While Google has been hinting at publicly revealing a massive revamp to maps section at the upcoming I/O Conference this week in San Francisco, it appears that a local listings makeover in Google universal results is already starting to get rolled out, or at least tested to gauge reaction.
Doing searches specifically in Google Chrome now yields Read more →
Yesterday, Gawker Media owner Nick Denton sent out a memo to all staff notifying them that they must limit their headline character count to 70 or less in direct relation to the site’s ability to rank in Google. The memo Read more →
The idea of tying content published online to a verified author and applying a trust factor to that author’s expertise as a way of identifying trusted – commonly referred to as Authorship and AuthorRank – has long been discussed as a potential algorithm game changer within the search engine optimization industry. Until now though, this has been purely Read more →
Back in the old days, things were simple: you entered a search query, it returned a page of results, and you could rest easy in the knowledge that all across the country, other people doing the same exact search were seeing the same exact results page. Read more →
Today Google launched an experiment adding a link to share URLs directly from the Google search engine results page (SERP) to your Google+ stream. On Google Product Manager Sean Liu’s Google+ profile, he had this to say on the experiment: Read more →
Google rolled out its new Google+ Local feature on May 30, 2012, announcing that it would replace Google Places as the new platform for local business listings. Upon launch, over 80 million Google Place pages were automatically converted to Google+ Local pages.
Although the differences between a Google Place page and a Google+ Local page are primarily cosmetic at the moment, there are some changes Read more →
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