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Blogroll Algorithm and PageRank Update
Blogroll Algorithm Update
The blogroll algorithm that is in charge of detecting and indexing blogroll information for Google Blog Search has at last arrived about a week ago. This update primarily deals with how links to blogs are counted if they come from a blogroll.
Googler Jeremy Hylton explains,
We have launched a ranking change that reduces [...]
Google’s Interest-Based Advertising (Beta)
In light (at least partially) of Yahoo’s new targeting features that were announced earlier this month, Google is quickly following suit in a post made by the VP of Product Management, Susan Wojcicki. According to the post,
We think we can make online advertising even more relevant and useful by using additional information about the websites [...]
Search Share Down For Google, Up for Yahoo
A recent press release was published by comScore, a leading Internet marketing research company, with a breakdown of the U.S. search market share among the major search engines.
This report focuses on the market share for January and compares it to the previous month, and indicates that Google has lost some market share while Yahoo [...]
Link Tag Gets Canonical Relationship Attribute
A couple of days ago, the big three GYM search engines (Google, Yahoo, Microsoft Live) announced their united support towards the new relationship attribute “canonical.”
This tag was created to better manage duplicate content that is generated by multiple URLs pointing to the same page - a common situation for large sites that automatically [...]
“Did You Mean…” No, I Didn’t.
After two weeks of running the “Did you mean” feature by default on Google, SEOs, webmasters, and searchers alike are finding the “enhanced” option to be irrelevant and even cumbersome.
The “Did you mean” feature was initially implemented with the goal of helping searchers find what they’re really looking for, by suggesting alternate search queries. [...]
