Google Penalizes Link Networks In Europe & Germany Over Weekend
Yesterday morning, @gfiorelli1 notified me of that Google has “launched a massive amount of links manual penalization emails” specifically in Spain…
Google Birthday Doodle Shows Your Age In Seconds
Google started showing personalized birthday Doodles to logged in users back in 2010. But one thing they promised was to never show your age in the Doodle. Well that has gone out the window…
Negative SEO Extortion Emails: Are Your Concerned?
As you may have heard, last week, many SEOs, including Dan Petrovic, Steve Webb and George Zlatin received extortion emails from an alleged SEO claiming they will perform negative SEO on their site if they do not pay up $1,500.
The email starts off re…
Google Ranking Returns 30 Days After Domain Expired
A WebmasterWorld thread has a webmaster who was kind enough and not embarrassed enough to share he let a domain name of his expire, which resulted in his site being removed from Google and then a month of really bad rankings. He shared his story so th…
Google AdWords Paintball & Other Dangerous Weapons Ban
In less than a month, Google will be banning the advertisement of airsoft guns, paintball guns, bb guns and gun scopes, ammunition, ammunition clips or belts in September.
Google posted a preview of the change to their policy…
Video Recap of Weekly Search Buzz :: August 15, 2014
I ran through tons of topics in less than 10 minutes in this weeks search video recap. I covered the huge fluctuations going on this whole week in Googleâs search results…
Google AdWords Tests New Hotel Ad Booking Format
Moz reports on Google+ that Google is testing yet another AdWords format, this one around nearby hotels.
Here is a search for [boca raton resort] that normally brings up a carousel at the top of the page but here…
Security Certificate Companies Promoting Google’s HTTPS Algorithm
It has been about a week since Google announced their new HTTPS ranking signal and the security SSL certificate companies have begun promoting this fact to prospective customers…
Google AdWords Exact Match Now Matches On All Plurals, Misspellings, Etc.
Google AdWords announced last night that they are now dropping the option to opt out of close variants for exact match keywords. That means, Google will match your exact match keywords for plurals, misspellings and other close variants – even if you d…
Bing Search Now Conversational
Bing announced they now have conversational search, similar to how to how Google introduced it over a year ago.
I tested it out search for [who is the president of russia?]
Why Do Google Manual Actions Return: A Bug, Error Or Penalty?
Jennifer Slegg posted an interesting case of a manual action being revoked and then the same day reappearing and then being revoked again. Interestingly enough…
Is Google Launching Penguin 3 Today?
We know it has been over 10 months since Google launched a Penguin update and Google explained it is complicated to just refresh it.
But this morning, in a Google+ Hangout, John Mueller kind of hinted that it is coming really soon. He talked about it a…
Google AdWords Shopping Campaigns Upgrade Tool
Google has launched a new tool to help advertisers upgrade their Product Listing Ads (PLAs) campaigns to Google Shopping ad campaigns.
As you know…
Google’s Feedburner Doesn’t Like HTTPS Source URLs
As you know, I am the guinea pig here and I am migrating two sites from HTTP to HTTPS, this site and my corporate site. Both use Feedburner, which was acquired by Google in 2007, but there is constant fear that Google will kill off…
Google: The Change Of Address Tool Speed Things Up
As I reported earlier, the change of address tool does not support HTTP to HTTPS migrations and John Mueller of Google said “just use normal 301s.”
But how important is the change of address tool when migrating to a new domain name?
Google Guidelines Update: Low Quality Guest Blogging Considered Content Spam
Google has quietly updated their Webmaster Guidelines, the little or no original content section. They added a example reference there for “low-quality guest blog posts.” I would not be surprised to see manual actions for guest blogging, not link speci…
I Just Migrated This Google News Site To HTTPS
We have just migrated this site, the Search Engine Roundtable…
Google AdSense Publishers Forced To New Dashboard
Back in November, Google launched a new AdSense home page design. Many publishers did not switch over because they enjoyed and were accustomed to the old layout.
Well now, they do not have a choice. As of yesterday…
Google Structured Data Reporting Shows Massive Declines
There are hundreds of webmasters complaining and worried that their structured data is messed up…
Google Webmaster Faulty Redirects Notices May Be Ignored
Yesterday we reported how webmasters notices were being sent to those who manage sites that have faulty mobile redirects.
Tons and tons of webmasters received them and some were scratching their heads as to why. They thought everything was set up prop…