Google Bulletin – Testing Hyper Local Stories & News
Hyper local news and stories is nothing new, there have been many platforms that tried it out or are currently live that try to bring really local news stories more…
More Google Search Algorithm Updates Going On Now?
Over the past several days, people have been moaning about ranking and organic search changes in the SEO communities. The most public one is WebmasterWorld, but the overall “chatter,” as I like to call it…
Google’s Brain Surgery & Neurology Doodle For Wilder Penfield
Today on Google’s home page is a special brain Google Doodle for the 127th birthday of the neurosurgeon, Wilder Penfield. Wilder Penfield was a pioneer in the space, being the first to map some of the functions of various regions of the brain…
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David Harry – 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 Harry, 51 years old lives in a small town named Millbrook, in Ontario, Canada with his family consisting of a daughter and son and his wife…
Google: Vacation Rental Test Does Not Change Google My Business Guidelines
Several months ago, we covered how Google was testing vacation rentals in the Google Maps and local results. So when I saw Allyson Wright, the Community Manager at Google My Business mention it yesterday in a Google My Business Help thread…
Google AdWords Adds Remarketing Ad Settings & Mute Ads Additions
Google announced they are adding two new features to help searchers and users see less ads they don’t want to see. Google announced “more additions to Ads Settings and Mute This Ad to give you more control to mute the ads you see on Google, on website…
Search Buzz Video Recap: Google Search Console Live, SEO & Google Fight & New AdWords & AdSense Features
This week in search, we reported that the Google Search Console beta is now live for everyone. Also…
Mike Blumenthal – 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.
Mike Blumenthal, 66 years old, which honestly surprises me, I thought he was in his young 50s. He lives in Allegany, which is located in rural W…
Searchmetrics Beats Brightedge In Court Over Patent Dispute
Back last May, we reported that Searchmetrics US had to flle bankruptcy over receptive lawsuits by Brightedge over patent infringement allegations. It really angered the SEO community at large because Searchmetrics and the CEO…
Virginia Woolf Google Doodle – Stream-Of-Consciousness Narratives
Today on Google’s home page is a special Google logo, Doodle for Virginia Woolf 136th birthday. Virginia Woolf was an English writer who was considered one
Susan Hallam – 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.
Susan Hallam currently lives in the City of London but was born in Philadelphia. Her husband and her children work in the same space as she does,…
Chrome User Experience Report Now Shows Country Specific Data
With all the talk about the Google Page Speed Update and using tools like the PageSpeed Insights Tool to measure your page speed and make improvements…
Google: Translate Your Image Alt Tags As Well
Google’s John Mueller said that having different languages on the same page “makes it harder to determine which language is the primary language of a page.” You don’t want to make it harder for Google to understand your pages…
Google: We Don’t Use GPS Coordinates Schema In Search
Google’s John Mueller said in a video hangout a day or so ago that Google doesn’t use the GeoCoordinates…
Remove URLs Report In Google Search Console Under Maintenance
The remove URL tool report in Google Search Console “might not be available for a short time” according to Google’s data anomalies page. This is because Google is making “some improvements” to the report…
Stone Temple’s New Actions On Google For SEO Questions
Stone Temple and Eric Enge has put together a set of Actions on Google for Google Assistant and Google Home voice responses to your SEO queries. You can try it yourself by asking Google Assistant or your Google Home “Ask Stone Temple” followed by your…
Google AdSense In-Feed Ads Now Can Use Machine Learning
Google announced improvements to their native ads solution for In-feed ads. Now through machine learning, you can let Google figure out the fonts, colors…
SEO & Google Fight Over How Google Treats Subdomains vs Subdirectories
We are now off the 302 redirects fighting and now onto fighting about how Google handles subdirectories vs subdomains…
Google: You Don’t Need To Submit URLs To Us Monthly
You really never have to submit URLs to Google to index, you can, but you don’t need to. The best bet is to make sure to have links to those URLs from pages Google already crawls and indexes…
Akvile DeFazio – 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.
Akvile DeFazio, 32 years old, lives with her husband Zane DeFazio (who is also known in the industry) in Paso Robles…