Posted by Cyrus-Shepard Every two years, Moz runs a scientific correlation study to discover the qualities of web pages that have a strong association with ranking highly in Google. This year, for the first time, Dr. Matt Peters and the Moz Data Science Team measured the correlation between Google +1s and higher rankings

There has always been a lot of talk about page speed and Google rankings. There are several tools that Google has for documenting page speed and improving it. Google even has the features in Google Analytics and had it in Webmaster Tools…

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today…

Twitter is attempting to add more background information to popular tweets by adding a Related News section on individual permalink pages. The related news links that are offered are pages where that tweet had been embedded. For example, when the Clarence House (part of the British Monarchy) posted about Katherine and William’s baby: Her Royal […] Author information Kelsey Jones Search & Social Consultant at The Social Robot Kelsey Jones helps clients around the world grow their social media, content, and search marketing presence

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the Web.

L’Oreal has announced that they are launching a new makeup line to be sold online designed by YouTube beauty guru Michelle Phan.

Google seems to be testing a new feature where you can hover your mouse cursor over a link in the search results by the URL of the snippet, and it will overlay a text preview and summary of the search result…

Global Internet traffic dipped by 40 percent when Google experienced a complete blackout, web analytics firms have claimed. All of Google’s services including Search, Gmail and Youtube went down briefly during the blackout on Friday evening.

Tomorrow, Tuesday, August 20 at 1 PM EDT, our sister site, Digital Marketing Depot will host a webcast on creating quality content that your audience – and search engines – will love.

Google Analytics has introduced two new features: a new version of Tag Manager for your mobile apps, which supports conversion tracking and remarketing using AdWords tags, and a software development kit (SDK) to make it all work together.