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A new Google penalty? What can you do against it?

admin — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 09:16:27 +0000

Webmasters in online forums reported an unusual Google behavior. New web pages of some sites are indexed with a longer delay. Is it a new Google penalty? Or is it just a bug that affects only certain websites? What is the exact problem? The websites that reported the problem were used to immediate inclusion of their pages [...]

Google founders originally believed search should be non-profit

admin — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 12:40:03 +0000

Google founders originally believed search should be non-profit “All the recent debate about the Google index and newspapers, and Google’s interest (and problems) in indexing out-of-print books, would all be a much different discussion if the Google index were run as a non-profit. And it is rather ironic to note that Larry Page and Sergey Brin, [...]

Bing gains market share

admin — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 12:37:36 +0000

“While Google remains the dominant player among small business advertisers, Yahoo! and Bing (formerly MSN) have gained significant market share since the third quarter of 2008, as much as 5 percent. [...] Additionally, the report shows click-through rates (CTR) improved year over-year across all the engines, with the biggest improvement on Yahoo!, where CTR improved 123 [...]

Google now displays site hierarchies in search results

admin — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 12:36:24 +0000

“Google usually shows a green web address, or URL, at the bottom of each search result to let you know where you’re headed. Today we’re rolling out an improvement that replaces the URL in some search results with a hierarchy showing the precise location of the page on the website. The new display provides valuable [...]

Is Google AdWords Testing a New Local Adwords Display Type?

admin — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 12:34:36 +0000

In July, Google upgraded AdWords to allow advertisers to add the full address to their search ads through location extensions. It appears that they are now testing a new ad layout similar to the one developed for Local Listing Ads. http://blumenthals.com/blog/2009/11/20/is-google-adwords-testing-a-new-local-adwords-display-type/ Tweet This PostYou may also find these posts interesting!A new Google penalty? What can you [...]