Google’s Matt Cutts Lobbying To Reward Secure Sites With Better Rankings

Rolfe Winkler on the Wall Street Journal blog reports on “private conversations” that Google’s head of search spam, Matt Cutts has within Google about rewarding sites with higher rankings in the search results that have better security. This is news that has come out of SMX West,…

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Google: News Sites May Have Seen A Decline In GoogleBot Crawling In March

Google’s Matt Cutts tweeted that news related sites, such as this one, may have noticed a drop in the crawl statistics within Google Webmaster Tools. If you did notice that drop, Matt says you do not need to worry. Google News added if-modified-since support in March, which would be the…

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SearchCap: Google: News Sites May Have Seen A Decline In GoogleBot Crawling In March

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Google: News Sites May Have Seen A Decline In GoogleBot Crawling In March Google’s Matt Cutts tweeted that news related sites, such as this one, may have…

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For Product Brands, Consider Paid Search Ads On Retailers’ Sites Instead

Last year, Google made what was to some a surprising announcement: its previously free Google Product Search would become Google Shopping, which would ask a fee of product brands and retailers that wanted to be included in new Product Listing Ads. I can’t say that I disagree with…

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Study: Google Adds 1,200 Search Sites & 750 ISP Client Networks In Less Than A Year

A study published by researchers at the University of Southern California unintentionally discovered Google has dramatically increased the number of sites and ISPs it uses to serve client queries. According to the findings, between October 2012 and July 2013, Google increased the number of…

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