Am I the only one who is starting to think Google might have it in for SEOs? I’ve never been one of the tin foil hat brigade who thought the posse up at mountain-view have always been out to get the search industry, but these five recent events have lead me to start to think otherwise.
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Think Insights – Google’s latest research tool
While on the one hand Google is making some forms of data less accessible (*coughSSLsearchcough*), in other areas Google seems intent on making data more accessible and easy to use.
As a part of its ever-expanding Think initiative, Google has now launched Think Insights for the public. Positioned as an “information and resource hub for marketers”, Think Insights provides a wealth of market research, industry trends, and consumer behaviour data in easily digestible forms. (more…)
Google+ For Businesses: What The Industry Thinks (2)
So Google+ has finally launched Google+ for businesses yesterday. We are seeing a lot of businesses adding their pages at the moment, but there is still doubt whether or not Google has rolled out a killing feature or that its just something which should have been there from the start.
We have asked several people in the industry what their thoughts on the new feature are. Below you can find the second part of the responses we’ve had so far. These are all from Facebook.
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Google+ For Businesses: What The Industry Thinks (1)
So Google+ has finally launched Google+ for businesses yesterday. We are seeing a lot of businesses adding their pages at the moment, but there is still doubt whether or not Google has rolled out a killing feature or that its just something which should have been there from the start.
We have asked several people in the industry what their thoughts on the new feature are. Below you can find the first part of the responses we’ve had so far.
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Impact of SSL Search
Google has introduced encrypted search per 17th of October. It rolled out initially on google.com
The introduction of this so called ‘making search more secure‘ strategy caused quite a stir and ongoing discussion takes place here, here and in our own State of Search podcast here.
At the beginning the impact seemed to be in the single digit numbers being about 2%-3%. Last week I started to notice a dramatic increase on these numbers, so I decided to do some historical reporting on the percentiles. (more…)
Finally Google Rolls Out Business Pages: An Overview
It has taken Google a while, but finally it is here: Google+ Pages for Businesses. Yesterday Google officially launched the new Google+ Pages. In the next two days everybody will get access to the feature we have all been waiting for.
We are already seeing a lot of people creating business pages at the moment and a lot of blogs blogging about it, so it doesn’t make sense for us to discuss the same. Instead we will try and give you a quick overview of what has been written and we will highlight a few things. Off course you can also take a look at our very own Google+ Page which we set up as soon as it became available to us. (more…)
Is Google A Monopoly?
The game Monopoly is about one thing: get as much property as you can. Make sure nobody can beat you and make sure that you will earn the most money. In ‘real’ business however that is not allowed. If you become too powerful, they will try to stop you.
Microsoft has had accusations of being a monopolist and now Google is also under fire. But are they really? This infographic might give you an idea. (more…)
Google Showing “Sources” in Preview Area
Another Google Test has been spotted. The preview-section which Google uses on the right hand site of results in the SERPS, is in this test used for a different kind of information: sources.
Meanwhile Google also consists on pushing their own products, especially Google+ and YouTube. There is some nice integration of Plus and Google being rolled out. (more…)
Friday Talk: Marissa Mayer (Google) at WITI Annual Conference
This week we highlight a lady speaker. The most important woman within Google and an example for many women out there when it comes to being successful. Mayer keynoted at the WITI Annual Conference in San Jose. She talks about Google off course, but mostly about management and how that works within Google.
Update: Google Indexing Facebook Comments. Confirmed by Matt Cutts (Google)
Update: Google’s Matt Cutts has confirmed that Google is indexing the comments (see below).
Google seems to be indexing Facebook comments which are used on blogs. The Facebook Comments are setup using Javascript and iFrames which usually should prevent it from being indexed. The website Labnol.org however found some comments on TechCrunch which are indeed being indexed.
Some tests show however that not every comment is being indexed. So far we can see that the profiles that are indexed at least have to be open to the public and permit subscriptions. But even then not every comment is indexed. (more…)
State of Search radioshow – episode 73: Google + in Google Apps; Google Maps API Limitation
Bas and Roy start off with a discussion on their individual SEO training and education from teaching from how to prevent spam to linkbuilding to Google Pagerank. They also discuss how Google + is now made available on Google apps, and the limitations Google is making to their Google Maps API.
You can listen to the session below with the shownotes.
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Google Now Warning You of Duplicate Content in Webmastertools
Google is working on improving Webmastertools. There seems to be more integration with for example Google Analytics and they are delivering more ‘service’ to website owners by handing them information they didn’t ask for.
Yesterday Google announced the latest improvement in that. They are now warning site owners if Google thinks a page is considered to be duplicate content and therefore not showing up in the search results. (more…)
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