DuckDuckGo & Other Search Providers Respond To Google Site Search Closure
Google announced the other day they are closing their Site Search product, which is a paid internal search service. Keep in mind, the free version is still available and is not closing.
But DuckDuckGo and Cludo jumped on the news to promote their sit…
Google Warns About Using Contests For Links
Google’s John Mueller reluctantly explained in a live webmaster video this week on YouTube at the 31:22 mark that he would “watch out” when using contests to get links. He said the links might not be “clean” and if you are doing it to “exchange someth…
Google: New Ad Label Doesn’t Confuse Searchers
As you know, yesterday, Google began rolling out the new green outlined ad label for the AdWords ads. The difference is pretty basic.
Here is the old label:
Here is the new label:
Not a huge difference…
Exoplanet Discovery: Google Posts Special Logo
Google’s home page has a rare late day Doodle, special logo, this one is for the NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope finding the first known system of seven Earth-size planets around a single star…
Google: Stop Using URL Fragments
Google wants you to stop using URL fragments for your content. Google’s John Mueller said this on Twitter this morning…
Maile Ohye Leaves Google After ~12 Years
Maile Ohye quietly announced on Google+ that she is leaving Google. She started with Google almost 12 years ago in September 2005, she was instrumental…
Google AdWords Rolling Out New Green Outlined Ad Label?
Google may be rolling out a new AdWords ad label now, the one we spotted a month ago, the green outlined ad label. I received dozens of notifications about this new ad label in the past 24 hours and those reports are increasing…
Google To Discontinue Google Site Search
Google is discontinuing their their Google Site Search product, which is the paid version of using Google search technology to power your internal site search feature. They are telling customers to use the free custom search engine version instead…
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Google My Business Guidelines Updated For Service-Area & Virtual Offices
Google has updated their Google My Business guidelines specifically to clarify how a business should list their address for service-area businesses and virtual offices. The new section is in the expandable “address” section and titled “Service-area bu…
Google Tests New Format For Related Searches
Several folks are tweeting about a new user interface Google is testing for related searches. We have posts on Twitter from @seorakeshsingh and @RankRanger with screen shots of this new related search interface…
Black Hat Forums Argue About Value Of PBNs
A thread at Black Hat World, a public black hat forum, is having a discussion about the value of PBNs, public blog networks…
February 7th May Have Been A Google Phantom Update
As you know, we were by far the first to break the news on the February 7th Google update that seemed really big so big that I actually asked Google to confirm it which they said no comment. And when Google gives a no comment…
Google: We Typically Help In Forums Only When We Have To
Gary Illyes from Google, a webmaster trends analysts whose job is to help webmasters with communication, said on Twitter that typically, but not always, Google employees only help or step into the forums when they need to.
@PabloMktOnline yeah…
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Google & Bing To Step Up Demoting Piracy From UK Search Results
News is out that Google and Bing have made a deal with the Intellectual Property Office and British Phonographic Industry (BPI) and Motion Picture Association organizations for both search engines to do better removing or demoting pirated content in t…
Google Local Pack Shows: “Near You X Minutes Ago”
Sergey Alakov, the local pack watch man, has spotted more changes with the local pack and posted them on Twitter. The latest one shows how Google is showing local results based on your query based on knowing your location X minutes ago…
How Long Does It Take To Clean Up A Hacked Site Mess In Google Search Console?
When a site gets hacked it can cause lots of problems for the site owner. Of course, the ranking issues and penalties that may be associated with the site. But once your rankings come back…
Bing Celebrates President’s Day But Not Google
If you visit Google’s home page, you will see the ordinary Google logo – not a Doodle for the President’s Day holiday in the United States. If you visit Bing, on the other hand…
Confirmed: Google Image Search Update Impacts Traffic Data
Last week, we reported that webmasters and SEOs saw huge declines in Google image search traffic specifically from international versions of Google – i.e. not the US. Well…
Google Carousel: Here Are The Best SEO Companies
Google recently began showing list carousels even for top lists and such…
Fun Video: Find Matt Cutts To Fix The Broken Links
As you may remember, Wix is running an SEO her contest where a new site that ranks for the term [seo hero] can win $50,000.
Recently, Wix put together a fun video where an SEO villain named Apocolinks has broken all the links in the world…
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