Block Google & Delist Your Web Site In Google By Accident? Many Have Done So!
Jeff Atwood, co-founder of Stack Overflow, posted on Twitter the other day that he once checked in a robots.txt that deindexed all Stack Overflow content from Google. In which, Matt Cutts, the ex-Googler, responded that “to be fair, a lot of people do…
Google Survey On The Site: Search Operator
Google posted on Twitter a survey asking webmasters why they use the site: search operator. If Google didn’t say a month ago that they are keeping the site command I’d be concerned that this was about Google potentially pulling this useful search oper…
Google Dragon Logo Anniversary Of Komodo National Park
Today on Google’s home page is a logo for the 37th anniversary of Komodo National Park and they used a Komodo dragon to celebrate. Not only that…
Paul Haahr, Google’s Top Ranking Engineer, Celebrates 15 Years At Google
Paul Haahr is a top ranking engineer at Google, I believe he is mostly responsible for the ten blue links in the search results – but I may be wrong. In any event, we’ve covered him a lot here despite him being pretty quiet and a low-key person…
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Google Search Feedback Form Adds Screenshot Feature
There is a small link in the footer of all search result pages on Google to give Google your feedback about the results on that page. In the past, it was just a way for Google to obtain your query, browser information and a message from you about the …
Google Top Stories Now With “Related Picks”
If you search on your mobile and the top stories AMP carousel comes up in Google’s search results, you may see underneath it a “related picks” selection. When you click on those related picks…
Google Webmaster Notifications For AMP Viewer URLs With Incorrect Hostnames
Google is sending out a new notifications via the Google Search Console when the AMP viewer search shows the AMP’s hostname in the header from the wrong domain. Google’s John Mueller said on Twitter “if you’re using a CDN…
Search Buzz Video Recap: Google Penalty, Google Shabbos Rules, SEO, Emojis, DMOZ & More
This week in search news we posted our monthly Google webmaster report. Natural News is back in the index after a rare public penalty by Google. Google offers tips on what to do when you close your site. Google Panda does take into account site archi…
Google Killed Off Their WordPress AdSense Plugin
Google has officially deprecated their AdSense plugin for WordPress this month. It is no longer available for new publishers to sign up for. So if you want to use it on a new blog or you are new to AdSense, you need to find a different plugin…
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Google AdWords Tests Additional Description Field
Valerio Celletti posted on Twitter (hat tip @Gianps) a screen shot of a new Google AdWords test where they are testing showing an additional description field in AdWords ads to make the ad even longer…
Google AMP Report Shows Increase In Indexed Pages & Errors
Yesterday, for some reason, the Google Search Console AMP (Accelerated Mobile Pages) report under the Search Appearance section, shows a huge spike in both indexed pages and errors. The next day…
Google AMP Likely Will Inflate Your Traffic Metrics, Google Is Working On Fix
Christian Oliveira has documented an issue with using Google AMP and how it will likely inflate your Google Analytics and other analytics metrics. In fact, it can report four-times more traffic than is real…
March 2017 Google Webmaster Report
This past month, we had a fairly significant Google algorithm ranking update on February 7th which Google did not confirm so we suspect it was a Phantom update. Then shortly after…
Google: Top Stories & Google News Are Independent Features
Google’s John Mueller posted on Twitter something many of you probably know…
Bing Ads Editor For Mac Available Globally
In June of last year, Bing Ads released the Bing Ads editor for Mac but didn’t do a full global release of it until yesterday.
Bing Ads Editor for Mac beta is now done and it is fully available for all Mac users to download and use to manage their B…
Google: More Pages About Topic X Versus Y Won’t Hurt Your Google Rankings For Y
Former Google search quality representative Murat Yatagan asked an SEO question to current Googler John Mueller. The question was a bit deep and posted in a very concise way on Twitter…
Google AdMob Asks Why Publishers Aren’t Using Interstitials
I received an email the other day from AdMob, the company Google acquired that powers ads within native mobile apps. The email asked me why am I not using interstitials in my apps. It then gave me several answers that I could choose from…
Emojis In Google AdWords Titles
Thomas shared a screen shot with me on Twitter of emojis showing up in the Google AdWords ads on Google Germany for a query on [autohaus mainz]. I was finally able to replicate it and I do see emojis cars in one of the AdWords ads titles…
After 18 Years, DMOZ, The Web Directory, Is Closing Down
DMOZ, one of the oldest and most trusted web directories announced on their home page yesterday that they are closing up shop. The site is going offline March 14, 2017.
DMOZ launched on June 5, 1998…
Google Official Tips On Closing A Site For Days (For Maybe Shabbat)
We’ve talked a lot about sites that close down once a week or more for religious purposes, specifically closing on Shabbat…