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For Media Sites, Facebook Referrals are More Likely to Return

By Shervin | Published: March 19, 2010
Google News is worse than average for sticky traffic. Click to read the rest of this post...
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Facebook.com Beats Out Google.com In Web Visitors This Week

By anthony | Published: March 16, 2010
Hitwise reports that Facebook.com surpassed Google.com in visits to become the most visited website for the week ending in March 13, 2010. It is not the first time this has happened, on Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, and New Year’s Day as well as the weekend of March 6th and 7th Facebook.com surpassed Google.com as well. It is important to note, that this only is Google.com traffic. It does not include Gmail, Google News, and Google's other properties. Here is a chart: Forum discussion at WebmasterWorld .
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Google, Yahoo & Portals Are Top Online News Sources: Study

By Shervin | Published: March 14, 2010
Major news portals — like Yahoo News, Google News, AOL, and Topix — are the most commonly used online news sources, beating out the web sites of major news outlets like CNN, CBS, and the New York Times. That’s according to the the State of the Media report issued tonight by the Pew Research Center’s *** Read the full post by clicking on the headline above or, in Facebook, by clicking on the "View Original Post" link below. ***
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Video Recap of Weekly Search Buzz :: March 12, 2010

By admin | Published: March 12, 2010
It has been two weeks since my last video recap, but I have been doing text recaps - so check those out . Why did I miss the video recaps, I was in Israel for both pleasure and business. I ran SphinnCon Israel this past sunday, it was a blast. Yahoo Search updated their index this week. Google's AJAX crawling proposal is now live. Google is upgrading the Site Performance report in Webmaster Tools.
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Google News Archives Adds "Browse This Newspaper"

By jorge | Published: March 12, 2010
If you go to the Google News Archives and find a digitized back issue from the Google archives, you should be able to now browse that newspaper directly on Google. For example, let's take a look at the The News and Eastern Townships Advocate . I can then browse the newspaper by panning through the pages. Here are some screen captures: I spotted this addition via the Google News Help forum where Googler, Inbal replied to an old thread with this feature request.
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Google Help Forums To Change Member Ranking System

By jorge | Published: March 8, 2010
The Google Web Search Help , Google News Help & Google Merchant Center Help forums all are announcing new changes coming to how forum members are ranked in these forums. Currently, the member titles or levels are from Level 1 to Level 4. Some users get special titles, such as top contributors and/or certified professionals , or even Googler's get a special label, labeling them as Googlers. I do not believe the labels will be changing, but the levels will. Instead of the 4 levels, there will be 20 levels
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March 2010 Google Webmaster Report

By admin | Published: March 4, 2010
Our monthly Google webmaster report based on the ongoing WebmasterWorld thread is now pretty large enough for me to give you an status update. The thread is actually pretty long now, which is not always the case this early in the month. Here are the key points discussed in the current thread: Site command showing less results (less pages being indexed) Crawl rates in Webmaster Tools go flat for some Fluctuations on search results for the positions 2 and 3 Very old Cache dates Here are the key topics we covered webmaster related to Google in the past month: Report: Google To Launch Caffeine Index In Upcoming "Months" Google Webmaster Tools Bolsters Notifications & Eases Sharing Google Webmaster Tools Bug In Indexed URLs Report "0 Indexed URLs" In Google News Sitemaps Bug Is Google Mixing Paid Results With Free Results? Google Image Search Filter Now Faster? Google Images Change How They Display Sources?
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Pew: Portals Most Commonly Used News Sites

By jorge | Published: March 1, 2010
The Pew Internet project has just released a lengthy report on online news consumption entitled Understanding the Participatory News Consumer. There are no search-specific findings; however it appears from the survey data that “portal websites like Google News, AOL and Topix are the most commonly used online news sources, visited by over half of online news users on a typical day.” Here are some of the high-level findings from *** Read the full post by clicking on the headline above or, in Facebook, by clicking on the "View Original Post" link below. ***
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"0 Indexed URLs" In Google News Sitemaps Bug

By anthony | Published: March 1, 2010
A Google News Help thread has some reports of publishers reporting that their Google News Sitemaps are reporting "0 Indexed URLs" in Google Webmaster Tools. I too saw this issue and I thought that perhaps there was a bug in my sitemap file. But Google did not report any issues with my sitemap file, plus, I saw my articles were being indexed within Google News. So I figured, it was a reporting glitch in Google Webmaster Tools. It appears I was right
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Google Open Sources "Living Stories" Concept

By Shervin | Published: February 18, 2010
Google is open sourcing the Living Stories news article concept at Google Code . What is a living story? Well, instead of writing an article for each new event that happens on a certain topic, you update an existing story with the latest information. If you think about it, there are tons of articles out there on the web, that are stale, outdated and often useless. Having a single, constantly updated story, makes more sense, at least for web consumption - according to Google. Google ran this experiment with some papers and decided to make it available to all. First, here is a video explaining it: They are even incorporating it more in the new Google News design . Fred from Google wrote in the Google News Help thread about it
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