s interesting to see how Google reacts to ultra-popular searches. Is this an algorithmic reaction or a manual hack to suit the popular demand?
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Google’s toolbar PageRank (TBPR) values were released to public in August this year, but with much fresher snapshot date than we remember.
PageRank value is always a historic figure showing real-time PageRank score of a page at the time when the snapshot was taken.
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Tracking conversions and how they happen, which path they follow can be difficult, complex and confusing. That is why Google Analytics brought Multi-Channel Funnels to our dashboard. Now they decided to move forward with the idea by allowing developers to use that data.
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Google has just introduced the structured data dashboard in Webmaster Tools and we went to investigate the new feature [1].
From today, webmasters who log into Google Webmaster Tools will be able to navigate to “Optimisation > Structured Data” to see which pages have used structured data and been recognised by Google.
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