Google Maps App Goes To A New Slick Interface
Google announced they are rolling out a completely new design and interface for both the Android and iOS versions of the Google Maps app. The new design goes with the “material design” principles, giving it a fluid and smooth interface…
Coming Soon: Google Analytics AdWords Shopping Campaigns Report
Google noted on Google+ that they are coming out with a new Google Analytics report for helping AdWords advertisers who use shopping campaigns track those campaigns…
Google AdWords Local Forwarding Numbers
Google announced on Google+ that call extensions now support local forwarding numbers, so you can show searchers local numbers to them, which may increase the chances they will call your local business…
Daily Search Forum Recap: November 5, 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:
Is Google Penguin 3…
Publishers Can Earn 5 Cents Per Answer Through Google Consumer Surveys
Google announced on Google+ a way publishers can earn money through embedding Google Consumer Surveys on their web sites. They will earn 5 cents per answer submitted via Google Consumer Surveys…
Google Automated Action Viewer Is On The Horizon For Webmaster Tools
Since Google gave us the manual action viewer within Webmaster Tools, a tool to see what manual penalties you have on your site…
Beware Of Google Webmaster Tools Hacking
You never ever want a disgruntled employee, customer or competitor or really anyone who should not have access to your Webmaster Tools account to gain access to your Webmaster Tools account…
Google: Panda Victims Don’t Necessarily Need To Delete Old Blog Posts
With Panda 4.1 rolled out over the past month or so, more people have more Panda questions.
Typically…
Is Google Penguin 3.0 Still Slow Running?
For months, Google has been promising us a solution for them to run Penguin faster so webmasters and SEOs would not have to wait over a year for another refresh.
I, like many of you, were under the impression that the next release would be that soluti…
Google’s Voting Election Day Logo
Today is mid-term election day in the United States, if you live here, you’d likely not need a reminder – the phones, emails, mailings and commercials are non stop around how bad each candidate is. That being said, Google, Dogpile and Facebook are rem…
Bug Prevents Google My Business iOS App From Loading…
A few days ago, Google released the updated version of the iOS Google My Business App – well for some, that app will not load anymore.
Google is aware of the issue and is working on a fix…
Google AdWords Bulk Editing, Uploading & Managing
Google posted on the AdWords Blog a review and some new features around managing your AdWords account in bulk by making it easier and more streamlined to manage your campaigns.
Google updated their bulk spreadsheet upload feature…
Google: Penguin 3.0 Update Still Rolling Out Slowly
2.5 weeks ago, Google pushed out the Penguin 3.0 update after waiting over a year to update Penguin 2.1.
That update later was confirmed and told it would roll out worldwide over the next few weeks…
November 2014 Google Webmaster Report
Talk about a crazy month in Google, Google launched Penguin 3.0 in a pretty sloppy way, they also launched the DMCA algorithm and had Panda refreshes throughout that time.
Google also updated their…
Bing Images Finally Adds Animated GIF Filter
Just like Google, Bing has finally added a filter to their Bing Image search to filter images by animated GIFs only.
As many of you know, I love animated GIFs, so having two major search engines support an animated GIF filter…
Google Analytics Treemaps For AdWords Reporting Coming Soon
Google mentioned on Google+ on the Google Analytics account, that a new AdWords reporting feature named Treemaps is coming to the software.
Google: Duplicate URLs In The Disavow Is Not An Issue
An SEO asked on Twitter if listing the same URL in the disavow link file will hurt or what happens? Does listing it twice negate it? Does listing it twice show more importance? Or does Google ignore duplicate listings…
Google: Only SEOs Go To Page 35 In Google’s Search Results
Google’s John Mueller posted another funny on Google+, this one mocking how only SEOs travel as far as page 35 in the Google search results.
He wrote…
Matt Cutts Not Returning To Google In 2014: Will He Return In 2015?
Matt Cutts, Google’s currently on leave head of search spam, announced on Twitter that he is extending his leave into 2015.
In July, Matt Cutts shocked the SEO space by announcing he would be taking a few months off to spend time with his wife…
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Day of the Dead Google Video Doodle
Today on the Google home page in Mexico and the United States of America, is a special logo, aka Doodle…