Google Search For iPhone Still Shows Emoji Characters
Over two years ago, I reported how emoji characters worked in the Google mobile search results and that I suspected that Google would disable them shortly after.
Well, they may have for some…
Google Wants You To Link Your Google My Business & AdWords Accounts
Google announced they want you to link your new Google My Business account, formerly Google Places, with your Google AdWords account.
This is the new and “upgraded location extensions” that should offer you a “a better way to display your business loc…
Bing Still Working On Right To Be Forgotten Removal Process
As you know, the EU has mandated the search engines to remove content that might be harmful to people on a case by case basis. Google launched a form for this removal and began removing this content. They even started an advisory council to help them w…
Tweet Analytics: Wow Twitter Analytics
I am pretty active on Twitter, so being able to see my statistics/analytics with stuff I share on Twitter can be interesting.
Twitter announced the availability of Organic Tweet Analytics. You can access it at analytics.twitter.com…
Google Notice: This Site Uses Flash, May Not Work On Your Device
Google announced that if you conduct a Google search on your iOS or Android device and a site that comes up is built in Flash technology…
Ingress Finally On iOS Devices
As expected, Google has brought Ingress, Google’s near-real time augmented reality where you have to fractions trying to secure or take portals. Or something like that.
The game is now available for iOS users…
Google Shopping Ads With Price Grouping
Google is testing a new Google shopping ad layout, where they group the ads by pricing. For example, they may show ads of products for prices above a certain price and then below a certain price…
Google On Right To Be Forgotten: We Want To Hear From You.
Google has an advisory council specifically designed around the Right To Be Forgotten topic…
Google For Webmasters: It’s Only Going To Get Worse, Not Better
The SEO space is very negative these days, not many smiles unless you work at large brands. A WebmasterWorld thread has a common topic come up, the topic of us being corkscrews and how the answers will dominate and weed out the source of the content, …
Google Webmaster Tools International Targeting Now Available
In June, Google began privately beta testing a new feature, which we uncovered as a Webmaster Tools href lang debug tool…
More On Google Sandbox 2.0
A couple weeks ago we brought up some conversation on the black hat forums around a new Google Sandbox.
The Google Sandbox dates back to 2004 where new sites would sit in a hold pattern, i.e. a sandbox…
Don’t Let Your Competitors Close You Down On Google Maps
It seems like the public is becoming aware of an issue that we’ve been discussing for over five years now…
Video Recap of Weekly Search Buzz :: July 11, 2014
This was a really sloppy video, I apologize in advance but I slept 3 hours last night and had an important call in-between. Anyway, I cover the Google updates that were unconfirmed from June 28th and July 5th. I discuss how 410 sites can also pass pe…
Google Maps UFO Pegman Makes An Appearance Again
Google Maps posted on their Google+ page that yesterday was the 67th anniversary of the Roswell UFO incident. To celebrate, they linked to area 51 on Google Maps.
Yes…
Marcia, An Old SEO Forum Personality, Passes
Marcia, a personality many of you may remember from the various forums, including WebmasterWorld and many other SEO forums, has passed away earlier this week…
Google Webmaster Blog Redesigned
Google has redesigned the Google Webmaster Central Blog yesterday to give it an updated and cleaner look and make it work better on mobile devices.
Here is the old version:
Here is the new version:
Sadly…
Google Site Command Showing Review Snippets Only?
Irving Weiss, the SEO lead at Vitals.com, shared a thread with me on Moz that in some cases, Google is only showing the reviews rich snippets when the query is a site command.
Here is an example…
Google Updates Quality Rating Guidelines – EAT
Jennifer Slegg reports that Google has completely revamped the Google Quality Rating Guidelines, which is used for Google contractors to manually review search results and send that feedback to Google’s team to improve the overall algorithm…
Google Maps Measure Distance Drawing Tool
Google brought back a fun feature in Google Maps that was not yet available in the new version of Google Maps – the ability to draw lines on Google Maps and figure out the distance of that drawing on the map.
Here is how it works:
Open the new Google…
No Google! I Said I Want This!
Google highlighted a Google voice search feature on Google+ the other day, which demonstrates how you can correct mistakes when Google doesn’t understand what you are saying.
In the demonstration…