Trump Gets Googlebombed In Google Images As Idiot
You cannot be a president in the Google era without getting multiple Googlebombs throughout your service. This time, it is Trump who got Googlebombed again, for the search term [idiot] in Google Image search…
Bing Webmaster API Still Broken After 2 Weeks – No Fix In Sight
Over a week ago, I reported that Bing Webmaster Tools API was down and then began using some of my channels to find out what is up. All of my channels failed to lead…
Google: Still A Lot To Do To Fully Roll Out Mobile First Indexing
As many of you know, Google has been active at rolling out the mobile-first indexing process to more and more sites in their index. We stopped keeping track of the notifications after what we documented the fourth batch of mobile-first indexing notifi…
Google: Noindex & Rel=Canonical Should Not Be Mixed
There is an outstanding explanation from Google’s John Mueller about the differences around the noindex and rel=canonical signals and why they should not be mixed. In short…
Search Buzz Video Recap: Google EU Fine, Image Search Change, Trump Idiot Bomb & Mobile First Indexing
This week, Google was fined a record breaking $5 billion by the EU for Android antitrust issues. Google Image search has updated their referral URLs for easier tracking. Trump…
Bing Ads Strongly Recommends You Use HTTPS URLs
Bing announced 10 days ago that they are now strongly recommending that you switch all your ad URLs from HTTP to HTTPS. “Bing Ads strongly recommends you update your URLs to use the HTTPS protocol instead of HTTP…
Google May Still Add Voice Query Filters To Google Search Analytics
This might sound funny by now because we’ve been talking about Google adding voice query data and filters to the Google Search Console Search Analytics report a lot last year…
Google Tests New Location Tab & Scores For Hotel Listings
As I reported on at Search Engine Land based on Sergey Alakov spotting another test, Google is testing a new location tab that not only shows you location specific information around a hotel listing but also scores the location based on factors such as…
Google: You Should Redirect HTTP Even With HSTS Configured
Google’s John Mueller said this morning on Reddit that even if you have HSTS (HTTP Strict Transport Security) which kind of by default forces a domain to go from HTTP to HTTPS, that you should still set up the 301 redirects from HTTP to HTTPS as well…..
Google’s John Mueller Shares His SEO Related Podcast List
A Reddit thread asks folks to share their favorite SEO related podcasts. I spotted John Mueller of Google share his list of his favorite SEO podcasts as well…
Google Logo For German Conductor, Kurt Masur
Google has a logo on their home page on their US, German, Iceland, Japan and other home pages to remember the life of one of the last old-style maestros, the German conductor Kurt Masur…
Google My Business Notifications When Local Listings Go Live
Google’s Allyson Wright from the Google My Business team announced in the Google My Business Help forums that a new feature for those that submit new listings to Google My Business is rolling out to notify you when you listings go live in Google Maps o…
Google Image Search To Change Referrer URL For Tracking
Google is updating the referrer URL from Google Image search in the upcoming months. This is super important news for anyone who has any web site that uses any form of analytics to track their incoming traffic. Those who use Google Analytics and noth…
Google Automatically Recognizes Broad Site Changes
Google’s John Mueller said on Twitter that Google already can and does recognize broad site changes and thus there is no need for a button in Google Search Console to communicate these changes…
Google Is Hiring Webmaster Outreach Folks In Mountain View & Hyderabad
Once again, if you are interested in joining Google to deal with webmaster outreach and support related issues and deal with all the abuse they take…
Stone Temple Consulting Acquired By Perficient: Huge Congrats To Eric & Team
As many of you saw, Stone Temple Consulting was acquired by the publicly traded company Perficient – here is the press release.
Eric Enge and his wife own the company, but most of you just know Eric…
Google Search Tests Hotel Prices By Day Chart
Masaki Okazawa from Merkle posted on Twitter a test Google is trying in search to show hotel prices for a specific hotel over a specific date range directly in the search results…
Google IP Lookup Works In English & With IPv6 Addresses
Google has had the ability to look up your IP address for years now…
Google: Crawling SPA (Single-Page Application) Isn’t Easy But Can Work
Google’s John Mueller was asked about how GoogleBot handles crawling, indexing and ranking SPAs, single page applications on the web…