Google’s Matt Cutts Migrates Blog To HTTPS But Uses 302 Redirects
Google’s Matt Cutts, who is currently on a long vacation, has migrated his personal blog at mattcutts.com/blog from HTTP to HTTPS sometime over the past few days.
The interesting part is that he used a 302, a temporary, redirect…
Google: Schema Markup Does Not Guarantee Sitelinks Search Box
One new tidbit that I am glad Google’s Pierre Far confirmed and I am incredibly upset the SEO space assumed incorrectly (at least some) was that adding…
Google Search Site In SERPS Moved Up & May Jump Results To Your Site
Google announced this morning that they have made changes to the search box you see within the Google search results under a search results snippet. There are three changes:
(1) The box is now above the sitelinks of the search result…
Google Modifies Domain Clustering Rankings?
A WebmasterWorld thread has some savvy webmasters and SEOs asking if Google has changed how they handle the domain clustering in the search results.
Domain clustering is when Google will determine if they want to show one or more search results on a s…
When Does Google Treat Your 503 Errors As 404s & Remove Them?
We all know that Google tells us to serve a 503 error code when your server and web site is having temporary issues. Like a period of time where the server is getting way too much traffic for it to handle…
Bing’s Fun Image Widget Tool Leads To Getty Images Copyright Lawsuit
Remember the Bing Image Widget Tool where you can take a query and embed it on your site, and Bing will display images matches the query? Fun tool right…
Video Recap of Weekly Search Buzz :: September 5, 2014
This past week at the Search Engine Roundtable, I do my monthly Google Webmaster Report. I also report on the Google Knowledge Vault…
GoogleRecon Day Four: Use Fetch As GoogleBot
More of the same old same old with tips from Google on reconsideration requests this week – but that was expected…
GoogleRecon Day Three: Disavowing Links Not Enough
Like I said before, these Google Reconsideration posts on Google+ by Google offers information that is really not new. So the item I am covering today we noted back in October 2013.
New: Google AdWords Callout Extensions
Google announced a new AdWords extension named callout extensions.
Callout extensions let you add additional text that shows with your Google search ads, highlighting specific information about your products and services…
Google Typography Kerning & See A Fun Subtle Easter Egg
Google loves their easter eggs and the more subtle the better – if you are a Googler.
Search Google for [kerning] and in another browser tab…
YouTube Keyword Tool Goes MIA
If you try to use the YouTube Keyword Tool at youtube.com/keyword_tool you will not get very far.
Instead, you will be sent to a YouTube 404 page not found page…
Seen In The Wild: Google Hangout Box In Search Results
Spotted by Ben Fisher and posted on Google+, Google is now showing Google Hangout boxes for upcoming live hangout events in the search results. I know Google has been testing this but now it seems people are seeing it…
GoogleRecon Day Two: Here Are Resources For Reconsideration Requests
Google is offering very very basic tips on reconsideration requests this week, calling it the week of GoogleRecon. Yesterday’s tip was pretty basic also, if you get slapped with a manual action…
Google’s Site Command Not A Great Estimate
Google’s site command, i.e. site:www.domain.com, is known by savvy webmasters and SEOs as not a great measurement of the total pages Google has indexed of your site…
Automating The Google Knowledge Graph With Google’s Knowledge Vault
The New Scientist reports that Google is building a version of the knowledge graph that expands its knowledge through algorithms at mass scale – Google calls it the Knowledge Vault…
September 2014 Google Webmaster Report
Truth is, the month of August was not as crazy as previous months, especially the month of July. We did however have some significant things happen this month…
#GoogleRecon: Google Reconsideration Request Tips Week
Starting yesterday, Google announced on Google+ they will be offering tips on the Google+ Webmaster page tips around reconsideration requests, they are hashtagging this, #GoogleRecon…
GoogleBot Skipping Unrendered Page & Crawling/Indexing Final Rendered Page
A WebmasterWorld thread has a savvy webmaster/SEO noticing that GoogleBot is not bothering to crawl and indexed the pre-rendered web page, instead, it is running all the JavaScript and then crawling/indexing the final rendered page…
Google AdWords Consolidated Billing
Kathleen from Google announced in the Google AdWords Help forum that agencies can now sign up for consolidated billing within AdWords.
AdWords consolidated billing allows you to combine multiple account invoices into one single invoice. Kathleen said …