Google has long been aware of the importance of social media in determining relevancy & authority, but only now with Google+ are they able to fully embrace the potential of incorporating this data in to their organic search results.
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Google pushes a new update for April 2012 – and the reaction from the web hasn’t been too positive.
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A flaw in Google’s most recent freshness update may have the unintended effect of promoting outdated information within certain niche topics. If that niche seems dominated by stale sites, being fresh and new might even end up as a big liability.
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Yahoo Site Explorer shut down this week, and that leaves me and many SEOs looking for a new place to get backlink research information.
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Google and Bing have had quite an exchange of words lately. The accusation from Google is that Microsoft’s search engine is borrowing information about results.
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Watching a new competitor come in and succeed in a search phrase can be frustrating when you realize exactly how they’re rising the ranks by flaunting all the rules and quality recommendations.
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Google search results are now starting to populate before you’re even done entering the search phrase. As each new letter is added to the search box, the top websites update to the new most likely search results.
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After a whole lot of anticipation, Google’s Caffeine update is finally live and serving up a fresher and more comprehensive index for every search.
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It seems like someone is always talking about the end of SEO or claiming the practice is dead & useless. They couldn’t be more wrong…
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Yahoo and Bing are stepping up their presence in search volume, and Google’s update might not be the best way to win back those lost surfers. Then again, with the hottest new smart phone and rumors of a Google tablet on the way, maybe they just don’t need search like they used to.
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