Google My Business Listing Fraud Through Craigslist
A couple months ago we reported on the topic of Google business verification fraud through the old fashion US postal service.
It is a common thing that scammers do to gain trusted listings in Google Maps through the Google My Business center…
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Google AdWords Converts Your Flash Ads To HTML5 With Swiffy
Google announced on Google+ that they will now automatically convert eligible Flash ads to HTML5 format, this way the ad can be displayed on more devices…
Google To Update Widget Link Guidelines Fairly Soon
A couple weeks ago we posted how Google’s John Mueller said he would avoid link building in general, but in that, he said you can enable people to easily link to you by offering a widget or something.
John was asked about widgets for link building…
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Google SEO: Should Titles & H1 Tags Be Exactly The Same?
The other week, I reported that with Google News specifically, the recommendation is that your titles and H1s be consistent.
Now a Google Webmaster Help thread
Google Mobile Displaying “Slow” Label In Search Results For Slow Sites?
It seems like Google may be testing a new label in the search results for slow sites. K Neeraj Kayastha posted a screen shot of the “Slow” label in a Google+ community and said he spotted this on his Android device searching in incognito mode…
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Google Webmaster Tools Sending Warnings To Update WordPress Plugins
Jackson Lo posted a screenshot on Twitter that Google Webmaster Tools is notifying him to update a plugin that he uses on his WordPress site.
It says that Google is aware he is using an outdated version of Slider Revolution…
Watch Webmaster Give It To Google Over Playing By The Rules Without Seeing Results
It is not uncommon for a webmaster to complain that his competitors are cheating and doing great in Google but all his white-hat efforts are not being rewarded by Google…
Google Search Business Box Chat Feature Available In The Wild
First noticed by Matt Gibstein and posted on Twitter last night was a “chat” button available for searchers to click on to initiate a Google Chat or Google Hangout chat session with the business…
Google Upgrades Google My Business Photos Section
Google announced a significant update to how they enable business owners to manage the photos of their business within their Google+ Business Profiles.
Google said:
Starting today…
Google My Business Categories Now Requires A Primary Category
Jade Wang from Google announced in the Google Business Help forums that Google My Business Locations now have the ability for businesses to set their primary business category…
Google News Supports Sitemap Only Crawling
I personally learned a lot from the Google News Webmaster Hangout on Google+ from a couple weeks ago and I keep pulling out pieces of that knowledge for you guys.
The next thing I learned was that if you wanted to…
Google Search Now Warns Before You Visit Sites That Trigger Unwanted Downloads
Remember last week, many many sites noticed their site was labeled with this site may be hacked warnings in Google Search…
Google Panda Turns Four Years Old Today
Can you believe it has been four years since the Google officially released their Panda algorithm update? Before that, Google was getting a tremendous amount of flack over the quality of their search results and then Panda touched down.
Panda 1.0 was r…
Google AdSense Tests Arrows In Center Of Ads & White Patterned Design
Google seems to be tested two new ad styles for their AdSense ad units.
One design places the enclosed arrow in a circle within the center of the ad unit and the other design uses a transparent white, with patterns through the background…
Google AdWords Adds Call-Only Campaigns
On Friday, Google AdWords announced a new method of targeting click-to-call campaigns named “call-only campaign.”
The first to spot this, well before the announcement, as far as I know, was Kim Clinkunbroomer. She posted about it on her blog and on…
Google Crawling Your Robots.txt File?
A fairly common question I see in the support forums is why is Google crawling my robots.txt file.
Today I spotted a thread from a webmaster in the Google Webmaster Help forums where Google was crawling the mobile version of the robots.txt file, whi…
Google News Publishers Should Use Standout Tags For Third-Party Sources Often
Back in September 2011, Google News introduced the standout tag, a way for publishers to say these specific stories are really exceptional and Google News readers should really see it.
But did you know…
Google: When Will Be The Next PageRank Update? Probably Never
Google has said time and time again that you should not pay attention to the Google Toolbar PageRank score, but yet they have yet to zero-out any of the data, instead, they keep it as it was since the last accidental update back on December 6…
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Google Mobile Search Testing Multi-Google Colored Line Breaks In Search Results
Several mobile users are reporting seeing a pretty colorful experience in the mobile Google search results. Google is showing line breaks and shading for each snippet in the mobile results, but instead of it being gray or black…
Google May Have Mistakenly Marked Your Site As Hacked: Here Is How To Fix It
Yesterday I reported on how dozens and dozens of webmasters noticed Google labeled their sites with the this site may be hacked label in the search results. It seems way too unusual for so many new webmasters to be complaining about it…