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, …
Researchers are working on ways to discover fake reviews by detecting organised groups of review spammers.
Review of the first empirical study of Google+ platform in the context of selective sharing.
Real-World Sharing & Social NetworksSharing information is a crucial part of human interaction and communication, however in the offline world we manage the information …
In this article we describe quantitative metric-based link spam detection in a collection of analysed domains. Accuracy and co-relation ranges from 60 to 90 percent with adjustment of different quality parameters. Our technique is still considered to be ‘work in …
Google clarifies webmaster questions around potential conflicting nature of rel canonical and hreflang annotation.
Websites which serve the same content in multiple languages can utilise the rel=”alternate” hreflang=”x” annotations to help Google decide which version to …
Theory behind evaluation of search result quality through algorithmic treatment of the web index. Read on and discover some of the fundamental forces behind search engine rankings.
Part 1 of the Search Quality Series by Dejan SEO
IntroductionThere are …
We knew it already but now Google confirms. Pages which give errors such as 404 or 500 eventually drop out of index and lose PageRank and are unable to accumulate or pass any search engine signals.
“If a URL becomes …
Today we noticed a way to potentially inflate the amount of (not provided) keyword in Google Analytics. Traffic from links on https://www.google.com and some of its subdomains will be treated as organic traffic with the keyword (not provided) and not …
Google is determined to level the playing field, reward good content and punish the cheaters. How will they achieve this?
There is plenty going on at Google at the moment but let’s highlight three key elements relevant to this article, …
The next stage in Google’s product evolution is undoubtedly unification. Google’s many projects and shatterlings spread over a decade of development in a frantic search for the next big thing are coming back home, empty handed. Now they’re merging into …