Coupons, Coupon Codes, Promo Codes…When Content Is NOT King
A few years ago, I did some work for a comparison shopping/coupon website. Curious about how well the site was doing in regard to their SEO, I did a few search queries for some of the terms I remembered being big traffic drivers. I didn’t see my former client on page one for the first few…
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Google Search Let’s You Filter Restaurants By What’s Open Now, Price & More
Google announced you can now filter your restaurant searches by price, ratings, cuisine, and if it’s open right now. All you need to do is go to Google on your desktop or mobile device and search for [show me some restaurants in downtown Austin] or related searches and Google will give you the…
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Google Tests Video Search Results Without Thumbnail Images
For the longest time, videos found within Google’s search results contained thumbnail images of a frame within the video. That is how Google has displayed richer search results, ever since the days of Universal Search. It seems like Google is testing making those video results a bit less rich…
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Google Responds To Misattributed Content Saying They May Show The Canonicalized URL
A few weeks ago we reported on cases where Google was misattributing content for select news publishers. We showed examples of Google showing URLs of large news publishers but those URLs listed were not the source URLs and thus redirecting from Google’s search results to a completely…
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Google App Indexing Adds 24 Android Apps & Expands To All English Content Worldwide
On October 31st, Google announced they are now supporting a new feature named app indexing, which allows publishers to create links from Google’s search results directly into the deep content within their Android apps. So if you search for something on your Android device and happen to see a…
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Google Tests Product Images Within Organic Listings
It seems Google is testing showing product images in the organic, free search result listings, for certain e-commerce sites. This was first spotted in a Moz thread for a site that sells ski equipment named evo.com. Here is a picture of the organic list…
Google’s Matt Cutts On How They Evaluate New Search Algorithms
Google’s Matt Cutts, the head of search spam, posted a video today answering how Google goes about evaluating which new search algorithms they use and which they throw away or adapt. The question was posed by James Foster of Sydney, Australia who asked: What are some of the metrics that…
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Five Days Later, It Looks Like Google Has Penalized Web Design Library For Selling Links
We all saw this one coming: Web Design Library, the website that was using Twitter to renew paid links last week, appears to have earned a Google penalty. While I was researching last week’s article, I saw the site ranking at No. 8 for the term web design. Today, I’m seeing it at No. 48…
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Google Misattributing Content From Major News Publishers
A reader has sent us examples of Google misattributing content from dozens of large online news publications, with hundreds thousands of examples of Google indexing URLs and pages, but that content being pulled from a different source. For example, if …
Selling Links To A Big Brand? Here’s Why You Don’t Tweet About It
Here’s a lesson in how not to sell links. As Search Engine Roundtable pointed out this morning, someone named “Vince” from WebDesign.org is using Twitter to contact companies about renewing paid links that are about to expire. You can look at the @vitaliykoloswdl account and see…
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Google Can Now Solve Your Geometry Math Questions
Google has quietly upgraded their search calculator to not just answer your basic math questions or graphical or 3D math questions but now it can do your geometry homework. You can ask Google geometry related questions and it will solve them for you, s…
Google Knowledge Graph Adds “Related Topics” Section
Alex Chitu noticed that Google’s knowledge graph has now added a “related topics” for certain types of queries. The example provided shows a search for [equilateral triangle shows a knowledge graph that also adds topics for equilateral polygon, square, regular polygon, and…
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Okay Google: Take A Photo/Video Comes To Google Mobile Search
Google announced on Google+ that you can now ask your Android phone to take a photo or a video by saying, “Ok Google,” then “take a photo” or “take a video.” This will launch the Android camera app in the photo or video mode so you can quickly take a photo. I…
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Google Makes It Official: It’s New Search Results Look Live For All
A day after Google said the new look was still an experiment, it has decided that the experiment was good enough to make for an official change. Now everyone should be getting the new design. Jon Wiley, Google’s lead design for Google Search, said on Google+, “you may have noticed that…
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Google Adds Concert Dates To Knowledge Graph
Google announced today it is now adding concert dates to its Knowledge Graph. According to the Google Webmaster Central blog, concert information for a musician will be pulled from the artist’s official website if the site includes structured data markup. The announcement listed three ways…
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Google’s New Look Search Results: Still An Experiment
More and more searchers, SEOs, webmasters and advertisers are seeing the new Google design test we’ve covered here a couple times where the ads blend in more to the search results and the font size is larger and the underlined links are gone. Last night, at Search Marketing Expo West,…
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Live Blog: Google’s Amit Singhal At SMX West 2014
Good evening/afternoon (or early morning for our European readers!) from sunny San Jose, Calif., where day one of our SMX West conference is almost finished. We’re wrapping up the Marketing Land Digital Marketing Summit with a keynote conversation between Google’s Amit Singhal and Danny…
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Odd Google Indexing Bug Causes The Web To Read “Lorem Ipsum”
Lorem Ipsum is commonly used boilerplate text used by the design community to illustrate how the text on a web site or print design will look within the visual graphical creatives. It turned out that the boilerplate text of Lorem Ipsum was used on ever…
Now Official: Google Adds Restaurant Menus To Search Results
That Google menus experiment we told you about a couple weeks ago? It’s now official. But it’s only available in the U.S. at the moment. Google announced that it’s now showing restaurant menus as a OneBox-style answer at the top of its search results. It seems to be primarily…
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FOX Partners With Google To Allow Voting For American Idol On Google’s Search Results
FOX and Google have partnered to enable American Idol fans to vote for the finalists directly in the Google search results. That means you no longer have to text your vote, you can do it on Google.com. How does it work? Simple, you go to Google on your…