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September 2013

What is Google Hummingbird? What Does this Mean for SEO?

Google Hummingbird was officially announced this week and has many people asking, what is “Google Hummingbird?” Google Hummingbird represents a complete overhaul of Google’s entire search engine. It is estimated that 90% of all Google’s searches will be impacted by this change? So what makes hummingbird different than the last search algorithm? Google Hummingbird seeks …

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Bing’s Page Zero Experience

Later last week, Bing released a detailed overview of their new Page Zero Experience; a new search feature that offers links directly from the search box with shortcuts to relevant information associated with the search term(s). According to Bing representatives, this search feature gives the “best” auto-completion suggestions, and displays only rich and relevant information …

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Google Defaults all Searches to Secure: Not Provided to Hit 100%

Yesterday Google announced through Dan Sullivan at Search Engine Land that they made secure search the default for all users. Google announced: We added SSL encryption for our signed-in search users in 2011, as well as searches from the Chrome omnibox earlier this year. We’re now working to bring this extra protection to more users …

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Can you recover Google Not Provided Statistics?

Google’s not provided statistic has been a prominent topic of conversation in the SEO world for some time. Since October of 2011 when “Google Dark” was born, we have seen a steady increase in the number of searches that are listed as not provided. There are websites such as www.notprovidedcount.com , that guesstimate when not …

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Google’s New Dictionary Search Feature

As part of its long-term mission to revolutionize search as we know it, Google announced that they have unveiled new features to its dictionary search. The dictionary upgrade allows users to type “define” into the Google search bar, followed by a word, to receive a display of information that shows up alongside the definition. You’ll …

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Are Facebook Hashtags Helping Your Social Media Campaign?

 Ever since Facebook adopted the hashtag search function that Twitter introduced over 4 years ago, many small businesses and webmasters have been trying to figure out if it actually will assist your businesses social media campaign. Are Facebook users searching with hashtags or even clicking on them to see more similar results? The results found …

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How to Avoid Traffic Loss when Launching your New Website

Built into your website are a number of contributing factors that work to generate organic search engine traffic to your site. Many times during the launch of a new site, these contributing factors are over looked or not coded properly. When these factors are not transferred properly, the result can be a dramatic drop in …

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