Google’s 18th Birthday Doodle: When Is Google’s Birthday
Google has a fun Doodle, aka Google logo, for their 18th birthday today. It is a global Doodle, unlike last year where their own birthday was trumped by the NFL.
This Doodle leads to the question [when is google’s birthday]…
Google: Yes, Disavow Link File Helps With Penguin
With the Google Penguin 4.0 launch many old questions are resurfacing around the algorithm and how to do well after it. One of those is if using the disavow backlink file is a way to recover from Penguin. The answer is yes…
Google Logo Tells You How To Register To Vote
On Google’s home page in the US is a special logo not for the Penguin launch but rather for reminding US citizens how to register to vote…
Google Quietly Adds Science Datasets Structured Data & Schema Support
Looks like Google added a new data type to the structured data options for search, this one is named Science Datasets. Google said this schema is for the “scientific domains: life sciences, earth sciences, material sciences, and more…
Google Maps Local Pack & Map Listings Testing Light Blue Color
Just about a month ago Google launched a newish look for the local pack but now it seems Google is trying light blue colors for the links and design in the local pack and map listings in Europe.
Here are screen shots from Sergey Alakov…
Google Tests Hotel Booking Ads At Top Instead Of Right Side
Craig Harkins posted a screen shot on Twitter of Google testing placing the hotel booking feature at the top of the search results, as opposed to under the right panel in the local knowledge card for the hotel…
Is Google Penguin 4.0 Fully Rolled Out?
One of the bigger questions folks are asking since Google launched Penguin 4.0 on Friday was if it was fully rolled out. Google was clear when they said it is rolling out but they didn’t say how long it will take to roll out…
Daily Search Forum Recap: September 23, 2016
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web.
Search Engine Roundtable Stories:
Search Buzz Video Recap: Google Penguin 4…
Google El Santo Mask Logo
Today on Google.com is a special Google Doodle, Google logo, for Rodolfo Guzmán Huerta (El Santo)’s 99th birthday. El Santo, meaning “The Saint,” is a well-known Mexican professional wrestler and movie star…
Google AdWords Call Conversion Tracking Now Easier
Google posted on Google+ that there is a new and easier way to implement call conversion tracking with AdWords. Now you implement one snippet of code per landing page and Google will dynamically serve the right number…
Google: You Don’t Have To Rush Into Progression Web Apps (PWA)
PWAs, progressive web apps, is a Google protocol that helps make richer mobile web pages that act like mobile apps but they are not native iOS or Android apps.
For the past few months…
Search Buzz Video Recap: Google Penguin 4.0 Live, AMP In Core Results & App Indexing Stumbles
Big news this morning, Google officially confirmed that Penguin 4.0, the real time version of that spam algorithm, is now live. We saw Google testing it earlier and some folks were talking about the launch date…
Take Google’s Survey On Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP)
Google posted on Google+ and Twitter a request to webmasters to complete a survey on accelerated mobile pages, AMP.
Google wrote…
Google Penguin 4.0, The Real Time Penguin Algorithm Is Live
Google has officially confirmed on the Google webmaster blog that they’ve began rolling out the Penguin 4.0 real time algorithm. It has been just under two years since we had a confirmed Penguin update…
Google Tests Shadows With The Card Style Layout
We keep on covering the card style layout but I wanted to share a variation of that layout with you.
Jeff Needles shared a photo on Twitter of the card style layout, the material design layout…
Google Showing Flights & Hotel Costs For Vacation Searches
Search for [caribbean vacations] or similar queries, Google may show you a box at the top of the search results for…
Google Testing Penguin In The Wild? Some Think So.
I am reluctant to write something about this because the chatter in the SEO community is all over the place. It seems like many are saying that Google is testing the new Penguin 4.0 update in the wild…
Autumnal Equinox & Fall Designs From Google, Bing, Dogpile & More
Today is the first day of fall for those in the northern hemisphere and the Doodle looks wicked similar to the vernal equinox Google had earlier this year. It clearly shows happy rocks with leaves falling off the tree. Google wrote the doodle shows “orange glow of fallâs falling…
Google AMP Trumps App Indexing In Google Mobile Search Results
Another update to the data anomalies page this morning was for the Search Analytics report section which says that App Indexing users may see a drop in the impressions and clicks because AMP now will be listed before App URLs…
Google Launches Allo With Google Assistant Preview
Late last night, Google announced Allo, their mobile message app for iOS and Android. I am not going to discuss the messaging component…