Google Mobile Search Descriptions Now Say If You’re Blocking Google

Yet another reason not to block JavaScript, CSS, etc from Google. It may negatively impact your snippet in the mobile search results now.

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Google Ventures-Backed RetailMeNot Climbs Out Of Its Google Penalty

What changes did RetailMeNot make to recover from the Google Panda algorithm? It is unclear but their rankings did bounce back.

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Google’s Knowledge Graph May Show For 1/4th Of All Search Queries

Google’s Knowledge Graph shows for about 25% of all Google queries, which can pose a threat to the publishers who are the source of much of that data.

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Google Events Knowledge Graph Adds Ticket Links, Delegated Events, Comedian Events & Venue Events

Google makes four updates to the events knowledge graph after launching the markup back in March 2014.

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Google Updates Their Structured Data Testing Tool, Documentation & Syntax Support

Google has unleashed a new and improved Structured Data Testing tool, updated their documentation and guidelines, while adding more markup support.

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Google Doesn’t Know When Super Bowl 2015 Starts (Yet!)

Why hasn’t Google provided the correct answer for the Super Bowl start time when year-after-year, it has been an issue for them?

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Google Adds Song Lyrics With Deeper Links To Google Play

Google’s Knowledge Graph and Direct Answers takes a stab out of lyrics web sites, with new song lyrics answers.

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Do You Hate “Not Provided”? Not So Fast… It May Be a Blessing In Disguise!

Things have certainly changed since Google took away keyword referral data, but columnist Stephan Spencer argues that these changes were for the better.

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For The Holidays, Google Breaks Its No Updates Rules, Gives Out Fresh Penguin Updates

Since Google’s “Florida” Update of November 2003[1], the search engine has kept to an unofficial promise not to mess with its ranking algorithm during the holiday season. That’s changed this year with a flurry of Penguin Updates. Penguin is Google’s filter to fight spam that gets past its regular…

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