Posted by: bhartzer on: August 16, 2011
After reading the latest report from Imperva about search engine vulnerabilities and hacking, I am pretty disturbed that the search engines are not doing enough to stop hackers from finding web vulnerabilities. In this latest test, hackers were able to perform more than 80,000 search queries at Google in one day that revealed sites that [...]
Posted by: bhartzer on: August 3, 2011
Previously, I wrote on my blog about how to get your Google+ Plus posts ranked in Google, and how you can get them to show up in the Google search results. Up until recently, Google was indexing about 200 to 300 new Google+ Plus posts that were marked as Public. However, Google has now stopped [...]
Posted by: bhartzer on: June 10, 2011
Every month I watch the search engine market share amongst those web properties (mainly the search engines, Google, Yahoo, Bing.com) to see where all the searches are. comScore reports the search engine market share every month, which is interesting to watch. Google is still ahead with 65 percent of the search engine market share and [...]
Posted by: bhartzer on: June 6, 2011
Schema.org is a new collaboration by Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo! to start standardizing website code. They are trying to help you code your website in a better way so that they can understand your site better and its contents. But did you know that by using code on their site you may be infringing upon [...]
Posted by: bhartzer on: May 17, 2011
comScore data for the month of March 2011 shows that Google has 90 percent market share when it comes to search queries conducted in Latin America. 9 out of 10 searched conducted in Latin America are conducted on a Google-owned website. The Google market share is at 90 percent in Latin America while Facebook and [...]
Posted by: bhartzer on: April 7, 2011
What really is the difference between search engine optimization and search engine marketing? I know it can be confusing, but since the internet marketing has matured lately so much, there really is a big difference between SEO and SEM.
Posted by: bhartzer on: March 30, 2011
Google is now allowing you to block web sites — at the domain name level–from appearing in the search results. Previously this feature was only available via an add-on to Google’s Chrome web browser. But now, it appears that Google has begun rolling this feature out for all users.
Posted by: bhartzer on: March 15, 2011
As you are probably aware, Google has been in the media spotlight lately about the Google search quality. I took a look at a recent topical search result and compares the Google search results with the Bing search results. Google’s search results are filled with a duplicated PR Newswire press release. Bing, on the other [...]
