Screen Shot: Google Chrome Canary Displays HTTP As Non Secure
The picture above is from Google’s Ilya Grigorik who posted this on Google+…
New: Google Supports Locale-Aware Content Based On IP & Languages
Forever, Google said to treat Google’s crawlers, GoogleBot, as you would any searcher or user accessing your site from the United States. But now this is going to change because Google may crawl your site from IP addresses outside of the US and also ma…
Google: Penguin Update Should Be Faster & We May Not Announce It
Folks are still wondering about the status of the Google Penguin updates. As you may remember, there has not been much activity around it since early December after they put it on a holiday break…
Google Analytics Trash Can Restores Lost Data
Google announced a new feature to help you restore data within Google Analytics up to 35-days after it has been deleted or removed from your account – the Google Analytics Trash Can…
Suggestions Requests For Google News Publisher Newsletter Topics
As you may remember, Google has started a Google News Publisher Newsletter.
The first one was a couple weeks ago and really had a nice new technical tip for us around images in Google news…
Test Out The New Search Queries Report In Google Webmaster Tools
Google is releasing a new Search Queries Report tool in Google Webmaster Tools and they are offering an Alpha preview of the tool to a select number of beta/alpha testers.
If you want to test out the new Search Queries report…
Google: That Update Was Not Penguin Or Panda Related
Yesterday I reported on webmaster chatter around a lot of shuffles in the Google search results and named it Google Search Algorithm Juno Blizzard.
It isn’t a massive update…
Download Your Google AdWords Product Listing Ads (PLAs) Data By March 23rd
Google posted on Google+ that advertisers in Google AdWords who used the retired Product Listing Ads (PLAs) have until March 23, 2015 to download their legacy data – if they want it.
In April 2014…
Google Mobile Snippets Now Also Showing Robots.txt Blocking Message
Over two years ago, Google started showing a message in the snippet for those who blocked GoogleBot from crawling their site, to explain to the searcher why the description is not showing up.
Now…
Video: Matt Cutts Talks About Google’s Early Days
Matt Cutts talks about the early days at Google, how he got to work on search quality and even shares a slide on his relationship with the SEO/webmaster community. I believe Greg Boser got a call out. :)
Google Analytics Adds Currency Conversion For AdWords Campaigns
Google announced on Google+ that Google Analytics will now will automatically convert your AdWords cost, CPC and ROAS figures to the currency you are using in your Google AdWords account…
Two Week Delay On Google Webmaster Tools Mobile Usability Report
Google’s mobile usability report within Google Webmaster Tools is currently running a two-week delay.
If you check out your report, you will see the last updated date was on January 13…
Google Search Algorithm Juno Blizzard Coming?
On Friday, we reported on some early chatter around a possible Google update. That is now heating up, or should I say getting turbulent as Winter Storm Juno threatens the east coast with serious blizzard conditions.
The ongoing WebmasterWorld thread ha…
Video Recap of Weekly Search Buzz :: January 23, 2015
This week in search, I ask for some feedback on the videos I am doing, so lay it on me. Google, in my opinion, is preparing to release a new mobile friendly ranking algorithm after spending out mass…
Bing Powers Twitter’s Tweets Translation
Twitter announced on Twitter that they’ve partnered with Bing to offer Tweet translation for over 40 languages.
The thing is, they did have Bing translation prior…
Google Webmaster Tools Link Report Coming Up Blank For Some
Over the past 36 hours, I’ve been seeing sporadic reports from webmasters that their link data within Google Webmaster Tools is either now being under reported or coming up as “unavailable…
Google News Publishers Complaining About Traffic Declines
Over the past few months, there have been several complaints in the Google News Help forums from Google News publishers complaining that Google is not sending them as much traffic as they once did.
Google Algorithm Shifts? Some Early Chatter In The Community.
This may be a bit premature but I am seeing very early signs of a possible Google search algorithm update touching down. A WebmasterWorld has some European webmasters noticing some shifts and changes in the Google search results…
Matt Cutts Is Not On Facebook
Some may not know this already but Matt Cutts is not on Facebook. He was on Facebook for a short period of time, I believe, but then deleted his account because he was not a fan of Facebook’s walled garden approach.
So if you see a Matt Cutts on Face…
Not Just Yahoo, But Bing It Testing Google’s Search Design
A few days ago we reported that Yahoo was testing Google like search results interface. Well now, according to Ruben, Bing is testing the same Google design that Yahoo was testing…