Most of you probably don’t remember or have heard of Direct Hit, it was a search engine from the 90s. It ranked web sites based off of user metrics…

Every few years, it is important to cover some basic topics and we’ve covered it in 2008 and 2011, so now in 2015…

A WebmasterWorld thread has discussion around link removals requests and if web sites should have a printed policy for how they handle link removal requests. Truth is, if your site is at all popular…

Yesterday we covered that Google seems to have done a major update the other day and Google actually responded to us saying “as usual, we’re continuing to make tweaks…

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…

Bing is upgrading its quality score, which the search engine uses to gauge how competitive ads are in the marketplace.

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. The post SearchCap: Google Gets Firehose, Google Algorithm Tweaks & Yahoo Gemini appeared first on Search Engine Land. Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article

In the latest update to the Google Maps app is “Local Guides,” a feature that is similar to “Yelp Elite.”

January 2015 started out pretty slow with Google webmaster news but we are ending it with a lot of things happening. This includes a possible major Google update that Google said was only a tweak…

The coveted role of being Apple’s default search provider for the Safari browser is going to be up for grabs soon, according to a report from Quartz, and Yahoo and Microsoft are both vying for Google’s spot. There’s a lot at stake for the company Apple decides to go with. According to StatCounter, Safari accounted for 48% of searches on smartphones, 69% on tablets, and 9% on desktops in the US in the month of January 2015.