Decoding Google's Referral String (or, how I surviVED Secure Search) + MORE

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The “conversational search” that Google demonstrated at last week’s Google I/O conference is now available to users of its Chrome browser, and it’s a significant leap in how we use search engines. I’m 17 years now into writing about search, and I’ve seen all…

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Perhaps one of the more troubling conundrums that SEO's face is canonicalization. Running a close second is pagination.
Here's An Example
You have an e-commerce website and you want to rank for "beach towels". Currently, you have a category page that points to a section where all your beach towel products are organized and displayed…

Posted by timresnik
Last week, I held a Mozinar outlining a method to extract SERP vertical — called Universal Search by Google — from Google referral strings. Since the Mozinar concluded, the number of people who have reached out with their own theories and ideas has been impressive. I want to post everything that I know here and then leave it up to you folks in the SEOmoz community to start hacking and sharing your insight…