As expected, Google's earnings from first quarter of 2013 are higher over the previous year. The revenue has risen 31% year-over-year, crossing the $13.97 billion mark for the quarter, which was quite an unexpected growth for Google.
Here are the highlights of the latest revenue report:
Google Sites – There's an increase of 18% year-over-year of $7.31 billion and the Google owned sites generated revenue of $8.64 billion.
A Googler, John Mueller asked a question "is it safe to launch a new section of a website with tons of content at once or smaller chunks of the section should be taken at a time"?
Google has given a big speed boost to certain aspects of mobile search. In a latest blog "Making your mobile search faster", team Google is talking about the two new features it has just introduced.
The highly acclaimed project of Google, Google Glass has already created buzz in the market for its amazing features. While the product is already out in the hands of the first explorers, Google has also made the Google Glass user guide available online. The developer documentation is also shared by Google.
If you think that internal website links with exact match keyword anchor text will hurt the ranking of your website, the latest Google Webmaster Help video of Matt Cutts is for you.
The internal website links are believed to help users navigate properly on the website. Too many links with same anchor text are however not going to result in a ranking downgrade.
What will happen to your Gmail account after your death? Do you want to share your Picasa photos, Google Drive documents, and other data stored with Google with everyone even after you die?
If you haven't given these questions a thought yet, the time has come. Google has recently introduced Inactive Account Manager, a feature that will let you plan your digital afterlife. The feature will enable users to opt to delete the data upon their death. It will also let users share their Google date or send it to designated third-parties.
Google Webmaster Help has uploaded an interesting video, targeting on the use of spammy domains.
Matt Cutts is giving a video answer to the question "Can I buy a domain that used to have spam on it and still rank? How can I reset the SEO of that domain?"
Many multinational and multilingual websites are configured to point the visitors to localized pages, on the homepage. This is done via redirects or changing the content that reflects the user's language. The recent Google Webmaster Central Blog introduces the new rel-alternate-hreflang annotation that can be used to specify such homepages. The annotation is supported by Google and Yandex.
Google Webmaster Help has released another video in which Matt Cutts gets down in the weeds of SEO, which is a spam site.
Matt Cutts clarified that even if your web host has a lot of spammy clients, it will not influence the ranking of your website. But, there are some "corner cases" where it gets a little more complicated.
Constantly checking the rankings of your newly created website page is a non-income generating activity because a lot of interesting things happen with your content every day.
Initially, you will see the content ranking well or getting a position in the search engine results, but it might drop after a few weeks. Many SEOs have been looking for an answer to this content ranking puzzle for a long time. Matt Cutts has finally released a video to help you understand what may be happening to the content.
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