Google Upgrades To New My Maps
Google announced they are bringing back the My Maps functionality, enabling users to create their own interactive maps on Google Maps.
Bing: 130 Million URLs Removed For URL Keyword Stuffing
Bing posted something you’d never see from Google, the details around how they detect and filter out spammers who use keywords in the URLs.
Google AdWords Ad Preview & Diagnosis Tool Bug Resolved
A couple days ago we reported about a widespread Google AdWords bug impacting the AdWords Ad preview and diagnosis tool.
I am glad to report, that as of this morning…
Google Penalizes Turkish News Sites For Content Spam
Onur Ã-zcan informed me on Twitter that Google has supposedly slapped several large Turkish news sites for content spam and keyword stuffing on their sites…
Google’s Knowledge Graph Answers Show Randomized Sources?
The other day we reported on why and when Google shows or does not show credit links for quick answers in the knowledge graph areas. Today…
Google Webmaster Tools Notices Of Sitelink Search Box
Google is now sending webmasters notifications of the new Sitelinks search box functionality that we covered here not just two or three times but this would be the forth…
Google’s Jonathan Rosenberg Popping Nooglers Smiley Balloons
Google’s Eric Schmidt posted on Google+, in an effort to promote their book, How Google Works, about Google’s Vice President of Product, Jonathan Rosenberg obsession with popping the balloons of Nooglers (new Googlers)…
Public Google+ Photos Now Will Appear In Google Views & Photo Spheres
Abby from Google quietly announced in the Google Maps Help forum that those who share photos publicly and have location data on the photos within Google+ may find their photos automatically within Google Views and Photo Sphere…
Google Is Now Indexing Google Maps URLs
The other day, Google was caught indexing itself, which turned out to be a bug they fixed and stopped indexing themselves.
Now…
Reminder: When Buying A New Domain, Check Its History
Just a friendly reminder, when buying a new or used domain, make sure to check the archives, wayback machine, and any other data such as links, webmaster tools…
Google Malware Notice Only On Organic Result?
Colin McDermott posted on Twitter that Google shows a malware warning on the organic free search result for a site but not on the paid search ad…
Google AdWords Ad Preview & Diagnosis Tool Technical Issues
There are confirmed reports at Google AdWords Help forums of a bug with the Google AdWords Ad Preview and Diagnosis tools.
Some are reporting that when testing the localization within the tool, the tool is showing that the ads are not running, when th…
Google Shares Common Webmaster Issues With SearchAction Schema & Sitelinks Search
About ten days ago, Google revamped their search within a site feature and renamed it Sitelinks Search. They also gave webmasters a way to communicate that they have an internal search that should be used when using the Sitelinks search.
Google Now Using Lakh Numbering Format For Estimated Search Results
One of our Indian readers from Arindam Inc. sent me a screen shot via email of Google now using the Lakh numbering format for the estimated search results count.
A lakh or lac is a unit in the South Asian numbering system equal to one hundred thousan…
Google: We Sometimes Show Credit For Knowledge Graph & Answers When…
Gianluca Fiorelli asked on Twitter why does Google sometimes show the source of their answers in the knowledge graph or quick answers and then sometimes does not…
Google: Penguin 3.0 Will Most Likely Launch In 2014
Google’s John Mueller in a video hangout this morning on Google+ announced that the 3rd version of Penguin will launch “in the reasonable future” and he expects it will happen within the 2014 year.
The question was raised by @edwardjohnnash…
Google Rel=Agent Replaces Authorship: Maybe Google Testing SEOs
Some savvy webmasters were inspecting the HTML markup behind the last Google Webmaster Blog post and noticed the markup used on the posted by John Mueller hyperlink had a bit of extra code for rel=agent…
Google Processes The Disavow File Continuously
For many SEOs and Webmasters, this is probably not news, but I like to document things like this in any case.
The disavow file, the file you use to tell Google these links are not links I want pointing to my site, is a file that Google “continuously” …
Google Admob Earnings & Ads Not Running For Many Publishers
Google’s AdMob, the ad platform used by mobile app publishers for monetization, like AdSense but for apps, shut down their legacy service on September 2nd…
Video Recap of Weekly Search Buzz :: September 12, 2014
This week in search at the Search Engine Roundtable we break that Google promises to launch Penguin 3.0 in a reasonable time…