A Google Manual Actions Bug For Sneaky Mobile Redirect Detected & More
There seems to be a serious bug impacted some webmasters, mostly those who were notified of having sneaky mobile redirects on their site. It is around the renewed sneaky mobile redirects we covered earlier this month and starting a few days later…
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Google Redesigns Structured Data Testing Tool
Google has revamped and redesigned the structured data testing tool. It now looks more friendly but adding this simplistic overlay box that either asks for the URL you want to test or a snippet of sample code.
When you plug it in…
Google AdWords Testing Carousel Based Sitelinks Cards
Google AdWords is testing AdWords based cards in a carousel format in the mobile search results. So when you see an ad, under the snippet is a carousel of cards that you can swipe to left. In the example below, it contains Airbnb listings with the typ…
Google AdWords Purple Ad Label Officially For Map Ads
A few weeks ago we reported Google was testing purple ad labels for AdWords. Well, it seems like this is not a test, but rather the ad label color of choice for the Google Maps listing results…
Google’s Advice On DMCA Pirate Algorithm Penalty
Back in August 2012 Google released their DMCA algorithm penalty, also known as the Google Pirate penalty. It basically looked to downgrade site’s rankings where those sites received a large amount of real DMCA complaints. As far as I know…
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Google Analytics Vastly Improves Search Console Integration
Yesterday, Google revealed deeper integration between Google Analytics and Google Search Console…
Gboard, Google’s iOS Keyboard That Brings Search Into Every App On Your iPhone
Google launched something just awesome yesterday, it is called Gboard. It is essentially an iOS (iPhone) keyboard add on but it technically brings Google search directly into every app that you use a keyboard with on iOS…
Is Google Launching The More Spacious Search Results User Interface?
A week ago, we reported about Google testing wider margins in the search results interface. Well…
Search Buzz Video Recap: Google Mobile SEO Update, Analytics & Search Console, AdWords & Bing Ads Bans
This week in search, Google fully rolled out the new update for the mobile friendly algorithm. Google denied any other major update happening this week…
Google Search Console Sitemaps Index Count Drops For All
There are tons of concerns and complaints on Twitter and on Google Webmaster Help that the index count in the Google Search Console sitemap report has drastically dropped. Meaning…
Google AdSense Impression Charts Now Available In Ad Review Center
Google announced yesterday they have added impression charts to the ad review center in Google AdSense. This is to show publishers how many impressions those ads are getting before they decide to block the ads from showing on their web site…
Google Fully Launches The New Mobile Friendly Update
A few months ago we reported that Google will be updating their mobile friendly algorithm in May 2016.
Google’s John Mueller today confirmed on Twitter that this algorithm has now been fully rolled out and is live in the mobile Google search result…
Google Japan Holding Their Own Google Dance
Google announced on the Webmaster channel on Google+ that the Google Tokyo office is holding their very own version of the Google Dance…
Google AdWords Bans Payday Loans & Other Risky Loan Ads
Google announced yesterday that they are banning high risk and high interest loan ads from their AdWords network. That means…
Google AdWords Adds Last Click Attribution Bidding
Google announced that advertisers using AdWords will soon be able to adjust their bids based on a last click attribution model. Google said advertisers will be able to select from six different attribution models…
Bing Ads Bans Third-Party Technical Support Services Companies
So we just had Google AdWords announce banning payday loan ads and now Bing announced they are banning third party online technical support services to consumers.
So those who have technical support companies directed at consumers can no longer use Bi…
Google Dismisses Any Recent Major Algorithm Update
Over the past few days or so, the various Google search results tracking tools have been pretty wild. Tools like Mozcast have been showing stormy weather, so has SERP Metrics, Advanced Web Rankings, Accuranker and RankRanger all show lots of volatilit…
Google Feedburner Stats & Emails Stop Working For Days
Google runs a product named FeedBurner, it helps publishers manage their RSS feeds including distribution services, analytics and more around RSS. I use it here but when Google acquired them in 2007, I was nervous. Since then it has been working pret…
Bing Ads Adds Copy & Paste Ads & Keywords
Bing announced you can now copy and paste your ads or keywords from campaign to campaign within the Bing Ads console…
Google: Here Is How Webmaster Forums Escalation Works
In a Google Hangout with John Mueller earlier this month on Google+, John explained how it works when a thread in the help forums gets escalated to a Googler…