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Video search engine coverage. News about the video search engine sites and general search engines as the pertain to assisting users find online videos. Industry coverage of video search technology, indexing web videos for search engines, video search platforms, universal search, and more about search engines

Google Instant Expands To Google Videos and Other Search Verticals

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Google just released Google Instant a couple weeks ago, and already they're rolling out new features.  Things move pretty quickly at the house of Google, I guess.  While most of us are still trying to figure out how Google Instant impacts SEO, they've moved forward ...

Google's Birthday: Looking Back Over 12 Years of Growth and Change At Google Inc.

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Google is celebrating their 12th birthday during the month of September, and today they have placed a little birthday cake logo on their home page—it was on this date, September 27, in 1998 that Google was first incorporated as a privately held company.

New "Google New" Helps You Keep Up With Everything New At Google

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If you care about how well your content--video included--ranks in Google's search results, you probably try to pay attention to the many Google announcements related to their products and services.  But with so many products and services--and tons of specialized Google product blogs--it can be ...

An In-Depth Look At The Impact of Google Instant On SEO and PPC - Is SEO Dead?

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Last week, Google introduced a new capability to its search engine results page, a functionality called "Google Instant."  When the announcement hit, people were clamoring to chime in with respect to the effect that Google Instant might have on search engine optimization (SEO) and pay per click ...

Google Gets Instant: Real-Time Live Search Results As You Type

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Google has been a bit playful this week leading up to today's media event.  Yesterday, the logo was comprised of little blue dots, and users could mouse over it to "scatter" the dots all over the page before they regrouped again.  It was pretty neat, ...

Vimeo SEO: How To Get Embedded Vimeo Videos Into Google

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As I mentioned previously, Google is pushing hard to let people know that video sitemaps are the way to go when looking to get video into Google's search results.  And I am happy to report to you that video sitemaps DO work for Vimeo videos.

Yahoo Steals A Chunk of Google's Search Engine Market Share?

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I come from a background in search.  I'm a search engine guy first, and a video guy second.  It's just how I'm wired.  Which is why ReelSEO is such a great home for me, because I get to write about both.  Today, there's some news ...

Why You Should Care About Google’s Rumored Social Networking Service

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Rumors have been swirling for ages that Google is secretly building their own social networking service.  Even before that Tweet from Digg's Kevin Rose got tongues wagging, many industry insiders had long suspected Google was looking to get more social.

Google and ReelSEO Want You To Embrace Video SEO

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Last month, I told you that Google is putting additional efforts into instructing publishers of the benefits of  Google's video sitemaps.  It is nice to see that Google is also running some PPC ads to promote Video SEO.  Since the start of ReelSEO, I've been ...

Google's Official Reference Guide for Video Sitemaps

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Last month, I interviewed Matt Cutts, Principal Engineer at Google, on the subject of Google Video Sitemaps.  Matt told us that Google was starting to take a much closer look at video sitemaps and he advised that all video publishers begin to explore video sitemaps.  Today, ...

Strange Google Search Results Spotted - Reminder To Add Video To Google Places

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Some well-known SEO folks are seeing some drastic changes to local-result queries on Google, including Frank Reed over at Marketing Pilgrim.  The results are clearly part of a testing phase, as not all users are seeing the same thing.  But the changes are huge and ...

Google: To All Video Publishers - Get Your Google Video Sitemaps Ready

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Last week, at the SMX Advanced conference in Seattle, I had the pleasure of meeting Matt Cutts, Principal Engineer and head of Google's web spam team.  Matt is a well-known figure in the SEO community and often advises the public on how to get better visibility ...

Google's New Index, Caffeine, Is Now Fully Awake

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We've written before a time or two about how Google was testing "Caffeine," a new indexing system for their engine.  And now they're done testing.  The Google search engine as you knew it is done… it is now officially powered by Caffeine… for everyone.  The ...

Video Keyword Research - SEO Basics for Video and Beyond – Part I

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We spend a ton of time on this site talking about video SEO.  And with good reason.  Video is on a meteoric rise that shows no signs of stopping—heck, YouTube took 4.5 years to reach a billion views a day, and then doubled it in ...

A Look At How Google's Search Layout Affects Video Results

Well, everyone seems to hate the new Google search results page, except Mark and myself.  It's kind of a shame.  I mean, I understand someone preferring a more minimalist design, or feeling like the page is too cluttered.  I get that.  But that clutter is ...

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