Google.co.uk Chrome Users Sent To Google.com?
Last week I saw a story about Google redirecting UK Chrome users on their searches to Google.com versus Google.co.uk. I asked Google about it and they basically redirected me to the report IP problems form…
Video Recap of Weekly Search Buzz :: January 30, 2015
This week in search, I cover a possible Google update that Google said was unlikely related to Panda or Penguin…
Google Analytics Adds Query Word Count Shows Metrics By Length Of Query
They often say that the longer the query, the higher chance of a conversion. So those who search for [widget] are less likely to convert than those searching for [big tall blue widget]. The intent is stronger and thus they are likely further along th…
Google Now Supports Crawling TLS 1.2
Google just announced on Google+ that their spider/crawler, GoogleBot, now supports TLS 1.2. TLS is Transport Layer Security…
Google Webmaster Tools User Study Sign Ups
Google announced on Google+ that they are asking for feedback on Google Webmaster Tools, specifically a user experience study.
It sounds like they want to look for ways to make the tools easier to use…
Google Have Algorithm Filibuster To Annoy Webmasters? Nope.
In this mornings Google Webmaster Hangout with John Mueller on Google+, one question asked was about why Panda has not really updated since October. Truth is, I am not if that is true, Google may have pushed out smaller Panda refreshes since…
BBB Accreditation A Solid Local SEO Signal?
The folks at the Local Search Forum are discussing an article named BBB Accreditation: Boring But Bumps Your Local SEO.
They tend to all agree that having a BBB accreditation is a no brainer for local SEO purposes…
Google: We Are Good At Handling Subdomains & Free Hosts But…
Google has done domain wide free host manual actions before, where they will go ahead and penalize the whole free host and all the subdomains on that host. Google has also offered advice on how free hosts can try to stay penalty free…
Google AdSense Ads With Multiple Arrows
Google is constantly testing variations and new ad formats for the Google AdSense ads.
The latest one was spotted by @amitsurti who shared with me a few pictures of this new ad format. The new ad format contains multiples of those circle based AdSens…
Google Android Material Design Movie Search Is Slick
Google quietly mentioned on Google+ that they are rolling out an update to how movie results are displayed on the Google Search App.
The new look and user interface looks much like Google’s material design approach. With smoothly scrolling and slide …
Google News Crawl Errors When Navigation Appears To Be In Body Content
I always find it interesting when Google responds to specific technical issues on web sites…
In San Francisco On February 5th? Go To The Google AdWords Reporting & Analytics Meetup
Zuzana Moran, aka Zee, from the Google AdWords team…
Screen Shot: Google Chrome Canary Displays HTTP As Non Secure
The picture above is from Google’s Ilya Grigorik who posted this on Google+…
New: Google Supports Locale-Aware Content Based On IP & Languages
Forever, Google said to treat Google’s crawlers, GoogleBot, as you would any searcher or user accessing your site from the United States. But now this is going to change because Google may crawl your site from IP addresses outside of the US and also ma…
Google: Penguin Update Should Be Faster & We May Not Announce It
Folks are still wondering about the status of the Google Penguin updates. As you may remember, there has not been much activity around it since early December after they put it on a holiday break…
Google Analytics Trash Can Restores Lost Data
Google announced a new feature to help you restore data within Google Analytics up to 35-days after it has been deleted or removed from your account – the Google Analytics Trash Can…
Suggestions Requests For Google News Publisher Newsletter Topics
As you may remember, Google has started a Google News Publisher Newsletter.
The first one was a couple weeks ago and really had a nice new technical tip for us around images in Google news…
Test Out The New Search Queries Report In Google Webmaster Tools
Google is releasing a new Search Queries Report tool in Google Webmaster Tools and they are offering an Alpha preview of the tool to a select number of beta/alpha testers.
If you want to test out the new Search Queries report…
Google: That Update Was Not Penguin Or Panda Related
Yesterday I reported on webmaster chatter around a lot of shuffles in the Google search results and named it Google Search Algorithm Juno Blizzard.
It isn’t a massive update…
Download Your Google AdWords Product Listing Ads (PLAs) Data By March 23rd
Google posted on Google+ that advertisers in Google AdWords who used the retired Product Listing Ads (PLAs) have until March 23, 2015 to download their legacy data – if they want it.
In April 2014…