Search, Social, Gaming, and the Internet

An Interesting Inside Look at Google Search

Posted by Dan on August 26, 2011 in Technology | Comments Off

Google recently released a video explaining how the algorithm updates occur. Anyone working in the search engine optimization industry should be already a bit familiar with the contents of this video, but for people just entering the SEO world, you may find this video to be helpful, as they provide a real life example of an algorithm update from the recent past. It’s also interesting to hear that last year they had released over 500 algorithm updates. That’s a lot of engineering and...

Longer Google Webmaster Videos

Posted by Dan on August 10, 2011 in Everything Else | Comments Off

I’ve been a huge fan and an active subscriber of Google Webmaster Help’s channel on YouTube. I’ve found the videos posted here (by Matt Cutts – and sometimes with guest appearances) to be brief, but meaningful snippets of applicable information. If Google rolls out a change to how it handles certain types of requests, they are sure to cover it in a video. They also accept questions from Webmasters, which makes it a very good way to ask a question and to receive an answer “straight from the horse’s...

10 Awesome Sets of Social Icons

Posted by Dan on July 30, 2011 in Development | 1 comment

Social Icons are a must-have for any website built in modern times. If you recently had a site developed and it lacks any social icons, you should really be asking yourself why. If you aren’t on any social network, it still make sense to add certain icons – such as sharing icons. If you’re too stubborn to sit down and admit that having a social media presence is important, you should at least give your viewers an easy option for sharing your content on their preferred networks (or pick some out, based on who your target...

New Update to Google SERPs?

Posted by Dan on July 25, 2011 in Everything Else | Comments Off

I’m not sure if this is new or I’ve just never come across it yet. It seems if Google detects a website has a flash introduction, they provide you a link to “Skip Intro” – you can see a screenshot below. Next to the first link in the SERPs you’ll notice a [Skip Intro] on Google.com. I’m a bit curious to know if anyone else has noticed this. I could also be completely late to the game with this one as I rarely visit/develop sites with flash introductions. (Click to Enlarge) Anyone...

Google Pushing Social

Posted by Dan on June 28, 2011 in Technology | 2 comments

So at the beginning of the month I made a post about how Google released it’s plus one button for Websites. This button is now showing itself globally on the SERPs over at Google as of a day or two ago. Only time can tell if Google’s plan will execute well. I suspect that it’ll work out well, despite the large negative attitudes of many online marketers, SEOs, Social media fanatics, and developers. The +1 button is just like any other button except it’s for Google. Every other button has shown some level of...