A new study from HitWise shows which groups are adopting Google+. The data indicates that Plus is moving rapidly from experimental use to early-stage adoption.
Rob has been insatiably obsessed with Google, search engine technology, and the trends of the web-based world since he began life as a webmaster in 2002. His work as an SEO consultant since 2006, and subsequently to content writing for technology and internet-focused publications, has done nothing but fuel this passion.
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- Facebook Gets Plus-Like Privacy Controls - August 31, 2011
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- How Google Changes Their Algorithm - August 29, 2011
Articles by Rob D Young
Google is expanding its social search features yet again. This time, they’re promoting the posts made on Google+. However, the posts will only be visible if they were set as public and if the searcher is connected to the original poster on Google+. How the Post Pulling Works For the post to pull into the …
Some search myths refuse to die. Here are 6 that are still alive and kicking … kicking marketers who still believe them.
If your site is being cloned by scrapers, your search ranking may be damaged in a substantial way. This guide walks you through easy ways to counter those who would steal your content.
Google+ has continued to step into Facebook’s territory with the introduction of Google+ games. Google is aiming at a non-intrusive presentation for users while cutting down commission fees for developers.
Google Panda, the major set of search algorithm changes released by Google in the U.S. in February, are now being released on a global scale.
In the aftermath of Google Realtime shutting down and Google Plus launching, Google is now bringing public Plus posts to the world in a new format: the search engine results pages of people connected to them in Google Circles.
Google+ has only been out for approximately six weeks, but it’s already made more than a small splash. Industry experts have shown ways that Google+ may begin breaking into Facebook’s kingdom and snatching away citizens, and current survey results shows that Google+ will be the second most popular social network within twelve months. Google’s Growing …
For those looking to examine how their site responded to major algorithm changes, SEOMoz has a great new tool to help you: a compilation of the major Google algorithm changes that have happened over the last decade. While most minor changes are skipped (Google updates their algorithm in minor ways hundreds of times each year), …
Users tend to have a feisty loyalty to their browser, so a recent study from AptiQuant both ruffled some feathers and stroked some egos. The study concluded that users of IE, especially IE 6.0 and 8.0, had a lower average IQ than users of other browsers. The only problem was the entire thing was as …
