Video Recap of Weekly Search Buzz :: October 31, 2014
This week in search, I blow through tons of topics in 11.5 minutes. First up was the DMCA piracy algorithm going live the other week…
Halloween Logos From Google, Bing, Ask.com & More
Today is Halloween and we already showed you the Google Halloween logos but I wanted to share what the rest of the search engine community was doing with their logos. I should note, Bing went all out with their home page. Surprisingly…
Bing Sever Ties With Webmasters By Firing Duane Forrester
Duane Forrester, the face, the connection, the personality for Bing and the webmaster community has been downsized. This week, Microsoft announced huge layoffs and part of those layoffs included letting Duane Forrester go…
Google AdWords Multi Login Support Rolling Out
Google announced on Google+ that you can soon login to multiple AdWords account via the top right menu. It basically will let you toggle from one account to the next very quickly…
Why Would Google Show More Indexed Pages Than Submitted Pages In Your Sitemap Report?
A webmaster asked Google why would Google show more indexed URLs than submitted URLs in the Google Webmaster Tools Sitemaps reporting section…
iOS Users Now Get Google My Business App Update
Yesterday we covered the pretty awesome updates to Google My Business including a ton of mobile updates to the Android app. Those updates are now available in the iOS version which was approved and released by Apple last night…
Coming Soon: Google AdWords Automated Extensions Report
Google quietly announced on Google+ that in the next couple weeks they will roll out a new advertiser report within the AdWords console to show advertisers how well their automated ad extensions are performing…
Google AdSense To Google Analytics Linking Updated
Google said they’ve simplified the linking process between your Google AdSense accounts and Google Analytics reporting.
Google said “you can link your AdSense account within Google Analytics in fewer steps and can also link your AdSense account to mul…
Negative SEO Is Real & Google Needs To Fix It
There is no doubt that the perception in the industry is that negative SEO is a problem.
So much so, that in our last poll, only 11% thought negative SEO doesn’t work. Now that we have “white hat” clients requesting negative SEO and and most SEOs …
The 2014 Google Halloween Doodle Going Live
Above is an image of the 2014 version of the Google Halloween Doodle (aka logo). It is going live almost globally on all Google sites, starting properties such as Google Australia where it is already tomorrow there…
Google My Business Adds Awesome Features For Businesses
Google announced they’ve added a ton of new features for business owners within the Google My Business (old Google Places) dashboard and Google My Business Android and (coming soon to) iOS app…
Google Analytics For The Big Screen (iPad App)
What marketers don’t like having dashboards, especially real time dashboards all over the place…
Google Webmaster Tools Adds Mobile Usability Errors
This should come to you as no surprise… Google has added a new Google Webmaster Tools report for showing webmasters mobile usability issues that they pick up…
Google News Publisher Center Rolls Out In More Countries
In August, Google announced a new feature for Google News Publishers named Google News Publisher Center. Initially, it was only available for US English publishers…
Bing Supports Emoji Search But So Does Yahoo & DuckDuckGo
Bing announced they support searching using Emoji characters, which is incredibly useful (sarcasm) but very cool. It reminds me when SEOs were using Emoji characters to try to boost CTR in the mobile search results…
HTTPS Sites Now Work With Google Trusted Store Badge
A week ago, we reported that HTTPS sites can’t work with the Google Trusted Store program because the badge is not HTTPS enabled.
Well…
Google Issues Global Warning Of Flash Sites In Mobile Results
In July, Google began showing flash warnings to mobile users in the US English search results. That was supposedly expanded globally earlier this month, when Google’s Pierre Far announced this on his personal Google+ page…
Google Rel=SuperAuthor Once Again Points Fun At Rel=Author
Back in August, Google ripped our hearts out (okay, maybe a bit too strong of language) when they dropped authorship support completely…
Google Pirate Searrrch
Did you know Google has a specialized version of Google search but for pirates? We know they had for hackers, apple users, and the list goes on but for pirates, I had no idea.
You can access it at google.com/…
Google AdWords Renaming Column Names To Match Google Analytics
Google announced on Google+ that by November 10, 2014, they will be renaming a few columns within the Google AdWords reporting interface to be consistent with the Google Analytics naming convention…