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• Google Insights For Search, for advertisers and marketers

  Wednesday, August 6th, 2008

  Google launched a new product very useful for advertisers and marketers. It include a world heat map for the search volume and regional interest, the evolution for a specific search term and the top related and rising searches.
  With Google Insights For Search, it is possible to compare search volume trends across multiple [...]

• Google Ranking explained

  Saturday, July 12th, 2008

  Google PageRank is based primarely on the “votes” submitted by other web sites under the form of the links. It uses a complex algorithm to assign values, in order to measure the relative importance for every hyperlinked element.
  An interesting article was posted on Google Blog by Amit Singhal, a Google Fellow [...]

• Quality Score for keywords will depend on landing page load

  Monday, May 12th, 2008

  A new step for a better Google AdWords: the timing of landing page load time will be included as a factor in Quality Score.
  Inside AdWords blog posted an article about an additional factor incorporated into Quality Score, the time it takes for a user to see the landing page after clicking [...]

• Best paid keywords

  Sunday, May 11th, 2008

  A very interesting list of the highest paid keywords for the Google AdSense and other affiliate programs for publicists. Unfortunately, I cannot use it. Simple, because I do not fully trust it.
  From far, the best paid keywords seems to be related on “mesothelioma”.
  Mesothelioma is a form of cancer that is almost always caused [...]

• Google and Yahoo! top search keywords for 2007

  Monday, January 14th, 2008

  Big differences between the two statistics for top search keywords for the last year. It seems that Yahoo! search was used mainly for entertainment, while US people searched with Google for a more diversified terms, especially social networks.
  As specified by MandarinMusing.com:
  Google fastest rising U.S. search terms for 2007:

  iPhone: a [...]

• New Google tools for webmasters: Video Sitemaps

  Wednesday, December 19th, 2007

  Google Video team joined the Sitemaps to introduce Video Sitemaps, allowing an XML submission of video assets for your site. This new tool will ease your self-hosted videos to compete with the big sites, like YouTube, when someone use Google Video Search. Your video may also appear in other Google search [...]

• New features in Google Webmaster Tools for SEO

  Sunday, December 16th, 2007

  Google helps the webmasters by introducing two new features in Google Webmaster Tools: Content analysis and Sitemap details. Some errors reported by Google are due, in fact, to problems in their crawling, but these are minor errors of the new tools.
  Content analysis
  It contains feedback about issues for visitors, or for [...]