Google’s Panda algorithm change hit about a month ago with major changes to search results. Now they are making another significant change by including data from the Google Chrome browser about blocked sites as a ranking signal. Now if enough users block a site through Chrome, that site could rank lower for all searches.
In 2006, AOL leaked search data of over 35 million search queries, including exactly how many people clicked on search results based on the ranking. This data has become the most commonly quoted statistics for Google click distribution — even though it did not come from Google results. Today we take a look at this AOL data, and the areas in which Google click distribution is probably different from this 5 years old AOL data.
One of the most frequent questions were hear from people just learning about SEO is “will paid links help my site?” Find out what Google has to say on the subject of paid links, and what the exceptions to Google’s policy really are.
In exciting news from Google AdWords, Google has rolled out their newest product: the Google Blimp, or gBlimp slated to be released in May. Soon you’ll be seeing the gBlimp flying over your city, displaying AdWords to an even larger audience than before. Google claims that it not only takes your ads to new heights, …
Google settles with the FTC over Google Buzz privacy concerns, and agrees to an independent privacy review every two years, and must obtain explicit consent before sharing user information.
