Break Up Google? US Say No, EU Says Yes.
Let me quickly catch you up on the timeline on this story. The European Parliament wants to draft a proposal to force Google to break the company up into multiple parts because of its alleged anti-trust practices, according to Reuters…
Google’s Cache Date Over A Month Old Now…
There are several complaints in various forums, including WebmasterWorld, Google Webmaster Help and Twitter.
In short, the cache date shown by Google, for many sites, shows dates over a month old. Typically the dates are fresher than that…
Bing: Our Home Page Is Pretty & In HD Quality
Bing announced that you should go to Bing.com because they have a new format for their home page – HD quality images.
Bing has for a long time had beautiful and fluid imagery on a daily basis on their home page…
Google Drops Results In European Settlement But Watch The Penguin Drive By…
Google Settles UK “Defamation” Suit, Agreeing To Remove Malicious Links by Greg Sterling sums up the actual settlement pretty well but for those who read this site, I bet you’ll find it ironic that during a live BBC TV news report, the bus drove by out…
Google Mobile Shopping Adds More Details, 360 Views & Local Inventory
Google announced they have added new features to the mobile search results around shopping ads to bring more detailed product data in the search interface…
Google: Your Content In Tabs & Click To Expand May Not Be Indexed Or Ranked
The other day, I covered a thread around click to expand content not being indexed or ranked by Google. So I decided to ask John Mueller of Google that question in a live hangout on Google+ about a week ago and I was a bit surprised by his response……
US Court Gives Google Free Rein Over Search Results Layout
Gigaom reports Google has won a US court case in San Francisco court saying Google has the right to arrange the search results as they see fit.
Clearly…
Google Mobile Ranking Signals Still Use Many Desktop Signals
In a Google hangout video, at 18 minutes and 50 seconds in, Google’s John Mueller answered a question around which desktop signals are used for mobile ranking as well…
Google Issues Massive Manual Actions In Poland For Link Networks
Over the weekend, savvy webmasters and SEOs noticed a huge spike in complaints around manual actions issued within Google Webmaster Tools in the Polish regions. Google has indeed penalized a large link network in Poland.
Google Contributor Program Will Fail
Google launched a new “experiment” named Contributor by Google. The concept is you pay a monthly fee to Google, Google will then remove some of the ads you see across the web, in exchange…
Google: Stop Using PageRank As A Metric, We Won’t Be Updating It In The Future
The last Google Toolbar PageRank update was 11 months and 18 days ago, almost a year ago, on December 6, 2013. Google’s John Mueller has told in a video hangout that there probably won’t be PageRank updates in the future…
Video Recap of Weekly Search Buzz :: November 21, 2014
This week is the mobile week in SEO! Google announced they are officially showing mobile-friendly labels in the mobile search results. They released a testing tool for mobile friendly…
Google Testing Scrollable Answer Box
Here is a new format for the Google Answers box you typically see at the top of the search page when doing a question based or fact based query. This new answer box lets the user slide or scroll the box to see more answers from additional sources…
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Conversion Estimates Added To Google AdWords Keyword Planner Tool
Google quietly announced on Google+ that they’ve upgraded the Keyword Planner tool to support conversion estimates.
Now you can use a slider to see how varying bids may influence your campaignsâ performance differently for desktop and mobile devices…
Google Merchant Center Adds Diagnostics Section
Google announced they’ve added a new diagnostics tab in the Google Merchant Center that provides consolidated issue reporting for your feeds and items. This tab now replaces the Data Quality tab but aims at improving the troubleshooting efforts of your…
Google: Sites Lose Loads Of Pages Over Misuse Of 403 Status Codes
Gary Illyes from Google posted on Google+ that he sees many large sites lose a ton of their pages in the Google index for misusing 403 status codes when they should be using 503s…
Yahoo Now Default Search Provider In Firefox
Yahoo and Mozilla announced last night that they have formed a partnership where Yahoo will become the default search provider in the US on their popular Firefox browser. This is big news for Yahoo…
Google Remembers Artist & Nun, Corita Kent With Doodle
Today on Google.com’s home page is a special logo for Corita Kent’s 96th birthday. She was born on November 20, 1918 in Fort Dodge, Iowa and passed at the age of 67 on September 18, 1986…
Five New Google AdWords Shopping Campaigns Reports
Google announced the addition of five new reports specifically designed to help you with your Google AdWords Shopping campaigns…
Is Google Testing Small Fonts In AdSense Ads?
A publisher at WebmasterWorld couldn’t believe his eyes when he saw an AdSense ad unit with extremely small fonts.
The fonts were so tiny, it was hard to read, let alone click on…