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Google EMD Update: Exact Match Domains No Longer Rank As Well

Late Friday afternoon, Google's head of search spam, Matt Cutts, dropped a bomb on some webmasters and SEOs. He announced on Twitter that Google is going after "low quality" exact match domains (EMD) to ensure they do not rank well in the Google search results. Matt said this algorithm update only impacts 0.6% of English-US queries. He has two tweets on this, here they are: Matt Cutts ✔ @ mattcutts Minor weather report: small upcoming Google algo change will reduce low-quality "exact-match" domains in search results. 29 Sep 12 Reply Retweet Favorite Matt Cutts ✔ @ mattcutts New exact-match domain (EMD) algo affects 0.6% of English-US queries to a noticeable degree. Unrelated to Panda/Penguin. 29 Sep 12 Reply Retweet Favorite Honestly, I am a bit surprised it took Google so long to do this. I mean, Matt said publicly that Google will look into  exact match domains  almost two years ago. I would ha...

Google Closing Buzz, Jaiku, Labs, Other Websites

Google  is beginning to crack down on whimsy. Historically, Google’s massive revenues from advertising products  like AdSense have allowed it to finance a slew of Internet products and Web apps, few (if any) of which make the company any money. This “shotgun approach,” plus a handful of startups it bought out, made the company’s portfolio of online services extremely diverse. Google is raking in  record-setting profits,  beating  Wall Street  expectations and bringing the company’s stock up to nearly $600 a share. Despite this, it’s decided to  close the doors  on a number of its services, including last year’s precursor to Google+:  Google Buzz . Google Buzz “Start conversations about the things you find interesting.” That’s the tagline for Google’s soon-to-be-shut-down social networking service, but not an explanation for why anyone would use it over Twitter and Facebook. And while it’s built in to Google’s popular webmail service...

Webmaster Tools Search Queries data is now available in Google Analytics

Webmaster level: All Earlier this year we  announced  a limited pilot for Search Engine Optimization reports in Google Analytics, based on  Search queries  data from Webmaster Tools. Thanks to valuable feedback from our pilot users, we’ve made several improvements and are pleased to announce that the following reports are now publicly available in the Traffic Sources section of Google Analytics. Queries: impressions, clicks, position, and CTR info for the top 1,000 daily queries Landing Pages: impressions, clicks, position, and CTR info for the top 1,000 daily landing pages Geographical Summary: impressions, clicks, and CTR by country All of these Search Engine Optimization reports offer Google Analytics’ advanced filtering and visualization capabilities for deeper data analysis. With the secondary dimensions, you can view your site’s data in ways that aren’t available in Webmaster Tools. To enable these Search Engine Optimization reports for a web property, y...