
When To Fire Your SEO Agency
These days, most businesses with a website recognize that search engine optimization (SEO) is key to getting discovered online, but not...

Google Gives Stephen Colbert A Half Inch After Comedian Spotlights Bad Info In Search Results
Looks like Google heeded Stephen Colbert’s threat, and has manually fixed the quick answer for the comedian’s height, which Colbert...

Google Touts Its Progress In Piracy Battle, Announces New Ad Format & “Pirate” Algo
Against what seems like an almost constant string of accusations that it’s not doing enough to prevent online piracy, Google today touted...

Stephen Colbert Demands Google Apology For Getting His Height Wrong
Increasingly, Google has been trying to provide people with direct answers to questions rather than sending them to web sites. That got...

Infographic: Google Study Finds Voice Search Most Used To Ask For Directions
We’ve had the ability to speak a search query to smartphones for some time now, but there hasn’t been a lot of data on what types of...

Get Ready For Next Gen Search By Exploring The Google-Initiated Physical Web Project
In 1990, Tim Berners-Lee developed a way to connect text documents stored on different computers together via hyperlinks. That project...

A New Click Through Rate Study For Google Organic Results
Advanced Web Ranking has released a study showing fresh data on the click-through-rate from Google’s organic search results. The data was...

Google Rolling Out New Panda Update Designed To Penalize Websites With Low Quality Content
Google announced a new Panda Update that helps the search engine identify websites with low-quality content. According to Googler Pierre...

Official: Google Ends Authorship For Search Results
Google has officially dropped authorship bylines from within the search results. In addition, Google will stop tracking content written...

Telegraph “Forgets” Its Own Stories Documenting Google “Right To Be Forgotten̶
The Daily Telegraph’s recent campaign to document all its stories that have been removed from Google under the EU’s Right To Be Forgotten...

Google Dangles A Big Carrot To Make The Web More Private
Google said this evening that it will give sites that use HTTPS a small ranking advantage in search results. This is a very...

Google On Pigeon Fluctuations: We Won’t Detail All Changes In The Future
Google’s Pigeon algorithm launched on July 24th, impacting the local search results in Google’s English and US centric web and map...

Survey: 74% Of U.S. Adults Would Delete Themselves From Search Results If They Could
In the wake of the the Right to Be Forgotten controversy in Europe, Survey Monkey has conducted a survey of online adults (n=210) to...

How The EU Censors Google & Search Engines Just Like China
When it comes to censorship, the European Union generally isn’t one of the political entities that immediately comes to mind. But it...

Twitter A-Listers Are More Likely To Have Their Tweets Indexed In Google Search Results [Study]
If you are counting on Google indexing your tweets, you had better have Twitter influence — we are talking serious influence. As in, if...

Thanks To “Right To Be Forgotten,” Google Now Censors The Press In The EU
The EU’s Right To Be Forgotten removals have been happening for about a week on Google, and now news publications are discovering the...

VIDEO + SLIDESHOW: All Search Is Now Social
“Social is all about discovery, search is about validation. These two are so inextricably linked today…” ~ Tami Cannizzaro, Global...

Prepare For Future Search: SEO For The Connected Home(Kit)
My wife called me at work last week to let me know that she locked herself out of the house. Oddly enough, she had her phone with her but...

The SocialChorus Lesson: Use “Nofollow” In Native Ads, To Avoid Google Penalties
SocialChorus has learned a lesson that other native advertising players should also know. Even when you’re focused on building awareness...
























