In a startling move, Google will be hiding organic search query information from webmaster from users who are logged into Google. This information will still be passed along to paying Adwords customers, crushing Google’s claims that this move is being made for privacy reasons.
The meta keywords tag has long been thought dead by SEO professionals: modern search engines ignore it and Google has always ignored it. The SEO community was surprised then by a statement from Bing that the meta keywords tag is a signal. Now we learn that while it is a signal, it’s only a spam signal, not a ranking signal.
The Google +1 button is now showing on Google display network ads, and the +1 is tied to the landing page the ad is linking to, rather than the ad itself. This means you can leverage +1s to your site to improve the performance of your ads.
ComScore’s September search market data shows that Google has expanded its share of the search market at the expense of Yahoo, whose share fell to all time record lows for the company.
Google+ is solidifying their status as the fastest growing social network in history, passing 50 million users in just 3 months — of which they’ve been open to the public for less than 2 weeks. It took Facebook over 3 years to reach the 50 million mark.
