Archive for September, 2009

Google Adds Links to Sections of Web Pages In Search Results

Monday, September 28th, 2009

Google has announced that they have begun to include links to section of web pages in their search results. The new links come in two forms, the first form provides a set links to section of the web page relevant to the search query and the second form provides a link to jump to  specific [...]

Google Introduces Parameter Handling to Webmaster Tools

Thursday, September 17th, 2009

Google has added the ability for webmaster to instruct Google to ignore URL parameters in Webmaster Tools. URL parameters are name/value pairs appended to end of URLs (example: http://www.example.com?sessionid=1232132). The problem with URL parameters is that each URL created by a variation of parameter may or may not change the contents of a web page, [...]

August U.S. Search Share Results

Thursday, September 17th, 2009

Nielsen Online released its rankings of U.S. search share for August, with overall search increasing 49.7 percent year over year to 10.8 billion searches. Google had a year over year increase of 61.3 percent and received 64.6 percent of searches. Yahoo had a year over year increase of 32.3 percent and received 16.0 percent of [...]