Google: Missing Keyword In Search Snippets
Back in 2012 was the first time I covered Google crossing out or striking out search terms, which is now in the format of Google detailing which word is “missing” from the search result based on your query…
April 2015 Google Webmaster Report
Below is a recap specific to Google webmaster topics over the past month that are important to read for all SEOs and webmasters. It mostly covers several unconfirmed Google updates with the broken promise from Google to clarify the status of Panda…
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Does Google’s Pigeon Local Algorithm Impact Organic Rankings? Doubtful.
A thread at Local Search Forum asks a question most SEOs will ask themselves over time… Does your local ranking in Google’s local algorithm at all impact the overall core Google search algorithm?
Video Recap of Weekly Search Buzz :: April 3, 2015
This week in search, we skipped a day over April Fools but we did cover how it seems Wikipedia took a hit in Google, I blame the knowledge graph. Google says if your response time for a page is over two-seconds…
Google Mobile-Friendly Algorithm Will Not Impact Tablet Searches
Believe it or not, there is still confusion around the upcoming mobile-friendly algorithm that Google is pushing live on April 21st.
The algorithm will only impact searches done on smartphones – only. This does not impact desktop searches and it does n…
Google: Make A Change To Your Web Page? We’ll Find It.
A thread at Google Webmaster Help forums has a webmaster concerned that Google isn’t allowing him to manually use the submit to index in the fetch in render tool in Google Webmaster Tools for all the URLs on his site…
Google News URLs Can’t Have Years As Unique Identifiers Except When…
Google News optimization fascinates me because it is a different algorithm and there are weird rules…
Google AdWords Verification Policy For Phone Numbers In Call Extensions
Google launched call extensions about four years ago within the Google AdWords advertising platform. Prior, you could list any phone number you want…
Google Local Pack Goes Missing For A Few Hours
First we have Google testing moving down the local pack and yesterday, for a few hours, the local pack went missing completely.
I saw complaints across Twitter, Google Business Help & Google+…
Google Analytics Adds Release Notes To Track Feature Upgrades
Google announced that the Google Analytics product now has a place where you can track what updates Google has made to the product over time.
You can access the release notes for Google Analytics over here. Currently there are only two update slots…..
Google AdSense Publishers Get Email On AdWords Social Casino Games Ads
In February, Google began testing casino game ads across mobile apps, search…
Google: How To Block GoogleBot Temporarily Vs Permanently
There is a short but informative post by Google’s John Mueller in the Google Webmaster Help forum on the topic of blocking Google from seeing content on a specific page…
Google’s John Mueller Answers Webmaster Questions With Images & GIFs
John Mueller is well known in the SEO space, he is responsible for helping webmasters learn best practices when it comes to building out web sites that work well with Google. So he answers a lot of questions in the help forums, as well as does many vi…
Google’s Matt Cutts Helps Launch Google Panda 5 & 6 Search
April Fools today… The Google Webmaster channels on both Google+ and Twitter shared a April Fools Prank on Google Panda 5 and Google Panda 6 release…
Google Launches Backwards Google Search
There are some people who like to read everything in reverse order and Google has built a search engine for them at http://com.google.
Any search you do is reversed or backwards…
Google’s Matt Cutts Builds SEO Spam Tool Named AutoSEO For April Fools
Matt Cutts, Google’s on leave head of search spam, announced on his personal blog his April Fools prank at http://seo.ninja named AutoSEO.
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Google’s New Head Of Search Quality Is Me
This is not easy for me to announce, being that I’ve been covering Google and search quality here for well over ten years. It is both sad as well as exciting for me to tell you the news — I am going to be taking over the role of Google’s head of se…
When Did The Eiffel Tower Open To The Public? 126 Years Ago Today.
Did you know that 126 years ago today on March 31, 1889, the Eiffel Tower in Paris, France opened to the public…
Google News Updates Inclusion Process: Rejection Notices Bug
Google News has a pretty relaxed inclusion process relative to the older days of trying to get into Google News. The new process is documented in detail over here.
I key difference now is that you can only request inclusion via the Google News Publis…
Moz Builds That Spam Identification Tool In Site Explorer
Almost two years ago, Rand Fishkin from Moz posted about looking into building a spam detection tool as a way for sites to figure out (1) who not to get links from, (2) remove bad links from and (3) see how Google may determine if a site is spammy and …