Google: The Next Penguin Update May Be The Last
Gary Illyes from Google said on Twitter yesterday that this may be the last Penguin update. He said “it’s likely there won’t be next one,” referring to the next Penguin update.
Google: Don’t Worry Too Much About Page Speed
I see so many SEOs always cite the page speed of a site when it comes to why a site may not rank that well. Truth is, from what I understand, the only way page speed impacts a site’s rankings in Google is if the site is unbearably slow…
Search Buzz Video Recap: Google PageRank, Penguin, Link Spam & Map Ads
This week in search, I covered how Google totally killed off the Toolbar PageRank feed. I also covered that Gary Illyes said the next Penguin update may…
Google’s Purple Rain Doodle For Prince Music
If you visit Google’s home page on Google.com USA, you will see a purple Google logo that is raining. It is to honor Prince who unexpectedly passed away today at the age of 57.
Google News Now AMP Ready
The Google News blog announced Google News is now amplified, meaning…
Google To AdWords Advertisers: Google Maps Is Now Part Of Core Search
Google sent an email to many of their AdWords advertisers yesterday telling them changes are coming to their search ads on Google Maps. We saw some of those changes yesterday with ads in the local finder results. But more changes are coming…
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Google Analytics iOS App Gets New Look, Better Sharing, Customized Reports & More
The Google Analytics app has been updated for iOS to version 3.0, and 3.0 comes with many changes. The new version has a brand new look and feel, making it easier to find more data…
Google TV Search Adds Search By Show To Find Channels Or App
Google announced they are adding to their TV search capabilities by adding which channels and apps are live broadcasting/streaming a specific show…
Google AdWords Order IDs Now In AdWords Conversion Tags For Better Conversion Metrics
Google announced on Google+ that they have added a new feature named Order IDs that allow you to add a unique identifier into your AdWords conversion tags to help reduce duplicate conversion data…
Google: Recover From A Manual Action? You Still May Have To Recover From An Algorithmic Penalty
In the Google Hangout this past Friday on Google+ with John Mueller, John discussed how manual actions and algorithmic penalties are different…
Google Maps Local Pack Showing Obvious Duplicates Listings
I love the Local Search Forum because these SEOs are so knee deep into the local search results that it is amazing what they pick up on. One local SEO said she thought that Google had a handle on not showing duplicate listings in the local pack…
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Android GoogleBot Smartphone User-Agent Did Go Live This Week
A month ago we reported that Google is dropping the iPhone user agent for the Android version and that would happen on April 18th.
I actually checked this morning to see if the Google Search Console removed the “upcoming” version so webmasters can che…
Google Displaying A Featured Snippet From User Generated Comments
Bill Elward spotted a featured snippet in Google that doesn’t use the primary content on the page but rather pulls from the comments section of the page. He posted the example on Twitter.
The query is [how much is gap insurance] and what comes up for…
Google Maps Testing Local Finder Ads
Seems Google is now testing ads in the Google Maps local finder search results. There are several people on Twitter reporting it now.
Here are screen shots of the ads in the Google local finder results:
There is a lot of chatter now out in the…
Should Google Penalized Google Play Podcasts For Link Schemes?
Google’s linking guidelines are pretty clear where it says “the following are examples of link schemes which can negatively impact a site’s ranking in search results.” They include “large-scale article marketing or guest posting campaigns with keyword…
Want AMP Pages In Google? Disable New Relic
New Relic is a software service that helps you manage your cloud environment, I use it here for this server and for many of our cloud servers on AWS and RackSpace. But we recently reenabled it for this site and when we did, the AMP errors on this sit…
Google Testing Trending In Search Auto-Complete
This is an interesting one, Google is always testing features and it seems I missed this back in late January. But Google is testing one where the auto-complete feature is showing you trending searches, as opposed to just ordinary most common searches…
Sites Registered In Google Search Console Are Much More Likely To Fix Compromised Sites
Google published on the Google research blog an interesting stat. If you register your site with the Google Search Console and you are hacked…
Google Fully Turns Off Feed To Toolbar PageRank
As we reported early last month, Google began officially killing off toolbar PageRank. It started on March 7 2016 but it officially ended this past Friday, April 15, 2016.
Any last remanent of Toolbar PageRank was officially shut off by Google…
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Keywords Label Field Now In Google AdWords Report Editor
Jon Diorio, a Google AdWords Product Manager, shared on Google+ that they have added the keywords label field to the AdWords report editor.
He said on Google+…