SearchCap: Google gas, link profiles & more
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
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Gas Prices Come To The Google Local Pack
Pete Meyers spotted and posted on Twitter a screen shot of the Google local 3-pack showing gas prices. I cannot replicate it but it seems Google is showing real-time has prices of nearby gas stations.
Here is a screen shot:
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Google Now Sending Webmasters Deceptive Site / Social Engineering Detected Warnings
Yesterday, Google posted a blog post on the webmaster blog that was actually posted months ago on the security blog, we covered it in February. So I was scratching my head as to why Google posted it months later on the webmaster blog…
Google My Business Enables You Set Special Hours In Card View
Google keeps adding more and more ways to add special hours to your business information. First it was via spreadsheet and the Google My Business portal and then via the apps. Now, you can add it via the “card view…
Google’s John Mueller On Redirecting vs 404ing Products That No Longer Exist
This is a topic we’ve covered a lot here, what to do with out of stock products and Google. Truth is…
Webmaster See Spike In Google Zombie Traffic
Back in October was the first time I introduced many of you to the Google Zombie traffic phenomenon. The definition of zombie traffic from Google are users that act like Zombies…
How will online advertisers and retailers benefit from Google AdWords redesign?
In this mobile-first world, Google is continuously monitoring the growth of usage on mobile devices and looking for ways to improve advertiser’s … read more
How checking your link profile can save your site
Inbound links are crucial to your SEO success, but Pratik Dholakiya reminds us that if we aren’t vigilant, toxic backlinks can lead to ranking penalties.
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How to adjust SEO strategy to Google’s new SERP ad layout
Google’s recent changes to their search results pages threw paid search marketers for a loop, but what about organic search practitioners? Columnist Dan Bagby discusses the impact on SEO.
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Mobile marketers are missing out on hyperlocal: report
Despite the opportunity to target customers based on their locations, just 22% of marketers agree that they are exploiting hyperlocal advertising to its full … read more
A script to set recurring monthly budgets in AdWords
Columnist Frederick Vallaeys shares a modified version of Google’s flexible budgets script that allows you to automatically distribute your monthly budget in an intelligent way.
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30 quick and easy SEO tips for small businesses
For the uninitiated, SEO can seem to be a complex and foreign landscape, but it doesn’t have to be too complicated. Indeed, … read more
Google displaying gas prices in the local 3-pack
Now you can get the prices for filling up your tank in the Google results when searching for gas.
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SearchCap: Google expands Featured Snippets, penalizes free product reviews & more
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
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Google Slaps Mass Manual Actions For Outbound Links Over Free Product Reviews
As we reported yesterday, Google slapped mass penalties for outbound links over the weekend. Google’s John Mueller commented on some of those threads last night…
Google My Business App For iOS Available For Download
After a serious bug with the Google My Business App for iOS that started mid-last week, the new updated version is now available for download in the Apple App iTunes Store.
Google submitted the fix before the weekend after removing it from the app sto…
Google: Log File Analysis Is So Underrated
I remember the days of prepping before client meetings by scouring through tons of log files to tell the client how much traffic they were getting from their web site. This was pre-Urchin analytics days. It was painful but truth was…
Would Google Launch Penguin 4.0 With Gary Illyes & John Mueller On Vacation?
Despite telling John Mueller of Google that I wouldn’t cover this, I now have to cover it…
Social Advertising? Earned/Owned Social? Get the latest tactics at SocialPro.
We hear from three kinds of social media marketers: social media paid advertising specialists; organic (earned/owned) social specialists; those responsible for both. Marketing Land’s SocialPro is for you, regardless which description best fits you. SocialPro features sessions jam-packed with…
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Everything you need to know about natural language search
Search engines like Google, Bing and others are making efforts to bring searching for information in line with everyday conversation with a type … read more