Google Major Spam Problems Notification Replaces Pure Spam Notification
Marie Haynes shared a photo of Google’s new “Major Spam Problems” notification sent via the Google Search Console. This seems to be a replacement of the pure spam manual action…
Google Sets 10 Monthly Multiple URLs Crawl Quota Due to Abuse
Earlier this month, Google added a captcha to their crawl and submit to index feature in the Google Search Console’s Fetch as Google tool. Now…
Social Engineering Content Detected Google Search Console Notifications
Google is now sending out notifications for “Social engineering content detected” on your web site and sometimes it looks like the notifications are not valid…
My Website Got Accepted Into DMOZ! How Should I Feel About That?
Last week I spotted a thread at WebmasterWorld that has a webmaster noticing his website was just accepted into DMOZ…
Google Confirms Four Ads At The Top & Removing Right Side Ads
Google has been testing four AdWords ads since 2006 and recently stepped up those tests in late 2015. Now, according to Search Engine Land…
Google Now Offering Google Certified Partners For SEO?
A week ago we reported that Google will not offer SEO certification period. But now we see Google has messaging that they do offer certified Google partners that offer SEO.
Aaron Wall spotted it and posted the details on Twitter…
Google AdWords Campaign Drafts & Experiments Rolling Out
In November, Google began beta testing a new AdWords feature for campaign drafts and experiments. Campaign drafts and experiments lets advertisers…
Google’s Gary Illyes Hopes Share Statistics On HTTPS Adoption Rates
We’ve talked a lot about Google HTTPS over the years and truth is, it seems the ranking benefit is too small to migrate to HTTPS just for that reason. In any event, I migrated this site and others to it and I also launch new sites under HTTPS…
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Nat & Lo Videos: Vote For Search For Future Episodes
Nat and Lo work at Google, they do this video blog of how things work at Google by talking to the Googlers who work on them. It is part of their 20…
Google Incorrect Hreflang Implementation Notifications Sent Out Yesterday
Yesterday, it seems Google has sent out a surge in “Incorrect Hreflang Implementation” notifications via the Google Search Console. The first time we saw this message was back in July 2015 and since, we haven’t seen many – that is until yesterday…
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Video Recap of Weekly Search Buzz :: February 19, 2016
This week in search, we covered how Google is changing their tune on the Penguin launch update. Google posted that they do offer Google SEO Certification…
Google Adds AMP Webmaster Help Forum
Google has added a section in the Google Webmaster Help forums for AMP (accelerated mobile pages) webmaster related questions. You can access the forum section over here.
The section already has 26 topics posted in it and has its very own Google pres…
Google Adds Android Referrer Tracking For Analytics
Yesterday, Google announced on Google+ that they now support referrer tracking for Android apps. This will give Android app marketers the data on the sources of your app installs…
Report: 15% Drop In Review Snippets In Google Search Results Yesterday
The Mozcast Features report shows a 14.5% drop in the reviews snippets showing up in Google over the past day compared to the day prior. This is a massive drop compared to the stability is has shown over the past several months…
Bug: New Google AdSense Publishers Seeing Ads Too Soon
Google posted on the AdSense known issues page a new issue around new AdSense publishers seeing ads on their web sites too soon.
The bug was published late last night or early this morning (EST time)…
Tell Google Why You Want More Data In Search Console Analytics #moredataSAN
Yesterday I posted somewhat of a sarcastic post on Google teasing us with more Search Analytics data again…
What Is The P Google Maps Marker/Icon?
Marc Zwygart posted a screen shot on Google+ of a Google Map embedded in Google Search that has a bunch of markers/icons but one of them is the letter P. I asked a bunch of local SEO experts what the letter P symbolizes and so far…
3 Years Later, Google Still Internally Discussing Giving Webmasters More Search Console Data
Zineb from Google said on Twitter that Google is still talking about giving webmasters more than 90-days worth of data in the Google Search Console.
@Jonny_J_ we are thinking about it, but no big update right now…
Google My Business Spreadsheet Upload Process Updated
Google has quietly updated the process for uploading your spreadsheet to the Google My Business console. The main new thing is that you no longer have to review the changes after you upload your spreadsheet…
Google My Business & Ads Looking For Trusted Testers
Elisabeth from Google posted in the Google My Business Help forums news that Google is now looking for “trusted testers” aka beta testers for new features within the Google My Business department including organic and ads…