What should Google rank in Search when all the content sucks?
It's always easy to blame Google when your content doesn't rank. But maybe – just maybe – the problem isn't Google. It's you.
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How Google Search and ranking works, according to Google’s Pandu Nayak
Learn how indexing, algorithms, deep learning systems, human raters, click and query data, and more shape Google's Search results.
Google allegedly caught scraping lyrics from Genius
Lyrics site Genius used Morse code to catch Google 'red handed.'
Google says image search referrals will not get new source URL (but forgets to tell us)
The company teases publishers with more traffic data and then retracts that offer.
Reaction: What SEOs Think About Facts & Answers Showing In Google Search Results
Last week, Google officially rolled out Structured Snippets, the search giant’s move to show snippets of relevant data directly in its search results. According to Google, the content being displayed is powered by its Knowledge Graph, as well as other data sources. As Search Engine Land news editor Barry Schwartz noted in his article, “Where […]
SearchCap: Google Losing Mobile Ad Share, Google Sends Mobile URL Redirects Warnings & More
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Search Marketing Expo (SMX) Advanced Begins Next Week – Join us! SMX Advanced takes place next week, June 10-12 in Seattle. Learn actionable new tactics, find inspiration, discover solutions to your […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, February 18, 2014
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Delivering On Search: Behind The Scenes With An Ad Agency SEO Manager Today’s full service ad agency services go far beyond building out creative and determining media placement. As Lowe Campbell […]
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 view.” The placement of the “related searches” search option has changed over the years, including […]
Welcome AJ Kohn & Ginny Marvin To Search Engine Land, Marketing Land
It’s a pleasure to announce the two newest members of our Third Door Media editorial team: AJ Kohn and Ginny Marvin. Ginny joins us as a Contributing Writer and will focus primarily on covering paid advertising topics — paid search on Search Engine Land and paid social media/display advertising on Marketing Land, for example. When […]
Google’s Authorship Fail: How Truman Capote Was Credited As A NYT Writer 28 Years After His Death
If you happened to do certain abortion-related searches in the past few days, you might’ve been surprised to see the late Truman Capote getting Google+ Authorship credit for an article from The New York Times. What makes it odd, of course, is that Capote died in 1984. He wrote numerous classics that showed up on […]
Google Confirms Hidden Benefit Of Authorship: Bonus Links After A Back-Button Click
Google has confirmed that there’s a hidden benefit to having authorship status: If a user returns to the search results after reading an author-tagged search result for a certain period of time, Google will add three additional links to similar articles from the same author below the originally clicked link. Say what? A couple visuals […]
Two Google+ SEO Guides You Should Read
The conventional wisdom where Google+ and online marketing goes is this: Even if your audience isn’t active there, it’s almost mandatory to have a profile and be active there because of the way Google is showing more Google+ content in its regular search results. It’s still early days for Google+ and the potential search/SEO benefits […]