Google’s and Yandex’s algorithms share many similarities in their operation with respect to the predilection for displaying pages in their search results that are considered of higher quality and interest to the user. Both are continuously working to fight against content over-optimization, Blackhat SEO and other negative positioning techniques aimed at deceiving search engines. But […]
The Google Partners event was held in Valencia to present the new agency support team. After the events held in Madrid and Barcelona, Google Partners brought together some of the most important certified agencies in the Valencian Community. The Partners program offers some agencies direct support from Google AdWords specialists for strategy planning, campaign creation […]
Many say that the outline algorithm is worthless, as it is currently not implemented by any browser and may not have any effect on SEO. There is no indication that this situation will change in the future. However, it is very important to know it because it contains the fundamentals that allow you to understand […]
Google announced yesterday, through its Google Webmaster Central Blog, the update of some of its technical guidelines. These guidelines affect the way Google crawls the content of websites and has an effect on their ranking. If up to now Google crawled a website in a similar way as a text browser (e.g. Lynx), now Google […]
Positioning our images in Google helps us to receive traffic. For example, in tourism sites, in specialized sites such as wedding photographers. In these cases Google Images is a great showcase. For searches such as “fotos de boda alicante” the web search results include images relevant to the search.
Google Disavow Tool: a consequence of Google Penguin Google announced the implementation of its algorithm update called Penguin at the end of April 2012. This update focused, according to the search engine, on detecting websites that were violating Google’s quality guidelines for webmasters. Two fundamental aspects were targeted by Google Penguin: over-optimized websites (keyword density […]
Businesses are constantly evolving and this is reflected in their websites: targets change, services offered change, existing products are optimized, etc. This means that the analysis needs are different from those foreseen in the initial implementation and that the implementation of tools such as Google Analytics has to be changed from time to time. The […]
As promised, here is the second part of how a search engine or Information Retrieval System (IRS) works. In the first part we learned how to build the inverse index, which tells us which documents have each word associated with them and what importance or relevance the words have in each of them. In this […]
Search engines or, as they are technically called, Information Retrieval Systems, are one of the great achievements of computer science and, more specifically, of the field of Artificial Intelligence. Today, no one can doubt its importance as an engine of the world economy. For many, its inner workings are an almost magical mystery. In this […]
The Latent Semantic Indexing is a form of information analysis used by search engines in which it is assumed that words found at a certain distance, in the same portion of text or area, have similar meanings or there is a close relationship between them. Latent Semantic Indexing is not a new topic for those […]
About Author Rank Much has been written about Author Rank and its first cousins. Author Rank, Agent Rank and Authorship are three concepts that are obviously related, but do we know the differences between them? Are we sure how to implement authorship markup on our website? In this article we will answer your questions and […]
Google is the search engine with the highest search volume worldwide. In the specific case of Spain, it accounts for more than 95% of the total number of searches performed. To be well positioned, you must know which are the Google’s “rules of the game”, you must know both the factors that will get your […]
We tell you everything you need to know about Google’s “Ranking Documents” patent and its impact on search engine optimization.
Last December, Google published a new recommendation with respect to the how to tag content on multilingual and multi-country Web sites which greatly simplifies the management of the positioning of the correct URLs in this type of sites for each language/country combination by making it possible to specify in a more specific way which URLs […]
The presentation of content on a series of different pages frequently occurs on Web sites when it is impossible to present all the information on a single page: for example, in long articles that are subdivided into several pages or, more frequently, in product listings. Until now, this situation posed numerous challenges due to the […]
When it comes to positioning our website, we may be tempted to use miraculous tricks or techniques. Do not risk doing things that may compromise your permanence in the search engine indexes. With these five simple tests, you can make sure that your website is on the safe side. Search engine optimization is a concept […]
