Bing Webmaster Outreach Nonexistent
Last week, I noticed a public post by Duane Forrester, the former Bing webmaster outreach person, on Facebook sharing his disappointment with the current state of Bing’s webmaster outreach efforts…
Google Search Analytics Report Update: Now Includes Knowledge Panel, Rich Snippets & Local
If you login to your Google Search Console account and click on the Search Analytics, you will vertical line on April 27, 2016 that says “update…
Google News To Promote Local Publishers With Local Source Tag
Google announced on the Google News blog that in an effort to promote local news publications, when stories in their local towns go national, Google News is now using a “local source” tag. The interesting thing is that this tag is automated…
Google AdWords Final URLs Report Gets Conversion Columns Metrics
Google quietly announced on Google+ that the Google AdWords Final URLs report is now getting conversion column metrics.
Google said “conversion columns now available for final URLs…
Bing Ads Schedule Reports Bug Sends Mass Duplicate Reports To Advertisers
The Bing Ads team confirmed on Twitter that there is a known bug this morning with the schedule reports system…
It’s Over A Year & A Half Since The Last Google Penguin Update
It is officially well over 18 months, a year and a half since the last official Google Penguin update. The last Google Penguin update was on October 17. 2014 – Penguin 3.0…
Bing Testing Twitter Carousel In Search Results
@rgomezric spotted Bing testing tweets, similar to how Google shows them…
Google Now With A Carousel For Reddit
Paul Shapiro notified me on Twitter that Google is showing a search carousel under Reddit search results. At first I thought it was the Google Live carousel feature but it looks more like the carousel under the snippets that typically is reserved for…
Google Looking To Bring Voice Search & AMP Reporting To Search Console
In a Google hangout from Friday on Google+, Google’s John Mueller said Google is looking for ways to break down both voice search and AMP traffic in the Google Search Analytics report…
Fixed: Google App Indexing Bug With SDK For iOS Drains Battery In Stand By
A Google Webmaster Help thread has reports dating back to March 1st of a bug with the iOS App Indexing SDK from Google that would drain the power from apps, even when they are in standby mode.
The bug was just fixed recently in version 2.0.3 of the SD…
Google’s Mother’s Day Logo Has Shoes
This year, the Google Mother’s Day logo goes with shoes. Why…
Google Testing Black Instead Of Blue Links In Search Results
Google is testing showing black links in their search results listing pages instead of the typical blue links. Google has red links in Google China, but has never had other colors being used for the blue links in other regions…
Search Buzz Video Recap: Google Penalizes, SEO, AdWords Editor & More
This week in search we posted our monthly Google webmaster report. I covered the Google web spam report which showed Google issued about 500 manual actions per hour last year. Google penalized a lot of big airline sites for showing product rich snippe…
Google’s Gary Illyes: I’m Angry News Sites Don’t Link Out, It’s Stupid
The folks at Stone Temple Consulting did another really nice interview with Google’s Gary Illyes and asked him some interesting questions…
Google’s Gary Illyes: I’m Angry News Sites Don’t Link Out, It’s Stupid
The folks at Stone Temple Consulting did another really nice interview with Google’s Gary Illyes and asked him some interesting questions…
Google My Business API Version 3.0 Is Out With New Features
Google has quietly released (or hasn’t announced the release yet) of the new version of the Google My Business API. The new version is version 3.0 and comes several months after launching the last one in December 2015…
Google My Business API Version 3.0 Is Out With New Features
Google has quietly released (or hasn’t announced the release yet) of the new version of the Google My Business API. The new version is version 3.0 and comes several months after launching the last one in December 2015…
Google Honors Sigmund Freud On His 160th Birthday With Relevant Doodle
Today on Google.com is a special Google Doodle, a Google logo…
Google Honors Sigmund Freud On His 160th Birthday With Relevant Doodle
Today on Google.com is a special Google Doodle, a Google logo…
Google: Fewer Higher Quality Pages Leads To Higher Quality Traffic From Google
During the Stone Temple Consulting Q&A with Gary Illyes last night on YouTube, Eric Enge told Gary that when he removed a ton of low quality pages from a client’s site, their traffic didn’t change much, their indexed pages did drop…