Google’s John Mueller: I’d Avoid Link Building In General
In a Google+ live hangout with Google’s John Mueller on last Friday morning, John answered the question, “is link building in anyway way good…
Google Has Issues Crawling Recursive Redirects
Ever see a web page that when you visit it, it just keeps redirecting back to itself…
Google Tests New Mobile Loading Slide Outs & Loading Patterns
Ruben Gomez spotted yet another Google test, this one on the mobile interface…
Google Testing 3D & Push-Like Arrows On AdSense Ads
Google seems to be testing yet a slightly different format for their arrows on their AdSense ad units.
A WebmasterWorld thread has one user who posted a picture of an AdSense unit that had an arrow that looked slightly 3D or shadowed…
Google: More Search Query Historical Data Coming This Year?
Back in 2013, we thought we would get one-years worth of search query data within Google Webmaster Tools report, but that never happened. Instead…
Video Recap of Weekly Search Buzz :: February 13, 2015
This week, we explore the Google update from last week and if it was targeting e-commerce sites or not. We also gained access to the new alpha search impact…
Google Has Five Logos For Valentine’s Day
Tomorrow, Saturday, February 14th is Valentine’s Day and I wanted to share with you all five of the Google Doodles, Google logos, Google’s Doodlers have prepared for the day.
First off…
Google Webmaster Tools Data Stalled On February 7th
Normally, the data in Google Webmaster Tools is about two-days delayed. But if you check your data in Google Webmaster Tools data today, you will see the last time Google updated the data was last Saturday…
Pinterest Rips Away Their Top Contributors Make Money
VentureBeat reports that Pinterest has notified their top contributors that they are automatically removing any affiliate links…
Facebook Ad Relevancy Score
Like Google AdWords quality score shows a 1 to 10 score to advertisers…
Google: Duplicate Titles Is Not A Panda Search Quality Issue
Google’s John Mueller said in a Google+ webmaster live hangout this morning that having duplicate title tags and meta descriptions would not lead to a search quality issue specifically around the Panda algorithm…
See The New Search Impact Reports In Google Webmaster Tools Over Here
As we covered, Google promised to test a new alpha version of the search queries report and that has now been released to the first set of alpha/beta testers this morning.
Google said this new report will be changing drastically over the testing period…
Google AdWords Editor Update Brings Performance & Reliability Improvements
Google announced on Google+ that they’ve released an update to their new version of AdWords Editor v 11, this new update is version 11.0.3…
Where’s My Sitelinks Search Box? Blame Google’s Algorithms.
Google’s Sitelinks Search box launched in September of last year and webmasters are still scratching their heads asking how can my site show the search box in the Google search results…
Google Analytics Data Drops Off On Monday, February 9th
There are dozens of complaints in the Google Analytics Help Forums, I just linked to a few, of webmasters reporting their data for February 9th, Monday, is completely missing from the reports…
Google: We Don’t Have Whitelists For The Penguin & Panda Algorithms
In March 2011, Matt Cutts of Google told us Google does indeed have exception lists or what you call whitelists, but a week or so before that…
Google AdWords Now Allowing Link Buying Ads?
Rand Fishkin from Moz posted on Google+ that Google AdWords seems to have lifted their ban on link selling/buying companies from advertising on their network.
He shared a screen shot showing link selling services and companies selling links to link bu…
Google’s John Mueller When He Isn’t Allowed To Answer Questions
There are always extreme outliers in virtually any algorithm but when that outlier hits your site and your web site drops in the Google rankings, what do you do…
Udi Manber, Former Search Quality VP, Leaving Google
Udi Manber is leaving Google after joining the company back in 2006 and becoming Google’s vice president of search quality. He has written for Google about search quality in the past and was fundamentally involved in the caffeine update…
Google AdWords Updates Tracking URLs
Google AdWords announced they are revamping the URL tracking methodology they used in the past from destination URL to final URL…