Tag: Google

eBay Just Lost 80% of its Organic Rankings: Here’s Why

May 26, 2014 / Paul / 0 Comments

Poor eBay – They’re having a pretty bad day. Thanks to Google’s roll-out of Panda 4.0 and the Payday Loan 2.0 update, eBay is suffering a massive loss in organic traffic and rankings. Adding insult to injury, they had to ask all users to change their passwords after a database hack. Matt Cutts kicked off the SEO hysteria yesterday as he often does, with a tweet: First released in 2011, Panda is a component of the organic search ranking algorithm designed to weed out low-quality sites, or those with “thin content.” In its initial release, Panda affected approximately 12% of all search queries by March 2013, Google had refreshed Panda 25 times, making it a constant source of aggravation in SEO circles. This update is particularly worrisome …

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eBay Just Lost 80% of its Organic Rankings: Here’s Why

How Google’s Panda Filter Negatively Impacted Ask.com, eBay & Google Backed RetailMeNot.com

May 26, 2014 / Paul / 0 Comments

On Tuesday, Google released a rewrite to their Panda filter algorithm and both large and small sites took notice. Some sites gained in traffic and some sites dove in traffic, we have the Winners & Losers chart for Panda 4.0 already published. But as of this morning, Searchmetrics has updated their weekly US charts, showing the real impact for the top sites that lost traffic. In our previous reports, Searchmetrics told us that Ask.com was hurt most, losing about 75% or more of their search visibility (not traffic) from Google. It seems like eBay and Google’s venture-backed RetailMeNot also lost a tremendous amount of search visibility, about 50% of their Google impressions. Before I share the charts with you, RetailMeNot.com has issued a statement …

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How Google’s Panda Filter Negatively Impacted Ask.com, eBay & Google Backed RetailMeNot.com

Google: ‘EVERYTHING at Google Runs in a Container’

May 25, 2014 / Paul / 0 Comments

Ad giant lifts curtain on how it uses virtualization’s successor TWO BILLION TIMES A WEEK Google is now running “everything” in its mammoth cloud on top of a potential open source successor to virtualization, paving the way for other companies to do the same. Should VMware be worried? Probably not, but the tech pioneered by Google is making inroads into a certain class of technically sophisticated companies. That tech is called Linux Containerization, and is the latest in a long line of innovations meant to make it easier to package up applications and sling them around data centers. It’s not a new approach – see Solaris Zones, BSD Jails, Parallels, and so on – but Google has managed to popularize it enough that a small cottage industry …

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Google: ‘EVERYTHING at Google runs in a container’

How to Add a Color Tinted Full Width Google Map in WordPress

May 22, 2014 / Paul / 0 Comments

How to Add a Color Tinted Full Width Google Map in WordPress By Henry Jones / May 21, 2014 /

Tutorials shares A Google Map is a great feature to include on a “Contacts” or “About” page. It adds a layer of interactivity and allows your visitors to quickly see where you or your business is located.

However, if you really want your design to standout, simply embedding a standard Google Map won’t cut it. So in this short tutorial, I’m going to show you how to easily make a Google Map look more integrated with your branding and website. We used this technique in our Hayden WordPress theme and you can easily see there is a world of difference between this approach and a standard map…

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How to Add a Color Tinted Full Width Google Map in WordPress