Google AdWords Ad Copy Countdown Widget
Google announced yesterday a new countdown widget that easily enables advertisers to place countdown times within their ad copy dynamically.
This will allow you to create a sense of urgency for customers to buy now versus later…
Google Search 2014 Trends & New Google Trends
Google announced their top searches for 2014, something they do every year – with an emotional video to recap those top searches.
We got Robin Williams, World Cup, Ebola, MH370, ALS, Flappy Bird, Conchita Wurst, ISIS…
Google Brings Back The Google News Archives
Google has brought back the ability to search the news archive this weekend…
SEOs Required To Take Polygraph Lie Detector Tests
Jenny Mugridge posted at Cre8asite Forums saying that her former employer is now requiring all new and existing SEOs in the company to take polygraph tests…
Google: New TLDs Have No Inherent Search Ranking Advantage
Back in 2012, Google’s Matt Cutts said clearly that new TLDs do not rank better than any other TLD. He was killing a myth being spread by some domain name sellers.
Bing No Longer Powers Facebook Web Search Results
Reuters reported over the weekend that Facebook has dropped their Microsoft Bing partnership to power the web search results within Facebook search.
Facebook has stopped including results from Microsoft Bing search engine on its social networking sit…
Google Search Holiday Decorations Are Big This Year
Every year, Google dresses up the search results for the holiday season. Queries such as [hanukkah], [kwanzaa], [christmas] and related queries return decorations at the top of the search results related to the holiday.
This year…
Google AdWords Stops Accepting Credit Card Payments From Large Customers
I was always jealous of the big agencies that manage huge ad spend with Google AdWords. They always boasted how they put millions of dollars of ad spend on their credit card and then billed it back to their customers, leaving them with huge points to …
Google iPhone App’s New Design & Features
Google announced a redesigned iOS app for their Google App is now live in the Apple App Store.
The new app flows with the new Material Design look Google is switching many of their product interfaces to…
Get Indexed Netherlands Slapped By Google?
There is a lot of speculation that Google has penalized another network, link network/private blog network. This time the speculation is around Get Indexed…
Google Shopping Campaigns Add Impression Share By Device
This is a pretty small update, but Google announced on Google+ that they added a new tab to show those who run shopping campaigns the impression share by device on the Campaign and Ad Group level…
Video Recap of Weekly Search Buzz :: December 12, 2014
This week in search, we continue on about the Penguin changes in Google. There were several tweaks…
Astronomer, Annie Jump Cannon’s Google Doodle
On the American Google home page today you will see a special Google logo, aka a Doodle, for the 151st birthday of Annie Jump Cannon. Annie Jump Cannon was an American astronomer born December 11…
Google Says Spain Forcing Them To Shut Down Google News
Last night, Google announced that in response to the new Spanish law, Google will have to shut down Google News within Spain.
Spain’s new law forces Google to pay a fee for showing snippets of news results in Google News…
Google AdWords Editor Version 11
Google announced a new version, written from the ground up, of the AdWords Editor.
AdWords Editor is a faster way for power users to manage their AdWords account and the new version aims to improve efficiency with the tool and their users…
Bing Reveals Their Panda Algorithm: Content Quality
The other day on the Bing search blog, Bing’s Michael Basilyan posted a nice amount of detail around how their algorithms determine content quality. In the Google world, this may be similar to how Google’s Panda algorithm works but not exactly…
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Google: Those Penguin Fluctuations Are Our Ongoing Optimizations
We’ve been seeing an incredible amount of activity around sites impacted by Google’s Penguin algorithm over the past few weeks, smack inside the busiest holiday shopping season…
Google Speeds Up Mobile Search By 100-150 Milliseconds
Google’s speed guru, Ilya Grigorik, announced on Google+ that they’ve made Google mobile search a bit faster…
Google Lightbox Ads Now Work On Mobile
Google announced they have enabled their lightbox ads to work across all screen sizes, from desktop, to tablet, to mobile phones.
The new Lightbox ads are now available for all AdWords advertisers globally and work across all devices…
Google App Indexing: 15% Of Android Searches Return Deep Links
Google posted on several blogs yesterday an update on app indexing which includes how tos and some stats.
Here are two interesting stats:
(1) For signed-in users, 15% of Google searches on Android now return deep links to apps through App Indexing……