Search In Pics: SEO Ranking Cake, Google Christmas Carols & Glass Holiday Card

In this week’s Search In Pictures, here are the latest images culled from the web, showing what people eat at the search engine companies, how they play, who they meet, where they speak, what toys they have, and more. SEO Cake For Ranking Number One: Source: Google+ Google Toy Making Party:…

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Yandex To Stop Counting Links As A Ranking Factor For Commercial Queries In Moscow

Leading Russian search engine Yandex is to cease attributing any ranking factor value to links for commercial queries in its Moscow regional results, it announced yesterday to an audience in Moscow thus opening the door to a world after links. Alexander Sadovsky, who is the Head of Web Search at…

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Bing SEO Ranking Factors 2013 Study By SearchMetrics

Searchmetrics has released their SEO ranking factors for Bing, Microsoft’s search engine, today. Similar to their Google ranking factors, Searchmetrics analyzed 10,000 popular keywords and 300,000 websites appearing in the top 30 search results and looked at how various factors correlated…

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Study Shows No Clear Evidence That Google Plus Drives Ranking

At SMX Advanced, I presented results from a study we had done that convinced me that links in shares from Google Plus and Facebook behave like traditional web-based links. My statements at SMX Advanced were later disputed by Matt Cutts during his keynote interview by Danny Sullivan, leading to a…

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