Former AdMob executive Jason Spero, who is now Google’s head of mobile sales, took the stage earlier today at the Mobile World Congress event in Barcelona to offer up some new,global smartphone user survey data and 2012 predictions. The Google-sponsored survey had a sample size of roughly 1,000 respondents in each of the represented countries: US, [...]
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The battle between Google and those trying to artificially manipulate its search results is an ongoing battle. Google on March 19th took down one of those blog/link networks named BuildMyRank.com. BuildMyRank.com confirmed Google has deindexed an “overwhelming majority” of their network as of March 19, 2012. The management of BuildMyRank.com has decided to immediately shut down their [...]
Read MoreGoogle has confirmed a new Panda update. One year ago, Google launched its “Panda Update” designed to filter low quality or “thin” content from its top search results. Panda 3.3 Update Here’s what Google says about its latest Panda-related change: Panda update. This launch refreshes data in the Panda system, making it more accurate and [...]
Read MoreThe Google search blog announced 40 search updates that are happening this month. From the Google Blog… This month we have many improvements to celebrate. With 40 changes reported, that marks a new record for our monthly series on search quality. Most of the updates rolled out earlier this month, and a handful are actually [...]
Read MoreWhat is Google+? It is Google’s latest attempt in gaining some market share in the social network area. Here is how Google explains the new service: We realize that today people are increasingly connecting with one another on the web. But the ways in which we connect online are limited and don’t mimic our real-life [...]
Read MoreHave you ever wanted an easy way to find a specific official Google Twitter account/feed? In April of last year, Google released a Google Twitter directory which contains a browsable directory of all the official Google accounts. You can filter the directory by category, language and region. In 2009, Google tried to simply list them [...]
Read MoreGoogle’s mobile ad network AdMob is releasing a number of staggering statistics today as the network begins its first full year under the Google umbrella. Google says that AdMob is receiving 2 billion ad requests per day, a data point which has quadrupled over the past year. To put that in perspective, as of May [...]
Read MoreGoogle announced that they are able to index and use “almost any text a user can see as they interact with a SWF file on your site.” In the past, it was always known Google could not read flash files and interpreted them as images, so if you had text in the all flash site, [...]
Read MoreIn talking about Google Instant, Matt Cutts from Google addressed the question again about if SEO would be around in 5 years. Q: Does Google Instant kill search engine optimization (SEO)? A: No! Almost every new change at Google generates the question “Will X kill SEO?” Here’s an video I did last year, but it [...]
Read More legal seoAs some of you might have noticed already, when you do a search at Google, the results change every letter you type in. This is the new Google Instant and another example of Google being ahead of the game. Not everyone is liking it so far and you can easily turn it off by clicking [...]
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