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Google has announced an important change. It will now take the top ranked position from every query on your site and average all of the spots calculated in Webmaster Tools.

Everyone needs to be made aware of the new limit of 500kb to the robots txt file. It yours is longer, it may confuse the Googlebots and mess up your ranking.

Ranking predictions for youtube have recently been upgraded and you will notice the change. They are now provided more locally relevant queries.

The new Plus Your World went live in 2012. Seems like people are on the fence with this, I’m not convinced that personalized results are the way to. Google must be careful not to monetize search and social information too much, or they will lack credibility and people will eventually flock to...

This new change is important for people to stay on top of. Now you will see images show u in search with test that says how recently it was submitted.

I think Google has opened up a whole new can of worms here with the new punctuation search results. It is going to be very difficult to determine a user’s intent when searching.

It’s about time. Webmaster Tools is now officially user friendly. Now you can test your sitemap file before actually submitting it (what a novel concept).

Google has not clearly delineated what they consider excessive when it comes to ads being displayed above the site fold. Therefore, it is very difficult to try and determine what the algorithmic changes are. It is pretty random and capricious if you ask me.

The buzz is that Google users were complaining about the amount of ad heavy sites showing up above the fold and messing up organic searches. Consequently, it looks like a new Panda update has targeted these sites. I think this is unfair as many good sites use multiple ads at the top to help...

Looks like they have tweaked the algorithm again. I don’t know about you, but this is starting to get exhausting keeping up with all of the changes. Now Google is targeting ad heavy sites and lowering their rankings.

There is a recent request for the FTC to investigate Google for favoritism of their own products in search results. Has anyone run into this problem when trying to beef up their own sites to get on the top of the fold, only to find Google hogging the space?

Google and Twitter made a deal that allowed Twitter’s database to index tweets and show them in the Google search results. This was impacting SEO in many ways. Now I am noticing this with Facebook pages as well.

Google claims that they have secured all Google+ content with SSL encryption. Do you think this is good for privacy issues?

Not sure how much I like the new profiles in search where Google+ integrates the search results. If someone is in your circle, Google will show them in the auto complete drop down.

What is everyone thinking about the release of Your World, where Google is trying to socialize the search results (From Google +).