July 2014 Google Webmaster Report
I thought the June report was massive, well, the past month at Google was even more active. We had the Spam algorithm revised to version 3…
Got To Be A Bug: Google Shopping Ads With Blue Highlights
Aaron Dicks shared with me on Twitter a weird display for the Google Product Listing Ads/Shopping ads (or whatever they are called now). The ads show as they normally do but the product titles are highlighted in this dark blue color…
Google Webmaster Tools Now Notifying Webmasters Of Right To Be Forgotten Removals
Google Webmaster Tools began sending out notices to webmasters who had their content removed from the European versions of Google over the Right To Be Forgotten law in the European Union…
Google Structured Data Testing Tool Also Drops Authorship Image
Last week, we reported that Google dropped the authorship image from the search results for good. But we also documented how the Google Structured Data Testing Tool still showed the old format…
Google May Trust Links Less After They Are Modified
Pedro Dias, a former Google employee who worked on the Search Quality and Webspam team for years, said on Twitter that Google is less likely to trust a link after it is modified…
Google Closing Orkut, Their First Social Network
Google announced that after ten years, they will be closing down Orkut, their first social network.
Google is shutting down the service on September 30, 2014 but the public communities will be archived and viewable starting on the shutdown date…
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Google With Mixed Language Snippets
When it comes to multilingual sites, I am not that knowledgable but it is important as more and more companies and web sites need to go multilingual…
Video: Google’s Secret HREF LANG Webmaster Tools Report
A couple of weeks ago, we told you Google is working on a new href lang webmaster feature that Google would not disclose. In fact, Google was asking for beta testers to sign non-disclosure agreements, if they wanted to participate in the beta.
Well……
What Do I Need To Unlearn From My SEO Days From 5 Years Ago?
They often say, learning new things is way easier than unlearning old things.
A WebmasterWorld thread has an old SEO who hasn’t been in the game for five or more years, asking to be caught up quickly on what has changed.
The answer is…
AP’s New Robot Writers; What Will Google Think?
The Associated Press, AP, announced they will be using algorithms, machines, robots to write their corporate earnings stories for the business news report. Yes…
Google May Show A Right To Be Forgotten Removal Notice Without Removal Requests
Last week, Google began removing right to be forgotten requests from the EU search results page. Yea…
Google HTTPS Everywhere: Why, How & SEO Implications
Google has published a video of the HTTPS Everywhere presentation on YouTube. The presentation was give by Pierre Far from the Google Webmaster team and Ilya Grigorik from the Google Developer team.
The presentation was awesome because it was convers…
Let Google Know About Your Negative SEO
A thread at Google Webmaster Help asks a question that goes unanswered for the most part, “Negative SEO. How can we let the Webmaster Team know?”
How do you let Google know when you think you’ve been hit by negative SEO…
Google On Can You Redirect A Penalty To Another Site
Can you redirect a penalty to a new or different domain name? Let’s say site A has a bad link penalty, either manual action or algorithmic issue. And you or a competitor decide to use a 301 redirect from site A to a site without a penalty (i.e. site B)…
Video Recap of Weekly Search Buzz :: June 27, 2014
This week in search, we cover two unconfirmed Google updates, one from the weekend and the other from Tuesday. Google decided to drop author images from the search results…
Google “Right To Be Forgotten” Removal Examples Now Live
As you may remember, Google was ordered by the EU court to comply with requests to remove content about individuals. So they acted quick, set up a form and now, only a few weeks later, started processing those removal requests…
Google’s Panda Algorithm Forces PR Newswire To Remove Press Release Spam
As you may remember, Google Panda 4.0 had a major negative impact on many press release sites including the largest one, PR Newswire. In response, PR Newswire issued a press release about them cracking down on “spammers” by removing and “taking action”…
New Google AdWords Distance Reporting & Location Bidding Controls
Google quietly announced on Google+ a new report and bidding option based on distance of the searcher to your location.
The new report shows you impressions, clicks…
Google Sandbox Version Two?
The Google Sandbox was a term coined back in 2004 when SEOs and webmaster began noticing their new sites were not ranking as quickly as they use to. In short, your new site got put into a sandbox, where you waited…
Bing Knowledge Widget & Webmaster Tools
Microsoft announced on the Bing blog that they have integrated the Bing Knowledge Widgets directly into Bing Webmaster Tools. In addition…