Does My Home Page Need To Be Listed First In Google’s Site Command?
Last week, we reported that John Mueller of Google said the site command is nothing to worry about, this is despite Google’s Matt Cutts telling us five years ago that the site command is ordered and ranked in some logic…
January 2015 Google Webmaster Report
This past month in Google, we had Google tell us that the Penguin shifts are ongoing – although, it died down after that for the holidays. Google rolled out their local search algorithm, we code named Pigeon…
Google: Penguin Algorithm & The Engineers Took A Break
During the busiest holiday shopping season, Google was making ongoing updates to the Penguin algorithm. There is no disputing that, Google confirmed it.
But since the second week of December…
Video Recap of Weekly Search Buzz :: January 2, 2015
Happy New Years all! This week I covered a possible Bing search update. I also discussed why my site may have been hit by the Google Panda…
Google’s Sorry Captcha Lives At sorry.google.com
We know sometimes, when you do something on Google, Google wants to verify you are a human and not a robot. So they serve up a captcha for you to prove you are someone typing with real fingers…
Bing Search Algorithm Update On New Years Day?
A Black Hat World thread has one webmaster noticing his rankings significantly shifted within the Bing search results over New Years.
Truth is, very few people would take notice of this being it is (a) Bing and (b) New Years day…
Google Quality Algorithms Don’t Bring On Deeper Web Crawls
Often you’ll see the SEO forums light up a bit before an algorithm shift, where SEOs say, wow – GoogleBot activity on my web site is unusually high. This leads people to think an algorithm update may be coming soon. Sometimes they are right, but ofte…
Google: Your HTTPS Site Has Canonicals Pointing To HTTP
Since Google gives a tiny ranking boost for HTTPS sites, many sites have begun switching over.
But if done incorrectly…
Happy New Year 2015 From Google & The Search Engines
Happy New Year 2015 everyone! Today some of the search engines have special logos celebrating the first day of 2015, New Years Day.
Yesterday, we posted some of the…
Did Comments Cause This Site To Get Hit By Google Panda 4.1?
Shortly after Google released the Google Panda 4.1 update, I asked if this site was hit by the almighty Panda algorithm. It clearly looked like it was and I believe it was hit by Panda. Nothing has changed since. Not to this site, not to the conten…
New Years Eve 2014: Google’s 2014 Trending Topics & Bing Fireworks
Happy New Years eve everyone! Well, if you are in the Australian region, happy New Years to you…
Google: Don’t Worry About The Ouput Of The Site Command
Almost four years ago, Matt Cutts, Google’s head of search spam, made a video on how Google ranks the site command results. In short he said, Google may use a form of PageRank to order them…
Google AdWords Testing New AdWords Extension?
Kim Clinkunbroomer believe she has seen a new Google AdWords extension format test on one of her client’s ads.
She said the ad shown in the wild a set of link extensions that were dynamically pulled based on the query and the title tag of the page……
Is Google Maps Cleaning Up Abbreviated Street Addresses?
Yesterday an interesting thread popped up in the Local Search Forum asking if Google has decided to automatically expand the abbreviated addresses listed in Google Maps.
I checked several queries and all of them showed me unabbreviated street address…
Fetch As Google Bug Shows Errors For One
A Google Webmaster Help thread has one webmaster who says the fetch and render feature within Google Webmaster Tool’s Fetch as Google, shows an “Error” message without any reason.
After much back and forth in the forums…
Google Glass Developers Hanging Up The Glass
A Hacker News thread sums up what many Google Glass developers are feeling… What do they do with their Google Glass now. Now that no one wants to buy one. Now that no one wants to hire them to do Glassware or software for Google Glass…
Google’s John Mueller: Report Rich Snippet Spam To Me
Despite Google having a rich snippet spam form to report rich snippet spam to…
Webmasters Talk About 2015 SEO & Search Trends & Predictions
There is a wonderful thread that is pretty deep right now, going on at WebmasterWorld talking about the 2014 trends in search, and what people expect to see in search in 2015 – mostly on the organic side…
Google: Rich Snippet Reviews Markup Not Meant For Customer Testimonials
Google’s John Mueller in a Google Webmaster Help thread stated that testimonials are not reviews and thus should not contain the rich snippet markup for reviews…
Google Tells A Webmaster To Trash His Old Site & Start Fresh
The topic of creating a new site versus fixing your old site after being penalized is not new. Even Google told us that sometimes it makes sense to start new versus fixing an older site…