Yahoo Taking Bids To Sell All Or Parts Of Company
Wall Street Journal reports Yahoo has set a deadline for when all bids need to be submitted to Yahoo for selling all or parts of the company. The deadline is April 11th…
Google: isSimilarTo Not Similar To Canonicals
All of you know what a canonical does, right? It basically is a 301 redirect designed for spiders only – more on that over here. But many of you do not know…
Signs Of A Google Update; Not Sure If It Is Penguin…
I am seeing some early signals within the community that there is a potential Google update being pushed out. It is really early. It might be some limited Google test, which they are constantly doing or really early signs of a Penguin update…
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High Bounce Rates On Web Sites Don’t Necessarily Impact Google Rankings
A Cre8asite Forum thread has a discussion about is it bad to have a really high bounce rate on your site…
Google: Multiple Title Tags Doesn’t Cause Problems For Us
Google’s John Mueller said on Twitter that if you have multiple title tags on the same page, it wouldn’t make sense but it wouldn’t cause problems for Google.
John wrote, “that wouldn’t make sense for Google, probably wouldn’t make sense for others ei…
Google: Don’t Worry About Duplicate Content With PDFs & Web Pages
I struggled with the title of this post, so please read through it so it all makes sense. In short, a person asked Gary Illyes from Google some time ago about duplicate content…
Google To Complete Major Redesign For AdWords Over Next 12 Months
Google announced this morning they are going to be redesigning the AdWords platform over the next 12-18 months. Of course…
Google Easter Logo? Nope, But Bing & Ask.com Go With Easter Themes
The last time Google has a special Google logo, aka Doodle, for Easter was in 2000, yes, 16 years ago. But every year, searchers are surprised not to see a Google Easter logo. Here is the logo from Google in 2000:
The thing is, if you go to the co…
Video Recap of Weekly Search Buzz :: March 25, 2016
This week in search, Google disclosed what the top three ranking factors are, which are links, content and RankBrain – if RankBrain is even a ranking…
Google AdWords Dynamic Search Ads Now Defaults To Recommended Bid Feature
Google announced on Google+ that those who use dynamic search ads in Google AdWords, that the bid will default to the “recommended bid.”
Google said this is because they want to get advertisers up and running faster with these dynamic search ads…
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Former Google Spam Fighter: Machine Learning Already In Spam Algorithms
Yesterday we reported that Google is aiming to use machine learning in spam algorithms, to better fight spam.
Shortly after I wrote that, former Google spam fighter Murat Yatagan…
Google: Web Spam Algorithms Global But Some Regions Pose More Spam Issues For Google
Continuing with our coverage of the Google Q&A via WebPromo that we covered over the past day, with Andrey Lipattsev… He explained why some non-English language based Google search results appear easier to spam, even though the spam algorithms are global…
Here Is Some Google Engineer Sarcasm For You
One thing well known about the culture within Google is the heavy level of sarcasm and layers of jokes that go into the conversation there…
Google vs. Moz On Clicks Influencing Search Ranking
The debate on whether Google is telling the truth about click data, i.e. pogosticking, clicking on a search result and jumping back to the search results page shortly after, influences the rankings of that search result is a topic that won’t die…
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Google: The Top Three Ranking Factors Are Content, Links & RankBrain
Surprise, surprise, the top three ranking signals in Google’s search ranking algorithm is content, links and RankBrain. Not necessarily in that order, but content and links are more important ranking signals than RankBrain…
One Local SEO Got His 60 Clients Penalized In One Night
A Google My Business Help thread has a local SEO who is furious with Google that over 60 of his clients were suspended from Google My Business (the local maps listings) overnight because he manages all these clients in a single account…
Google: Machine Learning For Spam Detection & Search Quality Is Coming
Google’s Andrey Lipattsev, a Search Quality Senior Strategist, said yesterday at the 42:40 mark in the video, based on a question from Rand Fishkin, that Google is exploring using machine learning with web spam…
Google Metronome Widget
If you search Google for [metronome] on your desktop or mobile device, you will see an interactive metronome. A metronome is a device used by musicians…
Fathom, SEO Forum Personality, Rodney L Brown Passed Away
I am very sad to report that we, the SEO community, has lost yet another contributor. Rodney Brown, who goes under the code name Fathom in the SEO discussion forums, has passed away.
I was notified of this via an SEO Chat Forum thread…
Majestic Launches In Space Ship To 3D Print The Internet
This is a first, the fine folks over at Majestic, a tool many many SEOs use for link detection and management, amongst other things, announced that they sent up a 3D printer into space…