Traffic Surge After Google Penalties Lifted Screen Shot
We know that in many cases, after a penalty is lifted by Google, your traffic may not improve all that much. Sometimes it might even lead to less traffic than before. But sometimes…
SEO: Harder To Know If Human Error Caused Ranking Issues Vs Algorithms
When it comes to ranking issues in Google, there are two main reasons why your rankings can drop. The first is you made a technical mistake on your own site…
Why Does Google Exclude Jesus Christ From The Knowledge Graph
A Google searcher named Steve posted in the Google Web Search Help forums asking why does Jesus Christ not get a knowledge graph result for the search terms [jesus] or [jesus christ] but other religious figures do…
Google AdWords: “Delete” Is Now “Remove”
Google has made a significant language change to the AdWords interface, replacing the “Delete” button and renaming it “Remove.” I am not joking. This is being rolled out over the next couple weeks.
Google AdWords Editor 10.5
Google has released version 10.5 of the AdWords Editor.
10.5 brings mostly functionality around the shopping campaigns. Specifically product groups, upload and check changes…
Confused: Did Or Didn’t Metafilter & Google Talk About Ranking Issues?
Back on June 12th, I published a story on Search Engine Land on how Google is working on a fix for Metafilter.
Back then, I was under the impression that Matt Cutts, Google’s head of search spam, was in direct communication with Matt Haughey…
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Search Queries Report In Google Webmaster Tools Dead
If you try to access your search queries report within Google Webmaster Tools right now, you would be out of luck.
You’d see a message that reads…
Vinod Khosla Interviews Google’s Co-Founders, Larry Page & Sergey Brin
I don’t think anyone would argue that Larry Page and Sergey Brin, the co-founders of Google, were not incredibly smart – not even the people who read here and hate Google. They are widely smart people, the co-founders…
Google: Severe Enough Penalty, Delete All Of These Old Sites
Google has suggested that sometimes it makes sense to start fresh and start a new web site if you dug yourself into such a severe penalty.
Google’s John Mueller hinted to it again this weekend in a Google Webmaster Help thread…
Google Penalties: Stop Following Me Already!
We know that Google penalties may follow you when you 301 or create a new site when your old site was burned to the ground. We also know that Google tried to prevent this from a negative SEO standpoint. Google also recommends you start fresh in some …
No Delete Button In Google Webmaster Tools Manual Actions Viewer
Google launched the awesome manual actions viewer just about 11 months ago and it is really an awesome step in visibility around penalties (yes we are waiting for an automated actions viewer)…
Google Update: June 28th & July 5th?
I may have missed a small Google update, unconfirmed update, that happened on June 27th/28th and there may have been an update this weekend on July 5th…
Video Recap of Weekly Search Buzz :: July 4, 2014
Happy July 4th to all you Americans, I posted the special logos and themes from Google, Bing…
Independence Day USA: Google’s Logo, Bing’s Home Page & Yahoo Got Nothing
Today is Independence Day in the United States Of America, the 238th birthday of USA. To celebrate, Google, Bing, Ask.com, Dogpile and others have special logos or themes on their home page. But surprisingly…
Google Spews 500 Server Errors This Morning
This morning, tons of people on social networks like Twitter, in the Google Web Search Help forum (only link to one example of many), reported Google was not loading and instead was returning a server error, 500 code…
Google Killer Robots.txt File Blocks Terminators From Co-Founders
Google posted a new robots.txt file at google.com/killer-robots.txt that is designed to help secure the Google co-founders…
Matt Cutts, Google’s Lead Spam Fighter, Takes Extended Time Off
Google’s head of search spam, Matt Cutts, announced on his blog that he is taking “a leave” through October of this year. In short, he is going completely off the grid and not dealing with anything Google related, i.e. his work…
Android Wear Apps Go Live in Google Play Store
Last night, Google announced on Google+ that they have published the first set of Android Wear apps in the Google Play Store.
Jason Calacanis: Google’s Matt Cutts Killed Mahalo & Wants Revenge
Jason Calacanis, a well known angel investor, who helped launch many brands, products and software ideas – is still incredibly mad at Google and directly, Matt Cutts over the Panda algorithm and how it destroyed his other start up…
Google Slaps Two More Link Networks In Poland
Google has slapped two more link networks in Poland late last night.
Google posted details about how reconsideration requests work on the Google Poland blog. And Google’s Karolina Kruszynska confirmed with me this morning that Google went after two…