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In a Google+ hangout from Friday, Google's John Mueller addressed a common thing you see on some e-commerce sites, the repetitive nature of category landing pages...

Early last week, I reported around chatter on a possible Google update from the weekend before, maybe starting around the 17th.

Well, that chatter has not slowed down much - in fact...

It has always been thought that Google has a ranking factor (small maybe) based on who you link to. If you link to quality sources that are on topic and useful, Google might consider that link quality and it may make you rank slightly higher in the search results...

Back in June, Google told us the Penguin update is months away at best. We also know Google is working on a real time update to the algorithm, so it runs immediately and would not require manual pushes...

A Google patent granted this week targets map spammers, who submit information about businesses to Google Maps, in a manner referred to as keyword stuffing.

The patent attempts to find words submitted by business owners as titles for...

Recently I’ve seen several interesting conversations about ad blocking, and I wanted to remind people about a great offering called Google Contributor. With Google Contributor, you contribute a certain amount of money each month. That subscription means that you see fewer ads on the web, and you support the sites that you visit with your money.

You get to decide how much to contribute (I do $10/month, but for example you can do $2/month if you prefer). The more you contribute, the fewer...

Google announced a ton of reminders around their handling of hacked sites within the Google Search Console...

Many in China will be using Baidu rather than Microsoft’s Bing search engine within Windows 10, thanks to a new distribution deal that Microsoft has announced.

“Baidu Windows 10 Express” is a new way to get Windows, through a deal signed between Microsoft and Baidu, China’s dominant and homegrown search engine.

As part of the deal, the default search engine will be Baidu rather than Microsoft’s own Bing search engine. Usually, Bing is the default search engine in Windows 10, unless...

Back in 2009, Matt Cutts from Google wrote on PageRank sculpting saying:

So what happens when you have a page with âten PageRank pointsâ and ten outgoing links...

I’ve been doing some work on threaded discussions and comment threads in our web and mobile apps, and I thought it might be useful to summarize some of my findings here. The particular issue we’re trying to address is how to deal with infinitely threaded discussions, like the kind you find on Hacker News and Reddit1:



The first thing I did was some research on the different approaches currently used on the web and mobile for discussions and comments. There are some weird outliers,...