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Welcome to the ineedhits Search Engine Marketing blog, where we share the latest search engine and online marketing news, releases, industry trends and great DIY tips and advise.
Happy New Year to one and all! It’s hard to believe it is 2010.
The web is full of predictions about what is going to happen in search for 2010 – some good, some obvious and some way out there. In the past, I have cast my predictions and even managed to get some right.
This year, I thought I would do something different – not what I thought…
Just like they did at the start of 2009, Google has gifted website owners with a PageRank update to start the new year – welcome 2010.
For those of you who follow the little green PR indicator – chances are you’ll have noticed that your PageRank on Google’s toolbar has shifted – hopefully upwards.
Webmasters first noticed some PageRank shifts in mid December 2009 – and as of…
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With 2010 just around the corner, Google remains determined to make it the year of speed.
Real-time results courtesy of Twitter will become more dominant and of course, there is Google’s plan to make the speed of your website a factor in determining your ranking.
Google’s second plan has attracted a lot of interest from our readers, so this post aims to share a few tips on speeding up your…
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Just a month after removing PageRank data from webmaster tools, Google have decided to update their toolbar PageRank values, giving a conflicting message to webmasters.
Here’s the statement Google made when removing PageRank values from their webmaster center:
We’ve been telling people for a long time that they shouldn’t focus on PageRank so much; many site owners seem to think it’s the most important metric for them to…
Google has dropped their PageRank values from the Crawl stats section in Google Webmaster Tools. According to Googler Susan Moskwa, Google have removed the feature because they don’t want webmasters focusing on their PageRank values:
We’ve been telling people for a long time that they shouldn’t focus on PageRank so much; many site owners seem to think it’s the most important metric for them to track, which…
We know how much you all love it when Google updates their PageRank algorithm. Well, here is some more great news to wet your appetite.
There have been whisperings across the web about a new update, which actually comes less than one month after the last one. The May 2009 update took place on May 27th while it is reported that this current update started as early…
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Google’s revealed that the advanced SEO practice of PageRank sculpting will be far less effective as it’s changed the rules on nofollow.
For those of you unfamiliar with the concept of PageRank sculpting, here’s a brief explanation.
Let’s assume we have a web page that carries a Google PageRank of 8. (PageRank is Google’s assessment of a pages importance on a scale of 0 – 10).
If this web…
Google made one final PageRank update for 2008 by updating their toolbar rankings on new years eve! This update applies to the PageRank value shown in the Google toolbar, which is Google’s rating on the popularity of your website.
As we’ve discussed previously, toolbar PageRank values can be a few months old, and can also be different from the live values Google is using right at the…
There has been discussion across various forums this weekend about simultaneous updates taking place over at Google and Yahoo!.
WebmasterWorld members are discussing a possible Yahoo! SERP update, while Google personality Matt Cutts has confirmed a toolbar PageRank update over the weekend.
Google PageRank Update
Google’s PageRank update has now taken place and new PageRank values should be visible in the Google toolbar. Google employee Matt Cutts hinted at the fact…
First Google updated the PageRank toolbar, then a Google ranking update and now they have announced the implementation of some improvements to AdWords.
The improvements center around Quality Score, and is based on the feedback that users and advertisers have provided.
Here are the 3 main improvements that Google will implement.
Quality Score will now be calculated at the time of each search query. This way,…
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