Amit Singhal, The Man Who Built Google Search, Joins Uber
Amit Singhal, who retired from Google less than a year ago to pursue philanthropic efforts to help children with their education in India, is now joining Uber as a Senior Vice President…
Google Hotel Search Results With Pricing Trends & Top Rated Data
Sergey Alakov posted a couple new search features by Google in the local results on Twitter. The first is Google showing pricing trends by day, week…
Google: International Targeting In Search Console Doesn’t Reduce Visibility In Other Countries
Back in 2014, Google came out with a feature in Google Search Console named international targeting a way to monitor your href lang settings or set your web site’s desired country…
Google: Don’t Build Links From Google Sheets
I think I’ve seen it all, covering search for over 13 years but every day, I learn a bit more. I spotted a conversation on Twitter where someone asked Google’s John Mueller if they can use Google Sheets to build links…
Google Android App Adds Notifications For New Doodles
The new version of the Google Android app has a new notification that can send you a notification when a new Google Doodle is on the Google home page. Often times, believe it or not…
Google: Use Nofollow When Linking To Bad Sites
Google’s Gary Illyes said this morning on Twitter that it makes sense to use the nofollow link attribute when you link to bad sites.
Sometimes when I cover stories here, I have to link to examples of really bad sites…
Search Buzz Video Recap: Google Algorithm Update, Mobile Interstitial Penalty, Link Operator & Matt Cutts
I am back after skipping two shows due to sickness but I try to catch you up in this one video. We may have had a Google algorithm update on Monday…
Matt Cutts Officially Resigns From Google
With no surprise to I am sure most of you, Matt Cutts, the man at Google who helped shaped the SEO community from within the search engine, has announced he has officially resigned from Google. His last date at Google officially was December 31, 2016…
Google Android App Offline Search
Google announced that their new Android search app lets you do searches even when you are offline or have a bad internet connection. What happens is, you search, Google tells you the internet is not working and will try later…
Bing Ad Extensions Scheduling Feature
The Bing Ads team announced the release of a new scheduling feature to schedule your ad extensions.
This feature allows you to “control when your extensions are delivered for the time that’s most ideal for your business, reducing wasted clicks…
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Google Intrusive Interstitials Mobile Penalty Having Minimal Impact
As you know, the Google mobile interstitial penalty began to roll out on schedule on January 10, 2017. Some, but very few sites, got hit hard pretty quickly but truth is…
Google AdWords To Only Allow Add/Edit Extended Text Ads Starting January 31st
Starting January 31st, you will no longer be able to add or edit your Google AdWords ads using the standard text ad format. It will…
New: Google Local Pack Showing Google Shopping Ads
Mike Blumenthal posted a screen shot on Twitter showing Google shopping ads in the local pack results for a query on [engagement rings buffalo] on mobile…
Google: Intrusive Interstitials Mobile Penalty Still Rolling Out Based On Recrawl
Many keep asking, has the Google mobile interstitial penalty fully rolled out yet…
Google Testing Google My Business Web Site Builder Tool
Mike Blumenthal reported on the Google My Business web site builder tool, to enable businesses to create a quick and dirty web site for their business…
Google AdSense Launches Ad Balance Slider To Show Less Ads
Google launched a new feature in the new Google AdSense user interface named “Ad balance.” Ad balance lets publishers use a slider to show less ads on their sites with the drag and click of a button…
Google Maps Highlights Robert E. Lee’s Birthday Instead Of Martin Luther King Yesterday For Some
Yesterday was Martin Luther King Jr. Day in the United States but in some states, instead of Google showing adjusted holiday hours for Martin Luther King…
Tell Google What Technical SEO Topic They Should Write About
Gary Illyes from Google posted on Twitter asking webmasters and SEOs “what (technical) topic would you be interested in reading on the Official Google Webmaster Blog…
Google: Crawl Rate & Crawl Demand = Crawl Budget
Several weeks ago, Google told us crawl budget is not what we think it is and promised to write a blog post explaining what Google defines as crawl budget. Well, Gary Illyes posted on the Google blog What Crawl Budget Means for Googlebot…
Google: The Mobile Friendly Icons Confused Searchers Initially
Google’s John Mueller said in a YouTube hangout on the other day at the 9:20 mark into the video that when Google launched the mobile friendly label in the mobile search results…