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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 advice.
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Yahoo has obviously taken some inspiration from their competitor Google with their recent search engine results redesign.
Yahoo recently announced that they have released a brand new look that was intended to capture a more modern appearance. Individuals everywhere agree that the search result redesign looks an awful lot like Google’s search results. It has also been noted that both the page and the search …
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A new deal between Google and the European Union will not only kept the search engine company from seeing huge antitrust suits but it will also likely keep the consumer watchdogs off their back.
Many competitors have claimed that Google is abusing its dominant market share position across Europe. Now that Google has finally agreed to settle this matter with the EU, many other competitors …
Understandably when you search for something online there are those websites that you just don’t want popping up in your results. It would be fantastic if you had some type of control over that no matter what you were searching for.
There once was a feature on Google when you searched for something that would let you block certain websites. This is no longer the …
Searchers in the US using Google may have noticed a change in the layout of search result pages. The layout now has a simpler and cleaner design that allows users to quickly hone in on the information they are searching for. This simplified layout now works on a variety of devices including phones, tablets and personal computers. Until now, when users searched Google, the layout …
Back in January this year Google announced a change to the way it analyzes websites and how they place them within their search results. The new algorithm places emphasis on content which is “above the fold”. What this means is that Google is looking more at the content a reader sees without having to scroll down the page.
This was the initial launch of the …
Did you notice the update that Google rolled- out early last week? According to Google it was their 20th Panda algorithm update and it was big news with as many as 2.4% of all English search queries being impacted, with a smaller 0.5% of all other language search results.
We first heard news of this update when Google pushed out an exact match domain update …
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Did you notice the Google algorithm update last week?
It was released last Friday (14th September) with very little fanfare. It wasn’t as serious as a Panda or Penguin update, but webmasters still found it had quite an effect on their rankings.
Here is some of the chatter from a WebmasterWorld forum post on the topic:
We saw a 50% increase in our Google referrals
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Google human search quality raters have the enviable tasks of reviewing Google’s search results and the quality of the web pages that rank well in its algorithm. The Quality Raters’ work has become more widely known over the years thanks to a couple occasions when the guideline document that Google provides as part of their work has been leaked online.
And the leaking has begun …
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It appears that Google is changing how often your brand appears in the search results – reducing from 10 listings to 7.
Traditionally, when searching for a website, there would be 10 listing appears on the 1st page, however it seems that Google is testing reducing this to 7 listing. SEO professionals have measured a top 10 ranking as a website being on the 1st …
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This is a warning to any webmasters or online marketers who continue to block Googlebot from crawling their website pages – this will now be reflected in the search results and could impact your click-through success.
Google has a rolled out a new search feature that informs users when a site has blocked Googlebot from crawling a page or page elements since there is no …
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