Google’s Search Query reports showing wrong data: Thousands missing in numbers!
So, yesterday Google updated the Google Webmaster’s tool with a nice little improvement to the search query report. Sitting under Your site on the web > Search queries menu, this tool now shows more than 2000 queries, let’s you download the search query data programmatically and shows all the (read entire) search data to your website [...]
Think Klout sucks? Try Klouchebag, Its fun.
Klout is undoubtedly the leader in measuring social influence on the web. A great app that does some really cool things with your social data. However, its difficult to comprehend how it works and the ratings are speculative. There are many grey areas in their algorithm (which I guess they admit as well), but clearly there’s a lot of effort [...]
Google’s update is called “Penguin”, but the Wire Cutter?
So far, there are no official declarations or tweets from Google (Writing this at 5pm PST), but Danny Sullivan claims that the latest Google update is called “Penguin” within Google. WebPronews reports that the only evidence we have is a picture Matt Cutts tweeted, a while back. No word from Matt yet, though. It could be a joke, a hint [...]
Updates from Google this week you need to know about
So, this week was pretty active. With Google rolling out its updates and people complaining about losing and gaining traffic, there was lot of hub-bub over the changes. Google kept us busy with couple of product launches as well – which added to the excitement. So, what happened in Search Marketing last week? Google Drive launched on April [...]
Do Interstitial Ads affect SEO? Is Google favoring the biggies?
We’ve all come across it. You click on a very reputed site’s link from Google results and while at the site, before the actual content the ad pops up (actually fills up) and you got to click some tiny “x” somewhere there to move further ahead that it almost becomes a mini game in itself. So, there are technically two parts to the whole [...]
WTF is a “High Quality Site”, Google?
If you have noticed Google’s official blog or press releases, you will notice that they keep repeating certain phrases time and again, never really bothering to explain what exactly it means. They sure give you hints and pointers but never the beef. It looks like “High Quality Content” tops the charts of the most used phrases from Google. [...]
What Google’s New Update means to websites
It looks like, Google has updated its algorithms significantly recently (Apr 24), and webmasters are as usual, looking very agitated. SEO forums are reporting ups and downs in traffic, but these are not sure signals at the moment, as anything solid can only be seen over the coming days. Google’s new update is all about fighting webspam this [...]
Google Wallet now available on more Android phones
Just when we thought that Google Wallet is getting no where comes the news that Google has decided to open it up to more devices. Earlier, there were several criticisms on Google Wallet being restricted to Google’s own Nexus phone and not being of any particular help to “regular folks”. Now, Google Wallet is available on three new phones [...]
10 Free SEO Tips from Search Engine Experts
Be very cautious whom you take SEO advice from. There are several free tips and resources out there on the web that one cannot figure out which one to rely on. Implementing SEO advices is easy, after all, it’s a small tweak here and another there – is it not? Wrong. Professional SEOs who’re serious with their stuff will always study [...]
Combine Google Analytics with SEO Data
Using Google Analytics to analyze your SEO performance is probably the most easy and significant way to evaluate your SEO efforts. With an overwhelming amount of data flowing through the backlink channels and pages, its tough but inevitable to measure every little detail of things like where most referrals come from, which backlink sent you [...]