Previously when a user was logged into Google all search results were tailored to the user. When logged out all users from a country were displayed the same results. This is no more. From now on, Google looks at the past 180 days of your search activity a displays search results tailored to that search [...]
Google has just launched their own free public DNS servers, this will help speed up your internet browsing. You can find out how to configure your machine to use them here. I’ve always used OpenDNS servers which are very good, it will be interesting to see how they compare to the new Google DNS Servers.
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Google made some changes to it’s homepage today. These were based on user testing and I’m sure will result in increased “conversions” of users into searches.
Google has recently added links to their first place horizontal ads. These links are similar to natural search site links. You can control what the text is and the destination URLs for them. We are receiving a 30% lower bounce rate using these ads.
Enjoy.
Google updated toolbar pagerank yesterday, made many sites authority and dropped some site penalties the week before.
Google has just released a tool which allows you to markup search results to look even better.
http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/richsnippets
Enjoy.
When adding some Google Analytics tracking codes today I noticed that there are some new options and features available when selecting the code. Take a look below;
The most interesting option is the checkbox for tracking adwords campaigns which then prompts you to link your analytics account with your adwords account.
Enjoy.
Google has recently launched a new news application called Google Fast Flip, you can take a look. It allows you to leaf and flip through different new sites enabling you to take a quick look at a range of news sources. These sources are shown by a range of categories such as most recent, most [...]
There is a simple way to auto bookmark your blog posts in dozens of bookmarking sites. If you have a decent auto tagging plugin in your blog together with the auto bookmark system the blog can become a very powerful SEO addition to any website.
To get this system up and running you will need.
1. Only [...]
Has not been rolled out yet but you can test it.
http://www2.sandbox.google.com
All my sites are still ranking, genius. The search suggest feature is very very fast and much more useful. …. Definately an opportunity there to SPAM the engine with searches and manipulate Google Suggest.
Enjoy.