Google Send To Phone Feature Now On Local Knowledge Graph Panel
If you search for any term that brings up a local based knowledge graph in Google, such as [rustybrick]…
Google: No Announcement Dates On Penguin 4.0 Launch
It has been over a week since we last mentioned Penguin, so yesterday…
Google: No, We Don’t Have An SEO Partner Program
We reported that Google has mixed messaging around having an SEO Google Partner program. A week or so ago, Google said that they do not offer SEO certification but then shortly after that, Google posted a page saying they have an SEO partner program…..
Google Data Change: Internal Index Updates For Mobile Apps Only
On the data anomalies update page Google posted a notice that on February 5th and 8th of this year they made an “internal index updates” for mobile apps only. Google added “these changes do not affect end users so you should see no change on impressio…
Google Panda Continuous Update But Gets Prepared Between Roll Outs?
Today is the 5th anniversary of the Google Panda update, which touched down on February 24, 2011. Yesterday, John Mueller of Google answered another question on Panda, and his answer I found interesting…
Study Says Outbound Links Helps Google Rankings, Despite What Google Says
Not even a month ago, we reported that John Mueller of Google said that outbound links are not a ranking factor. He clearly said that and Google said it also last year.
But a new study by Reboot Online says they have pretty good evidence suggesting o…
Google To Close Google Compare On March 23rd After 4+ Years
Almost 5 years ago, Google launched Google Advisor, which ultimately turned into Google Compare. In short, it was an affiliate model for Google to allow advertisers to promote credit cards, auto insurance, mortgages and travel insurance products and s…
Google AMP Goes Live Now
I am now seeing reports around the web that Google AMP, the web page speed initiative backed by Google, is now live in the Google mobile search results. It was expected to go live any time now but AdAge reported that it would be tomorrow. I guess it i…
Google Finance Replaces News Box With Ads
I am hearing reports that Google Finance has replaced the News section on the right panel with an advertisement box. I checked Google Images for Google Finance screen shots and confirmed that in the past six months Google had a news box on the right s…
Google Major Spam Problems Notification Replaces Pure Spam Notification
Marie Haynes shared a photo of Google’s new “Major Spam Problems” notification sent via the Google Search Console. This seems to be a replacement of the pure spam manual action…
Google Sets 10 Monthly Multiple URLs Crawl Quota Due to Abuse
Earlier this month, Google added a captcha to their crawl and submit to index feature in the Google Search Console’s Fetch as Google tool. Now…
Social Engineering Content Detected Google Search Console Notifications
Google is now sending out notifications for “Social engineering content detected” on your web site and sometimes it looks like the notifications are not valid…
My Website Got Accepted Into DMOZ! How Should I Feel About That?
Last week I spotted a thread at WebmasterWorld that has a webmaster noticing his website was just accepted into DMOZ…
Google Confirms Four Ads At The Top & Removing Right Side Ads
Google has been testing four AdWords ads since 2006 and recently stepped up those tests in late 2015. Now, according to Search Engine Land…
Google Now Offering Google Certified Partners For SEO?
A week ago we reported that Google will not offer SEO certification period. But now we see Google has messaging that they do offer certified Google partners that offer SEO.
Aaron Wall spotted it and posted the details on Twitter…
Google AdWords Campaign Drafts & Experiments Rolling Out
In November, Google began beta testing a new AdWords feature for campaign drafts and experiments. Campaign drafts and experiments lets advertisers…
Google’s Gary Illyes Hopes Share Statistics On HTTPS Adoption Rates
We’ve talked a lot about Google HTTPS over the years and truth is, it seems the ranking benefit is too small to migrate to HTTPS just for that reason. In any event, I migrated this site and others to it and I also launch new sites under HTTPS…
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Nat & Lo Videos: Vote For Search For Future Episodes
Nat and Lo work at Google, they do this video blog of how things work at Google by talking to the Googlers who work on them. It is part of their 20…
Google Incorrect Hreflang Implementation Notifications Sent Out Yesterday
Yesterday, it seems Google has sent out a surge in “Incorrect Hreflang Implementation” notifications via the Google Search Console. The first time we saw this message was back in July 2015 and since, we haven’t seen many – that is until yesterday…
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Video Recap of Weekly Search Buzz :: February 19, 2016
This week in search, we covered how Google is changing their tune on the Penguin launch update. Google posted that they do offer Google SEO Certification…