Google Maps Business Phone Support Hours Reduced
Many local experts took notice that Google has drastically cut back on the hours they offer phone support to businesses for managing their Google My Business (formerly Google Places) local listing in Google Maps…
Google AdWords Speeds Up Data Freshness
Jon Diorio from Google announced on Google+ that the freshness and speed of the AdWords data is now much faster for search term, geographic performance and automatic placement stats…
Play The Google Suggest Family Feud Game
There is a new addictive search game out there now at googlefeud.com that is basically the game of Family Feud but based on Google Auto Suggestions.
You are able to pick a category and the game gives you a beginning of a search phrase…
Google’s Mobile Friendly Ranking Algorithm Already Live For Android Apps
Everyone is talking about the upcoming mobile friendly ranking factor coming up on April 21st for the mobile search results – but what is live already today as a ranking factor in Google mobile search is App Ranking…
Video Recap of Weekly Search Buzz :: March 13, 2015
This week in search, I covered how Google really has not updated the Panda algorithm or data since October. There is still a lot of confusion about…
Google To Confirm The Next Penguin Update/Refresh
Last time there was a big Penguin update by Google, i.e. Penguin 3.0, Google did not announce that it happened but they confirmed it after we asked about it.
Google’s John Mueller implied they would do the same thing next time a Penguin algorithm is up…
Google To Confirm The Next Penguin Update/Refresh
Last time there was a big Penguin update by Google, i.e. Penguin 3.0, Google did not announce that it happened but they confirmed it after we asked about it.
Google’s John Mueller implied they would do the same thing next time a Penguin algorithm is up…
Google Discontinuing Original Google Webmaster Tools API, Killing Keyword Data
Google announced they are sunsetting or discontinuing the original Webmaster Tools API first released back in 2008. The new one was announced in September 2014 and now Google is saying it is time to finally switch over to the new API because the old A…
Google Maps New Report Problem Feature Adding Moved Locations
Google has quietly pushed out an update to how you send edits in for businesses found in Google Maps.
Now when you click on a business within Google Maps there is a toggle at the top right to send in modifications to communicate if the place was close…
Google To Clarify The Status Of Their Panda Algorithm
Over the past week or so, there has been a lot of confusion over Google’s Panda algorithm. Specifically, does it run in real time or has it not run in over four months.
To me, it is crystal clear that the Panda algorithm has not refreshed or updated …
Google’s Penguin Algorithm Still Not Running Regularly & Monthly
When Google released the well overdue Penguin 3.0 back in October of last year, we thought that would bring a faster running and more regularly and frequently updated refreshes to the algorithm…
Does Google Want To Kill The AJAX Web Like The Flash Web?
A couple year ago, Google released best practices on how to make AJAX crawlable for search engines. But as I covered last week at Search Engine Land…
Google Reviews & Ratings Rich Snippets Guidelines Updated: Can’t Be Category Based
On March 9th, Google updated the review-specific usage guidelines and policies for reviews and rating rich snippets…
WordPress Auto-Updates Millions Of Yoast SEO Plugins After Vulnerability
Yesterday news came out that the single most popular third-party piece of SEO software was vulnerable to a serious blind SQL injection attach. Yoast’s WordPress SEO plugin that is reportedly used by 14 million SEO blogs was vulnerable…
Google: We Are Not Using Facts For Search Engine Ranking Now
Last week we covered a new research paper Google published on ranking web pages based on facts. It turns out that some people felt that Google may be using it as a ranking factor in the near future…
Google Support & Help Pages Show Which Googler Wrote Them
Google has tons and tons of help and support pages across all their services. From using Google search to SEO related help all the way to how to use Google+ or Blogger. But now they are starting to show which Googler wrote the vast majority of the help…
Google AdWords Account History Page Adds Conversions Changes
Google quietly announced on Google+ that they added conversion changes to the account history page within the AdWords console.
Google wrote:
It’s now easier than ever to find conversions changes to your account…
Google Webmaster Tools Updates Fetch & Render Report & Adds Blocked Resources Report
Google announced on the webmaster blog they made two updates this morning to Google Webmaster Tools.
Both are fairly obvious changes around notifying webmasters about blocked resources preventing Google from properly crawling your web site in full…
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Google: Panda Has Not Updated Since October 2014
Yesterday in a Google hangout on Google+ with Google’s John Mueller I had to ask John about the whole real-time/instant Panda thing Gary Illyes may or may not have said at SMX West…