Tag: Search

Google City Pages – Company Continues Cranking Out Local Features
Google has launched new city pages for Portland, Austin, San Diego, and Madison, but will continue to add to the list. City Pages are essentially a place users can go and see infor...
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Google on How Instant Pages Affect Analytics
Yesterday, Google introduced Instant Pages (among several other things), which is a new upcoming feature of...
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Google Launches My Places Tab on Google Maps
Google announced the launch of a new tab on Google Maps, called "My Places," which gives users a place where they can see the places they've starred on Google Maps, rated on Google...
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25 Ways to Get Another Site to Link to Yours
This guest post was co-authored by Ken McGaffin and Susan Payton There are many ways to get other sites to link to yours, which helps in boosting your ranking on search...
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Google Illustrates How Mobile Search is Growing
Google held an Inside Search event in San Francisco today, where it unveiled several new search features, including...
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Google Intros New Mobile Search Features
Google had several announcements today at its Inside Search event. Some of them brought features that have been available on mobile to the desktop (such as...
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Google Announces Instant Pages, Loads Results Before You Click
Google made several big search announcements today, including Voice Search for the desktop and...
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Google Adds Descriptive Phrases to Local Search Results
Google has launched a new feature for Google Maps in the US and Great Britain. The feature displays a few words or phrases that attempt to describe what a place is known for. T...
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Google’s Matt Cutts on Why Amazon Often Ranks Well
If you search for products a lot, using Google, there's a fairly good chance you've seen Amazon at or near the top of the results pages quite a few times. Someone sent a question a...
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Could Botnets Inflate Search Engines’ Query Counts?
Gabriel Weinberg, the founder of the DuckDuckGo search engine had an interesting...
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Google Replaces URLs with Site Names on SERPs (In Test)
Google is testing a feature in its search results pages that replaces the URL in a result's snippet with the name of the site on which it appears. So, for example, a WebProNews art...
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Google Looks at Purchasing Habits of Smartphone Users
Google released some interesting stats this week about the purchasing habits of smartphone users, or more specifically, smartphone searchers. This is in the US only, but the study...
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Google Adds New Product Ads for Mobile
Google has launched two styles of product ads for mobile that have previously been available for the desktop: product extension ads and product local ads. "Product Extension Ad...
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Bing for Mobile Gets New Features
Bing has launched some new mobile features, including Facebook sharing, news, maps/list split view, search history, and trending topics. Users can now share images, local busin...
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Ranking Google Ranking Factors By Importance
Rand Fishkin and SEOmoz polled 132 SEO experts with data from over 10,000 Google search results, and have attempted to rank the importance of ranking signals. It's not confirmed fa...
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