Google Now & Nest Stuck At Setting Temperature
Looks like the wizardry magic of Google Now integrating with Nest isn’t working all that magically for many Nest users.
A large thread at the Google Web Search Help forum has dozens of complaints from Nest owners who use Google Now to try to configure…
GoogleConference2015.com Not Google Owned, Despite Googlers Speaking
Back in 2003, I launched a first of it’s kind, keyword tracking tool that used the official Google search API – it was the first to do keyword ranking in accordance with Google’s terms of service (I believe)…
Google Health & Medical Queries Get Vastly Updated Knowledge Graph Look
Google announced they’ve been crawling the web for health and medical information and then had them fact checked by “medical doctors at Google and the Mayo Clinic for accuracy” and is soon going to be providing much more detailed medical and health rel…
Wildcard Google Suggest Worked For Five Years
Rand Fishkin learned for the first time this week that you can use Google Suggest with wildcard spots within them. He posted about it on Google+ saying:
I somehow never knew…
Google’s E-Commerce Update: Was Last Week’s Search Tweak E-Commerce Focused?
There is no doubt in the vast majority of SEOs and Webmaster’s mind that there was indeed a search algorithm change last week with Google. Google wouldn’t confirm it but did tell us it was not related to Panda or Penguin…
Poll: Are You Earning More Or Less Per Click With Google AdSense
A WebmasterWorld thread has the normal complaints from Google AdSense publishers – complaints about earnings are down, revenues are dropping and it getting harder and harder to make money with the platform…
Video Recap of Weekly Search Buzz :: February 6, 2015
This week in search, I start by sharing the monthly Google webmaster recap. Google may have done a major update this week…
App Store SEO Reminds Me Of Direct Hit Ranking
Most of you probably don’t remember or have heard of Direct Hit, it was a search engine from the 90s. It ranked web sites based off of user metrics…
Google Strongly Discourages meta-refresh-type Redirects
Every few years, it is important to cover some basic topics and we’ve covered it in 2008 and 2011, so now in 2015…
Poll: Should Web Sites Have Link Removal Policies?
A WebmasterWorld thread has discussion around link removals requests and if web sites should have a printed policy for how they handle link removal requests.
Truth is, if your site is at all popular…
Google: The Google Update Was Not Panda Or Penguin
Yesterday we covered that Google seems to have done a major update the other day and Google actually responded to us saying “as usual, we’re continuing to make tweaks…
February 2015 Google Webmaster Report
January 2015 started out pretty slow with Google webmaster news but we are ending it with a lot of things happening. This includes a possible major Google update that Google said was only a tweak…
Don’t Let Your Kids Look For Pictures Of Mommy In Google
It is not that uncommon for Google Image search to show nude photos, especially when you search for them, but also for queries you wouldn’t expect it…
Google Real Time Search Coming Back With Twitter Deal; Spammers Rejoice
Last night, Bloomberg reported that Twitter and Google struck a new deal to give Google access to their firehose of Tweets again…
Matt Cutts Is Still Plugged Into The Search Industry & Google
Back in July 2014 Matt Cutts announced he would go on an extended vacation and then extended his vacation and still there are no signs of him coming back.
But that doesn’t mean he is out of the loop…
Google Webmaster Tools Emails For App Deep Linking Impressions & Clicks
A few weeks ago, Google began notifying webmasters who have deployed app deep linking about app deep linking issues and informing them how to fix it.
Now Google is sending webmasters stats
Significant Google Search Algorithm Update Yesterday
It looks like there is an algorithm update taking place at Google search now – it is hard to say if it is Panda, Penguin or something unrelated – right now…
Google AdWords Banned Over 200,000 Advertisers In 2014
Google announced they efforts to combat “bad ads,” ads that are manipulative, spammy and sometimes illegal.
Google said that in 2014 they’ve disabled more than 524 million bad ads and banned more than 214…
Google Launches A Mortgage Calculator, Take That Publishers!
Truth is, we knew this was coming, they were testing a mortgage calculator for a few months now but yesterday, it went live to all…
Google Answers Now Showing Action Links For Third-Party Web Sites
In November, we documented how Google began sprucing up their Google Answers boxes with answer action links. But the catch was, it only worked for Google specific content. I said…