Google and the Associated Press have reached an agreement allowing Google to continue using AP content. But whether this is a long-term agreement replacing the one that expired last month is unclear. And despite the agreement, AP stories won’t be hosted by Google News any time soon, it seems. Yahoo’s also struck a new deal […]
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: How To Group Your Keywords; Plus: Q&A With WordStream’s Larry Kim Organizing your paid search keywords into the right ad groups can be a difficult task for even the best search […]
While Google has recently announced its support of the canonical tag across different domains, Bing says it’s still working on supporting the canonical tag on a single domain, and suggests webmasters should rely on other means to manage duplicate content. The rel=”canonical” link element was introduced earlier this year as a way for webmasters to […]
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Google & Bing’s Unequal Facebook Status Update Deals Last week, Google seemingly caught up with Bing in the war over status updates from social sites, announcing a deal to get real […]
Many webmasters will be happy to know that Google has announced its support for using the rel=”canonical” link element across different domains. This is important news because when the canonical tag (as it’s become known) was introduced by all three search engines during our SMX West Conference this past February, they only supported its use […]
In the battle between search engines and some mainstream news publishers, ACAP has been lurking for several years. ACAP — the Automated Content Access Protocol — has constantly been positioned by some news executives as a cornerstone to reestablishing the control they feel has been lost over their content. However, the reality is that publishers […]
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Switzerland Suing Google Over Street View Switzerland is taking Google to court over privacy concerns related to Google’s Street View service. The BBC reports that Swiss privacy official Hanspeter Thuer is […]
Many site owners have wanted the recently introduced canonical tag to work across domains. Now their wishes will come true. Google announced cross-domain support will come by the end of the year. The news came out during the Duplicate Content: The Search Engines Edition session at SMX East conference today. Google made the announcement in […]
Search engine optimization involves a lot of moving parts. Audience analysis, content optimization, rankings factors — it can be hard to pinpoint concrete, actionable data. But technical SEO is a little different. It’s certainly not any easier than the other components, but at least the data can be a bit more straightforward. You can check […]
A new feature has appeared in the Site Configuration Settings Sections of Google Webmaster Tools. The setting, called Parameter Handling, enables site owners to specify up to 15 parameters that Google should ignore when crawling and indexing the site. Google lists the parameters they’ve found in the URLs on your site, and indicates whether or […]
Since their infancy, social news sites have been trying to stay one step ahead of social media users trying to artificially promote content to their front page. Digg.com has been the center focus for spamming and gaming in social media because a front-page promoted story equates to thousands of visitors and hundreds, or even thousands […]
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Google Squared Is Now Live Google has pulled the covers off of Squared, the search tool that was first demoed during the Searchology event last month. Google Squared takes a search […]
Imagine that you fired up your computer and found that a bunch of your programs no longer worked, because behind the scenes, the operating system had been upgraded without any backwards compatibility. That’s what happened this week with Google. Some things that were working just fine now are broken, because Google isn’t being backwards compatible. […]
Today is the first day of SMX Advanced 2009 and here is what is turning up in the form of live blogging and coverage from the show. I will continue to update this post with more coverage throughout the day. If you want to notify me of any additional coverage either comment below, send me […]
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: New Google Blog Targets YouTube’s Big Brands & Advertisers Google has launched a new blog, the YouTube Biz Blog, that continues its effort to “help partners and advertisers find a home […]
The DiggBar has been out for about a week now. Since then, there continues to be concerns over twin issues of whether it robs sites of link love and frames their contents in a way that’s unfair to publishers. I had a good conversation with Digg cofounder Kevin Rose today about these issues and how […]
In about two months, Search Engine Land’s SMX Advanced search marketing conference returns to Seattle, running June 2 & 3. Parents are supposed to love their children equally, but I have to confess — of all our SMX events, this is my favorite one. In this post, I want to share more about why and […]
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
A month ago, Google, Yahoo and Microsoft announced they will be supporting a new canonical tag that allows you to tell search engines that page X is a duplicate page to page Z. In a way, it is a 301 redirect, without the physical redirect. The tag is incredibly powerful, as are 301 redirects and […]
Matt Cutts of Google has posted two short videos on the topic of links. One video answers how Google handles links that are 301 redirected and the other video answers how Google handles nofollowed links from authority sources. Here is Matt’s video on 301 redirects where the question asked is does anchor text carry through […]
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
The web is full of duplicate content. Search engines try to index and display the original or “canonical” version. Searchers only want to see one version in results. And site owners worry that if search engines find multiple versions of a page, their link credit will be diluted and they’ll lose ranking. Today, Google, Yahoo […]
The Google Webmaster Central Blog has a post on common questions sent to them about data issues found in Google Webmaster Tools. The short answer that Google gives is that if the data is off, then it might be due to your site being listed in Google as both the www and non-www and also […]
Struggling with duplicate content woes? Google’s done a blog post today to try and provide further advice and guidance. Among the highlights:
SEOmoz released its latest SEO quiz today, which is now getting some buzz as folks poke at the accuracy of the questions. Below, my own spin through the test, which constantly had me disagreeing with many of the "answers," plus some links to more of the chatter about it.