Posts in Search Engine News

By Derek Whitney, Posted in Search Engine News

How Google+ Can Impact Your SEO & BusinessA current hot topic in the SEO world is undoubtedly Google+. If you think Google+ is just another social network, you’re mistaken! Research has proven that Google+ can increase your online presence both socially and organically. Below are few ways Google+ can impact your SEO & Business collectively.Organic Business GrowthA recent study conducted by Jeffalytics, aimed to test whether or not Google+ actually had an impact on search engine results. During... read more.

• April 26, 2013
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By Derek Whitney, Posted in Search Engine News

There are two words that make every Search Engine Optimizer’s stomach turn: Google Update. A new update means that every SEO must check all their back links, making sure they are properly built. Because Google is rolling out a huge update sometime this year, I decided to write an article about all of the major Google updates and give some predications for the upcoming one!Panda Algorithm UpdateOne of the first major updates Google released was the Panda update on February 23, 2011. There were some upd... read more.

• April 12, 2013
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By Derek Whitney, Posted in Search Engine News

A recent Google algorithm update has caused a lot of stir in the SEO world. The Google EMD Update no longer allows exact match domains to carry weight in a search engine results page(SERP). Which I think is a win for SEOer's and a huge loss for spammers. What Is an Exact Match Domain? An exact match domain is when you have the keyword in the URL. So when someone searches for "coffee mugs" in Google, before the update the first result would be www.coffeemugs.com. Google would automatically give more weig... read more.

• December 04, 2012
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By Rania Eldekki, Posted in Search Engine News

After Google's algorithm was questioned in the Google Webmaster Forum earlier this month, the search engine giant reported that they do not, in fact, incorporate a "white-list for algorithms", but a recent statement from Matt Cutts proves completely different. Last week at SMX West, Barry Schwartz reported that the head of Google's webspam team, Matt Cutts, answered this very same question during the Spam Police panel. Schwartz describes his answer as long and detailed, but the bottom line is that Google d... read more.

• March 15, 2011
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By Sharon Meyer, Posted in Search Engine News

People refer to the internet for everyday questions. Search engine sites like Google, Yahoo, or Ask.com were developed to give that information to the people. Search engines use text-matching techniques and specially formulated algorithms to find web pages that are important and relevant to a user's search. Sometimes when searching for the information the searcher is unable to find such information. This is when people go to websites like Quora or Answers.com for information they may not be able to obtain s... read more.

• January 31, 2011
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By Elysa Vreeland, Posted in Search Engine News

Baidu > Google (in China!) Google may hold top rankings for search engines in America and other parts of the world, but there's one country that's not inclined to use Google's popular search power. China, the world's largest country in population, instead uses Baidu, a company founded in 2000 by Robin Li and Eric Xu, allows people to search websites, audio files and images -- very similar to Google! Google performs poorly in China Since its debut in 2000, Baidu.com Inc. has witnessed much success;... read more.

• November 18, 2010
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By Rania Eldekki, Posted in Search Engine News

It seems as if more and more major brands are joining forces these days; just recently. Facebook and Bing integrated search features, Skype integrated communication with Facebook and Yahoo & Bing formed an industry transforming search alliance- all within the past 3 months. Now it seems that Google and Twitter are the ones joining forces; "In a first ever move, Google is now carrying ads from someone else's ad network - Twitter's, as Google integrates Twitter's new Promoted Tweets into Google Realtime... read more.

• November 05, 2010
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By Rania Eldekki, Posted in Search Engine News

In an attempt to gain popularity, the Microsoft search engine striving to break into the industry, Bing, has partnered with Facebook to combine Facebook 'like' data and profile search into its search results.Facebook Founder, Mark Zuckerberg believes that Bing, "the underdog", will make a great partner because of their knowledge and experience in areas that facebook has "no interest in building out around, but are really complex- like search" stated Zuckerberg at a recent press conference.This new feature a... read more.

• November 03, 2010
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By Jonathan Morales, Posted in Search Engine News

Blekko is a search engine designed to filter out spam in order to provide high quality pages to users. The pages that Blekko provides in its search results are from well known and trusted websites. Being able to offer legitimate and vital content to individuals looking for answers will help make Blekko one of the top search engines.   Have you heard of Blekko? It is a newly released search engine that focuses on a creative way of using "/slashtag" in order to improve search results. Blekko does... read more.

• November 03, 2010
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By Rania Eldekki, Posted in Search Engine News

What is a human powered search engine? Human powered search engines are websites that have actual people searching for and answering your questions, rather than typical search engines comprised of computerized programs crawling the web to find your answers (like Google). Although it can be debated that human powered search engines may generate more relevant answers, my research concludes that that's not currently the case. Unless the human powered search engine trains and employs each person that is answ... read more.

• October 20, 2010
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