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In the latest Webmaster Help video, Google's Matt Cutts discusses the use of rel="nofollow" on internal links, addressing the following user-submitted question: Does it mak...

Do You Google Yourself? If So, You’re in the Majority

If you say that you never give in to temptation and Google yourself, well, there's a pretty strong chance that you're lying. According to...

Check Out Google’s New Song Exploration Feature

Last week, Google made a handful of search-related announcements. In a blog post,...

Is Google Dumbing Down Search Results?

There has been an interesting discussion about Google and search quality this week thanks to comments made by a Googler who suggested that a site with higher quality, better inform...

Hummingbird Is Google’s Biggest Algorithm Change In 12 Years

Let's get one thing straight right up front. Hummingbird is not a new algorithm update like Panda or Penguin. It's a new algorithm. Panda and Penguin are parts of the bigger algori...

Google Hummingbird Algorithm Said To Be Biggest Overhaul Since Caffeine

Google made a bunch of search-related announcements today....

Google Launches New Knowledge Graph Tools, ‘Hummingbird’ Algorithm & More

Google announced some new features today in celebration of its...

Google Celebrates Its Own 15th Birthday With Piñata Game Doodle, Easter Egg

Google is celebrating its 15tth birthday with a worldwide doodle featuring a playable game where you can hit a piñata by clicking on it with your mouse (or using the space bar), an...

Google Tests Search Quality Feedback Form On SERPs

Google has a new way of getting feedback from users about the quality of its search results. Some users are reportedly seeing an experiment the search engine is running, which lets...

Keyword Planner Alternatives For Keyword Research: Who Will Rise To The Challenge?

With the rise of ‘Not Provided’ and the recent death of the beloved...

Yahoo Continues Product Refreshes With New Yahoo Maps

Yahoo continues to launch redesigns for many of its products. Today it's Yahoo Maps. T...

Google Adds Google+ Hashtags To Web Search

Google announced today that it is adding Google+ hashtag support to Google Search. If you search for a hashtag on Google, it will show results from Google+ on the right-hand side o...

Don’t Worry About Google Penalties From Invalid HTML (At Least for Right Now)

Ever wonder how the quality of your HTML is affecting your rankings in Google? Well, at least for the time being, it's not having any effect at all, regardless of how clean it is....

Google Reportedly Kills Link Network Ghost Rank 2.0

Google has reportedly penalized link network Ghost Rank 2.0, and sites with links from it. If you were using it, you probably should have expected this to happen sooner or later....

Google Cranks Up ‘Not Provided’ Keywords, Says Ads Aren’t The Reason

It looks like the percentage of keywords that are listed as "not provided" in your Google Analytics account is going to keep going up, as Google is reportedly moving to switch all...

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