03.May.2010 Do Sitemaps Help Your Google PageRank
With the millions and millions of websites in existence today, how do you get yours noticed? The most common way is for it to be high up in the rankings of useful and relevant websites. Google is the most widely used search engine today. When someone keys in a search term on Google, you can [...]
29.Apr.2010 Google Starts Displaying Pages Similar to Search Results
Google has just launched a new search feature that aims to help you easily find new websites that are similar to the ones you are familiar with and are related to the subject that interest you, particularly for your current search session.
The new feature called “Pages similar ” makes the Google search feature “similar” more [...]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, April 28, 2010
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
From Search Engine Land:
Google To Phase Out Old Keyword Tool In Exchange For New Version
If you try to access Google’s external keyword tool, you may notice that you are sent to the new keyword tool Google [...]
Google Upgrades Mobile Image Search
Another day, another new and/or improved search tool from Google. Yesterday it was an improved mobile version of Place Pages, and today’s announcement is an upgrade to Google’s mobile image search for iPhones and Android devices.
The changes include showing square thumbnails to maximize the number that appear after a search, swipe-based navigation (like iPhone users [...]
Do other search engines matter, or just Google?
In a recent conversation with a client, I was asked: “Does it really matter if I buy ad space in Bing and Yahoo! search results? Doesn’t everyone just use Google?”
This got me thinking. In terms of organic search, following SEO best practice will help you rank in other search engines and not just the mighty [...]
18.Nov.2009 Google URLs replaced with breadcrumb links in search results
Google has announced this morning that for certain queries they will be showing site hierarchies in the search results rather than URL’s string. On first inspection I don’t like the system because in all the examples Google has provided the keyword rich product URL is removed and replaced with a more generic category level keyword.
For [...]
17.Nov.2009 Google Image Swirl. It is new and it is fun!
After graduating the feature “Find Similar Images” in Google Labs, here’s a new experiment on finding and exploring images being offered by Google – Image Swirls. The idea behind Google Swirl is similar to the “Wonder Wheel” options that was recently introduced in Google Search Panel.
05.Nov.2009 An article and a video about Google Dashboard
If you have been using internet for a while then its very likely that you use quite a number of Google services. For instance, my net life is purely surrounded by Google – starting from my email (Gmail), IM (Google Talk), documents (Google Docs), search (Google Serch), photos (Picasa), Feeds (Google Reader), Calendar (Google Calendar), [...]
