Google Adds New Data Control Options for Users
Social Media Today
OCTOBER 25, 2018
Google has announced some new tools to help users manage the data the search engine keeps on them.
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Social Media Today
OCTOBER 25, 2018
Google has announced some new tools to help users manage the data the search engine keeps on them.
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Adam Sherk
DECEMBER 9, 2014
Google News has been in the news itself lately, from European efforts to impose taxes to questions about its value and even suggestions for giving it a full redesign. The figures include traffic directly from Google News and well as traffic from embedded news oneboxes in the regular Web search results. Jan-Nov 2014) Percentage of.
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The Future of SEO with AI Integration: How Conversational AI-Powered Search Engines Will Impact SEO Search engines are evolving rapidly with the advancement of artificial intelligence (AI). Conversational AI-integrated search engines are search engines that use conversational AI to enhance their functionality and user experience.
Bill Hartzer
SEPTEMBER 23, 2013
Google no longer is passing keyword referral data through to websites. Google just made a huge change: if you search at Google, it appears that all searches (even from [link] are now secure, https searches. Website owners will no longer receive keyword referral data from Google (organic search).
Bill Hartzer
NOVEMBER 1, 2014
Google just updated or “refreshed” the knowledge graph data within the past 24 hours. Here is what the previous knowledge graph data/sidebar in the Google search results looked like for my name: And here it is today, with the correct information: As you can see, previously Google had me listed as being from the UK.
BeingOptimist
FEBRUARY 2, 2024
When it comes to optimizing your website for search engines, having a reliable and feature-rich SEO plugin is essential. RankMath Pro is a powerful SEO plugin that offers advanced features and functionalities to enhance your website’s search engine rankings. Cons of RankMath Pro 1.
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Bill Hartzer
DECEMBER 12, 2014
Google has removed the Google Carousel from the search results. A search for keyword phrases such as Dallas Hotels, Chicago Hotels, and New York Hotels, popular searches that previously showed the Google Carousel, now shows a different type of search result, which is similar to the traditional map pack. Google removed carousel.
Bill Hartzer
FEBRUARY 25, 2016
About a day after I made my website Google AMP compatible, I am now seeing data in Google Search Console for Accelerated Mobile Pages. Required tags missing: amphtml engine v0.js Let’s give it some more time to see if there are any other pages that Google has a problem with. Prohibited tags: plusone.
Sprout Social
APRIL 26, 2018
She has a knack for taking complicated data ideas and translating them in a way that her audience can understand, whether that is another engineer or a less tech-savvy person, such as myself. Name: Shweta Kapur Department: Engineering Started at Sprout: February 2017. I am both a mechanical and software engineer.
Bill Hartzer
AUGUST 7, 2014
Due to Google’s recent official announcement that an https site is a search engine ranking factor, I’ve decided to move my site, BillHartzer.com, to https from http. I wrote earlier about https secure websites and search engine rankings, and my recommendation that you consider switching your website from http to https.
Bill Hartzer
JUNE 7, 2010
Google has quietly made a change recently in Google Webmaster Tools. If you are familiar with search engine optimization , then you already know that one of the big essential parts of the whole entire search engine optimization process is linking. However, Google no longer gives us the date. Post on Google Buzz.
Bill Hartzer
SEPTEMBER 2, 2013
According to this unsolicited commercial email (spam), getting more Facebook Likes will increase your search engine rankings. And the sender, Nick Grey, even says that Matt Cutts from Google said so. I want to help you improve your link popularity on Facebook and as a result, increase its ranking in Google searches!
SocMed Sean
MARCH 18, 2012
I find posts with no Alt tags on the images, meta tags that just weren’t well thought-out, and content and data that, while correct at the time, is now a bit outdated. The data provided to you by Google can be a goldmine in finding and fixing 404 errors.
Bill Hartzer
MAY 16, 2013
Every month about this time comScore releases the search engine rankings data, and I try to remember report it here. These are not the actual search engine rankings that you see when you search at a search engine, which are constantly changing. Think of this more as the “market share” for the search engine industry.
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Bill Hartzer
FEBRUARY 15, 2013
Way to go, Google. This just goes to show that the employees who work on your Google Webmaster Tools don’t talk to your Google Docs employees. Nothing can be more frustrating than using two Google products that don’t work with each other very well. Such is the case with Google Webmaster Tools and Google Docs.
Bill Hartzer
JANUARY 27, 2015
If you are using structured data on your website, or marking up your website’s code using schema.org code, it could ultimately cost you page views and visits from Google. Stack Overflow uses a lot of structured data, and marks up their site’s code it. As a result, they lose page views, visitors, and traffic.
Bill Hartzer
JUNE 18, 2010
This is only one seo tip out of many search engine optimization tips I have been providing over the years. All of my search engine optimization tips are meant to be specific , they should not take too much time to implement, and are meant to be directly to the point. Use Google’s own removal tool.
Small Business Mavericks
JULY 28, 2014
Structured data markup is one of those aspects of marketing that can make your eyes glaze over, particularly if you are running a business. But Neil Patel has come to our rescue with his clear explanation of How to use Google’s Structured Data Markup Helper on Search Engine Journal. Simple, right?
Bill Hartzer
JANUARY 15, 2013
Every month about this time comScore releases the search engine rankings data, and I try to remember report it here. These are not the actual search engine rankings that you see when you search at a search engine, which are constantly changing. Think of this more as the “market share” for the search engine industry.
Bill Hartzer
FEBRUARY 17, 2011
Yesterday, here on my blog, I wrote a blog post about tracking your Google rankings. I wrote about a site called SEOette.com that will help you track your website’s rankings in the Google search engine. Google has chosen, for whatever reason, to completely change my title tag in the search result. Let me explain.
Bill Hartzer
JANUARY 17, 2014
Every month about this time, comScore releases their data for the search engine market share for the previous month. Google’s search engine market share rose.6 Google’s search engine market share is 67.3 The current market share (as of December 2013) is as follows: Google – 67.3%.
Small Business Mavericks
NOVEMBER 11, 2011
So you Google “pizza wayzata minnesota.” ” If there is a popular pizza joint in Wayzata that is getting a lot of +1s on Google’s new social platform Google+, the search engine could tell you that in the SERP. Thanks to the Google Operating System blog for pointing this out.
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My content and keyword research was limited to what I saw on search engine results pages (SERPs) for a long time, especially at the beginning of my content writing journey. For instance, if an article talks about influencer marketing growth, it needs to back it up with statistics, insights from experts, and relevant data points.
Bill Hartzer
AUGUST 16, 2011
The search engines, Google , Yahoo! , That’s why I use a search engine. However, the search engines are indexing too much information on the internet–and as such, they are not doing enough to stop hackers. Hackers continue to use search engines such as Google, Yahoo!, Get a botnet. The reality?
Bill Hartzer
NOVEMBER 1, 2013
I recently spoke at the Pubcon Conference in Las Vegas, and one of the big issues that came up was the fact that Google is no longer providing keyword search data to website owners. They’re now encrypting searches, forcing all users of Google search to use https as a default. Search Engine Optimization'
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Small Business Mavericks
SEPTEMBER 3, 2014
John Mueller, Webmaster Trends Analyst at Google, announced recently that their experimentation with Authorship in its current form is now dead. But it hasn’t exactly gone away, because the social features are still here, so Google+ posts will show up when they are relevant to the query. Well, it finally has happened.
Bill Hartzer
OCTOBER 17, 2013
When you take a photo using your iPhone or Android mobile phone, the location data (latitude, longitude) of where that image was taken is usually saved in the photo file. Then, right-click on the photo and select “properties” You will see all of the data that I saved/embedded in the image file. Search Engine Optimization'
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Use their work desktop PC to search for more information about a product on Google. Use their smartwatch to make a payment via Google Pay. Properly managing different channels will allow companies to get to know their customer, target their marketing, and harness the power of data so they can shape their future marketing.
Bill Hartzer
MARCH 12, 2012
Every month about this time comScore releases the search engine rankings data, and I report it here. These are not the actual search engine rankings that you see when you search at a search engine, which are constantly changing. Think of this more as the “market share” for the search engine industry.
Convince & Convert
MAY 2, 2014
Tweetable Moments They’re not going to take away the aspects of the social layer; Google+ is Google. The world’s foremost Google+ authority will give us his thoughts on the strangely unsubstantiated Techcrunch article that prematurely announces Google+’s demise in the wake of Vic Gundotra’s departure.
Adam Sherk
SEPTEMBER 13, 2010
Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Pew Research News Survey: Findings on Search Engines, Social Networks and Twitter by Adam Sherk on September 13, 2010 The Pew Research Center for the People and the Press has published the results of its latest survey on news consumption and related topics.
Convince & Convert
JULY 3, 2011
Everyone’s all abuzz and atwitter about Plus, the new social network from a search engine company with which you might be familiar. My initial, abbreviated take is that Google’s new social toy is essentially a Facebook Twitter hybrid with outstanding ease-of-use and eye-popping potential. But enough about that.
Bill Hartzer
FEBRUARY 25, 2012
When it comes to search engine rankings, we all know that one of the major search engine ranking factors is how many links you have to your website. Especially if those paid links are helping your website’s organic, or natural search engine rankings? Search Engine Ranking Problems. It ruins their online business.
Bill Hartzer
AUGUST 26, 2013
The data that Google is not providing , as in they are not providing which keyword brought visitors to your site, keeps going up. And for my blog, the latest number of not provided users to hit the blog from Google organic search is now 71.80 percent (the past 20,000 visitors to the site via Google organic search).
Idaconcpts
NOVEMBER 30, 2011
Google HQ is constantly looking for ways to improve the quality of searches. The introduction of Google+ is an interesting attempt in bringing user-generated content through social media closer to the Google search engine. Here is a discussion of how Google+ could affect SEO. Comments within Google+.
Bill Hartzer
APRIL 13, 2012
Every month about this time comScore releases the search engine rankings data, and I report it here. These are not the actual search engine rankings that you see when you search at a search engine, which are constantly changing. Think of this more as the “market share” for the search engine industry.
Small Business Mavericks
DECEMBER 4, 2013
Google Trends has announced some new innovations in its research tool. The example they use is a comparison in search data between “Harvard University” and “Rice University.” If a searcher misspells an artist’s name, for instance, the old Google Trends wouldn’t include those searches in its data.
Bill Hartzer
JUNE 26, 2014
I’ve always been a big fan of the photos that appear in the Google search results when the author of an article or blog posts has claimed their Google Authorship for that content. But now, there’s official word from John Mueller at Google that the Google Authorship photos as we know them are essentially going away.
Bill Hartzer
JUNE 6, 2011
As you probably know by now, Google , Bing , and Yahoo! got together recently and formed Schema.Org , that will help you, as a webmaster, web designer, or search engine marketer , standardize your html code. You may be infringing on the patents that are owned by particular search engines. Post on Google Buzz.
Bill Hartzer
FEBRUARY 5, 2016
The Google search results of a search query for my name shows information from the Knowledge Graph or Knowledge Base of data. I know that this data was originally pulled from Freebase , as I entered it several years ago when I was very active in editing and adding data to Freebase. This is new, at least for me.
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