Video: Google AMP Technical Detailed Overview
For those interested in taking their web site, specifically news site, to the AMP (accelerated mobile page) environment – you may want to watch the latest Google Hangout where Emeric Studer from Google, the AMP Technology Manager…
Google+ Photo Search Is Dead
Google+ Search, at least searching for photos within Google+, has stopped working. Try it yourself, search for [flowers], [snow] or anything…
Google Releases OK Google Fix For Lingering Android Users Issues
There have been ongoing issues related to OK Google voice prompts on Android devices going on several months now.
AJ from Google finally posted an update in the ongoing Google Web Search Help thread saying a fix has been released and should be availab…
Clear Skies & Relaxing Weekend In Terms Of Google Fluctuations
After having a very unstable past couple weeks in terms of Google updates, this weekend was relatively calm. Last week we have a large core update and the week before massive fluctuations that were confirmed as core algorithm related as well…
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Google: In The News Box Will Be Impacted By The Mobile-Friendly Algorithm
So we know Google News ranking is unaffected by the upcoming mobile friendly ranking algorithm. But we wanted to know if the In The News box that shows both news publishers and non-news publishers would be impacted…
Google Launches New Search Interface For Slower Mobile Connections
Google announced last night on Google+ that they launched a new more optimized user interface for mobile searchers on slower connections…
Google’s John Mueller: The Links Are Nofollowed, Stop Dropping Links
Sometimes I find funny threads and I simply want to share them with you.
In a recent thread at the Google Webmaster Help forums, a webmaster dropped a keyword rich anchor text link and it caught the attention of John Mueller from Google…
Google Panda Hasn’t Updated In About 6 Months
Can you believe, the last official Google Panda refresh/update was Panda 4.1 on September 25, 2014? We’ve seen updates to it since, but those updates stopped around October 24, 2015, which is 5 months and 2 weeks or so ago.
I asked John Mueller of Goog…
Google Can List Old Legacy URLs In Search Results When…
Rahul asked Google’s John Mueller on Twitter if Google would display an old URL of a site in the Google search results even if it is redirected to a new URL and if so, could that be a duplicate content issue…
Google: Brand Searches Unlikely Impacted By Mobile-Friendly Algorithm
So a question many folks have been thinking about in regards to the April 21st mobile-friendly Google algorithm was what if a brand is not mobile-friendly and someone searches for them after April 21st on their mobile device…
Google News Submission Status Now Showing Not Accepted Notices
Last week we reported that there was a bug with Google News submissions where Google was not showing when a site was rejected or not accepted into Google News after it was submitted for inclusion. That bug has now been fixed…
Google: Panda & Penguin Algorithms Aren’t Updating Data Regularly
There has recently been a lot of confusion around the Panda algorithm, specifically if it is running monthly, in real time, or still manual. The answer, at least today, is that not only is the data for Panda manually updated but also Penguin…
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Google To Launch New Ad Platform For Plumbers, Electricians & Landscapers
BuzzFeed reports that they have a source within Google telling them that Google will launch a new ad product to connect home-service providers to searchers…
Google Replaces Search Queries Reports For Search Analytics In Webmaster Tools For Alpha Users
Remember the alpha/beta version of the Search Impact reports in Google Webmaster Tools that only a limited number of alpha/beta users have access to…
USA Today, Washington Post & Others Can’t Get Their Sponsored Content Out Of Google News
Typically you do not want Google News to index and rank sponsored (paid for) content in the news results. But sites like USA Today…
Google Keyword Planner Tool Now Has Data To Compare You To Your Competitors
Google quietly announced on Google+ yesterday that the Keyword Planner tool within Google AdWords is being upgraded to add benchmark data so you can compare your performance to your competitors.
Google said it is rolling out over the next few weeks……
Google Bolding Answers In Search Results
Google is now bolding the answers in the search results when quick answers are displayed at the top of the page, in the knowledge graph box area…
Google AdWords Ads Testing Displaying HTTP/HTTP URLs
Google is testing displaying https and http in the URLs of AdWords ads.
Conrad O’Connell spotted this and posted a picture of the http in the display URL area of the ad and said Google is showing the https version as well for some ads…
Matt Cutts Google AutoSEO April Fools Prank Gets Over 3,000 Beta Requests
On April Fools, Matt Cutts, the on leave head of Google’s search quality team, announced a new spam tool named AutoSEO. He said you can request to be part of a limited beta and provided this form to fill out…
You Can Now Move Your YouTube Channels
Supposedly about a month ago, Google’s YouTube launched a way to move your YouTube Channel from one Google+ profile page to another.
The new help documents are over here and the process is pretty straight forward, however, the changes cannot be undone…