Google’s Cutts Talks Structured Data Beta, Mobile Site Speed Need, Penalty Notices To Get Example Links & More
Last night at SMX Advanced, Google’s head of search spam, Matt Cutts was on stage to answer questions about Google search and webmaster topics with Danny Sullivan. We covered the session in live blog format and we pulled out several key points. Of all my years watching Matt Cutts talk, I…
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Google Pay Day Loan Algorithm: Google Search Algorithm Update To Target Spammy Queries
Google has officially launched a new search update to target “spammy queries” such as pay day loan, pornographic and other heavily spammed queries. Matt Cutts, Google’s head of search spam, announced this on Twitter saying “We just started a new ranking update today for some…
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SMX Advanced Live Blog: You&A Conversation With Matt Cutts
Day one of our SMX Advanced show is almost over, but there’s one last session still to come: the traditional “You & A with Matt Cutts” keynote session. Search Engine Land’s founding editor, Danny Sullivan, will be sitting down for a lengthy chat with Matt Cutts, the…
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Google Testing “In-Depth Articles” Search Results, A New Rich Snippet?
Dr. Peter Meyers, the Marketing Scientist at Moz, formerly SEOmoz, tipped us off to a new Google search interface test. It appears Google is testing showing “in-depth articles” in the search results for local queries. In the screen shot below, Pete triggered these results by searching…
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Google Tests Larger Video Thumbnails In Tablet Search Results
Google Operating System blog has screen shots of Google showing larger thumbnail images for videos that come up in the search results. The larger video thumbnails show up for the first video result on tablet devices. I personally tried to replicate thi…
Google Search Rolling Out Nutrition Information On More Than 1,000 Foods
Building on their Knowledge Graph technology, Google search is rolling out nutrition information on more than 1,000 fruits, vegetables, meats and meals. Users will be able to search on everything from simple one-word terms like apple or carrot to more …
Video: Google’s Matt Cutts On Advertorials & Webmaster Guidelines
Google’s head of search spam, Matt Cutts, posted a new video today on YouTube clarifying Google’s stance on Advertorials and “native advertising.” Advertorials are editorial-like content that is published because an advertiser has paid the publication to publish the story or…
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Google’s Impressive “Conversational Search” Goes Live On Chrome
The “conversational search” that Google demonstrated at last week’s Google I/O conference is now available to users of its Chrome browser, and it’s a significant leap in how we use search engines. I’m 17 years now into writing about search, and I’ve seen all…
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Google Notifies Sprint Of Spam Penalty; Seeks Advice In Google Help Forums
The latest large brand to be hit with a user generated content spam penalty notification is Sprint, the large U.S. wireless communications company. Similar to Mozilla’s penalty and BBC’s penalty, Sprint was penalized for user-generated content spam on a portion of their site that was…
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Google Drops “Translated Foreign Pages” Search Option Due To Lack Of Use
Google has quietly dropped the “Translated Foreign Pages” search filter from the Google search options menu. Google tells us the option was removed due to lack of use but they say they are still committed to making the web available to as many people, in as many languages as possible….
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Google’s Matt Cutts: Domain Clustering To Change Again; Less Results From Same Domain
Google’s head of search spam, Matt Cutts, posted a new video about a new change coming to Google’s search results related to the diversity of the results being displayed. Matt said that Google is launching “soon” a new change that will make it less likely to see results from…
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Study: Delaware Least Likely State To Use Google, While Yahoo Is More Popular In Southern & Midwest States
Using data from more than 35 million search queries performed in 2012, SEO company WebpageFX set out to determine search engine market share by state for Google, Bing and Yahoo. According to their study, Google dominates across the country, taking 70 percent or more of search engine market share…
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Google Authority Boost: Google’s Algorithm To Determine Which Site Is A Subject Authority
Yesterday, we covered and summarized the ten future Google SEO changes coming to Google’s search results by the end of this summer. But today, I wanted to pull out one point where Google’s head of search spam, Matt Cutts, said Google is working on an algorithm to give authorities in a…
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No, Publishership Isn’t Coming Soon To Google Search To Join Authorship
There are expectations in some quarters that publishers will soon be able to have their logos showing up in Google in the way that authors can have their pictures appear. But, Google says there are “no plans” for some type of “publishership” to go live similar to the way it…
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Google Local Results Drops “More Results Near…” To “Improve” Local Search Experience
Google has quietly dropped yet another search feature, this one is related to local search results within a search on Google. Google has removed the “more results near…” link on local search results for queries with local intent. For example, if you search for [pizza] on…
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More Proof Google Counts Press Release Links, Using Matt Cutts’s Own Blog
About six months ago, Google’s head of search spam, Matt Cutts, made a comment in a Google forum thread that links within press releases won’t “benefit your rankings.” Since then, we showed one case where Google not only discovers the links within typical press releases but…
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Which Finds The First-Ever Website Better, Google Or Bing?
For the 20th anniversary of CERN making Web technology available to anyone royalty-free, the European science lab has restored the very first website to its original location. Could today’s search engines of Google and Bing, which didn’t exist when the site was first posted, find it…
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Google Downplays Google+ With Updated Authorship Snippet?
Google has quietly changed the user interface for how they display the authorship snippet in the search results. The largest difference is that they removed the “more by” link that linked to additional stories written by that author. The other changes include that now clicking on the…
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Google Pulls Related Searches Filter Due To Lack Of Usage
Google has quietly removed the “related searches” option from the search tools menu within the Google search results page. When Google launched search options in October 2009, the option for “related searches” appeared on the left-hand side under the “standard…
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Using the X-Default Hreflang Tag For Multinational SEO: Default Language Opportunities
Google & Yandex announced the new x-default hreflang tag earlier this month, and in doing so closed the final gap in executing ‘perfect’ SEO platforms for multinational brands. There is, however, the question of what language content to use as your default, and how you can bring a little…
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