Google Upgrades Google My Business Photos Section
Google announced a significant update to how they enable business owners to manage the photos of their business within their Google+ Business Profiles.
Google said:
Starting today…
Google My Business Categories Now Requires A Primary Category
Jade Wang from Google announced in the Google Business Help forums that Google My Business Locations now have the ability for businesses to set their primary business category…
Google News Supports Sitemap Only Crawling
I personally learned a lot from the Google News Webmaster Hangout on Google+ from a couple weeks ago and I keep pulling out pieces of that knowledge for you guys.
The next thing I learned was that if you wanted to…
Google Search Now Warns Before You Visit Sites That Trigger Unwanted Downloads
Remember last week, many many sites noticed their site was labeled with this site may be hacked warnings in Google Search…
Google Panda Turns Four Years Old Today
Can you believe it has been four years since the Google officially released their Panda algorithm update? Before that, Google was getting a tremendous amount of flack over the quality of their search results and then Panda touched down.
Panda 1.0 was r…
Google AdSense Tests Arrows In Center Of Ads & White Patterned Design
Google seems to be tested two new ad styles for their AdSense ad units.
One design places the enclosed arrow in a circle within the center of the ad unit and the other design uses a transparent white, with patterns through the background…
Google AdWords Adds Call-Only Campaigns
On Friday, Google AdWords announced a new method of targeting click-to-call campaigns named “call-only campaign.”
The first to spot this, well before the announcement, as far as I know, was Kim Clinkunbroomer. She posted about it on her blog and on…
Google Crawling Your Robots.txt File?
A fairly common question I see in the support forums is why is Google crawling my robots.txt file.
Today I spotted a thread from a webmaster in the Google Webmaster Help forums where Google was crawling the mobile version of the robots.txt file, whi…
Google News Publishers Should Use Standout Tags For Third-Party Sources Often
Back in September 2011, Google News introduced the standout tag, a way for publishers to say these specific stories are really exceptional and Google News readers should really see it.
But did you know…
Google: When Will Be The Next PageRank Update? Probably Never
Google has said time and time again that you should not pay attention to the Google Toolbar PageRank score, but yet they have yet to zero-out any of the data, instead, they keep it as it was since the last accidental update back on December 6…
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Google Mobile Search Testing Multi-Google Colored Line Breaks In Search Results
Several mobile users are reporting seeing a pretty colorful experience in the mobile Google search results. Google is showing line breaks and shading for each snippet in the mobile results, but instead of it being gray or black…
Google May Have Mistakenly Marked Your Site As Hacked: Here Is How To Fix It
Yesterday I reported on how dozens and dozens of webmasters noticed Google labeled their sites with the this site may be hacked label in the search results. It seems way too unusual for so many new webmasters to be complaining about it…
Google Tests Displaying Line Separators Between Organic Results?
Nicole Hess caught Google testing using a line separator in the search results between organic results. She posted a screen shot on Twitter and it does look legit…
Google Adds Carousel Results Within The Snippet Level & Suggests Using Articles Rich Snippets
Google announced they are adding carousel based search results at the snippet level. So if you search for something and Google feels more content from that source is warranted, instead of showing more search results listed below…
GoogleBot Crawling Too Hard & Much? Report The Issue To Google.
Normally, Google’s crawlers named GoogleBot, is pretty well behaved. It normally is pretty good at making sure it doesn’t harm your site by crawling too fast or too much.
Video Recap of Weekly Search Buzz :: February 20, 2015
This week in search, I cover how Google said you should avoid doing any link building. Some SEOs are waiting patiently…
Lunar New Year Google Logo Shows A Sheep, Ram Or Goat?
The Google logo on many of the Google home pages is to celebrate the Lunar New Year. It is the first day of a secular, sacred or other year whose months are coordinated by the cycles of the moon. It is also the Chinese New Year…
Google “This Site May Be Hacked” Mass Warnings This Morning
As I visited the Google Webmaster Help forums, like I do a few times a day…
Google Added Over 200 Features To AdWords In Past Year, Keep Track Of Them Here
Google has launched a new page in the AdWords help center that helps advertisers keep track of what has changed, feature-wise, with the AdWords platform. The new page can be found over here…
Google News Trending Topics Feature Disappears
The image on the right shows how Google News would typically show “trending topics” on the left hand news filter bar. But that no longer shows up on the left bar, instead you just see the general categories of news such as World, U.S…