Google has significantly increased the number of sites and ISPs it uses to serve search requests according to a study by researchers at the University of Southern California. The study reports Google increased the number of locations serving search requests from less than 200 to more than 1,400 between October 2012 and July 2013. In addition, […] Author information Matt Southern Matt Southern is a marketing, communications and public relations professional

As many of you know, Matt Cutts, Google’s head of search spam, announced at PubCon that you should expect a 15% reduction in the amount of rich snippets and authorship displayed in the Google search results…

Posted by kanejamison Nearly all of us have used Screaming Frog to crawl websites. Many of you have probably also used Google’s Structured Data Testing Tool (formerly known as the Rich Snippet Testing Tool) to test your authorship setup and other structured data

According to new research from Curebit and reported on by VentureBeat, the difference in social commerce sales between Facebook and Twitter are extraordinary.

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web…

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the Web. From Search Engine Land: Dear Google Rivals: Do These New Proposals Solve Your Antitrust Concerns

Three years into its investigation of Google over antitrust issues relating to search, the European Union took another step closer toward a likely resolution, asking Google rivals and other third-parties to review a settlement proposal. Notably, the general public wasn’t invited to… Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article

In a new video released today by Google’s head of search spam, Matt Cutts, we learn that the more pages a web site has, does not necessarily mean you will have better rankings.

Amidst all the Google news and social media changes, it’s easy to miss something.

I see threads like this Google Webmaster Help thread all the time. In summary they say, my manual penalty was revoked by Google after I spent the time cleaning up my mistakes but days, months, and even years later, my rankings, traffic and thus sales have not improved at all…