Search Engine Land » Barry Schwartz http://searchengineland.com Search Engine Land: News On Search Engines, Search Engine Optimization (SEO) & Search Engine Marketing (SEM) Fri, 17 May 2013 21:49:47 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 SearchCap: The Day In Search, May 17, 2013 http://searchengineland.com/searchcap-the-day-in-search-may-17-2013-160002 http://searchengineland.com/searchcap-the-day-in-search-may-17-2013-160002#comments Fri, 17 May 2013 20:07:46 +0000 Barry Schwartz http://searchengineland.com/?p=160002 Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the Web.

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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 the same domain name, if you [...]

  • Yandex Announces “Interactive Snippets” & SERP Redesign At Moscow Conference

    Yandex has presented what it claims is a new concept in search engine results pages to a Russian audience at an online industry conference in Moscow. They’ve nicknamed the new concept “Islands,” but are describing it functionally as “Interactive Snippets” and the next step on from rich snippets. To be launched in a few weeks [...]

  • Search In Pics: Google Blimps, Sullivan Junior At Google LA & A Google Mohawk

    In this week’s Search In Pictures, here are the latest images culled from the Web, showing what people eat at the search engine companies, how they play, who they meet, where they speak, what toys they have, and more. Google+ Blimps: Source: Google+ Danny Sullivan’s Kid At Google LA: Source: Google+ Android Statue Placing Android [...]

  • Google Updates AdWords Express Sign-Up Process, Ad Copy Preview And Dashboard

    Google has updated the interface for AdWords Express, Google’s AdWords product designed for small businesses. Among the interface updates are a redesigned dashboard to show an at-a-glance look at ad views (impressions), clicks and calls generated as well as a pie chart that tracks monthly budget expenditures. A new performance graph allows advertisers to compare results [...]

  • Analyzing Competitiveness In Your Paid Search Account

    The auction-based industry we work in involves a number of metrics which help search marketers identify where they are doing better or worse than the competition. Just to name a few, the most common metrics search marketers usually look at are the Quality Score (QS), the average cost-per-click (CPC), the impression share (IS), and the [...]

  • Yahoo Wins $2.75 Billion Appeal In Yellow Pages Case

    Yahoo announced yesterday that it had prevailed in an appeal of a $2.75 judgment in Mexico obtained by former joint venture partners: The appellate decision overturned all monetary awards against Yahoo! Inc. and reduced the monetary award against Yahoo! Mexico to $172,500. Yahoo! Mexico was awarded $2.6 million in the original judgment, and this award [...]

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]]> http://searchengineland.com/searchcap-the-day-in-search-may-17-2013-160002/feed 0 Google’s Matt Cutts: Domain Clustering To Change Again; Fewer Results From Same Domain http://searchengineland.com/google-domain-clustering-change-159997 http://searchengineland.com/google-domain-clustering-change-159997#comments Fri, 17 May 2013 18:46:34 +0000 Barry Schwartz http://searchengineland.com/?p=159997 google-domains-featuredGoogle’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 the same domain name, if you already have been shown that domain name in previous results three or four times before. Matt explained that once you’ve seen a cluster of about four results from a specific domain name, the subsequent pages are going to be less likely to show you results from that domain name.

To explain this in more detail, Cutts explained the history behind domain diversity in the search results. As Matt explained, the goal is to strike the right balance between offering diverse results but at the same time returning the best and most authoritative search results for the query.

The history for domain clustering within Google is as follows:

  • There was no restrictions in the number of results per domain name. This turned out to be a bad thing, as Matt explained.
  • Google added “host clustering,” that prevented more than two results per domain name to be shown in the search results. Webmasters got around this by placing content on subdomains.
  • Google expanded the clustering to show a max of 3 or 4 results per domain, instead.
  • Google then changed this to show more diversity on the first page of results but show less diversity on the secondary pages. So you’d likely not see more than two results from the same domain name on the first page, but you can see several results from the same domain on secondary pages.
  • Launching soon is a change to this to show less from the same domain, even on subsequent pages, after you’ve already seen about four results from the same domain for that query.

Google has frequently changed the diversity of domains in the search results and we expected this change as we reported earlier.

Matt Cutts did explain this most recent change was in response to several complaints, likely including our complaint about the diversity of the search results.

Here is the video:

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Google+ Blimps:

google-blimbs-1368792685 Source: Google+

Danny Sullivan’s Kid At Google LA:

danny-sullivan-son-google-la-pillows-1368540124 Source: Google+

Android Statue Placing Android Signage At Google I/O:

google-io-android-sign-1368540718 Source: Google+

Google Kitchen Displays Cola In A Cube:

google-kitchen-coke-sugar-message-1368532282 Source: Google+

Google’s Brett Crosby With A Mohawk:

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Source: Google+

]]> http://searchengineland.com/search-in-pics-google-blimps-sullivan-junior-at-google-la-a-google-mohawk-159983/feed 0 SearchCap: The Day In Search, May 14, 2013 http://searchengineland.com/searchcap-the-day-in-search-may-14-2013-159514 http://searchengineland.com/searchcap-the-day-in-search-may-14-2013-159514#comments Tue, 14 May 2013 20:59:51 +0000 Barry Schwartz http://searchengineland.com/?p=159514 Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the Web.

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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 particular subject a ranking [...]
  • Bing Goes Star Trek With “Snapshot” Answers & Klingon Translation Microsoft announced that Bing, the search engine, can now speak Klingon and gives you snapshot answers to your Star Trek questions. Search on Bing for [Who is Spock's father] and at the top right section of the page, a “Snapshot Answer” will come back telling you it is Sarek. You can technically search for many [...]
  • German Court Says Google Must Block Libelous Words Added Via Autocomplete Function In a surprising turn of events, Germany’s top civil court overturned two lower court rulings on a case involving Google’s autocomplete function. According to the ruling, it is Google’s responsibility to block libelous words that appear next to a name via the autocomplete function if Google has been alerted to the defamatory words. The plaintiff [...]
  • Taiwanese Research Firm Claims Patent Law Suit Against Google Search Products Institute for Information, located in Taipei, Taiwan, has brought a patent lawsuit against Google in the US District Court for the Eastern District of Texas. According to the case, the research institution claims Google Search, Google+ Local and Google Places infringes on the Institute for Information’s patented information retrieval system. The patent in question was [...]
  • How Latvia Teaches Us That “Think Global, Act Local” Is No Longer Useful In Search Marketing Last week, I was lucky to join a number of great speakers at the iLive conference in Riga, Latvia. As with all conferences, I learned a lot. (I simply can’t relate to those who go to a conference and say they’ve heard it all before.) I learned at least as much from the people I met [...]
  • 5 PR Strategies You Can Use To Build Links Right Now There’s been a lot of talk in the search industry over the past year regarding the overlap of public relations and SEO, particularly in the area of link building. As a Public Relations major, this couldn’t make me happier — not because I feel like my college degree can finally be justified to my parents; but [...]
  • The Future Of SEO in a Socially Driven World If SEO is dead, social media will be, too, in another five years. So, keep calm and tweet on. Hold that thought for a second – I can explain. In today’s search world, there’s a lot of talk about how social is “taking over,” how “content is king,” and how search engine optimization is “dead” – [...]
  • Google’s Latest Easter Egg Brings Atari Breakout Game To Image Search Add this to the big list of Google easter eggs: do an image search for “atari breakout,” and you’ll be able to play the classic video game online, right in your search results. In fact, the image search results become the bricks that you have to eliminate as you play the game. Google is calling [...]

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]]> http://searchengineland.com/searchcap-the-day-in-search-may-14-2013-159514/feed 0 Bing Goes Star Trek With “Snapshot” Answers & Klingon Translation http://searchengineland.com/bing-goes-star-trek-159499 http://searchengineland.com/bing-goes-star-trek-159499#comments Tue, 14 May 2013 20:15:23 +0000 Barry Schwartz http://searchengineland.com/?p=159499 bing-startrekMicrosoft announced that Bing, the search engine, can now speak Klingon and gives you snapshot answers to your Star Trek questions.

Search on Bing for [Who is Spock's father] and at the top right section of the page, a “Snapshot Answer” will come back telling you it is Sarek. You can technically search for many Star Trek related questions, and Bing promises to answer.

Bing said they partnered with the creator of Klingon, Marc Okrand, and a few ‘Trekkers’ at Microsoft such as engineer Eric Andeen to ‘Trekify,’ as Bing calls it some of Bing’s products.

Here is a picture of a snapshot example in the search results:

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Part of this partnership, Bing also added to Bing Translator the ability to translate either content or web pages into Klingon. Here is a picture of our home page translated into Klingon:

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These efforts are in partnership with Paramount Pictures’s release of the new movie, Star Trek Into Darkness.

]]> http://searchengineland.com/bing-goes-star-trek-159499/feed 3 Google Authority Boost: Google’s Algorithm To Determine Which Site Is A Subject Authority http://searchengineland.com/google-authority-boost-googles-algorithm-to-determine-which-site-is-a-subject-authority-159405 http://searchengineland.com/google-authority-boost-googles-algorithm-to-determine-which-site-is-a-subject-authority-159405#comments Tue, 14 May 2013 13:38:31 +0000 Barry Schwartz http://searchengineland.com/?p=159405 google-knowledge-mortar-board-graduationYesterday, 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 particular subject a ranking boost for being that authority.

Google has long done this within Google News, but this seems to be the first time it’s talking about trying to determine subject authorities within Web search.

The portion of the video of when Matt Cutts talks about authority boost starts at 4 minutes and 37 seconds into the video and ends at 5 minutes and 3 seconds. Here is the video followed by my best effort at transcribing that portion:

We have also been working on a lot of ways to help regular webmasters.

We are doing a doing a better job of detecting when someone is sort of an authority in a specific space. It could be medical, it could be travel, whatever. And trying to makes sure that those rank a little more highly, if you are some sort of authority or a site that according to the algorithms we think might be a little bit more appropriate for users.

For more on these upcoming changes, see our post from yesterday.

]]> http://searchengineland.com/google-authority-boost-googles-algorithm-to-determine-which-site-is-a-subject-authority-159405/feed 16 SearchCap: The Day In Search, May 13, 2013 http://searchengineland.com/searchcap-the-day-in-search-may-13-2013-159308 http://searchengineland.com/searchcap-the-day-in-search-may-13-2013-159308#comments Mon, 13 May 2013 21:01:50 +0000 Barry Schwartz http://searchengineland.com/?p=159308 Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the Web.

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  • Google’s Matt Cutts: Next Generation Of The Penguin Update “Few Weeks” Away In March, Google’s chief web spam fighter Matt Cutts promised that the Penguin Update designed to fight spam would get a big refresh later this year. Today, Cutts gave an update — keep waiting. It’s still a few weeks off. Along the way, there’s some confusion about whether the next Penguin Update will be Penguin [...]
  • Google’s Matt Cutts: Black Hat & Link Spammers Less Likely To Show Up In Search Results After Summer A video from Matt Cutts, Google’s head of search spam, today answers some of the questions about what webmasters and SEOs should expect in the near future in regards to SEO. The question Matt asked and answered was, “What should we expect in the next few months in terms of SEO for Google?” Matt addressed [...]
  • Former Google Product Manager Takes A Senior Director Role At Yahoo A Yahoo spokesperson confirmed that Dylan Casey has joined Yahoo as a senior director in the platform organization. According to Casey’s Linkedin profile, the new Yahoo senior director was head of project management at Path for the last year and five months after serving as a product manager at Google for nearly eight years. During [...]
  • Bing Ads: “Our Commitment To The Search Alliance Remains Unwavering” Perhaps in response to reports that Yahoo is unhappy with its search deal with Microsoft and looking for a way out, David Pann, GM, Microsoft Advertising Search Group, has written a post on the Bing Ads blog ahead of ”state of the state” meetings with clients in Europe that aims to reassure advertisers that the relationship is sound and the [...]
  • Bing Adds People Autosuggest: Find Celebrities & Colleagues With Public LinkedIn Profiles According to Bing, people searches account for roughly 10 percent of all searches on Bing, second only to navigational queries. Today, the company announced updates to Bing Snapshot with people autosuggest which provides a thumbnail image and brief description of individuals related to people searches. The screenshot below shows suggestions on a search for Michelle Williams. The [...]
  • Another One Bites the Dust: Google SMS Search Shuts Down Without Warning After trying to perform searches via Google SMS Search last week, many users discovered that the mobile search service had been discontinued. In the Google Web Search Help forum, a Google spokesperson wrote, “Closing products always involves tough choices, but we do think very hard about each decision and its implications for our users. Streamlining [...]
  • Google’s Matt Cutts On Spamming Cuil, Helping Masses, Debunking Evil Google & More Google’s head of search spam, has decided to publish a bunch of blog posts that were sitting in draft mode on his personal blog. He said his blog needs to cough up a hairball – hence the animated GIF used here. But, we can learn a few things when Matt Cutts coughs up hairballs. A [...]
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]]> http://searchengineland.com/searchcap-the-day-in-search-may-13-2013-159308/feed 0 Google’s Matt Cutts: Black Hat & Link Spammers Less Likely To Show Up In Search Results After Summer http://searchengineland.com/googles-matt-cutts-black-hat-link-spammers-less-likely-to-show-up-in-search-results-after-summer-159185 http://searchengineland.com/googles-matt-cutts-black-hat-link-spammers-less-likely-to-show-up-in-search-results-after-summer-159185#comments Mon, 13 May 2013 16:26:02 +0000 Barry Schwartz http://searchengineland.com/?p=159185 matt-cutts-seo-futureA video from Matt Cutts, Google’s head of search spam, today answers some of the questions about what webmasters and SEOs should expect in the near future in regards to SEO.

The primary question Matt asked and answered was, “What should we expect in the next few months in terms of SEO for Google?”

Matt addressed 10 points, all summarized at the end as helping improve the search results by awarding the good sites and hurting the spammers and black hats in the search results. Here are the 10 points Matt addressed in his video, followed by the video itself:

1.  Penguin Updates

The next generation Penguin update, Penguin 4 (AKA Penguin 2.0), which is expected to launch in the next few weeks, will go deeper and have more of an impact than the first version of that Penguin update. So expect that we will hear more of an outcry from the SEO community when this does launch.

2.  Advertorials

Earlier this year, Google went after some websites for using advertorials as a means to artificially inflate their link profile. Matt Cutts said Google will soon take a stronger stance against those using advertorials in a means that violates their webmaster guidelines.

3.  Spammy Queries

While queries that tend to be spammy in nature, such as [pay day loans] or some pornographic related queries, were somewhat less likely to be a target for Google’s search spam team – Matt Cutts said Google is more likely to look at this area in the near future. He made it sound like these requests are coming from outside of Google and thus Google wants to address those concerns with these types of queries.

4.  Going Upstream

Matt Cutts said they want to go more “upstream” to deter link spammers and the value of the links they are acquiring from the sources. This seems to imply to me that Google will go after more link networks, like they’ve done in the past.

5.  Sophisticated Link Analysis

Matt promises that Google is going to get even better at their link analysis. Google’s head of search spam explained that Google is in the early stages of this much more “sophisticated” link analysis software but when it is released, they will be much better at understanding links.

6.  Improvements On Hacked Sites

Google has done a lot of work with hacked sites and their index, specifically labeling the search results of potentially hacked sites, removing those sites and also warnings webmasters about the hack. Matt said Google is working on rolling out a new feature to better detect hacked sites in the upcoming months. Cutts also added they plan on improving webmaster communication in regards to hacked sites.

7.  Authority Boost

Google hopes to give sites that are an authority in a specific industry, community or space a ranking boost. So if you are an authority in the medical or travel spaces, Google hopes that related queries will return your site above less authoritative web sites.

8.  Panda Sympathy

While many sites have been impacted by the Google Panda update, Matt Cutts said that many of those impacted are borderline cases. Google is looking for ways to “soften” that impact by looking at other quality metrics to move those on the line to not be impacted by the Panda algorithm.

9.  Domain Clusters In SERPs

The number of clusters of the same domain name showing on the first page of Google’s search results should lessen this year. Google’s Matt Cutts said they want to make the search results on the first page even more diverse, but when you click to the second results page, you may be more likely to see clustered results from the same domain name. Google is constantly tweaking how many search results from the same domain name show up on a single page of search results.

10.  Improved Webmaster Communication

As always, Google is always saying they want to improve their communication with webmasters. Matt Cutts said to expect even more detailed examples within webmaster notifications received within Google Webmaster Tools.

Toward the end of this video, Matt Cutts explains the purpose of all these changes is to reduce the number of webmasters doing black hat spam tactics from showing up, while giving smaller businesses that are more white hat the chances to rank better.

Here is the video for you all to watch:

]]> http://searchengineland.com/googles-matt-cutts-black-hat-link-spammers-less-likely-to-show-up-in-search-results-after-summer-159185/feed 80 Google’s Matt Cutts On Spamming Cuil, Helping Masses, Debunking Evil Google & More http://searchengineland.com/googles-matt-cutts-on-spamming-cuil-helping-masses-debunking-evil-google-more-159143 http://searchengineland.com/googles-matt-cutts-on-spamming-cuil-helping-masses-debunking-evil-google-more-159143#comments Mon, 13 May 2013 13:38:32 +0000 Barry Schwartz http://searchengineland.com/?p=159143 cat-talkingGoogle’s head of search spam, has decided to publish a bunch of blog posts that were sitting in draft mode on his personal blog. He said his blog needs to cough up a hairball – hence the animated GIF used here.

But, we can learn a few things when Matt Cutts coughs up hairballs. A few of the 16 blog posts he published last night contain some Google insight.

Helping The Masses Versus Individuals

Matt wrote a blog post named email backlog where he explains the rational about responding to individual emails requesting help versus producing videos or posting a blog post that can help hundreds or thousands. Matt explained that when he replies to one email, it helps one person. But when he produces a video, it can help tens of thousands. Matt’s point, if you don’t get a response after you email him, do not be insulted.

Here is a snippet of what Matt wrote:

So now I’m looking at these 150+ emails from outside Google, and I’m pondering about how much time I should spend on email compared to other things. Email is a 1:1 communication, so I could answer 10 emails and help roughly 10 people. Or in the same amount of time, I could comment on a forum, start on a blog post, or plan out another video that could benefit a lot more people. I did a series of about 15 videos last year when my wife was out of town, and the videos have been watched over 300K times and downloaded over 100K times.

Debunking Google Is Evil Press

In a blog post named example debunk post, Matt tackles a German paper calling out Google as being evil for delisting a webmaster’s site. This is a long interview with the webmaster, where it makes Google look like a really evil company. When Matt looked into why the site was delisted, he noticed that someone logged into Webmaster Tools and authorized a removal request.

Here is a snippet:

Except I haven’t told our side of the story. Our side of the story is pretty short: someone from benbit.ch used our automated url removal tool to remove benbit.ch themselves. Now why would someone from benbit.ch remove their own site (multiple times with multiple url patterns over multiple months, I might add), and then lay the blame at Google’s feet? I could speculate, but I genuinely have no idea.

How To Spam Cuil, A Former Google Competitor

Cuil was a search engine that launched years ago to compete against Google – it failed. That being said, Matt Cutts has a blog post named How Cuil generates its categories, where he describes how a spammer might take advantage of the new, now defunct, search engine.

Here is a snippet of what Matt shared:

Most search engineers can get a good feel for the strengths/weaknesses of a new engine within 10-15 queries. And I’d like to think that with another 5-10 queries, I can usually figure out how I’d spam a search engine. It’s my job to protect Google’s index from spam, so naturally I’m intimately familiar with different webspam techniques.

I always find it fun to read Matt’s posts because it does give you a glimpse of his personality, his thoughts on search, webmasters and technology in general. The more you understand the head of Google search spam, maybe the better off you are.

Check out Matt’s blog at mattcutts.com/blog.

]]> http://searchengineland.com/googles-matt-cutts-on-spamming-cuil-helping-masses-debunking-evil-google-more-159143/feed 5 The Google Mother’s Day Logo Offers 27 Art Variations http://searchengineland.com/the-google-mothers-day-logo-offers-27-art-variations-159018 http://searchengineland.com/the-google-mothers-day-logo-offers-27-art-variations-159018#comments Sun, 12 May 2013 13:18:49 +0000 Barry Schwartz http://searchengineland.com/?p=159018 mothers_day_2013-1509005-hpToday on the Google home page is a special Mother’s Day logo for all moms out there.

This logo, or Google Doodle, as Google calls them, has a little more detail than the previous years. The logo is completely interactive allowing users to create up to 27 different pieces of art with 3 border types.

The logo itself takes you through a series of options, asking you the following questions:

  • Do you want to draw Mom, flowers, or maybe create some kind of gift, gesture, or way of spending time together?
  • If you choose to draw Mom, would you prefer a stick-figure, maybe a Mama Bird, or perhaps a Mama Bear?
  • What look are you going for? Scribbly crayons and markers, an elegantly designed scrapbook page, or maybe something kind of random with found materials, like pasta and beans.
  • And the finishing touch, what kind of border will you use to frame your doodle?

These options lead to 27 different outputs in total!

Google then offers you the ability to print them in high resolution, share them on Google+ or via a special short URL or start over.

Here is a video of me creating one variation of the Google Mother’s Day logo:

For more details and information on this logo see this page and for other logos from other search engines see Search Engine Roundtable.

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