Recently there was a rumor on the Internet that there has been a change in Google algorithm which seems to be helping big brands for ranking on major keywords. Matt Cutts, the Head of Search Quality group in Google, confirmed in the following video that the rumor was indeed true, and Google ranking algorithm update [...]

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Just a week ago, Microsoft launched a new search engine U Rank that allows people to customize their search results.
U Rank can benefit users in the following ways, as outlined by Microsoft:

 Create the perfect search results, by add images and video for added context.
Organize and annotate results, by writing notes to summarize important information under each [...]

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Recently one of my colleagues showed me that if one searches for the phrase ‘miserable failure’ in Google, the page that shows at the top in the search results is the biography page of George W. Bush at the White House website. If you check the content of the page, there is no phrase [...]

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It looks like that Google has pressed the dreaded red button of  Pagerank update today. The name Google Dance has often been used to describe the index update of the Google search engine.  The Google search engine pulls its results from thousands of servers which are used by Google for economical reasons. Naturally, an index update cannot [...]

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According to posts at WebmasterWorld blog, there seems to be a Google backlink update going on now at some selected Google data centers; 64.233.187.104 and 64.233.187.99.  Unlike Yahoo, Google has a tendency of showing only a sample of backlinks when the link:url search command is used.
Although Google also updated its PageRank about a month ago, the Google backlink update [...]

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There is always great interest within the search engine marketing community whenever a search engine files for a patent. Search engine giant Google was granted a new patent last Tuesday, August 22, 2006 . The title is “System and method for supporting editorial opinion in the ranking of search results“. And here is a brief [...]

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In the search engine world, the Google Page Rank (PR) measure is closely watched by all those who want to get into top positions in Google’s search results. PR is one of the most important factors that Google uses to determine its ranking results.
The theory behind Google PR is quite simple. The more relevant back links a website [...]

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Joe Griffin is the President of SubmitAWebsite.com recently discussed the importance of PageRank.
Another Google PageRank update appears to be underway or approaching completion. What that means for SEO is a matter of debate inside the industry, but along PageRank toolbars, ranking has increased for lower ranked sites while it has decreased for previously higher ranked sites.
This indicates that [...]

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Google has recently introduced  a new ‘Tagging’ feature which enables users to tag and comment any webpage in their ‘My search history’ page. This new feature which has been around in other engines for a while now, can allow them later to apply tagging patterns into real search results.  If Google opens this up in the future, letting users [...]

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There is a nice article about latest changes in Google algorith by Per Strandberg.   
After Google latest algorithm update nicknamed “Florida”, many webmasters discovered that their traffic plummeted. So What exactly happened? And More importantly what can you do about it as a Google SEO? And what will Google do in the next updates? What [...]

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