The same day that Facebook announced they were serving 3 billion video views daily, YouTube has made a change that will significantly increase the video views on their own platform. Starting Wednesday, YouTube has turned autoplay on to begin streaming a new video seconds after the previous one finishes. Until now, subsequent videos would only […]
Google Displaying Knowledge Graphs for Highly Competitive – and Spammed – Search Queries
Google has begun showing knowledge graphs for some highly competitive – and highly spammed – search queries, and queries that probably will get the competition quite upset with its new appearance. And the owner of the site in the search query gets a nice box around their listing with a stand out link with their […]
First Look at How Google Chrome Plans to Alert Users to Non-HTTPS Websites
After much speculation that Google Chrome would be alerting users to any website that doesn’t employ HTTPS, we finally know how Google plans to flag unsecured websites in Google Chrome, the different settings it uses and best of all, anyone can test it out. Ilya Grigorik posted what he calls his “New favorite Chrome Canary […]
Google Adds Book Carousel & Makes Changes to Book Related Knowledge Graphs
Earlier this month Bing added a new book carousel feature to their search results and Google has now done the same by adding a new book carousel that displays at the top of the search results when users click on a carousel link from a book related knowledge graph. They have also redesigned and added […]
Test the New Google Webmaster Tools Search Query Feature
Google Webmaster Tools is working on a brand-new search query feature and that they are looking for webmasters to try it out. They are specifically looking for people who are a regular user of the search query information that is currently in Google Webmaster Tools. They are also wanting to know how you are using […]
Matt Cutts Talks About His Early Spam Fighting Days at Google
If you haven’t been in the industry long enough to remember when Matt Cutts could attend a conference and NOT be surrounded by dozens of “Cuttlets”, you will enjoy this video of a recent talk Matt did talking about his early days at Google. He spoke at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill […]
comScore Shows Google Lost 1.6% of Search Share When Firefox Made Yahoo Default Search Engine
The latest comScore data following the Firefox switch to Yahoo as its default search provider shows that it was as impactful to Google’s search share has was believed. Google saw a 1.6% decrease in their overall search share while Yahoo jumped up by 1.6%. It’s not a huge surprise, as many people didn’t realize that […]
3 Adwords Display Network Power Targeting Tips You Should Know About
The Google Display Network has come a long way in the past few years to become more sophisticated and easier to plan and implement for advertisers. In fact, the advanced options have multiplied in the past year to the point where advertisers may not know about all of the options available. Several newer options could […]
Brands Can Now Include All Social Media Profile Links in Google Knowledge Graphs
Brands can now had their social media profile links to their official company knowledge graph that appears in the Google search results. This means that you can include official links to profiles on places beyond Google+, including Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, Myspace and LinkedIn – however it appears Pinterest is a glaring omission to the […]
Google Adding Concert Ticket Links to Knowledge Graph Results for Musical Artists
A brand-new knowledge graph feature will make it easier for official sources to sell tickets but more difficult for third parties who resell tickets or an affiliate commission on tickets. Google is releasing brand-new markup for ticketing links for musical artists that will include links to their upcoming concerts, including information such as the on […]