New Google My Business Settings For Business Notifications
Google quietly added a new features to Google My Business Settings at business.google.com/settings that let’s you configure when and how you’d like to get notifications about changes or additions to your business listings on Google…
Google Tests Basic “Back To Top” Button On Mobile
Google is testing another form of their back to top button from early this month. The new version doesn’t follow you as you scroll or is in a bold blue color…
Google Tests Basic “Back To Top” Button On Mobile
Google is testing another form of their back to top button from early this month. The new version doesn’t follow you as you scroll or is in a bold blue color…
Google Testing New Local Finder With Better Graphics
Google is testing a new look for the local finder, one that is way more graphical. This was spotted by Sergey Alakov, he posted the screen shots on Twitter. And the truth is…
Google My Business Chat With Customers Test
Google is now testing a new feature in the Google My Business area that lets customers initiate a chat with your business from your local listing in Google search or Google Maps. This was first spotted by Dino Basaldella who posted it on Google+…
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Google AdSense Publishers React To Fake News Ban
I am sure you have all heard about the news around Facebook, Google and others cracking down on fake news distribution and monetization. Mid-November, shortly after the election, many went after fake news sites – with good reason…
Google Tweaking Top Stories Algorithm To Filter Out Fake News?
It looks like Google is or has worked on tweaking the top stories algorithm to filter out fake news sites, or rather, promote higher quality news sites from showing in that box…
Google Search Console Changes “Submit To Index” To “Request Indexing”
Google has changed the Search Console feature from “submit to index” to “request indexing” within the Fetch as Google feature. This is actually a week or so old but more and more SEOs and webmasters are noticing it…
Google AMP Search Results Snippet Banner – Lightning-Fast Experience
Jon Hogg posted on Twitter a screen shot of Google once again promoting AMP in the search results. This one places a very bold blue banner across the bottom of the search result snippet of an AMP powered search result in Google.
The banner reads “AMP…
Google On The Hunt For Spammy Exact Match Domains (EMDs)
Google’s Gary Illyes said this morning that he is “hunting” for spammy EMDs, exact match domains…
Shabbat Observers & The Google Interstitials Mobile Penalty
As you all know, on January 10, 2017, Google is releasing their intrusive interstitial mobile penalty – where if your site loads an interstitial that is super annoying and gets in the way of using your mobile site…
Search Buzz Video Recap: Google EMD Hunt, ProtonMail Bug, AMP, Wix & Shabbat
This week in search, I covered that Google may be prepping for their next EMD, exact match domain…
Thanksgiving 2016 Google Logo & Bing Turkey Design Theme
Happy Thanksgiving to all you Americans out there – it is one of my favorite holidays…
Google AMP Hotel Listing Carousel Live In Mobile Results
The folks who track the structured data results spotted a new AMP carousel in mobile for hotel listings. Brad Brewer posted in a Google+ thread that Google is now showing AMP carousels for hotel listings…
Suggest Topics For Google Webmaster Hangouts
Google’s John Mueller posted on Twitter asking folks to post topic ideas for the webmaster hangouts he does this December. He said there was some interest in him making his hangouts more topical…
Google Expands App Indexing For Personal Content To All Android Developers
In late August, Google announced limited support for app search for person content…
Google Admits A Bug In Search Hurt Gmail’s Competitor ProtonMail?
Many of your probably read the Search Risk – How Google Almost Killed ProtonMail story from a month ago – it has been something I’ve been tracking since August. In August…
Google Promises More Mobile First Index Webmaster Recommendations
As you know, Google announced the slow roll out of their mobile-first index and I covered it in detail over here and then several questions have come up since.
Google AdWords Adds Distance & Store Visit Performance Reports
Google announced on Google+ that they are adding more reports to help you figure out the store visits driven by your AdWords ads. They are adding a distance reporting feature as well as a store visits performance report feature…
Google Popular Times For Venues Shows Real Time Data
You thought back a year and a half ago when Google released popular times for venues and stores, where it showed typically how busy a store is by day and hour, that it was really cool…