The latest post on ‘Mashable’ is titled “Small Google+ Design Change Looks More Like Facebook”. Kurt Wagner says, “If you share links on Google+, you may have noticed a small, yet positive change this week. That’s because link posts have been redesigned to include larger images, and cleaner titles. Links posted to Google+ used to include a small thumbnail photo and a blue, underlined link. Now the images span the entire post and the titles are black, not blue, and don’t have any underline at all“. Small Google+ Design Change Looks More Like Facebook Mashable.com  [...]

The latest MOZ blog post is titled “Google’s 2014 Redesign: Before and After”. Dr. Peter J. Meyers says, “Over the past few months, Google has been testing a redesign of both their overall SERP format and their AdWords blocks. In the past day or two, it appears that they’ve rolled these changes out to a large part of their audience. While we still have a chance to grab before and after versions of the SERPs, I thought it would be worth a quick stroll down memory lane and a look at the future of Google“. Google’s 2014 Redesign: Before and After MOZ Blog  [...]

The latest article on  ‘Marketing Land’ is titled “Google Celebrates The Web’s 25th Birthday With Plea To Keep It Free”. Amy Gesenhues says, “Today’s Google homepage includes a small birthday cake image with a “25″ candle on top to celebrate the web’s 25th birthday. The image links to a post on Google’s blog penned by the inventor of the web Sir Tim Berners-Lee, asking that everyone “fight to keep it free and open.” Berners-Lee writes: On the 25th birthday of the web, I ask you to join in—to help us imagine and build the future standards for the... [...]

The latest post on ‘ReadWrite’ is titled “Google’s Sundar Pichai On Wearable Tech: ‘We Are Just Scratching The Surface'”. Dan Rowinski says, “Google may be commonly associated with Google Glass, one of the most striking, and perhaps strangest, wearable devices out there. But where development of new wearable technology is concerned, the fun is just beginning, a top Google executive said Sunday. Wearable gadgets aren’t just smart versions of glasses or watches, but also anything that embeds sensors that can collect data and deliver it to devices that can then... [...]

The latest post on ‘Mashable’ is titled “You’re Not Crazy: Google Search Results Look a Little Different”. Karissa Bell says, “Google is rolling out a new design of search to desktop users that includes changes to both organic search results and ads to desktop users. The new design removes underlines, increases the font size and, most important, changes the way ads are labeled in search results. The changes appear to be part of a broader redesign of search results Google has been experimenting with since last fall, when it first began rolling out similar changes to search... [...]

The latest MOZ blog post is titled “How to Set Up Meaningful (Non-Arbitrary) Custom Attribution in Google Analytics”. Tom Capper says, “Attribution modeling in Google Analytics (GA) is potentially very powerful in the results it can give us, yet few people use it, and those that do often get misleading results. The built-in models are all fairly useless, and creating your own custom model can easily dissolve into random guesswork. If you’re lucky enough to have access to GA Premium, you can use Data-Driven Attribution, and that’s great—but if you haven’t got the budget to take... [...]

The latest post on ‘ReadWrite’ is titled “Google At SXSW: The Internet Is Accelerating Social Change On A Global Scale”. Selena Larson says, “Google chairman Eric Schmidt and Director of Google Ideas Jared Cohen led a discussion at Friday’s SXSW event in Austin, Texas, which described the ways technology is impacting privacy, security and policy on a global scale. The two Google execs said they visited at least 35 countries, a majority of them unstable autocracies such as North Korea, and examined the impact technology is having on citizens in those countries. As citizens... [...]

The latest article on HubSpot blog is titled “How to Add Google Authorship for Multiple Websites to Google+”. Alec Biedrzycki says, “Google authorship is a hugely beneficial integration for prolific online content creators that can help boost SERP clickthrough rates, author and site visibility, and page views. But what happens if you write for multiple sites? Or if you leave a company, and start writing elsewhere? Good news — you can claim authorship for multiple sites! So whether you guest blog, change jobs and start writing for different companies, or maintain your... [...]

Jay Baer‘s latest ‘Convince & Convert’ blog post is titled “15 Reasons Why Analytics Prediction Will Make You a Better Marketer″. Baer says, “Thanks to the success of Google Analytics, there are dozens of ways to collect historical data from your website and connecting social networks. And yet, your optimization strategy is probably missing one very important step: predictive analytics. Predictive analytics interest has skyrocketed over the last year, according to Google trends. The reason? Marketers are beginning”. 15 Reasons Why Analytics Prediction Will Make You a Better... [...]

The latest MOZ blog post is titled “A Deep Dive into Google MyAnswers”. Gianluca Fiorellin says, “A few months ago I published here on Moz SEO in the Personalization Age, where I explained why, once and for all, SEOs need to be aware of the personalization of SERPs and the mechanisms by which Google customizes our search results. I also suggested some ways to convert what at first sight is just a complication into a competitive advantage. This post is the ideal continuation of that one. Here, however, I won’t dig into SEO theories and patents, but I will try to put order in all of... [...]