Have any query regarding Google Maps or Google Places, then tune into expert speak with the Google+ Help Desk Hangout On Air. This was announced on the Google Places Help forums where you can find answers to all your Google Maps and Google Places in a video posted by the Google experts.
Did you find the insights helpful? Do share your views.
Google CEO Larry Page has entered the second year of heading the search engine giant and threw light on his plans for the company’s future in his address- Google 2012 Update.
Google has made 50 changes to search in the month of March 2012, as was announced by Google. These search insights follow the announcements of search updates that were made in February.
Google has launched a new ‘Account Activity’ dashboard that allows people to ‘step back and review’ their online activity. This tool requires users to sign up for it and keeps a log of user activity performed on all Google’s products. In a blog post Google explained that this tool will provide users with a password-protected monthly report of their activity.
In a sort of public interest announcement, Google's Matt Cutts posted a video asking site owners, webmasters and search engine optimization professionals to ‘not’ block the GoogleBot from accessing their CSS and JavaScript files. As per Matt Cutts, this ‘unblocking’ is necessary to allow Google to crawl better and to judge your site better. This will eventually help them show better search results to the user.
Google, continuing on its battle against spammy link/blog networks, has taken down BuildMyRank. Along with the blog network, the sites linking with it have also been penalized and some deindexed by Google completely. This was confirmed by BuildMyRank.com and they have shut shop completely. They are now working through refunds to clients and payments to affiliates. Folks at BuildMyRank.com said, "in our wildest dreams, there’s no way we could have imagined this happening." But their downfall has been accepted by the search industry as another spam center being ‘nuked’ by Google. Matt Cutts responded on Twitter.
The Panda is on the move and this time, Google has announced the update as it is happening. The ongoing updates to the Panda algorithm have been made on the popular social platform – Twitter. The Panda 3.4 being rolled as we speak is targeting low-quality websites, and a total of 1.6% of queries will be affected by the update (as Tweeted by Google).
Google has added a new status insights icon to AdWords. Now users will be able to see the approval status and potential policy limitations for each individual ad creative. So, users can now easily know which of their ads were approved, which were not, and also why they were not approved. The new feature will be useful for people placing ads in restricted categories of the company’s advertising policies.
This is one big news – for the search industry. The Firefox browser used by 25% of internet users is going to use Google’s secure search by default. This means users are better secured as nobody except Google will know what they are searching for.
Google’s Susan Moskwa has posted on her Google+ page, some useful insights on geo-specific information and language based optimization. Read on to know how Google handles certain elements of it.
Q: Can you show some examples of sites using hreflang?
@pagetraffic
