Google AdWords Ad Leads To AdWords Phishing Attempt
Tejas Kirodiwal notified me via Twitter that he spotted an ad on Google, an AdWords ad…
Microsoft Only Allows Users Into Microsoft Edge Browser Via Cortona
Microsoft announced how Cortona, Microsoft Bing’s personal voice search assistant, will only work with Microsoft Edge in Windows 10…
Google Partner Logo Showing On Profile URLs In Search Results?
Google may be testing showing the Google Partner logo in the web search results when the Google partner URLs show up in the web search results…
WebmasterRadio.fm Acquired By Cranberry & Rebrands As Cranberry.fm
News this week broke that Cranberry, a content marketing, and amplification platform founded by PRWebâs founder David McInnis, has acquired WebmasterRadio.FM. With that, WebmasterRadio.FM is now known as Cranberry.fm.
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Now Control Google Maps With Your Keyboard
Google announced on Google+ that you can now control and navigate around Google Maps with your keyboard. You can pan and zoom as well as find and learn more about specific places like neighborhoods, transit stations and shops and restaurants…
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Google Fixed Muffled Voice On iOS Google Search App
Google released an update for the iOS search app that resolves the issue with a muffled and low-volume voice prompt. Version 14.1 of the app says “fixed a bug causing low audio volume for some users…
Search Buzz Video Recap: Google Search Console, Community Power & AdWords Extended Ads
Truth is, I recorded this video yesterday because I am completely offline today. First up…
Google Doodle Honors Hertha Marks Ayrton
Today on Google.com is a special Google logo, Doodle, for Hertha Marks Ayrton’s 162nd birthday. Hertha Marks Ayrton was most well known for her work in science on electric arcs and ripples in sand and water. The Google Doodle shows the ripples in the…
Google AdSense Page-Level Ads: Anchor Ads & Vignette Ads
Google announced the launch of a new ad type named page-level ads. These page-level ads are designed for mobile pages and there are two specific ad formats…
Gary Illyes: We’re Google Spokespersons – It’s Our Job
I find it funny that I often hear people saying on Twitter and other places that Gary Illyes, John Mueller…
Google Prompts Users To Set Home & Work Address On Some Searches
When you use your mobile phone on iOS or Android, Google and Apple both try to get you to set your home and work address. But now, if you search for certain queries with location qualifiers…
Google Merchant Center Adds Feed Rules; A Tool To Manage Your Data Feeds
Google AdWords announced a new tool to help Google Shopping merchants manage their merchant center product data feed…
Google Testing Very Light Blue Links In Search Results
As you all know, Google is constantly testing user interface changes in their search results. Here is a new one, they are testing changing the color of the hyperlinks in the Google search results listings page from a darker blue to a lighter blue…
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Unsubscribe From Some Google Search Console Messages
One of the biggest complaints I see from webmasters about the Google Search Console is that messages you get about 404s or other issues that the webmaster is aware of…
New Test: Google AdWords Expanded Text Ads
Ginny Marvin posted at Search Engine Land a screen shot she found of the new Google AdWords expanded headlines.
In this Google AdWords test, Google has expanded the headline to two lines that wraps and the description is now up to 80 characters…
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Google: Keep Redirects Indefinitely But One Can Remove Them After Google Indexes
Last September we reported that Google says it is best to keep redirects live for a year or so and even better…
Google: Community Through Comments Help A Lot With Ranking
Gary Illyes from Google said on Twitter that having a thriving community helps with rankings. He said “a healthy, thriving community on a site…
Google In-Depth Articles Now Coming Back
Earlier this month, Google’s In Depth articles search features mysteriously dropped out. I emailed Google about 5 times asking for a comment, almost each time they said they would get back to me and never did. But now…
Google Testing Slimmed Down Local Box
Sergey Alakov posted on Twitter a screen shot of Google testing a slimmed down or reduced size local box. If you search for a specific company, normally it will give you a nice branded box for the company, with the map, address, phone number and so on….
Google Image Search Sponsored Ads In Mobile
This isn’t really new, Google has been testing ads and sponsored results in images for many many years. In fact…