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How To Add A User To Google Webmaster Tools
Since Google launched the ability to add a user to Google Webmaster Tools just by adding an email address to the account, I have spent a fair amount of time explaining how to do this simple process to clients. I am writing this so I can just send them this URL, as well as to […]
Google Crawl Rate Goes Through The Roof
Google has been playing some crazy games over the past couple of weeks and this morning Webmaster Tools delivered another surprise. Crawl rates have gone through the roof. Here are some sample screenshots: So far I haven’t seen a commensurate change in traffic and this is definitely not happening to some link-poor sites that I […]
What’s Your Average Click Through Rate From Google?
Google Webmaster Tools recently released a very cool feature in the Top Search Queries report: Clickthrough Rate Now you can see not only which keywords generate the most impressions on Google for your domain, but also what the CTR of each keyword is. Even cooler is you can get a sense of what your overall […]
Real Time Search Ranking Factors #SMX
The most interesting info in the Real Time Search panel at SMX is how each of the engines looks at RTS data algorithmically and how it contributes to ranking in Web search results. Some real-time blogging: From BING: Sean Suchter The major types of data they look at in the real time search stream: Meta […]
Has Google 404’d @MattCutts?
Google recommends that If you no longer sell a product, serve a 404. Imagine my surprise when I checked out the Google Profiles home page and clicked on the “Matt Cutts” link only to get: Is Google trying to tell us something?
How To Find a Domain’s # of Indexed Pages In Google Post-Caffeine
In the olden days, as in before this week, you used to be able to get an idea of how many pages you had in Google’s index by searching “site:<yourdomain>”. The resulting page would say something like “results 1-10 of 1,390,000” which while not entirely accurate gave you a general idea of how well indexed […]
Google Social Search Not Very Local Yet
I just checked out Google’s new Social Search experiment. The idea is that Google can index information from your social network and display relevant content in your search results. For more detail read Danny Sullivan’s post on the launch. Here’s Danny’s summary scenario on how the system could work: Google sees I have a friend […]
IYP SEO Rankings Report 2009
National IYPs (Internet Yellow Pages) have long been amongst the biggest benefactors of organic search engine traffic. The typical IYP has north of 15MM business listings. Add category pages, city pages, reviews, maps, etc and you are easily looking at a 50MM+ page site with a huge amount of high value & high volume keyword […]
Jason Calacanis Starts Local Search Conference: Local Search Summit
Actually this conference was Steve Espinosa’s brainchild but he has brought in a bunch of luminaries including Greg Sterling, Atif Rafik of Yahoo Local & Steve Stukenborg of Google TV. There will be a number of other local search rock stars including David Mihm, Will Scott, Gib Olander of Localeze, Mike Boland of the Kelsey […]