A video from Matt Cutts at Google’s search quality team. He explains how frequently page rank updates occur and how often you will see updated values in the pagerank toolbar.
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Bounce rates are one of the most useful metrics when monitoring both your website usability / conversion-rate performance, as well as evaluating the success of other internet marketing investments.

Partially attributed to the increasing mobile accessibility of search, social networking sharing and link shortening services; growing numbers of website visitors are clicking links that bypass home pages and lead directly to product or service pages, blog posts and news articles.

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A couple of useful videos from the head of search quality at Google, Matt Cutts. Hopefully this article will help to explain changes your website has seen in the volume of visitors from Google search over the last 6 months.

You may have been wondering how often to expect changes in your website’s search engine results performance, or be concerned that traffic has dropped recently. As Matt explains, the May Day update hit many small businesses, especially in their long tail search performance.

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Google Maps was launched in June 2005, displaying conventional maps, roads and satellite images from a separate screen accessed by a Maps link a the top of search engine results pages

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Search results from Google, Bing and others are compiled by computer algorithms designed to provide users with relevant and useful results, based on the search terms entered.

Each search engine brand has their own secret algorithm for scoring pages and then showing pages to the user. These complex formulas are constantly changing in an attempt to filter out increasing volumes of irrelevant,  spammy and offensive content from search results and hopefully encourage user loyalty to that particular brand of search engine.

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