Google Pigeon Update: Local Results Updated Again
It seems like Google has updated the local search results since the latest Google Pigeon update that was pushed out originally on on July 24th…
Daily Search Forum Recap: July 31, 2014
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web.Search Engine Roundtable Stories:
Mainstream SEOS Now Talking About Google Sandbox 2…
Bing Takes Malware More Seriously With Bing Site Safety Reporting
Bing announced they are launching a new malware and safety tool within the search results to better warn and communicate to both searchers and webmasters about safety issues with the listings…
Mainstream SEOs Now Talking About Google Sandbox 2.0
About a month ago, I saw some early discussions within the more blackhat SEO communities about a Google Sandbox 2.0, where Google began targeting possibly churn and burn sites from ranking well. That conversation is now creeping into the mainstream SE…
Bing Ads: New Interface & Features Announced
Bing announced they are launching a new easier to use interface for Bing Ads, as well as releasing new features.
The changes include:
Auto-tagging. Bing Ads handles tagging automatically for you, providing more accurate reporting…
Google Analytics Setting For Bot Filtering
Google announced on Google+ that you can now easily filter out traffic from bots and spiders from showing up and being tracked in your analytics…
Google Search Tool To Filter Private Content
Kenichi Suzuki, one of my favorite SEOs from Japan, posted a screen shot on Google+ of a search tool filter to filter results by private content shared with me…
Tisk, Tisk, Tisk: AdRoll Generated Tons Of Invalid Traffic
Last Thursday, we reported on unusual huge spike of traffic that were marked as direct traffic sources in analytics. I initially blamed Microsoft, because they are a fun target to blame (no seriously), over Internet Explorer 7 having a bug but that was…
Google: Where Are The Search Results?
Since early this year, Google began showing really long form answers, or as Google calls them, “Quick Answers…
Google AdWords Product Listing Ads Gets Product Ratings
Google announced they are now adding product ratings, one to five stars, on their product listing ads in the Google search results.
Google: NBCNews Trouble With GoogleBot?
Brian Fitzpatrick, a software engineer manager at Google, posted on Twitter a screen shot of NBCNews.com not being indexed properly by Google.
He wrote…
Is This A New Google Shopping Ad Format?
Barbara Starr shared a picture of what she says is a new ad format for Google Shopping Ads (Google Product Listing Ads) on Google+.
I can replicate the ad format, but honestly…
Google Disavow Tool Killed My Site
21 months ago, Google launched the disavow tool and SEOs have been eating it up.
This comes despite Google informing us it can harm your site if used wrong, but not when others disavow your site.
However…
Google Long Term SEO Requires Solid Money Management
Greg Niland, aka goodroi, posted a thread in WebmasterWorld explaining that money management is vital in your long term SEO success.
Greg said, “having good SEO results in Google actually requires smart money management…
Google Begins Issue Invites To Google Domains
A month ago, Google announced it is slowly getting into the domain name registration business through Google Domains and offered a form to sign up to be invited…
Google: Moving A Site Has No Long Term Negative Impact
Google has said this before but it is always comforting hearing them say this multiple ways.
Google’s Zineb Ait Bahajji said in a Google Webmaster Help thread that if done correctly…
Google Timeline Knowledge Graph
Florian Kiersch posted on Google+ a new experimental Google search feature baked into the knowledge graph top carousel bar. It is a timeline version, where if you search for something…
Would Google Release A Penguin Update In The Summer? It’s Been 10 Months!
It has been exactly 297 days since the last official Penguin update, Penguin 2.1, which was on October 4th. That means it has almost been 10 months since the last update.
10 months of waiting for those hit hard by the Penguin algorithm. 10 months of ha…
Poll: Can You Build Links That Are Not Spam In Google’s View?
A WebmasterWorld thread asks the question most SEOs and Webmasters have asked themselves but are too afraid to ask out loud…..
Google Pigeon Update: Was It A Major Update?
On Friday we reported on the largest local search algorithm update we’ve seen from Google in ages. It seems from our early review of the reaction of the SEO/webmaster community that this update was indeed very large…