A completely new version of the Google Quality Ratings Guideline is now available for quality raters to rate websites for Google. There is little semblance between the old and the rewritten version. Google is set to provide the most trustworthy and credible websites to users. To be among the top ranked sites, the web making
Part of delivering effective SEO services is understanding the current climate of search based website traffic. By that I mean staying up to date on what Google is up to and the other search engines. This year (2012), there have been some major algorithm changes by Google named "Panda" and "Penguin". To understand the changes,
SEO is the Rodney Dangerfield of online marketing ---it just can’t get no respect. (Did ya hear his voice in your head when you read that) Developers view SEOs with suspicious eyes at best, business owners think SEO is all about ranking and link building, and many SEOs don’t even know the basics. Case in
This is a random list of 20 MORE things I found fascinating about Google plus links to 40 others and one bonus fact that you may not know. It’s the 4th in a series I’m writing after I recently read the book; Steven Levy’s “In The Plex” – How Google Thinks, Works and Shapes Our Lives.
This is a random list of 20 MORE things I found fascinating about Google that you may not know. It’s the 3rd in a series I’m writing after I recently read the book; Steven Levy’s “In The Plex” – How Google Thinks, Works and Shapes Our Lives. If you would like to read the first
Last week I was browsing my Google+ account on my PC getting more familiar with it and I stumbled across some pictures that were online from my phone that I did not upload! I learned how it was happening and how to stop it and wrote this post to help others do the same. Now, granted these
This is a random list of 20 things I found fascinating about Google that you may not know. It's the 2nd in a series I'm writing after I recently read the book; Steven Levy’s “In The Plex” - How Google Thinks, Works and Shapes Our Lives. I hope you find it as interesting as I
I read an article recently on Web Pro News about a blog post Jennifer Ledbetter an Internet Marketer wrote. In it she discusses the influence Google Quality Raters have on search algorithm changes. In particular, she was suggesting that the Quality Raters may be responsible for URL's getting flagged and marked as spam, which Matt
I Just finished reading Steven Levy's "In The Plex" and loved it! (http://amzn.to/s46q1F) It gives some fantastic insight in to Google's history, their culture as a company, projects they are working on now and in the past that have both failed and become integral parts of our daily lives and most importantly in to the
The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine is a document written by Sergey Brin and Larry Page, the founders of Google in the early days before it was a "company". In it, they explain how Google works including PageRank as they conceptualized it back then. I was participating in and following a discussion on LinkedIn
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