Google’s Mobile Location History

If you use Google Maps to navigate from place to place, or if you have agreed to be a local guide for Google Maps, there is a chance that you have seen Google Mobile Location history information. There is a Google Account Help page about how to Manage or delete your Location History. The location […]

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Does Google Use Latent Semantic Indexing?

There was a park in the town in Virginia where I used to live that had been a railroad track that was turned into a walking path. At one place near that track was a historic turntable where cargo trains might be unloaded so that they could be added to later trains or trains headed […]

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How to Rank Your Website in Google in 2018 and Beyond!

 There’s a lot of misinformation and confusion about how to rank a website well in Google with all of Google’s algorithm updates in 2018 and beyond. The answers I give in the video below may surprise you! Approximate Transcript of Video Above: Hi. David Hood here, the Dallas SEO geek, and this video is about […]

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Google Targeted Advertising, Part 1

One of the inventors of the newly granted patent I am writing about was behind one of the most visited Google patents I’ve written about, from Ross Koningstein, which I posted about under the title, The Google Rank-Modifying Spammers Patent It described a social engineering approach to stop site owners from using spammy tactics to […]

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Google Giving Less Weight to Reviews of Places You Stop Visiting?

I don’t consider myself paranoid, but after reading a lot of Google patents, I’ve been thinking of my phone as my Android tracking device. It’s looking like Google thinks of phones similarly; paying a lot of attention to things such as a person’s location history. After reading a recent patent, I’m fine with Google continuing […]

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Semantic Keyword Research and Topic Models

I went to the Pubcon 2017 Conference this week in Las Vegas Nevada, and gave a presentation about Semaantic Search topics based upon white papers and patents from Google. My focus was upon things such as Context Vectors and Phrase Based Indexing. I promised in social media that I would post the presentation on my […]

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Does Tomorrow Deliver Topical Search Results at Google?

At one point in time, search engines such as Google learned about topics on the Web from sources such as Yahoo! and the Open Directory Project, which provided categories of sites, within directories that people could skim through to find something that they might be interested in. Those listings of categories included hierarchical topics and […]

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