Google’s John Mueller Answers Webmaster Questions With Images & GIFs
John Mueller is well known in the SEO space, he is responsible for helping webmasters learn best practices when it comes to building out web sites that work well with Google. So he answers a lot of questions in the help forums, as well as does many vi…
Google’s Matt Cutts Helps Launch Google Panda 5 & 6 Search
April Fools today… The Google Webmaster channels on both Google+ and Twitter shared a April Fools Prank on Google Panda 5 and Google Panda 6 release…
Google Launches Backwards Google Search
There are some people who like to read everything in reverse order and Google has built a search engine for them at http://com.google.
Any search you do is reversed or backwards…
Google’s Matt Cutts Builds SEO Spam Tool Named AutoSEO For April Fools
Matt Cutts, Google’s on leave head of search spam, announced on his personal blog his April Fools prank at http://seo.ninja named AutoSEO.
In short…
Google’s New Head Of Search Quality Is Me
This is not easy for me to announce, being that I’ve been covering Google and search quality here for well over ten years. It is both sad as well as exciting for me to tell you the news — I am going to be taking over the role of Google’s head of se…
When Did The Eiffel Tower Open To The Public? 126 Years Ago Today.
Did you know that 126 years ago today on March 31, 1889, the Eiffel Tower in Paris, France opened to the public…
Google News Updates Inclusion Process: Rejection Notices Bug
Google News has a pretty relaxed inclusion process relative to the older days of trying to get into Google News. The new process is documented in detail over here.
I key difference now is that you can only request inclusion via the Google News Publis…
Moz Builds That Spam Identification Tool In Site Explorer
Almost two years ago, Rand Fishkin from Moz posted about looking into building a spam detection tool as a way for sites to figure out (1) who not to get links from, (2) remove bad links from and (3) see how Google may determine if a site is spammy and …
Did Wikipedia Take An Organic Hit In Google Search?
Wikipedia has historically dominated Google’s search results – no one would argue with that.
But now with the knowledge graph, does Google have a need to rank Wikipedia at the top, when instead
Google AdWords Fixed The Quality Score Bug Yesterday
On Friday morning we were the first to report widespread panic around Google AdWords quality score drops. It turned out, as expected…
Google Changes AdWords Exams & Certifications Criteria
Mini from the Google AdWords team announced on Google AdWords Help that they’ve “made some changes to the Google AdWords exams and certifications in Partners…
Yahoo & Microsoft Extend Search Deal For 30 Days, Will Yahoo Go Google?
Over the weekend Reuters reported that Yahoo and Microsoft have extended their ten year search alliance deal for just another 30-days while the two continue to negotiate…
Page Load Takes Two-Seconds? Google May Slow Crawling Your Site.
Almost all SEOs know that a busy server or slow server will result in GoogleBot slowing how they crawl your web site and we also know that extremely slow sites/pages can be negatively impacted in ranking well in the Google search results…
Google AdWords Express Now Block Search Phrases
Google quietly announced on Google+ that those who use Google AdWords Express can now remove keyword phrases they no longer want to target.
Google said they have added the “ability to remove search phrases that may not be the best fit for your busines…
Huge Quality Score Drop For Google AdWords Advertisers
I am seeing widespread reports of Google AdWords advertisers complaining that their AdWords Quality Score has dropped significantly across their accounts and ads…
Colorful Google Knowledge Graph Boxes
Google’s mobile search results are getting even more colorful, first using colorful line separators and now bringing some color to the knowledge graph boxes.
Here is a picture
Google: We’re Working On Making The Google News Sitemap Index Count More Accurate
We reported a month or so ago that Google News said the sitemap index count is not accurate for determining how many of your articles are indexed by Google News.
Google, in the case of Google News, recommends you do a site command…
Google Mobile Local Results Expand Link Navigation
I am documenting this, but I am told by Google it is about a month or so old. The Google mobile results for searching for local intent queries…
Google: The Changes In The Search Results Are Normal Fluctuations
I am still seeing massive chatter around Google’s search results changing both in terms of Webmaster Tools showing changes in rankings…
Video Recap of Weekly Search Buzz :: March 27, 2015
This week in search, I covered a couple noticeable Google search algorithmic changes, but Google said they are just normal fluctuations in the search results…