Google AdSense Removes Payments Holds Notice
The notice is now gone and these publishers no longer have to verify their physical mailing addresses with Google for some reason. I suspect the original notice was invalid…
Google Image Search Removes Features Over Getty Images Legal Spat
Remember a few days ago I told you Google was going to make changes to Google Image Search because of the Getty Images legal spat and deal they closed recently…
Search Buzz Video Recap: Google Buying Links, Image Search Change & AMP Stories Launches
This week, we reported that technically Google was caught buying links without nofollowing them and no, this was not the first time. Google Image Search removed the view image button and some other features because of their Getty Images legal deal…
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Wissam Dandan – 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.
Wissam Dandan is 33 years old, lives with his family in Florida…
Old Google Patent Search No Longer Accessible?
In July 2015, Google announced their new version of the Google Patent Search at patents.google.com. But it seems like the old version was still accessible via
Google Search Console Indexed, Low Interest Filter Is Gone
In September, Google wow’ed the SEO community by adding a report in the new Google Search Console that showed indexed, low interest pages from your web site. Well, now…
Google Wants To Get Date Timestamps Accurate In Search Results
Last night, when people were searching about the horrible news in Florida, some noticed that some of the recent articles covering the news were labeled by Google has being written days before the event…
Google: New Sites Should Go HTTPS From The Start
John Mueller from Google said on Twitter that if you are building a new site, then you should most likely go HTTPS from the start. I don’t think anyone would argue with that…
Google Caught Buying Links Again
Google has given a generous donation to FOSDEM, Free and Open Source Software Developers’ European Meeting, and now has three juicy links on the FOSDEM Sponsors page. Those links…
Valentine’s Day Doodles, Logos & Designs From Google, Bing & Others
Happy Valentine’s Day everyone and it is also Ash Wednesday, which is rare to overlap. Also, it is the Olympics. So the Google logo has a bit of Valentine’s Day and Olympics. Bing, Sogou, and Baidu, all search engines…
Patrick Stox: 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.
Patrick Stox is 34 years old and lives in Raleigh, North Carolina with his wife Xatli…
Report: 70% Of Google’s Page One Search Results Are HTTPS
This morning the folks at RankRanger posted on Twitter that over 70% of the page one Google search results listings are HTTPS…
Interesting Google Featured Snippet With Headline & Tables
We have seen many flavors of featured snippets in the Google search results, but here is an interesting one spotted by Rebecca Lehmann and posted on Twitter…
Test: Google Showing Competing Shopping Search Engines In Shopping Carousel
As you know, the EU fined Google over anti-competitive search results in the shopping space…
Google Blogsearch Ping Going Away, Not That Anyone Used It
Google announced on Google+ and John Mueller also added to it that Google is going to shutting down Google Blogsearch “Ping” service. It launched back in 2006 when a lot of blogging platforms used the ping method to communicate “trackbacks” i.e. link …
Google Confirms: There Are Limits On Request Indexing Feature In Search Console
For the past week or so, we have been on a mission to figure out if Google intentionally removed the quota message in the Google Search Console Fetch as Google request indexing feature and if so…
Google AdSense Places Payments On Hold Until Mailing Address Verification
Google AdSense is showing some AdSense publishers a notice that their payments are on hold until they validate and verify their physical mailing address by way of postcard…
Google To Make Changes To Image Search For Getty Images & Others
Google and Getty Images have not really seen eye to eye for probably over a decade, since Google shows their images in image search and people just take those images and do what they want with it. Greg Sterling sums up the relationship pretty well……
Google Launches AMP Stories & Visual Stories In Mobile Search
Google launched this morning at the AMP Conference something they are calling AMP Stories. They are swipeable user interfaces that tell you a story. Google describes them as a “mobile-focused format for delivering news and information as visually rich…
After Months Of Testing, Google Launches People Also Search For Box
Over the past 24 hours or so, I received dozens of notifications of a new look and design for the people also search for box in Google. It is something we covered Google testing back in November…