Don't Miss The New Google Webmaster Hangouts

Pierre Far announced on his Google + page that there will be a bunch of upcoming Google Webmaster Hangouts soon. You do not want to miss them. Here is the break down: Wednesday, 30 November, at 2pm Seattle time, English office hours with +Susan Moskwa Thursday, 1 December, at 2pm London time, English office hours with me +Pierre Far Thursday, 1 December, at 2pm Seattle time, English office hours with +Jonathan Simon Friday, 2 December, at 2pm Zürich time, German office hours with +John Mueller Friday, 2 December,...

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Google Panda 3.1 Update : 11/18

Friday afternoon, sometime after 4pm I believe, Googletweeted that they pushed out a "minor" Panda update effecting less than one-percent of all searches. The tweet reads: Tiny weather report: Minor Panda algorithm data refresh (affects <1% of searches). Context from Feb: http://goo.gl/EgZ8u The last time Google said a Panda update was minor, it turned out to be pretty significant. That being said, we should have named...

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Google Indexing & Displaying Images Within Universal Search Fast

Back in April, I reported at Search Engine Land that Google was indexing images within hours and displaying time stamps on images. But since then, there has not been much discussion around the speed of Google indexing images recently. A WebmasterWorld thread changed that, when an image expert came in and said Google is back at it. He said: Today I noticed for the first time, that a new indexed image is shown in the images Onebox of the Google serps (universal serach). This is extremly fast. I found it when...

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