Google Wants To Know What Tools You Use To Track Your Mobile Search Performance
Google’s Gary Illyes posted in Google+ a question asking webmasters and SEOs which tools they use to track their mobile search performance…
Google Answers How To Make Cocktails & Other Drink Recipes
Google announced on Google+ that they launched a new licensed content answer for the search results, this one is on how to make certain cocktails with cocktail or drink recipes…
Google: 80% Of Eligible HTTPS URLs Aren’t Used In Google’s Search Listings
Gary Illyes, the man to blame at Google for the HTTPS algorithm, shared a “small” analysis Google ran on HTTPS URLs…
Google Answers Why A Web Site Might Rank Badly For One Keyword
Zineb Ait Bahajji from Google’s Webmaster Trends team was in a Google+ live hangout just a couple hours ago with Pierre Far from Google and attempted to answer a very popular SEO question…
Webmaster To Publishers: Stop Linking To Me With The NoFollow Attribute!
There is a fun WebmasterWorld thread where a publisher of “design elements” said many publishers and web sites use their design elements they post for free and often link back to them after using it but that link contains a nofollow attribute…
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Google AdWords To Drop Four Search Funnels Columns From Reporting
Google quietly announced on Google+ that they will be “simplifying” some of the AdWords reporting by dropping four search funnels columns in early April…
Google Launches Car Insurance Portal Upsetting Yet Another Webmaster Portal
Google launched the ability to search for auto insurance policies in California at google.com/compare/autoinsurance.
Of course, those websites that do lead generation in that space feel very threatened, as they should…
Google: Keep Your HTTP Site Verified In Webmaster Tools Even After Migrating To HTTPS
After Google announced a small ranking boost for going HTTPS – many webmasters began migrating their sites from HTTP to HTTPS.
Would I recommend everyone do it for the ranking boost. Absolutely not. But maybe you want to consider it for other reason…
Webmaster Asks Google’s John Mueller: Will Matt Cutts Return?
In a Google+ hangout from a few weeks ago, a webmaster named Robert O’Haver, asked Google’s John Mueller if Google’s Matt Cutts will return.
As you may remember…
International Women’s Day Google Logo Celebrates All Types Of Women
Today on Google’s home pages worldwide is a Doodle, Google Logo, to celebrate International Women’s Day. The logo has women in all sets of life activities and professions. You will see women working as scientists, astronauts, musicians, athletes, judge…
Video Recap of Weekly Search Buzz :: March 6, 2015
This week in search at the Search Engine Roundtable we cover some news out of SMX West. Did Googleâs Gary Illlyes say that Panda is now running constantly…
Google Panda Running Instantly & In Real-Time?
Last night at SMX West during the Meet The Search Engines panel, Google’s Gary Illyes was supposedly quoted as saying that Panda, the Google algorithm, is constantly running, instantly…
Google AdWords Launches An AdWords App For Android
Yesterday, Google launched an Android App for AdWords advertisers to manage aspects of their ads. The Android app is over here in the Google Play store and is available as a free download…
The Google Mobile Algorithm Is Real-Time & On The Page Level
As we approach the April 21st date, the day the mobile-friendly algorithm goes live, webmasters are a bit anxious about getting their web sites mobile-friendly.
At SMX West…
Google AdWords Launches Dynamic Structured Snippets
Google announced quietly on Google+ a new AdWords format named dynamic structured snippets is now available for some AdWords ads…
Google’s Auto Insurance Blog Post Has Extremely Keyword Rich Anchor Text
Yesterday, Google announced they will be officially getting into selling auto-insurance through google.com/compare/autoinsurance/. Yes, this is a big deal but SEOs took notice of the blog post announcing it…
Google’s Instant Noodle Logo For Momofuku Andoâ��s 105th Birthday
Today on the Google home page is a noodle themed set of four Google Logos, aka Doodles for the 105th birthday of the late Momofuku Ando.
Momofuku Ando is the inventor of instant noodles and Cup Noodles from Taiwanese-Japanese…
Google Fact Rank: Google Ranking Web Pages On Facts, Not Links
The SEO community is buzzing heavily around a paper (PDF) published by Google named Knowledge-Based Trust: Estimating the Trustworthiness of Web Sources.
The paper describes how Google can rank the most factually accurate web pages higher in the searc…
Google Testing Search Results Without Descriptions
I’ve seen lots of Google tests, including Google hiding the URLs in the search results…
Google Norwegian Hreflang Language Codes NO, NB or NN
The hreflang questions are some of the most interesting ones I see in the forums because it addresses things across domains, duplication, language handling…