A possible new update to the way Google displays search results might break all of your website tracking software and statistics – are you prepared? There’s been a backlash in the last couple of weeks against a possible update to the way Google displays search results and Google has admitted to testing AJAX-formatted search results. […]
PageRank: the name of Google’s system of assessing every web page a score, from 0-10, indicating that page’s importance. Any score is good, and only sites like Wikipedia and CNN are unable to attain a 9/10 or 10/10. So unlike with most other scales, a 5/10 or a 6/10 is very good. A particular web […]
Google made an announcement last week that they are now able to (mostly) read text in PDF files. What does this mean, you ask? Google already indexes PDF files! Yes, but before they had to be PDF versions of files that were digital to begin with (like Word documents). Now, however, any document that’s been […]
Google claims to have made progress with their algorithm’s ability to crawl, understand and index web pages with dynamic URLs. In the past Google, and most search engines, have had difficulty crawling and indexing pages on the Web with dynamic URLs so the recommendation from an SEO standpoint has long been to use what’s called […]
Google’s satellite, a proprietary satellite launched with Geo-Eye, has entered orbit. It’s apparently not the most advanced but will be merging its imagery with other satellite imagery to create single high-resolution images through a process referred to as “pan-sharpening.” More on the deal here. You may be thinking ‘wow, there’s got to be a lot […]
Google’s Comic about its Chrome browser by Scott McCloud Google announced the existence of its new open source project: a web browser, dubbed Chrome, to compete with Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari and Opera (and whatever else people are using to view the web these days). It’s a crowded market and despite being Google, they’ll have […]
Google has released a new tool allowing for even more exploration of specific keyword information. Google Insights for Search allows users to see search volume, seasonality, geographic distribution and much more for specific keyword phrases going back as far as 2004. For anyone who’s ever needed to know weather it’s better to target one phrase […]
A couple of days ago Adobe officially announced that they had created a way for Google and Yahoo (sorry, Microsoft) to read all of the content inside Flash animations on the Web. Is this really the end of SEO people nagging everyone to avoid Flash or at the least relegate it to only graphics? Unfortunately […]
So many details provided in this image…look at all that gear! Pictured is one of the cars Google outfits for its Street View feature on Maps, where you can get a ground-level view of certain areas of the U.S. It appears that Google uses Toyota Prius Hybrids in this effort, which is better for everyone…except […]
A bit ahead of its originally-stated launch date of June 15th, Google has begun taking how fast or slow your website or landing page loads as a significant factor in determining ranking for pay-per-click campaigns on AdWords. You can see your ad or ad groups’ load time grades form within AdWords. Tons of more info […]