Google’s John Mueller Addresses Zombie Traffic Phenomenon
Last week we covered our continued coverage of the Google Zombie traffic only because there seemed to be a spike in the conversation around that topic in the past week or so…
Google: Pages Move Around In Shards Very Slowly
Most SEOs know that Google’s database structure for storing content in their index is in shards. A database shard is a horizontal partition of data in a database or search engine. Each individual partition is referred to as a shard or database shard…..
SEOs Experiment To Make Titles Stand Out In Google
@pizzaseoEN posted on Twitter a UTF-8 experiment done by @dusoft around making your title tags stand out more in Google’s search results.
In short…
Google Search Console API Gets Some Enhancements
Google’s John Mueller announced on Google+ that they made a few updates to the Google Search Console API. The updates include more data through pagination…
Google Local Pack Gets Search Filters For Map Results
It seems Google is now showing, at least I think it is new, search filters in the local pack you see when searching for local queries that might have more than one match…
Google: When Penguin Begins Rolling Out, We Will Post An Announcement
All this chatter about when Google will launch Penguin, will we know? Who will tell us…
Google: Footer Content Is Not Penalized But Not Seen As Primary Content
We’ve covered footer and boilerplate content a lot here but Google’s John Mueller brought it up again when answering a question in a Google Hangout this morning on Google+…
Google: You Can Be Negatively Impacted By One Algorithm & Positively Impacted By Another
So let’s say your site was hit by Google Penguin 3.0 almost 18 months ago and you feel you are doomed. John Mueller of Google said yes, while Penguin may have hurt you badly…
Video Recap of Weekly Search Buzz :: April 15, 2016
This week in search, we reported about the Google zombie traffic phenomenon again and how it is spiking up. Google issued mass unnatural outbound link penalties this past weekend…
Google AdWords Adds User Access Permissions Report
Google added a way to export a report that shows you who has access and what level of access they have to your AdWords account…
Google Analytics Rolling Out Several New Features
Google Analytics announced on Google+ that they have begun rolling out new features to their users. The new features include:
Deeplinking into AdWords from the AdWords Reporting Section in GA
[Attribution 360] Data Studio Integration
Move google-anal…
Google Showing Green Ad Label To Some Users
Google seems to be broadly testing changing the yellow ad label to a green colored ad label. I am seeing this being reported by my European Twitter folks including @sergey_alakov…
Google Does Index & Rank Images Title Attribute Tags
A couple weeks ago, we reported that Google implied they do not index image title attributes. Meaning, if you place keywords in the title attribute of your image code, Google won’t use it at all…
Google Takes Action Against Publishers Who Do Clickjacking
The Google AdSense blog announced they are taking both automated and manual actions against publishers that use clickjacking techniques to trick users to click on ads…
Gas Prices Come To The Google Local Pack
Pete Meyers spotted and posted on Twitter a screen shot of the Google local 3-pack showing gas prices. I cannot replicate it but it seems Google is showing real-time has prices of nearby gas stations.
Here is a screen shot:
Google has shown this d…
Google Now Sending Webmasters Deceptive Site / Social Engineering Detected Warnings
Yesterday, Google posted a blog post on the webmaster blog that was actually posted months ago on the security blog, we covered it in February. So I was scratching my head as to why Google posted it months later on the webmaster blog…
Google My Business Enables You Set Special Hours In Card View
Google keeps adding more and more ways to add special hours to your business information. First it was via spreadsheet and the Google My Business portal and then via the apps. Now, you can add it via the “card view…
Google’s John Mueller On Redirecting vs 404ing Products That No Longer Exist
This is a topic we’ve covered a lot here, what to do with out of stock products and Google. Truth is…
Webmaster See Spike In Google Zombie Traffic
Back in October was the first time I introduced many of you to the Google Zombie traffic phenomenon. The definition of zombie traffic from Google are users that act like Zombies…
Google Slaps Mass Manual Actions For Outbound Links Over Free Product Reviews
As we reported yesterday, Google slapped mass penalties for outbound links over the weekend. Google’s John Mueller commented on some of those threads last night…