Whether searching for a bakery store near house or a pizza outlet near office, people want quick, relevant, and useful results from Google Maps. Relevant commercial listings have not only added useful information to Google Maps, but have also helped businesses in connecting with the customers.
Google+ Gets a New Look with Bigger & Better Images!
Google will soon be rolling out big changes for the Google+ platform. The first to make their debut are; the bigger size of cover photo and photo features like "auto awesome" & "auto enhance". Google ...
More than Half of the Mobile Phone Searches Turn to Conversions in 1 Hour!
The Mobile Search Moments report by Google and Nielsen reveals that when consumers search for the things on their mobile phones, half of them usually intend to buy it. The report looks at: When and why people ...
Interflora ban lifted: What exactly happened?
The over-publicized Google ban on the site Interflora was removed on 3rd March. It is very strange that Google has not yet commented on this particular ban. Usually, they have been outspoken and upfront about ...
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AdWords Express, the Google's AdWords product for small businesses has recently undergone an interface makeover. Redesigned dashboard is one of the prominent interface updates that show:
- An at-a-glance look at the ad views (impressions)
- Pie chart that tracks budget expenses, on monthly basis
- Clicks and calls generated
The new performance graph in the AdWords Express will allow advertisers to compare different results over the time.
Google will soon be rolling out big changes for the Google+ platform. The first to make their debut are; the bigger size of cover photo and photo features like "auto awesome" & "auto enhance". Google aims at delivering a modernized stream and an enhanced social discovery experience to its over 190 million active users.
At times, searchers see multiple results from same domain in their search results. What is the reason behind?
Matt Cutts in the latest video gave an answer to:
Why does Google continue to present multiple results from one domain on a search result? (Does it really benefit the user to have 7 results from Yelp?)
Google has unveiled Google Maps with a brand new look. "A mapping experience that will help you in finding places you might have not ever thought of search for", is what Google has to say about the New Google Maps.
Starting today, the new Google Maps will be available for general public. Let's have a closer look at the features of the improved Google Maps:
After giving several continuous warnings about Google's plans to act strictly against spamming, the search giant has finally acted against another link network.
Matt Cutts, head of Google's webspam team in his tweets said that Google has acted against "several thousand" link sellers, a part of link network that was involved in buying and selling of links to pass PageRank.
Amit Singhal, Senior VP of Search in Google announced that Google's Knowledge Graph will start showing more statistics as graphs on the search result pages from today. Moreover, Google has added Turkish, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, and Polish as supported Knowledge Graph languages.
Knowledge Graph already supports English and eight other languages – Italian, Korean, French, German, Portuguese, Spanish, Russian, and Japanese.
You can now have you company's logo appear in Google search results in the same way how authors display their pictures. The schema.org "Organization markup" feature announced by Google can be used to have your preferred logo displayed in results.
Businesses can add the markup by using the visible on-page elements on the homepage of their website www.example.com following way:
<div itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Organization">
Matt Cutts in the latest video has clarified that Black Hat & Link Spammers have lesser chances of showing up in search results after summer.
Matt addressed 10 points in his answer to the question, "What should we expect in the next few months in terms of SEO for Google?"
Let's take a quick look at the suggestions Matt has given to improve search results.
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