Google: We’re Hoping Penguin Keeps Updating & Becomes A Rolling Update
We’ve been seeing a lot of Penguin related chatter recently, specifically around Penguin 3.0 launching, with several slow pushes on that algorithm through the past several weeks. We saw a huge spike around that over Thanksgiving, which they confirmed a…
Google: Paginate Your Infinite Scroll Pages To Ensure Its Indexed
To expand on Google and tabbed or click to expand content, Google’s John Mueller was asked about infinite scroll pages.
The question was at 17 minutes and 48 seconds into the video where he asked will Google index all of the content on your infinite s…
Google To Support iOS For App Indexing? I’d Think So.
Over a year ago, Google launched App Indexing where you can deep link your app content using an XML document, so that if someone searches in Google’s mobile results on their Android device, and if they have your app, and if the query is relevant to you…
Google Maps Quality Guidelines Updated But Will Google Enforce Them?
Jade Wang from Google announced last night in the Google Business Help forum that they’ve updated their quality guidelines for local pages.
The new guidelines are pretty much completely revamped, in fact…
Google Penguin Reversals & Fluctuations This Morning
SEOs and webmasters are talking about seeing both reversals and new changes around sites impacted by the Google Penguin algorithm this morning. These are new changes as of this morning.
Let me take you back so you have some context.
(1) Google Pengu…
11 Years Covering The Search Industry
11 years, who would have known when I started this little diary on the search industry on December 2, 2003 that it would still be going strong 11 years later. 11 years is over 4,000 days and of those days, I’ve pretty much posted on average five stori…
Google Confirms Penguin Rollout Continued Into Thanksgiving Day
On Thanksgiving weekend, I reported a lot of buzz and chatter around a possible Thanksgiving day Penguin refresh from Google.
This morning, Google has confirmed that what SEOs and webmasters noticed was indeed Penguin related but as a result of the “o…
DuckDuckGo Adds New Jersey Transit Searches
DuckDuckGo announced on Twitter that they have added some New Jersey Transit schedule data to their search results.
So if you search for various routes in DuckDuckGo, the schedules may be returned…
Google Updates Cache Date This Morning
Last week, we reported how for many normal sites, the cache date listed in the Google Cache results, was a month or so old.
That continued like that until this morning, when I noticed the cache date is now showing only a few days back for basic stat…
Google Maps Paginated Search Results View
In July, Google Maps switched their search results box to show a scroll bar with a link to “see results in list view.”
Google seems to be replaced that link
Google AdSense Testing A New Sharp Font?
The folks at WebmasterWorld are noticing Google testing a new AdSense font.
Truth is, I see it also and it is very sharp…
Google Analytics Updates Account Limits
Google quietly announced on Google+ that they’ve changes how they manage the limits within your Google Accounts account structure.
Previously Google limited every account to fifty views and didnât consider how those views were distributed among properties…
On Thanksgiving, The European Parliament Voted To Break Google Into Pieces
Remember we reported that the EU wanted to break up Google…
Did Google Release Penguin 3.1 On Thanksgiving?
I can’t believe what I am seeing and hearing – a Google Penguin refresh that hit on Thanksgiving, Black Friday weekend? No way!
Google would actually release an update on Thanksgiving weekend, the busiest shopping weekend all year round? Google has tol…
Video Recap of Weekly Search Buzz :: November 28, 2014
This week in search, Google may have dropped a bombshell by testing or releasing a Penguin refresh on Thanksgiving day. Google also pushed out tons of manual actions over a Polish link network
Thanksgiving Day Logos From Google & Others
Happy Thanksgiving Day everyone! Google has a fun animated Doodle for the day, Bing goes wild with a chipmunk going at an eggcorn, Dogpile has a Thanksgiving feast…
Daily Search Forum Recap: November 26, 2014
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web.
Search Engine Roundtable Stories:
Google’s Cache Date Over A Month Old Now…..
When Obama & I Became King Of The United States For The Day
Via Hacker News, yesterday, the search results quick direct answer from Google for [King Of United States] returned a Google Answer saying it was Barack Obama…
Google Mobile Test Fail Because Blocking Or Cloaking GoogleBot
The other day, Google launched the mobile testing tool and since then…
Google: Is Your Hidden Content Is Relevant To Users, Don’t Hide It From Them.
Sometimes I just laugh reading the advice Googlers have to give webmasters.
Case in point: Google’s John Mueller responds to a thread in the Google Webmaster Help forums about properly how to use hidden content and not get in trouble with Google…
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