Category Archives: Google SEO

Google Updates Rich Snippets for Global View

This week, Google announced two minor updates on their algorithm. These had something to do with the summary of information about the website that surfaced in the search results, otherwise known as “Rich Snippets”. This aims to provide every user around the world the most relevant results in a shortest amount of time.

Latest Google+ Design Overhaul: Better Navigation, Profile Page & More

Within weeks of Facebook making its new Timeline mandatory for all users, Google+ changes its entire user interface and dare I say it looks Timeline-ish?

Google Updates Image Search and Optimisation

Recently Google published their highlights of implemented updates from the month of March. Quite a few of these changes where focused on image optimisation. Let’s take a quick recap on what these significant updates are and pick some tips on how to comply with the modified algorithms for image search relevance.

Google Reminds Not to Block Your CSS & Javascript Files

Google recently released a “public service announcement” video that basically tells us NOT to block the CSS and Javascript Files for the reason that it might help search engine crawlers to better understand the content and structure of a site.

5 SEO Mistakes According to Google

Googler Maile Ohye recently posted a video outlining what she noticed as the five common mistakes people in the SEO industry make. And along the way she shares tips on how to build great websites. Below is a summary:

Google HTTP Referrer Changes User Experience

Several months ago Google announced that it was implementing SSL encryption to increase the privacy and security of your searches in the Web. In relation to the said change, Google has just released an update on upcoming improvements for search query data.

Pagination Markup: Google Explains Further

On our previous post “Google’s new approach for View All and Paginated Pages” last September 2011, we introduced various ways of implementing pagination based on:

Google+ Circles Now Equipped With Voice

Recently, the search giant Google integrated their social network Google+ into one of its popular services – Google Voice. This amazing feature provides users with a centralized phone number and service, Furthermore, this new integration allows the option to organize and manage their callers via Google+ Circles.

Google’s Knowledge Graph Inspires the Future of Web Search

A recent interview with Google’s Senior Vice President reveals what may seem to be the future of Google search. For us who works in the SEO industry, news about any change made by Google (whether algorithm updates or an interface change) has become part of our day to day life. Though we may not at all times agree with those changes, it is no doubt that those changes have made the quality of Google search results better over time..

Schema.org Launches New Google Compatible Mark Up for Videos

Ever wondered how your videos could be more visible on Google SERPS? Good news! Schema.org has recently declared support for videos. In a blog post, Google product manager Henry Zhang announced the launch of video support for schema.org which is now their recommended way to describe videos on the web. This video mark up will allow Google to index and show your videos in search results…