Google To Launch New Ad Platform For Plumbers, Electricians & Landscapers
BuzzFeed reports that they have a source within Google telling them that Google will launch a new ad product to connect home-service providers to searchers…
Google Replaces Search Queries Reports For Search Analytics In Webmaster Tools For Alpha Users
Remember the alpha/beta version of the Search Impact reports in Google Webmaster Tools that only a limited number of alpha/beta users have access to…
USA Today, Washington Post & Others Can’t Get Their Sponsored Content Out Of Google News
Typically you do not want Google News to index and rank sponsored (paid for) content in the news results. But sites like USA Today…
Google Keyword Planner Tool Now Has Data To Compare You To Your Competitors
Google quietly announced on Google+ yesterday that the Keyword Planner tool within Google AdWords is being upgraded to add benchmark data so you can compare your performance to your competitors.
Google said it is rolling out over the next few weeks……
Google Bolding Answers In Search Results
Google is now bolding the answers in the search results when quick answers are displayed at the top of the page, in the knowledge graph box area…
Google AdWords Ads Testing Displaying HTTP/HTTP URLs
Google is testing displaying https and http in the URLs of AdWords ads.
Conrad O’Connell spotted this and posted a picture of the http in the display URL area of the ad and said Google is showing the https version as well for some ads…
Matt Cutts Google AutoSEO April Fools Prank Gets Over 3,000 Beta Requests
On April Fools, Matt Cutts, the on leave head of Google’s search quality team, announced a new spam tool named AutoSEO. He said you can request to be part of a limited beta and provided this form to fill out…
You Can Now Move Your YouTube Channels
Supposedly about a month ago, Google’s YouTube launched a way to move your YouTube Channel from one Google+ profile page to another.
The new help documents are over here and the process is pretty straight forward, however, the changes cannot be undone…
Google: Missing Keyword In Search Snippets
Back in 2012 was the first time I covered Google crossing out or striking out search terms, which is now in the format of Google detailing which word is “missing” from the search result based on your query…
April 2015 Google Webmaster Report
Below is a recap specific to Google webmaster topics over the past month that are important to read for all SEOs and webmasters. It mostly covers several unconfirmed Google updates with the broken promise from Google to clarify the status of Panda…
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Does Google’s Pigeon Local Algorithm Impact Organic Rankings? Doubtful.
A thread at Local Search Forum asks a question most SEOs will ask themselves over time… Does your local ranking in Google’s local algorithm at all impact the overall core Google search algorithm?
Video Recap of Weekly Search Buzz :: April 3, 2015
This week in search, we skipped a day over April Fools but we did cover how it seems Wikipedia took a hit in Google, I blame the knowledge graph. Google says if your response time for a page is over two-seconds…
Google Mobile-Friendly Algorithm Will Not Impact Tablet Searches
Believe it or not, there is still confusion around the upcoming mobile-friendly algorithm that Google is pushing live on April 21st.
The algorithm will only impact searches done on smartphones – only. This does not impact desktop searches and it does n…
Google: Make A Change To Your Web Page? We’ll Find It.
A thread at Google Webmaster Help forums has a webmaster concerned that Google isn’t allowing him to manually use the submit to index in the fetch in render tool in Google Webmaster Tools for all the URLs on his site…
Google News URLs Can’t Have Years As Unique Identifiers Except When…
Google News optimization fascinates me because it is a different algorithm and there are weird rules…
Google AdWords Verification Policy For Phone Numbers In Call Extensions
Google launched call extensions about four years ago within the Google AdWords advertising platform. Prior, you could list any phone number you want…
Google Local Pack Goes Missing For A Few Hours
First we have Google testing moving down the local pack and yesterday, for a few hours, the local pack went missing completely.
I saw complaints across Twitter, Google Business Help & Google+…
Google Analytics Adds Release Notes To Track Feature Upgrades
Google announced that the Google Analytics product now has a place where you can track what updates Google has made to the product over time.
You can access the release notes for Google Analytics over here. Currently there are only two update slots…..
Google AdSense Publishers Get Email On AdWords Social Casino Games Ads
In February, Google began testing casino game ads across mobile apps, search…
Google: How To Block GoogleBot Temporarily Vs Permanently
There is a short but informative post by Google’s John Mueller in the Google Webmaster Help forum on the topic of blocking Google from seeing content on a specific page…