Google Mobile Warnings For Flash Sites Rolling Out Globally Now
Back in July, Google began issuing warnings to mobile searchers when a search results displayed lead to a site that uses flash.
Google’s Pierre Far announced today on Google+ that this is now rolling out globally…
Google Poland Blog With Keyword Rich Anchor Text To Personal Googlers Blog
Yesterday we covered how Google Poland is warning SEOs about their behavior there and harming their clients by not adhering to the Google Webmaster Guidelines…
Google: We Won’t Be Updating Toolbar PageRank
December 6, 2013 was the last time we had a Google Toolbar PageRank update, that was over 10 months ago – not as long as a Penguin refresh (which is way more important) but still…
Chatter: Google Penguin or Panda Refresh Happening?
The forums and SEO community has been buzzing all weekend about major shifts in the Google search rankings. Some are 100% positive it is the final roll out of Panda 4.1 while others are saying Google is rolling out Penguin 3.0.
I am honestly not sure…
Google: The Polish SEO Agencies Harming Non Profits, Sometimes For Free
Last week we reported on a tweet from a Google Poland spam fighter about Polish SEOs harming their clients too often.
Well, as promised, this morning they posted the blog post on the Google Poland blog and thanks to Google Translate…
Google Actively Working On HTTPS Validation Before Ranking Boost
I’ve been obsessively covering the Google HTTPS ranking boost and I have some more nuggets to give you.
You know that Google told us that invalid HTTPS pages still get the ranking boost…
October 2014 Google Webmaster Report
The last Google webmaster report was fairly slow compared to what we had this past month. This past month we had a change to the Panda algorithm that may or may not have hit this site.
We have some serious reports of major Google flux going on right …
Sad Day: Google Penguin Goes One Year Without A Refresh &…
Today is a sad day, being that Google has not refreshed the Penguin algorithm for a year. Today, October 4th, is the year anniversary of Penguin 2.1 – those hit a year ago, are probably out of business by now.
Today is also Yom Kippur, well…
Video Recap of Weekly Search Buzz :: October 3, 2014
In this weekâs video, I catch up on the past two weeks of search news. First, Panda 4.1 was released on the first day of Rosh Hashanah, it aimed to help smaller/medium sized web sites but it may have hurt this site badly. Google may be releasing Penguin 3.0 next week…
Google SafeSearch For Network Administrators Goes Secure
Google is migrating much of their infrastructure over to HTTPS still and the next thing is the feature to enable network administrators, mostly for schools…
Google: Lots Of SEOs From Poland Abuse Clients
One of Google’s spam fighters, Karolina KruszyÅ”ska, who focuses on the Poland search market…
Bing Mocks Google About HTTPS Ranking Boost
Yesterday at SMX East on the panel well both Google and Bing sat, there was an open Q&A for the search engines and SEOs who were on that panel…
Is Google Really Releasing Penguin 3.0 Next Week? Maybe…
Yesterday at SMX East, I reported on Search Engine Land in real-time that Google’s Gary Illyes said on stage that Penguin may come next week.
Tomorrow, which is Yom Kippur, will be the one-year anniversary of the last Penguin refresh, Penguin 2.1……
Google Expands Dynamic Remarketing Ads
Google is expanding their dynamic remarketing ads to more verticals including hotels, flights, real estate, classifieds, jobs, auto…
Connection Time & HTTP Status Codes Used By GoogleBot For Crawl Efficiency
There is nothing worse than knowing Google is having a tough time accessing your content unintentionally. Well, truth is, if you robots.txt or nofollow your site out of Google by accident, I don’t feel bad for you. But if your server flakes out on you…
Was I Hit By Google Panda 4.1? Looks Like I Was…
Last Thursday, September 25th, Google announced that they began rolling out Panda 4.1 – a revised algorithm to improve their detection of Panda like signals and ultimately aim at helping smaller sites do better with the algorithm…
8 Weeks After Migrating To HTTPS: Google Webmaster Tools Analytics
The day or so after Google announced there was a ranking benefit from HTTPS (tiny signal they said), I migrated my corporate site over from HTTP to HTTPS. I did so…
Google AdWords PLAs Automatic Item Updates
Google announced a new feature to help reduce the number of ad disprovals due to there being price mismatches between your PLAs feed and what is displayed on your web page.
This is called “automatic item updates” and can be enabled if you have impleme…
Google Wants Ideas For Live Webmaster Hangouts Topics
Google is now frequently conducting live webmaster hangouts with normally one Googler and then nine other webmasters on the Google Webmaster Google+ page.
Google’s John Mueller does a ton of them and he said he is ready to schedule a bunch more but wa…
Google Smartphone Icons Now Testing Again
Back in August 2012 we saw Google testing smartphone icons in the search results and then they went away. Google seems to be testing that again.
Artem Russakovskii from Android Police spotted it in the wild, as have others…