Pinterest Rips Away Their Top Contributors Make Money
VentureBeat reports that Pinterest has notified their top contributors that they are automatically removing any affiliate links…
Facebook Ad Relevancy Score
Like Google AdWords quality score shows a 1 to 10 score to advertisers…
Google: Duplicate Titles Is Not A Panda Search Quality Issue
Google’s John Mueller said in a Google+ webmaster live hangout this morning that having duplicate title tags and meta descriptions would not lead to a search quality issue specifically around the Panda algorithm…
See The New Search Impact Reports In Google Webmaster Tools Over Here
As we covered, Google promised to test a new alpha version of the search queries report and that has now been released to the first set of alpha/beta testers this morning.
Google said this new report will be changing drastically over the testing period…
Google AdWords Editor Update Brings Performance & Reliability Improvements
Google announced on Google+ that they’ve released an update to their new version of AdWords Editor v 11, this new update is version 11.0.3…
Where’s My Sitelinks Search Box? Blame Google’s Algorithms.
Google’s Sitelinks Search box launched in September of last year and webmasters are still scratching their heads asking how can my site show the search box in the Google search results…
Google Analytics Data Drops Off On Monday, February 9th
There are dozens of complaints in the Google Analytics Help Forums, I just linked to a few, of webmasters reporting their data for February 9th, Monday, is completely missing from the reports…
Google: We Don’t Have Whitelists For The Penguin & Panda Algorithms
In March 2011, Matt Cutts of Google told us Google does indeed have exception lists or what you call whitelists, but a week or so before that…
Google AdWords Now Allowing Link Buying Ads?
Rand Fishkin from Moz posted on Google+ that Google AdWords seems to have lifted their ban on link selling/buying companies from advertising on their network.
He shared a screen shot showing link selling services and companies selling links to link bu…
Google’s John Mueller When He Isn’t Allowed To Answer Questions
There are always extreme outliers in virtually any algorithm but when that outlier hits your site and your web site drops in the Google rankings, what do you do…
Udi Manber, Former Search Quality VP, Leaving Google
Udi Manber is leaving Google after joining the company back in 2006 and becoming Google’s vice president of search quality. He has written for Google about search quality in the past and was fundamentally involved in the caffeine update…
Google AdWords Updates Tracking URLs
Google AdWords announced they are revamping the URL tracking methodology they used in the past from destination URL to final URL…
Google Now & Nest Stuck At Setting Temperature
Looks like the wizardry magic of Google Now integrating with Nest isn’t working all that magically for many Nest users.
A large thread at the Google Web Search Help forum has dozens of complaints from Nest owners who use Google Now to try to configure…
GoogleConference2015.com Not Google Owned, Despite Googlers Speaking
Back in 2003, I launched a first of it’s kind, keyword tracking tool that used the official Google search API – it was the first to do keyword ranking in accordance with Google’s terms of service (I believe)…
Google Health & Medical Queries Get Vastly Updated Knowledge Graph Look
Google announced they’ve been crawling the web for health and medical information and then had them fact checked by “medical doctors at Google and the Mayo Clinic for accuracy” and is soon going to be providing much more detailed medical and health rel…
Wildcard Google Suggest Worked For Five Years
Rand Fishkin learned for the first time this week that you can use Google Suggest with wildcard spots within them. He posted about it on Google+ saying:
I somehow never knew…
Google’s E-Commerce Update: Was Last Week’s Search Tweak E-Commerce Focused?
There is no doubt in the vast majority of SEOs and Webmaster’s mind that there was indeed a search algorithm change last week with Google. Google wouldn’t confirm it but did tell us it was not related to Panda or Penguin…
Poll: Are You Earning More Or Less Per Click With Google AdSense
A WebmasterWorld thread has the normal complaints from Google AdSense publishers – complaints about earnings are down, revenues are dropping and it getting harder and harder to make money with the platform…
Video Recap of Weekly Search Buzz :: February 6, 2015
This week in search, I start by sharing the monthly Google webmaster recap. Google may have done a major update this week…
App Store SEO Reminds Me Of Direct Hit Ranking
Most of you probably don’t remember or have heard of Direct Hit, it was a search engine from the 90s. It ranked web sites based off of user metrics…