If you want to stay ahead of the SEO game and create killer content which Google loves particularly in 2012 without all the setbacks that go along with it, then you must read this new guide my good friend Paul Clifford put together which he goes into great detail about the new term “Content Curation”. Gathering the best sources of information for content and presenting it in such a way is really one of the major parts of Content Curation, but you will see in his guide how it all works and everything gets put in place properly to make your sites original and content rich without doing all the hard work.

Google has now updated their privacy policy and combined all of their 70 policies into 1. They are doing all they can to support users and their privacy as well as making it more convenient for the users experience. Your thoughts?

Google's Schemer is a direct reaction to Foursquare, geography based social apps for mobile devices and social media websites. It looks like Schemer will be integrated into Google's Plus platform, which was released earlier this year.

Today, Google has responded by adding a new “verbatim” option to search results. Though some may find it’s not as easy to use as the “ ” or double quotes operators because you have to type your query first, then select further options before getting search results, it’s a welcome addition for anyone wanting more control over results.

Google is finally rolling out the ability to target ads to users by interest — based on their previous browsing activity, or behavior — to all of its advertisers. The company first announced a beta test of this capability more than two years ago, back in 2009, and it has slowly been introducing it to larger groups over time. The company says the capabilities are available today.

With these recent events in mind, a patent filing from Google that shows social features seems significant. Bill Slawski of SEO by the Sea first reported this news and suggested that it could be a clue into what Google’s social network could look like.

Late February, Google launched a substantial algorithm change (known as “Farmer” or "Panda") aimed at identifying low-quality pages and sites. These are pages (often seen on so-called “content farms”) with text that is relevant for a query, but may not provide the best user experience.

SEOs and webmasters have been eagerly anticipating, both in fear and excitement, the release of Google's content farm algorithm. Google announced that is has been rolled out yesterday. This is the second of two released, the first being aimed at scraper sites.

After 9 months Google finally updated PageRank I have mentioned in the past that PageRank doesn’t mean much to SEO’s like it used to, in fact you can get amazing ranking without PageRank. I will honestly say, the only thing PageRank was ever good for was exchanging or getting links from...

Did you hear the big news? I think this will have raised many eyebrows, Larry Page Co-founder of Google is replacing Eric Schmidt to become CEO at Google. Although he will still be titled Co-founder he is just changing roles in order to take care of other areas such as business dealings etc. Although...