New Top Navigation: White Top & Box Bar by Google

This morning, Google is rolling out a new top bar navigation style worldwide. They have not yet announced it, but they have been testing various experiments with it. It seems very likely that Google will roll out this new navigation to all Google users over the next few days.

The picture above shows Google has dropped the black bar navigation and replaced it with a minimalistic white top, with fewer links but a box like button, which expands to show you additional Google services.

Source url : http://www.seroundtable.com/google-white-box-navigation-17362.html

Google's Keyword Tool Replaced

As you may remember, Google announced they are replacing the external keyword tool with the Google Keyword Planner tool.
Well, it took some time, but now the legacy external keyword tool is gone. If you try to access it at adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal you will see an error page that reads:

Source url : http://www.seroundtable.com/google-keyword-tool-gone-17286.html 

No Google Toolbar PageRank Update from last 6 months

It has now been over six months since the last widespread Google PageRank update. The last update was in early February, where users spotted changes to the Google Toolbar PageRank data.
Since then, I have not seen a major Toolbar PageRank update from Google. Which honestly, is not the norm.

Source url : http://www.seroundtable.com/google-pagerank-no-update-17276.html

Google adds support for skip redirect to handle rel-alternate-media annotations

Google's Pierre Far, their mobile SEO man, announced on Google+ that Google has quietly added support for skip redirect to handle rel-alternate-media annotations.
Pierre calls this a "sweet little update." He explains that using the rel-alternate-media annotiation gives you more flexibility in how you handle users versus robots. He explains:

Source url : http://www.seroundtable.com/googles-skip-redirect-rel-alternate-media-17211.html

How to promote your company or business via Twitter in 2013?

- Choose the account name wisely, i mean the one which will be helpful in promoting your business, as it will be searchable on search engines by the same name.

- Add website url - add your company's url correctly which you want to be promoted.

- Importance of Bio - Add the keywords wisely in the bio, a catchy bio may help lure more people to follow you.

- Twitter a/c visibility -Add twitter account details on everything which is related to your business this may result in more visibility and popularity on web.

- Tweet regularly - Regular, sensible and informative tweets may help you to increase your followers and hence popularity gain.

- Use url shortners often - This may help to insert longer urls easily due to character limit.

- Add hashtags.

In-Depth Articles Goes Live on Google

A month ago, we reported tests of in-depth search snippets from Google - well that test is now a reality. Google announced last night that they will show these in-depth articles in the search results when the query is about understanding a broader topic. Google said this will help 10% of the queries that are seeking more than just a quick answer, really dive deeper into broader topics.

This is launching on google.com in English to start but Google promises to expand this feature to other regions and languages.

Source url : http://www.seroundtable.com/google-in-depth-articles-17191.html

Delete Map Listings with new Google Places

The new Google Places dashboard was missing an important feature, the ability to delete or remove a business listing from your dashboard. But as of last night, Google has enabled that feature in the new places dashboard.
Jade Wang from Google announced it on Google+ saying, "remove a listing now available for new Places dashboard users."

Source url : http://www.seroundtable.com/google-places-delete-listing-17181.html 

Google says NoFollow for text links on Press Releases

Friday we broke the news that Google updated their link schemes webmaster guidelines. Now that the dust has settled, I aimed at getting more clarification on what Google meant by the new example around keyword-rich anchor text links within articles or press releases.
The specific line in the link schemes document is:
Links with optimized anchor text in articles or press releases distributed on other sites.
John Mueller, one of Google’s lead Webmaster Trends Analyst, was kind enough to answer some of my questions around this documentation change in a video hangout. The questions from SEOs and myself around the new link schemes documentation change are in the first ten minutes, the outcome was to nofollow links within press releases.

Source url : http://searchengineland.com/google-links-in-a-press-release-should-be-nofollowed-like-advertisements-168339 

Start Searching India By Google

Google India on Tuesday introduced its 'Start Searching India' campaign here to help internet users get the most out of the web with its search tool.
"Internet is no longer restricted to the domain of working professionals and is fast emerging as a life enriching tool catering to the varied needs of the people from all walks of life," Google India's Director Marketing, Sandeep Menon said on the occasion.
The objective of the campaign is to help Indian users save time, by showing how they can get instant and to-the-point answers to their most common queries, he said.

Source url : http://www.dnaindia.com/scitech/1867616/report-google-kicks-off-start-searching-india-campaign 

Google's disavow tool

Can using Google’s link disavow tool help remove penalties? Yes, the company says. But when it comes to manual penalties, disavowing links alone isn’t enough. With algorithmic penalties, there may be a time delay involved. Below, more about how both methods work.
Over the past few days, I’ve encountered a couple of cases where people are confused about how the link disavow tool works to remove penalties. So, I figured a clarification post was in order. Here’s the situation, all of which I reverified with Google yesterday.

Source url  : http://searchengineland.com/how-google-disavow-link-tool-remove-penalties-154928