Google: Migrating To A Keyword-TLD Won’t Improve Rankings
Search Engine Land, a site I am proud of, posted a sponsored piece of content named Can moving to a new TLD boost search rankings…
Yahoo Testing A New Top Search Bar
Ruben Gomez posted on Twitter yet another Yahoo Search test. This one is with the top search bar you find on many of the Yahoo properties and of course, on Yahoo Search.
The new search bar is taller and more spacious…
Google Home Page Testing Gray Background
Ruben Gomez spotted another test, this one is from Google, he posted about it on Twitter and called it material design for desktop. It looks like the card…
New Mobile Interface For Google’s “People Also Search For”
Google seems to be testing or launching a new look for the “People Also Search For” feature that helps searchers expand their search queries.
This was spotted by several folks including Matt Navarra and Dan Barker on Twitter…
Google 2016 Gay Pride Search Results Design
If you search on Google for [gay] or [pride 2016] or any of those combinations…
Are The SEO Weather Tools Off Again On Algorithmic Changes?
Whenever the automated tracking “SEO Weather” tools go off, I get tons of people telling me there was an update. They tell me this not based on them noticing any ranking changes, traffic changes or changes to the search results but based on the tools …
Google: hreflang Doesn’t Improve Your Search Rankings
hreflang is markup you can add to your web sites to help communicate which URL Google should show in the search results for localized versions of Google. So if you have a UK site and a Germany site…
June 2016 Google Webmaster Report
It is that time of the month again for me to post the monthly Google Webmaster report. There was a lot covered but not anything really that major, at least on the algorithmic side…
Copa America 2016 Schedule Has A Google Doodle
Today is the 100th year of the Copa América games, a men’s international football tournament contested between the national teams of CONMEBOL. To mark it…
Zineb Ait Bahajji Leaves Google’s Webmaster Trends Analysts Team & Wins SEMY Award
Zineb Ait Bahajji, one of the well liked Webmaster Trends Analysts at Google…
Google’s New Simple Tool For Mobile Friendliness & Page Speed
Yesterday, Google announced a new tool that uses two old tools designed to make it easier for small businesses to improve their site’s mobile friendliness and page speed. So they combined the page speed and mobile friendly tool into one…
Facebook Is Looking To Hire A Highly Qualified SEO
Facebook has a job listing up to hire a SEO or SEM engineer. I am not sure why it says SEO or SEM, why not SEO & SEM or SEO only or SEM only because the job description seems very SEO oriented.
The deal is…
Search Buzz Video Recap: Google Penguin Status, Mobile Page Speed Factor, Facebook SEO & More
This week in search, Google has finally given us an update on the status of the Penguin 4.0 update – it is closer and hopefully not too far away. Google said mobile page…
Google Status Update On Penguin: It’s Closer & Hopeful Not Too Far Off
After Google going radio silent on the status of Google’s Penguin update, as we are waiting on version 3.0 – John Mueller volunteered information on this mornings…
Lotte Reininger’s Google Doodle
Today on Google.com is a special Google logo, aka Doodle, for Lotte Reininger. Lotte Reininger was a German animator…
Andrew Nikolic’s Office A Rubbish Dump On Google
If you search for [Andrew Nikolic] on Google Australia you can see he has a bit of an online reputation management problem. Andrew Nikolic’s office is categorized as a “Rubbish Dump” in the knowledge panel…
Google Now On Tap Adds Specific Text Areas, Photos & Camera
Google Now On Tap has been updated for Android. Google Now On Tap launched last year as a way to do search from anywhere on your Android phone.
Well, now it got even better…
Google: We Don’t Care About Underscores Vs. Dashes In URLs
Most SEOs know that if you start a new site, the URL structure should use hyphens to separate the keywords and not underscores. So for this URL for this blog…
Google: What Faceted Navigation Should You Show Google To Index
The topic of faceted navigation is a complex one in the SEO space. It comes up often for large e-commerce sites that have category pages with tons of filer options for colors, sizes, options, etc etc. What do you allow Google to index and what do you…
Google Disables What’s On TV Voice Command For Now
There are several threads at the Google Web Search Forums where searchers are complaining that the voice command on Google for “What’s On TV” is now working…