Archive for the ‘Google’ Category

Following in the footsteps of Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and others, Google has officially launched the +1 button, which allows users to recommend web content to other users.

Agreed-upon SEO factors in determining whether a website soars or sinks in Google.

As announced on its blog last week, Bing has tweaked its search to display more personal results based on location and past search history.

Google recently introduced Place Search, a dramatic, new way to display local search results. This change is likely to have a significant impact on local SEO.

One tool to help you track the success of your SEO efforts is Google Analytics, a free web analytics service allows you to view all sorts of insights into your website.

Google Instant is intended to help save searchers time. However, the new feature has many of us in the search industry wondering just how it will impact SEO.

Google Maps/Places now support the display of rich snippets, or rich data such as reviews, people and events to add more context to local search results.

With a Google Places listing for your business, you have a valuable opportunity to inform prospective customers about what your business has to offer.

This week: Google Instant launches; Facebook usages surpasses Google and Yahoo usage in U.S.; and Mozilla Firefox 4.0 Beta lets users “visualize sound.”

This week: Sponsored Google Maps Icons Testing in the U.S.; Google Simplifies Finding Blogs in Google.com Search; Yahoo Adds Geographically Based Suggestions to Search Assist