Google Mobile Snippets Now Also Showing Robots.txt Blocking Message
Over two years ago, Google started showing a message in the snippet for those who blocked GoogleBot from crawling their site, to explain to the searcher why the description is not showing up.
Now…
Video: Matt Cutts Talks About Google’s Early Days
Matt Cutts talks about the early days at Google, how he got to work on search quality and even shares a slide on his relationship with the SEO/webmaster community. I believe Greg Boser got a call out. :)
Google Analytics Adds Currency Conversion For AdWords Campaigns
Google announced on Google+ that Google Analytics will now will automatically convert your AdWords cost, CPC and ROAS figures to the currency you are using in your Google AdWords account…
Two Week Delay On Google Webmaster Tools Mobile Usability Report
Google’s mobile usability report within Google Webmaster Tools is currently running a two-week delay.
If you check out your report, you will see the last updated date was on January 13…
Google Search Algorithm Juno Blizzard Coming?
On Friday, we reported on some early chatter around a possible Google update. That is now heating up, or should I say getting turbulent as Winter Storm Juno threatens the east coast with serious blizzard conditions.
The ongoing WebmasterWorld thread ha…
Video Recap of Weekly Search Buzz :: January 23, 2015
This week in search, I ask for some feedback on the videos I am doing, so lay it on me. Google, in my opinion, is preparing to release a new mobile friendly ranking algorithm after spending out mass…
Bing Powers Twitter’s Tweets Translation
Twitter announced on Twitter that they’ve partnered with Bing to offer Tweet translation for over 40 languages.
The thing is, they did have Bing translation prior…
Google Webmaster Tools Link Report Coming Up Blank For Some
Over the past 36 hours, I’ve been seeing sporadic reports from webmasters that their link data within Google Webmaster Tools is either now being under reported or coming up as “unavailable…
Google News Publishers Complaining About Traffic Declines
Over the past few months, there have been several complaints in the Google News Help forums from Google News publishers complaining that Google is not sending them as much traffic as they once did.
Google Algorithm Shifts? Some Early Chatter In The Community.
This may be a bit premature but I am seeing very early signs of a possible Google search algorithm update touching down. A WebmasterWorld has some European webmasters noticing some shifts and changes in the Google search results…
Matt Cutts Is Not On Facebook
Some may not know this already but Matt Cutts is not on Facebook. He was on Facebook for a short period of time, I believe, but then deleted his account because he was not a fan of Facebook’s walled garden approach.
So if you see a Matt Cutts on Face…
Not Just Yahoo, But Bing It Testing Google’s Search Design
A few days ago we reported that Yahoo was testing Google like search results interface. Well now, according to Ruben, Bing is testing the same Google design that Yahoo was testing…
Google Initiates Campaign To Switch Firefox Users From Yahoo To Google
In November we reported that Firefox made a deal with Yahoo to become the default search provider, ultimately dropping Google. The search share numbers came out this week and Google, showing Google lost almost 2 percentage points of market share to Ya…
Gawker: Using Google News Editors’ Picks Increases Traffic & Readers
Google News has a method of submitting a feed to them of just your “Editors’ Picks.” Stories you think are exceptional and deserve more attention on Google News should be ticked off as Editors Picks…
Robots.txt Updates Are Slow For Google Mobile Testing Tool To Pick Up
Google launched a mobile testing tool a few months back and since then, Google has been educating webmasters around how the tool works and what prevents it from working.
Such as blocking or cloaking GoogleBot can set it off on the wrong path…
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A Clueless Google News Spammer
Remember the Google News publisher who was furious that his Google News site was removed from Google because it copied news stories from other sites…
A Clueless Google News Spammer
Remember the Google News publisher who was furious that his Google News site was removed from Google because it copied news stories from other sites…
Google Trusted Store Merchants No Longer Need To Submit Feeds
Google announced that they are making it “easier” to become a Google Trusted Stores merchant/e-commerce site. Now…
Google Trusted Store Merchants No Longer Need To Submit Feeds
Google announced that they are making it “easier” to become a Google Trusted Stores merchant/e-commerce site. Now…
Google Local Listings Drops After Being Marked As Closed?
The folks at the Local Search Forums are chatting about a pattern they’ve been seeing for the past several months around closed local listings.
When a business is marked as closed on Google Maps…