HTTP Strict Transport Security & 307 Redirects, Google Doesn’t See It
The other day, Jack Stonehouse asked me on Twitter why I was using a 307 redirect from the HTTP to HTTPS version of this site. The answer was, I was not. But why was he getting a 307 redirect and not a 301 redirect…
Google Honors Jonas Salk, The Man Who Discovered The Polio Vaccine
On the 100th anniversary of Jonas Salk’s birthday, Google has a special logo, aka Doodle, to remember him. Jonas Salk was the first to discover and create a successful polio vaccine…
Google Glass Loses Twitter App
News via Reddit that Twitter is no longer supporting their Google Glass app. This is a major blow to Google Glass…
Google’s DMCA Piracy Algorithm Went Live Last Week
Remember we reported that during all the Penguin and Panda madness, Google said they will be pushing out a DMCA Algorithm update…
Google AdSense Direct To Be Discontinued
9 month sago, Google launched AdSense Direct, a quick and easy solution for publishers to do direct ad sales within Google AdSense.
Back then, many loved the idea…
Google Guidelines: Blocking CSS Or JavaScript Directly Can Harm Your Rankings
Google announced they made a change to their Webmaster Guidelines specifically telling webmasters, what they’ve been saying for years, but more strongly the past few months. Do not block us from crawling your CSS or JavaScript!
Google’s Pierre Far wrote, “Disallowing crawling of Javascript or CSS files in your siteâs robots.txt directly harms how well our algorithms render and index your content and can result in suboptimal rankings.”
Google’s New nositelinkssearchbox Meta Tag
In early September, Google announced the new Sitelinks Search box. It basically enables you to control how the search box within Google’s search results sitelinks works with your site, that is…
Video Recap of Weekly Search Buzz :: October 24, 2014
This was a busy week in search, where we covered a couple updates. First, late Friday night, Google quietly began rolling out the Penguin update, they didnât confirm it to later but we still think it is rolling out…
18-Year Old Black Hat SEO, Charles Floate, Arrested Over Hacking & Child Porn Charges
The SEO community is currently talking about the latest news in the industry of a well-known black hat SEO, who is only 18 years old, named Charles Floate…
Target In-App Purchases With Google Ads
Google announced on Google+ that you can now target your ads around those who make in-app purchases within the Google Play store.
The new option is a check box under the interests tab, that reads “only show ads to people who purchased an app or made a…
After Google Complies With German Publishers Removal Requests, They Beg To Be Reincluded
Everyone here saw this coming. You had a bunch of German publishers upset Google indexed their content, forced Google to remove their snippets from the search results…
SEO: 68% Of Videos Removed Or Demoted In Google’s Search Results
Videos in the Google search results use to be one of the most popular vertical search features you’d find in the search results. But it is happening less often these days.
Some SEOs say 68% less often…
Google AdWords Anti-Piracy Ad Format Tests
Earlier this week, we reported Google is working on releasing an updated Google DMCA Piracy Algorithm update for the organic search results.
But part of that announcement was around other ways Google can reduce piracy within the search results…
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Google Penguin 3.0 Updating Again?
Google launched Penguin 3.0 late Friday night and we have a lot more detail on it now, including that it should be rolling out for the next few weeks now.
It seems that some savvy SEOs are noticing an uptick in ranking changes yesterday…
Would You Let Google Look Over Your Should As You Work?
Gary Illyes, one of my favorite Googlers, posted on Google+ that Google wants to observe you as you work, with the sole intention of making their communication, support, and web-search related products, such as Webmaster Tools…
Apple Maps Connect: Finally Can Control Your Business Listing On Apple Maps
Greg Sterling got the scope on a new Apple service named Apple Maps Connect. The service allows business owners to finally manage their business listings for Apple Maps…
Google: Google News Publishers Don’t Get Priority Within The New “In The News” Section
Google launched a new version of the news box within the web search results the other week named In The News. The major difference here is that it sources not just approved Google News publishers but any site it finds relevant, which is really upsetti…
Take Our Google Panda 4.1 Poll Below
I know Penguin 3.0 is now rolling out but I want that to settle a bit before I poll you on Penguin.
I want to now poll you on Panda 4.1, which began rolling out on September 25th…
Google’s Bolding Title Tag Test
Rand Fishkin spotted this subtle test by Google and posted it on Google+.
Google seems to be testing bolding the matching keywords to your search query in the title (clickable link) of the search results for users who are logged out but not for users …
Daily Search Forum Recap: October 21, 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:
Google AutoCorrects: Penguin 3…