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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.
Bing revealed that of all the searches on Bing, people searches account for 10 percent, which is the second highest percentage after navigational queries. Keeping this in account, Bing has updated Bing Snapshot with people autosuggest feature. It will provide searchers with the thumbnail image and a brief description of the individuals related to the people searches.
Google has announced a new feature for Google+ that will allow mobile sites to drive more traffic to other articles and not just the ones that they are currently displaying on their website. The new feature is a mix of Google Search and Google+, that feed appropriate content on the basis of recommendations earned from social media service Google+.
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