A new Google algorithm update designed to pick and choose which queries demand fresher results impacts about 35 percent of searches. Where their Caffeine architecture allows Google to quickly crawl the mass and complex contents of the Web, th.

Google has been diligently working on testing and rolling out new authorship features over the past several weeks. The newest additions give content creators the ability to claim authorship through a simple email verification process an.

To Google, "cloaking refers to the practice of presenting different content or URLs to users and search engines. Serving up different results based on user agent may cause your site to be perceived as deceptive and removed from the Google index." .

Much has been written about Google mobile search ads )Click-to-call, Location Extensions, Ads with Offers and so forth(, so it's time to take a deeper look at mobile ad networks. By 2012, according to eMarketer, 50 percent of mobile device.

This is my first article )of hopefully many( for Search Engine Watch focusing on some technical video SEO topics. Today we'll look at the role of metadata in optimizing video for YouTube based upon my experience in developing a YouTube Channe.

Google is always trying to make ads more relevant to users online. Earlier this week Google released improved transparency. When you search a query in Google today you will see up in the top right corner of the ad "Why these ads?" This system is&n.

Hot on the heels of the popularity around Siri Easter Eggs, Google looks like it is taking a leaf out of Wolfram Alpha's book and bringing some personality quirks to the search engine. Type the phrase "do a barrel roll" )withour quotes( into the.

Twitter has launched a collection of user-contributed stories that showcase just how small the world can become through social media. Five of the currently published Twitter Stories are particularly inspirational for marketers looking for new and .

A year ago, in the Firefox 4 announcement, Mozilla officially included Bing as an option in the search bar. This, if you recall, was nearly a year after Mozilla recommended you use Bing over Google. Last week, Mozilla and Bing teamed up to .

In a previous article I gave an introduction to algorithm testing. Tests that had been running when I wrote that article have now been concluded and today I'd like to present some remarkable conclusions. Test Setup We needed full control.

Think of your Facebook ads as a 100-year-old man running a marathon. Unless they're this guy, the fatigue kicks in the second they go. Ad fatigue is the most common problem in Facebook advertising, so you need to stock-pile multiple good i.

In this series on advanced PPC optimization techniques for adCenter, we've already covered a variety of ways to improve campaign performance, including negative keywords, bidding by match type, and filling the gaps in matching. Today, we're going .

Sina Weibo confirmed that it has launched a real time search engine that allows people to search from a wide range of categories - posts, users, events, groups, votes, and apps. While Baidu is the search giant in China, microblog Sina Weib.

While Google avoids direct political commentary on candidates, their search algorithms aren't always so kind. In the bid the the Republican ticket, two candidates face troubles: Romney "can't win" and Santorum faces a crappier problem. Romney's .

In addition to its Partner and Certified Partner programs, Google AdWords is now releasing a Premier SMB Partner )PSP( program that connects small- to medium-sized business owners with established advertising firms specializing in AdWords. The P.

Any site or app using the Google Maps API )such as through embedded maps( may be charged for usage, should their visitor volume be high enough. Google will charge $4 for every 1,000 visitors past 25,000, starting January 1, 2012. NMA reported Go.

The Locations Targeting interface is getting a makeover in AdWords. This comes as a move by Google to improve the the overall experience of their advertisers. Google is trying to make it easier for advertisers to navigate and obtain more detail on.

Google's search robot has been improved; it can now read and understand certain dynamic comments implemented through AJAX and JavaScript. This includes Facebook comments left through services like the Facebook social plugin. As first noted by Di.

Exactly 6 months ago, we re-designed and re-branded Search Engine Watch to the site you see today. The ultimate aim of the project was to create a more attractive and engaging website that showed off all the great content we have and make it easie.

A post on Google's Webmaster Central Blog offers information on preventing cross-domain URL issues and announces a new notifications feature for webmasters. If their algorithms choose to index a URL outside of your site, they will attempt to.