By: RH Statista put together a look at the numbers that Google is generating. Looking at both their financial performance along with their search numbers. Courtesy of Statista
Continue ReadingGoogle is looking for un natural links
By : RH For those who spend time building links for their developed websites they know that quality, natural links are what counts. Search Engine Watch wrote an article that looks how Google is deindexing sites with un-natural links. From the article: The theory I think holds the most water is Frank Watson’s, who contributed […]
Continue ReadingDanny Sullivan of Search Engine Land on why he thinks Google changes are just pr
By: RH Danny Sullivan from SearchEngineLand.com wrote a very good article on the new changes coming to Google Search. The Wall Street Journal is out with a new story on how Google wiil be making some big changes to search. Sullivan sees this as more of a pr move and that most things are not […]
Continue ReadingHow Google search really works
By: RH Jon Mitchell from Read Write Web did a nice article on how Google search really works. Taken from the article : Last week, I talked to Google Search lead designer Jon Wiley about the process of designing Google's iconic interface. What goes on behind that white box? For the second part of my […]
Continue ReadingGoogle awarded patent on exact match domain, detecting commercial queries
Seo by the Sea posted about a patent awarded to Google for exact match domain. A Google patent, originally filed in 2003, and granted today (with Matt Cutts as one of the listed inventors) describes this problem in more detail and provides some ways that Google could potentially act to lessen the value of keywords […]
Continue ReadingWhat is G.co.uk worth ? Not as much as G.co at least not for Google
The Financial times did an article on the auction of single letter .co.uk names. The most heated auction was for G.co.uk according to the story. "But in the highest-priced auction, Google was outbid for the rights to g.co.uk by Any-Web, a company which collects, builds and resells domain names and is believed to be the […]
Continue ReadingGoogle gives a look under the hood
Google gives a look at all that goes on behind the scenes for ranking in their search. The three minute video discusses the back and forth between analysts and engineers. Worth a watch. http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/08/another-look-under-hood-of-search.html
Continue ReadingGoogle wants to know who you are
Apparently some of the buzz from the Edinburgh International TV Festival was identity. Google Ceo Eric Schmidt was asked a question about the need for real names. He replied by saying that G+ was built primarily as an identity service, so fundamentally, it depends on people using their real names if they’re going to build […]
Continue ReadingGoogle changing search with expanded organic sitelinks
Google has introduced expanded organic sitelinks. So search for domaining.com for example: Now this is not under every search but it seems if the site is well known, you get these expanded organic listings. If this becomes the norm its going to get interesting.
Continue ReadingSeoMoz explains what PageRank is good for
Rand Fishkin of SeoMoz did an excellent video on what Google Page Rank is good for. There are plenty of domainers on domain forums looking for PR domains. Domain wanted ads looking for PR 3 or Pr 4 etc… are posted almost daily on Namepros or Dn Forum. He explains that the difference in ranking […]
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