Google’s Matt Cutts Taunts Black Hat SEOs
Yesterday we reported about Google targeting PBNs with massive manual actions. The funny thing, Google’s PR team would not confirm or deny it but Google’s Matt Cutts, who is currently on an extended vacation, took the time out to taunt and mock black h…
Google AdWords Local Inventory Ads Expands To UK, France, Germany, Japan & Australia
Google announced they’ve extended and expanded the AdWords local inventory ads they launched in the US about a year ago to more countries.
The new ads are now available in the UK, France, Germany…
First Day Of Autumn From The Search Industry
Today is the first day of Autumn for many folks and to mark the day both Google and Bing have special things going on…
Google AdWords Merging Mobile Click Call Data
Google quietly announced on Google+ that they are combing/merging two different metrics into one metric on the mobile click front in order to appease the “feedback from hundreds of advertisers…
Report: Google Severely Hits PBNs (Private Blog Networks)
The black hat and gray SEO communities are buzzing about Google’s latest efforts to target PBNs, Private Blog Networks.
Over the past couple days, Google has reportedly went after many PBNs that are being used to manipulate their rankings…
Submit Your Google App Indexing Questions
Google has been trying to heavily promote App Indexing, we covered it here several times, it is basically a way for you to tell Google about content within an app and have it potentially be indexed and rank in Google’s search results…
Google Structured Snippets: Why Bother Clicking On The Results?
Yesterday, Google announced a feature they’ve been testing for a few weeks, Structured Snippets.
Structured Snippets is a form of knowledge graph that incorporates facts into individual result snippets in Web search results. It looks like this:
Google Maps Navigation Expands To 19 New Countries
Google announced on Google+ that their free and very useful smartphone navigation app, Google Maps, has expanded to an additional 19 countries…
DuckDuckGo Blocked In China
DuckDuckGo, the privacy search engine, that was also recently added as a search option on iOS 8, has been blocked by China.
Gabriel Weinberg, the founder of DuckDuckGo, confirmed it on Twitter yesterday when Steven Millward asked him.
Using the block…
Bing Ads Campaign Planner
Bing announced a new feature within Bing Ads named Campaign Planner.
Campaign Planner enables advertisers to see marketplace insights by vertical, product, and keyword…
WebP Formatted Images Are Google Friendly
WebP is a relativly new image format that provides lossless and lossy compression for images on the web. Google is an advocate for it since it helps speed up browsing and such. But do WebP images get indexed and ranked by Google Images…
Buffer Migrates To HTTPS, Google Fixes Edge Case
Buffer’s Courtney Seiter posted their August content report documenting an issue when they migrated from HTTP to HTTPS this past month.
Initially…
Video Recap of Weekly Search Buzz :: September 19, 2014
This was a pretty mild week in search as reported at the Search Engine Roundtable…
Google Analytics AdWords Return on Ad Spend (ROAS) Report
Google quietly announced on Google+ a new AdWords metric available in Google Analytics named Return on Ad Spend (ROAS).
Return on Ad Spend (ROAS) is a metric that tells you how much revenue you bring in for each dollar spent with AdWords…
Google Ireland Online Marketing Strategy Event
Google announced on the Google Webmaster Google+ account that they are hosting a series of Hangouts on Air to teach small and medium businesses how to develop an online marketing strategy…
Google+ Business New Review Sharing Feature?
Google seems to be testing a new format for sharing reviews on Google+ of Google My Business (Google Places) listings…
Google+ Dropping From Google’s Knowledge Graph Box
Mark Traphagen posted on Google+ that Google started dropping a lot of the Google+ elements you’d find in the Google Knowledge Box on the right hand side of the page…
Report: Google Sitelinks Searchbox Taking Queries To Publisher Sites
A couple weeks ago, Google announced changes to the search within search box in the Google search results. One of those changes was the ability to direct the query done on Google, directly to the publishers site by adding some schema.
Now…
Google: You Don’t Rank Well Because GoogleBot Is Not Impressed
I am sure you have seen it at least a 100 times, a person complaining their site doesn’t rank well in Google…
HTTPS Migration For Google News Publishers Going Smoothly
On August 12th, I migrated this site, which is not a small site, from HTTP to HTTPS and honestly, the migration has not been bad at all…