Yes, Google Has A Hacked Spam Site Takeover Issue In US Results Also
A few weeks ago, I reported about Google investigating a Polish hacker who is stealing webmasters Google traffic by hacking and tricking Google into thinking his domains are the original content…
Google News Box Returns In Google Finance Results
Last week, we reported that the news box was removed from Google Finance results and was replaced by an ad box.
Well…
Google AdWords Editor 11.3 Now Available
Google announced on Google+ the release of the next version of the AdWords Editor, we are now up to version 11.3. Version 11.3 brings support for video campaigns, callout extensions…
Overloading Google’s Fetch & Mobile Testing Tools With Too Many JavaScript & CSS Includes
What happens when you have dozens and dozens of JavaScript and CSS includes, some hosting internally and some hosted externally…
Google Leap Year Doodle
Today on Google.com is a special logo, aka Doodle, for it being a Leap Year. Today, February 29th is a Leap Day…
Who Will Win & Lose With The Google AdWords Layout Change
A week ago Friday, Google removed right ads from the AdWords layout and placed potentially four ads at the top of the listing page.
Now, webmasters wait to see if CPCs will increase…
Google Search Console Search Analytics Stuck Again
I wouldn’t be alarmed but the Google Search Console, Search Analytics report is delayed again. It is now stuck at February 23rd, typically today it would be up to February 27th or 26th. Typically, as we covered, Search Console data is about two-day…
Google: HTML Sitemaps Can Help But Are They Necessary?
Personally, I am a fan of having HTML Sitemaps – mostly for 404 like pages, so users who stumble on a page they are forbidden (sounds strict) to access, they have a way out but not out of your web site…
Google To Users: Control Your Privacy & Security
Some Google users, including myself, are seeing a new popup at the top right of Google.com when you are logged into Google. The pop up reads, “Control your privacy and security. Click your profile icon to access your Google account…
Google: AMP Not A Ranking Signal Yet
As you know, Google launched AMP in the mobile search results this week.
Back in December…
Google AdWords Download Or Print Reports Broken
There is a bug in Google AdWords that will prevent you from downloading or printing reports from the AdWords console. I tested it myself and I received the following error:
There was an error with your operation. If you were trying to make a change…..
Video Recap of Weekly Search Buzz :: February 26, 2016
This week in search, we had Google go live with the AMP pages in the mobile search results this Tuesday. Google said that AMP is not yet a ranking signal. Google is sending AMP error alerts in the Search Console. Google has removed AdWords ads on the …
Top Stories With AMP Section Added To Structured Data Google Developer Docs
Google has added a new section to the structured data developer documents named Top Stories With AMP. The page pretty much describes how and where AMP stories show, which is in the top stories news carousel in the mobile search results…
Google’s Chrome Link Was Nofollowed & Discounted
Yesterday we reported that Google bought a link for $350,000 but explained it was a sponsorship and the intent was not to manipulate the search results.
Google’s John Mueller addressed this case in a Google+ hangout this morning. “It is a weird situa…
Google Sends Notices To Fix Errors On Your AMP Pages
Google is sending errors via the Google Search Console to those who set up AMP pages to “fix errors on your AMP pages.” The error reads:
Google systems have detected that some of your AMP pages do not meet our guidelines and will therefore not show i…
Review Stars Returning To Google Search Results
Last week we reported that Google started to drastically drop review stars from their search results. Well, after about a week of going review star hungry…
Google Explains Why The Search Console Reporting Is Not Real Time
Google’s John Mueller has an excellent post on Google+ explaining why the reports in the Google Search Console are delayed or not real time.
People ask Google all the time…
Google: Features Snippets Not Counted Separately In Search Console Reports
Update: Zineb later explained that Google doesn’t break out the featured snippets separately in the search console reports but they do count them. Sorry about that…
Google Indexes PDF Documents But Refreshes Them Slowly
We know Google indexes PDFs, it is clear, we see them in the index. We also know Google will follow and pass PageRank in links found within PDF documents…
Google Chrome Caught Buying Paid Links For $350,000?
Google may be getting itself into hot water again with paid links. In 2012, Google Chrome was caught buying links and they ended up penalizing themselves for it…