SEO Hong Kong by eugene wong
Posts Tagged ‘google’
Have you ‘Pandalized’ your site?
{lang: ‘ar’}I have seen enough Panda discussion. As SEO, we don’t need to panic (too much) about the drops after the Panda. There are always discussion/threads on forums on how to ‘pandalize’ your site to ‘avoid’ dropping from the rank that you used to be. My only advice is to stick if the best SEO [...]
Don’t spin your title with different keywords
{lang: ‘ar’}You shouldn’t be surprised if seeing these kind of page title format in SERP: Keyword 1 – Keyword 2 – Keyword 3 And yeah, it’s something that ‘recommended by SEO agencies.’ It’s totally ridiculous, at least the search engine spiders do not understand which primary keywordyou are targeting. The searchers will be confused too, [...]
Google shuffles result?
{lang: ‘ar’}Observed a big jump of ranking for my targeted keywords in Google. Not so sure if G was trying to shuffle the results and test the click-through rates. It was an unusual flux for me compared to what I usually see. Thought? Did you experience the same for your niche? I am wondering if [...]
“Search, Plus Your World” – Overwhelming Google Content?
{lang: ‘ar’} The recent launch of “Search, Plus Your World” brought a lot of debate. Is public content of social media dead on Google? Apparently yes, and it seems Google wants to minimize the exposure of Facebook and Twitter after both of them rejected to share the social graph with them. Despite the Twitter spoke [...]
3 types of search queries
{lang: ‘ar’} Search queries can be grouped into three different categorizes: Navigation queries – Information searchers are trying to get a specific product, official homepage or a particular menu etc. Information queries – Users want to know something helpful and informative, like “10 steps to kill a person” or “Top 5 richest guy in the [...]
Google ‘jumble’ results
{lang: ‘ar’}This morning, I saw a ‘jumble’ list on Google search result page. On the list, there are two columns shown with a very short description (approx. 5 words) and shorten URL. To me, it is an expansion of sitelinks (8 max.).
Google Plus Cheat Sheet.
{lang: ‘ar’}Here is the Google plus cheat sheet. Interesting features including how to bold a word, mention your friends, how to scroll your screen by using hotkeys, disable resharing function so no one can share your post to others etc. Enjoy!
Google Plus is now ready
{lang: ‘ar’} Google Plus is now ready – only if you got an invitation from friends. So now, ask your friend to send you the invitation, or I can do you a favor just in case your friends are not in Google plus. The steps are just similar to how you request a Quora [...]
Google +1 data available in Google Webmaster Tool
{lang: ‘ar’}Google has launched the +1 button last month and now the related metrics are available within both Google Webmaster Tool and social tracking in Google Analytic. The metrics include the impressions of the annotations, CTR with and without the annotations, how many pages you have been clicked the +1 and the geographic and demographic [...]
New template of Google
{lang: ‘ar’}What would you say after seeing Google’s new template? It is just so 90s for me… And business look.
SEOmoz Search Engine Ranking Factors 2011
{lang: ‘ar’}SEOmoz, one of the most popular provider of SEO software in the industry, published their Search Engine Ranking Factors – 2011 edition last month. Some SEOs were quite excited with the report and some findings surprised me too. 1. Partial-match anchor text are highly correlated with search rankings! SEOs should start incorporating the non-exact [...]
Google Pagerank is updated
{lang: ‘ar’} As Matt Cutt mentioned, the Google pagerank would be updated very soon and finally I saw the update 2 days ago. The interesting thing is that Google has devalued the Google US homepage from 10 to 9, where the Yahoo US homepage keeps the Pagerank 9 and Bing 8. Anyway, I would like [...]
Official: Global Rollout of Google +1
{lang: ‘ar’} Google has moved a step forward to compete with facebook. Unsurprisingly, Google has pushed the +1 button internationally but I still haven’t seen the button on google.hk. For now, the Google +1 is only available in Google UK, DE, JP and FR and as suggested by G, it will expand quickly to most [...]
How to forget someone?
{lang: ‘ar’} 蘇永康「那誰沒有下次」. It is a damn nice song + voice-over. Right? 你坐系電腦前面，嘗試系搜尋引擎器裏面輸入How to forget，自動彈出既第一句聯想語句，亦姐系全球被搜尋次數最多既語句，系How to forget ，someone。 As a SEO, I need to point out the search volume of the phrase “How to forget someone” is actually 0, global exact search volume in Google. Check this out Check the Google keyword suggestion tool, [...]
Official: Google release Google +1
{lang: ‘ar’} Google has finally launched the Google +1 button. Apparently many SEOs are longing for this button because G may treat it as a (strong) social signal, say facebook Likes and Shares. Whenever Google user clicks on the +1 button, it actually means that ‘hey, that site is cool. Highly recommended., you should check [...]
Think insights – Smartphone Usage Research
{lang: ‘ar’}Google has conducted a research about smartphone usage. 2011 the mobilemovement
Is 100 links per page still valid in Google guideline?
{lang: ‘ar’}The answer is no. Google recommended webmasters to limit outbound links to below 100 (per page) ages ago and probably it was due to the low connection speed at that moment. However, Matt Cutt said it doesn’t means that you should create thousands of outbound links now because the pagerank (erm.. also other value) [...]
New mobile search experience by Do@
{lang: ‘ar’}Pretty interesting and handy iphone apps offered by Do@. The idea is that you don’t need to instead tons of apps but the Do@ will return customized results based on your query. Related articles Startup Tries to Shake Up Mobile Search (blogs.wsj.com) Advertisers experiencing higher CTR from mobile search (browsermedia.co.uk)
Why do porn sites have lower pagerank?
{lang: ‘ar’}Matt Cutts from Google explained why porn sites have in general lower pagerank. It is his own opinion anyway.
Stumbleupon’s new Paid Discovery
{lang: ‘ar’} Stumbleupon has launched their new paid discovery feature, by transforming Stumbleupon Ads to paid discovery and it makes marketing campaigns more effective. Advertisers can create campaigns and target content category, age, gender and location with low cost. Tracking is available too. Google Analytics can be integrated for all campaign levels, by saying that [...]
Google rolls out Social Search Worldwide
{lang: ‘ar’} Google confirmed their Social Search is now available globally, only a few days Bing has announced their updates on social search result. Social search results are incorporated once users logged into their Google accounts. It was available for English users only and now it can be used by non-English users after a year’s [...]
Google Inside Search Blog
{lang: ‘ar’} Google launched a new blog for specifically talking about search topics. Finally Google has done something that makes me feel that they are a search company, especially they already ventured successfully to the areas like Gmail, Ads, Doc etc. SEOs was relying on the Google webmaster central blog however that blog discussed mainly [...]
Bing reached 14 percent in April
{lang: ‘ar’} The comScore has published the data for April last week. Bing has finally reached 14% of total share, with yahoo raised a bit from 15.7% to 15.9%. U.S. Explicit Core Search comScore Explicit Core Search Share Report* April 2011 vs. March 2011 Total U.S. – Home/Work/University Locations Source: comScore qSearch Core Search Entity [...]
More on Google Panda update
{lang: ‘ar’} Amit Singhal from Google published a new blog post on Google Webmaster Blog , explain further on how and what to build high-quality sites. The objective of this article is to give direction to the webmasters that impacted by the recent Panda updates. As usual, the representative of Google (either Matt or Amit) [...]