Google, Is Okay With Commas, Even In Your Title Tags
I am really not sure where these ideas come from, which is why I have stuff to write daily but this guy asked John Mueller if putting commas in title tags are okay or not. John…
Pinterest A Spam Tool For Google’s Organic Results?
The ongoing WebmasterWorld thread has ongoing chatter about Google ranking shuffles but there is now a new uptick in complaints about Pinterest ranking very well in Google. Some people are saying that Pinterest is pulling a Wikipedia and taking over a …
Google Logo For The Silent Parade of 1917
On Google’s home page in the United States is a special Google logo, aka a Doodle, for the 100th anniversary of the “Silent Parade of 1917.” On July 28, 1917, nearly 10,000 African American children, women…
Google AdWords Tests New Sitelinks Design
Google is testing new sitelinks designs and layouts for their ad formats. Ginny Marvin covered them yesterday based on tips from Erik Hamilton and Frederik Hyldig…
Google: Sticky Footers Are Okay; Within Webmaster Guidelines
Gary Illyes of Google was asked about sticky footers, if Google has an issue with them. Gary responded on Twitter saying “nah, I wouldn’t worry about that.” Meaning…
Google Mistakes Tom Brady As The Owner Of The NY Jets
Yesterday, Sports Illustrated had an epic post on Twitter showing how Google’s answer box showed Tom Brady as the owner of the New York Jets. Now…
Search Buzz Video Recap: Google Instant Gone, Auto Play Videos In Search, AdWords & Local Tests
This week, the big news is that Google killed off their Google Instant Search feature. Google was caught testing auto-playing videos in the search results. I ran a poll…
Google AdWords Call Bid Adjustments Lets You Bid More For Phone Calls
Google announced yesterday that they now support bid adjustments for click-to-call ads. So now you can bid more for click-to-call ads over other ads. Why would you do this…
Goodbye Google Instant Search
Google Instant has been disabled and Google no longer will show you search results as you type. Google Instant launched in September 2010 as was coined the future of the search results page.
Google Hotel Search Supports Vacation Rentals
Google hotel search feature now has support to show vacation rentals and not just hotels. Skift spotted this a week ago and then I covered it at Search Engine Land on Tuesday and now it is news…
Bing Supports ClaimReview For Fact Checking Markup
Aaron Bradley, the markup king, posted on Google+ that Bing updated their structured data documentation to now support ClaimReview. ClaimReview annotations should be
Google Tests New Design For Image Search Results
Nirav Patel shared a screen shot with me on Twitter of a new user interface for the Google image search results…
Google Tests Map View & List View Button In Local Search
Sergey Alakov who must be included in every single Google tests bucket found another Google test where they are showing a floating button in the local listings that let you toggle between a map view or list view…
Poll: Is Black Hat SEO Dying?
There is a pretty large new thread at Black Hat World where “black hats” are discussing if their methods are dying out now. Black hat SEO is the SEO practice of going against Google’s webmaster guidelines in order to manipulate the Google search resul…
Bing Offers Historical Knowledge Box: Search “On This Day”
Bing quietly announced on Twitter that if you search for [on this day] in Bing you may just get an historical knowledge box showing you important and historical events that happened on this day in the past…
New Google SOS Alerts In Search
Google announced a new search and maps feature that provides SOS alerts for locations and events that are in crisis. Google wrote “SOS alerts is a new set of features in Google Search and Maps to help you quickly understand whatâs going on and decide what to do during a crisis…
Google Docs On Removing AMP Content From Search
Google has added a new developer document page on removing AMP content from search. This was first spotted by Kenichi Suzuki, he posted it on Twitter.
I guess enough people asked, Google finally made a document telling webmasters the safe way to remo…
Google: Logos In People Also Search For Feature
Google has been messing around lately with the people also search for feature in the search results. Here is a new one, I believe…
Google Local Panel Tests Questions & Answers Box
Sergey Alakov spotted yet another test, this one is where Google is testing showing a questions and answers box in the local panel.
RankRanger: 99% Of Google’s Page One Results Have At Least One HTTPS Result
HTTPS in the Google search results continue to rise and rise. In fact, according to RankRanger’s Google’s feature tracker tool, 99% of the page one results they track have at least one or more HTTPS result within them…