Google recently announced an upcoming Chrome-only feature to their search engine results: Google Instant Pages. With Instant Pages the first search result will actually pre-render in the background, so when you click on it the page appears to load instantly. This upcoming feature offers benefits to users, but also has SEO implications if it becomes well known.
YouTube is the second largest search engine in the world, and video is an ever increasing component of SEO, with video results often outranking standard web results. Video XML sitemaps are one way to optimize your video content and help get it ranked in Google.
At the SMX Advanced conference recently Google’s Matt Cutts said that a new change to the Google Panda algorithm has recently been approved and will be going live soon. This new change is targeted at scraper sites, which sometimes outrank the original sites whose content they’re stealing.
In a surprising turn of events, new sources have just revealed that Facebook hired a top public relations firm to secretly launch a PR smear campaign against Google’s Social Circles in an attempt to raise privacy concerns — privacy concerns whose source is information that Facebook deliberately makes public to search engines.
Google has announced the new Google Chromebook — a notebook computer that will release to the consumer market on June 15th in direct competition with notebooks… only it’s not really a computer. It’s a computer-looking device that only does one thing: run Google chrome.
