Google Teaches Searchers How To Register To Vote
Google added a new answer in search to help searchers figure out how to register to vote.
If you search on mobile for [register to vote] or similar queries…
Google Shows How Many Minutes People Spend At Venues
Over the weekend Brian Barwig and @NortheasternExt both notified me on Twitter that Google is now showing a new feature in the Google Maps local listings for how long a person typically spends at a specific venue…
Google Maps Business Verification Via Email Address?
Google Maps recently tested the ability to verify your business using video verification but Google is constantly testing different methods of business verification.
Kiran C Kumar posted on Twitter that he is receiving an option to verify his Google M…
New EU Antitrust Claims Against Google Over AdSense & AdWords
The news broke yesterday morning that the EU is going after Google again for antitrust issues on their AdWords and AdSense programs. This is the third of such in about a year. This one says Google’s advertising products had restricted consumer choice…
Q&A: Google, Will You Run Penguin Again? We Never Said We Won’t Run It Again.
Yesterday I ran a poll asking if you think Google will run Penguin again, most of you think yes, they will but a nice number think they won’t. Truth is, Google has said and implied many times Penguin will run again, specifically the real-time version …
Google Testing Card Style Sitelinks
John Lincoln @johnelincoln shared a photo with me of a new style for Sitelinks in the mobile results. They look like the people also search for blocks we covered some time ago, but now they are used for Sitelinks…
Search Buzz Video Recap: Google Local Algorithm & Updates, Penguin Status, SEO & AdWords Changes
This week in search, we saw changes to the Google local algorithm and results. We also reported on how it doesnât seem there was a massive Google update earlier this week. We ran a poll on Penguin, do you think it will run again…
Google Local Map Results Getting More Hyperlocal?
Over the past couple weeks, I’ve been seeing sporadic reports from some local SEO experts that the local results are becoming more “hyperlocal” and/or fewer results are showing for local specific queries…
Bing Ads Editor & API Returning Extension Errors
The Bing Ads Editor and Bing Ads API is having some technical difficulty around some of their extension uploads…
Google AdWords Adds Automated Bidding Health Reporting
Google announced on the AdWords blog that they have added more reporting to help advertisers stay on top of how well their automated bidding is working for them…
A JSON-LD Schema Generator Tool Now Available
Joe Hall was cool enough to make a JSON-LD Schema Generator tool for SEOs. The tool is very easy to use, you pick what Schema structured markup you want for a specific page and then fill out the form to the best of your ability…
Do You Think Google Will Run Penguin Again? Take Our Poll.
It is just about 1 year and 9 months, over 90 weeks, almost 21 months, since Google ran the last Penguin update, aka Penguin 3.0. We’ve been hearing promises for months and months now that they will run it but the days come and go without any Penguin …
Google Update Signs From Trackers But The Community Is Quiet
We are living in a weird time – typically when I see the community begin talking about a potential Google update and it is real – the trackers, such as Mozcast and others, will light up the next day with signs as well…
Google AdWords Adds Features To Shopping Ads & Hotel/Travel Search
Google AdWords announced a slew of updates yesterday between their Shopping Ads/Product Listing Ads offering and Hotel/Travel search ad offerings…
Google Maps Tests Search Store Local Inventory With Ikea
Nicolai Helling posted on Google+ a new shopping and maps feature that Google seems to be testing that allows searches to click on a button to search the local stores inventory directly from the map results…
Google Displays Wrong Business Name In Knowledge Panel But Edit Shows Correct Name
If you are logged into your Google My Business account and you do a web search for a business you have ownership of in Google, Google will let you edit the listing right in the local knowledge panel…
Google May Count Your Annoying Pop Up As Primary Content
So we know Google isn’t a fan of pop ups on web sites, well, at least the webmaster analysts team isn’t a fan of them…
Bing Holds Agency Awards
It looks like Bing is holding an Agency Awards event on September 15th in New York City. Bing launched the domain bingagencyawards2016.com and yesterday posted on Twitter the introduction to the event…
Google Analytics Tests New Design?
Antonino Bologna posted on Twitter a screen shot of what looks like a new user interface and design for Google Analytics.
Here is a picture of what Antonino shared:
You can see, the interface is much more subtle…
Google Maps Brings Back Reviews From “A Google User”
In 2012, Google did away with anonymous Google Maps reviews from “A Google User” or at least they did with some bugs here and there but for the most part, you did not see reviews from anonymous users…