DMOZ Redesign On 18th Birthday
Few people noticed and you can’t blame them, but back earlier this month, DMOZ announced on their 18th birthday that they have redesigned their old and legendary web directory DMOZ.org – the open web directory.
Here is the new look…
Holiday Today: Offline Monday June 13th
I am offline today, this post was scheduled to notify you that I am not writing today. Today is a Jewish holiday named Shavout, hence the flowers for the image above. So do not panic if you do not see any stories from me today – I am simply not onlin…
Matt Cutts Responds To Claims Google Manipulated Hillary Clinton Search Results
Matt Cutts, the currently on leave Googler, who is one of the most well known Googlers to our audience, has spoken up about the claims that Google manipulated their search suggestions for Hillary Clinton.
He did this on Twitter…
Search Buzz Video Recap: Google Algorithm, Hillary Clinton, SEO, Bing Ads & More
This week in my search video, I try the new microphone one more time – let me know if it is good or bad and Iâll switch it out if it is bad…
Google Wants To Make Spam Reporting Easier; Let Them Know How
Yesterday afternoon, the Google Webmaster channel posted on Google+ a request for webmasters to give feedback on the Google spam report process. They said…
Google: No Plans For Disavow Link Testing Tool
Yesterday we covered some tips on managing disavow link file issues with syntax issues, encoding issues, etc of the URLs. So after, as I expected…
Google Manipulating Hillary Clinton’s Search Completions?
I hate politics because we always have people come in and claim how Google is taking sides one way or another…
Google Zombies Or Likely Buyers? Does Google Show Them Different Results?
We’ve been covering the Google zombie phenomenon for some time now. There is actually a spike in discussion around it in the ongoing WebmasterWorld thread right now…
Google Gets A Bird Watcher Doodle For Phoebe Snetsinger
Today on the Google home page in the United States and some other countries is a special Google Doodle, Google Logo, for Phoebe Snetsinger. Phoebe Snetsinger was a birder, a bird watcher, who saw 8,398 species of birds by the time she died at the youn…
Apple App Store To Get Search Ads
Apple is bringing search ads to their App Store. Apple announced it last night saying, “starting this summer, you’ll be able to participate in the Search Ads beta and see the ads in action…
When Will Your Local Business Show Up In Google’s One Box?
Joy Hawkins asked another excellent local SEO question in the Local Search Forums the other day. She asked why do some business listings get a local one box result…
Having Issues With Your Google Disavow File? Upload One Line At A Time
Like it or not, many SEOs use the disavow backlinks feature within Google which launched in 2012 mostly based on webmaster feedback.
But sometimes the disavow file can cause a headache for webmasters…
Google’s John Mueller On Flat (Not Growing) SEO Traffic
I always find it interesting when a Googler responds to a specific SEO question with an audit like response…
Bing Ads Will Support Google AdWords Expanded Text Ads
Bing Ads announced that in response to Google AdWords expanded text ads and Bing Ads being able to import Google AdWords campaigns…
Google News AMP Referral Source To Get Proper Attribution?
Valentin Pletzer, a Senior Search Analyst at BurdaForward in Germany, asked a nice question in the Google Webmaster Help forums about AMP and Google News.
In short…
Google Doesn’t Filter Gold Stars Reviews From Specific Industries
Joy Hawkins asked in a Local Search Forum thread if Google will filter the gold stars shown in the organic search results for local results for specific industries…
Google: Blocking US Users, Means Blocking GoogleBot
GoogleBot typically crawls from the United States, not 100% of the time. In fact, Google recently began crawling on a limited basis from other countries but only to check on local-aware features…
Bing News PubHub For News Submissions
Bing announced you can now submit your news site, like this one, to Bing News at the new Bing News PubHub.
When you go to Bing News PubHub, you can fill out the form as I screen shot below, to submit your news site to Bing…
Google AdWords Integrates With Salesforce For Offline Conversions
Google announced they now integrate with Salesforce to produce offline conversion metrics…
Google Again Says: We Don’t Use Social Media For Ranking
Every several months or so the topic of Google and social signals comes up and each time it gets into a Googlers hands…