David Iwanow – The Search Community Honors You
This is part of the say something nice about an SEO/SEM series – feel free to nominate someone over here.
David Iwanow is currently 36 years old and lives and works in London…
Google Search Settings Page Broken
If you go to your Google search settings and try to change some of those settings, such as the number of results per page, your geographic region and some other settings, it won’t work. Google is aware of the issue and is working on a fix…
Google Shows More Yellow Map Pins In Snippets
In early April we reported some folks seeing yellow map pins in the Google search results snippets. Now, many more are seeing it…
Google “Similar To” Carousel For Local Search Results
Sergey Alakov spotted another Google local feature that might be undergoing testing now, he posted it on Twitter. It is similar to the local hotel refinements carousel we covered the other day…
Beware Of Browser Hijacks & Fake Google Ads
Every now and then I see people post screen shots of Google search ads that look suspicious because (a) they are irrelevant to the query and (b) kind of hidden and hard…
Programming Note: Offline Monday For Shavous 5778
This is just a heads up that I am currently offline today for the Jewish holiday of Shavout. Anything posted today, Monday the 21st of May, was scheduled and pre-written last week. In fact, this post was written Thursday, May 17th, and scheduled to b…
Jason Acidre – The Search Community Honors You
This is part of the say something nice about an SEO/SEM series – feel free to nominate someone over here…
Poll: How SEOs Measure Changes To Backlink Profile
I can honestly tell you, I have personally not looked at my backlink profiles in years. Not in Google Search Console links report, not in third party tools…
60% Of SEOs Say They Hurt A Web Site In Google With Spammy Links
A few months ago, I asked you all to take a poll around if you have ever hurt a web site using spammy links to downgrade their rankings in Google search. The good news is that 66% of those who responded said they never tried to do so…
Google: Ranking Is Nothing Without Conversion
The topic of HTML validation has been covered here time and time again – we know Google doesn’t downgrade or boost a web site with bad or good HTML validation…
Bing Ads Bans Cryptocurrency Advertisements
Advertisers who want to use Bing Ads to promote the sale of cryptocurrency, the digital asset such as Bitcoin and others, are not going to be able to do so in June. Bing announced they will be disallow cryptocurrency advertising on their platform…
…
Andy Drinkwater – The Search Community Honors You
This is part of the say something nice about an SEO/SEM series – feel free to nominate someone over here.
Andy Drinkwater lives in Chester, United Kingdom with his girlfriend, Jo. They have two children…
Google Search Console Beta May Be Getting Links From Data
The new Google Search Console isn’t fully on par with the feature set of the old Google Search Console…
Google Local Hotel Pack Showing Search Refinement Option
I am not 100% sure if this is new, it looks super familiar but I don’t think I’ve covered this where Google is showing in their local pack for hotel results refinement boxes at the top. These refinements aim at letting the searcher get better informat…
Publishers: Google AdSense Email Reporting Revenue Numbers Are Wrong
Publishers who are using Google AdSense are complaining that the email notifications they get from Google about their revenues and earnings are simply wrong. Some are saying it is off by 20% or more.
A thread at WebmasterWorld has a bunch of compla…
Google: Google Algorithm To Generate Content Not For Search
Image credit to Shutterstock
The ability to autogenerate content for the web is nothing new, it can be used for spam purposes and it is also used for real publications around things like earnings reports and generic but routine based content…
…
Search Buzz Video Recap: Google Ranking Shifts, Google Snippets Shorter, Personalized Search Dead & Google News Updated
Earlier this week, we reported on more Google algorithm changes with web sites fluctuating in the search results. Google also confirmed they cut down the search results…
Mark Scully – The Search Community Honors You
This is part of the say something nice about an SEO/SEM series – feel free to nominate someone over here.
Mark Scully is 33 and lives in Dublin, Ireland – he is originally from County Tyrone…
Did Google Search Console Send You An Inaccurate WordPress Upgrade Notice?
Google does send notices via Google Search Console to upgrade your WordPress install or other generic CMS platforms that are outdated. The other day…
Google Expands Job Posting Structured Data To Additional Countries
Google has expanded the job posting schema and structured data to additional countries outside of the United States. Job posting structured data lets you mark up your job listings on your web site so they gain additional visibility in the search resul…