I don't know if below has been shared on DP before. I did found it useful so sharing it here. As you may know, Google has been putting out a monthly list of algorithm changes it has been making, as part of the company’s initiative to be “more transparentâ€. Google will never put out the entire secret sauce of its algorithm (without a court order, at least), so webmasters can at least be thankful that they’re being thrown a handful of bones in the form of a monthly list 21 changes made in the month of December. The list goes as follows : Image Search landing page quality signals. More relevant sitelinks Soft 404 Detection More accurate country-restricted searches More rich snippets. Better infrastructure for autocomplete Better spam detection in Image Search [launch codename “leafâ€] Google Instant enhancements for Japanese. More accurate byline dates. Live results for NFL and college football Improved dataset for related queries. Related query improvements. Better lyrics results. Tweak to +1 button on results page Better spell correction in Vietnamese Upcoming events at venues. Improvements to image size signal Improved Hebrew synonyms Safer searching Encrypted search available on new regional domains Faster mobile browsing. http://www.webpronews.com/google-algorithm-changes-2012-01
I was analyzing & going through all of the above recent changes made by Google Algorithm. Today, related to SEO I have learned 2 more things. First : Preference would be given to below results while detecting sites that qualify for shopping. The image below displays a rating and price range—very useful to anyone searching for information about a restaurant SECOND :Although below is an old update but I was not aware of the same