Jim Noble, DMOZ Editor Passed Away
Jim Noble, a 14 year veteran volunteer editor and administrator at DMOZ (Open Directory Project) has passed away after fighting cancer for a long time.
DMOZ announced it this weekend on their Twitter profile. He passed a couple months ago on November…
Google: Even Without Disavowing, Getting Good Links Can Remove Your Penguin Problems
In a video hangout with Google’s John Mueller, John said that even without using the disavow file or removing bad links, it is possible to recover from a Penguin penalty (aka algorithm). Let me say that again… If you are hit by a Penguin issue on you…
MCC Accounts: Google AdWords Bid Simulator Keyword Report Didn’t Work
Almost 10 months ago, Google AdWords launched a new report set of columns that gave you the ability to show Bid Simulator columns in your reports.
Well, for the passed 10 months, it only worked on individual accounts. Not those who run MCC…
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Google: Upper Or Lower Case In Your Disavow Both Work Fine
Google’s disavow tool is still a hot topic amongst SEOs and will be as long as Google is at war on links.
Marie Haynes asked Google’s John Mueller a question on Twitter about the tool that I’ve never seen asked. Does the case of your words in the dis…
Google: Make Sure To Match Up Your rel=canonical & hreflang pairs
Google’s John Mueller posted on Google+ a heads up to those sites implementing hreflang for international support, that they must implement the rel=canonical properly or it will be as if none of the mark up is there…
Video Recap of Weekly Search Buzz :: January 9, 2015
This week in search, I report how Googleâs engineers working on the Penguin algorithm is letting it settle down a bit. I posted the monthly Google webmaster…
Google AdSense Achievements
Did you know that when you hit a certain milestone with your Google AdSense account, Google may show you an “achievement” card in your Google Adsense dashboard…
Google AdWords Reach & Frequency Reports To Be Removed From Dimensions Report
Google quietly announced on Google+ that they are dropping the ability to see the reach and frequency reports from within the dimensions tab in your AdWords reporting console.
Starting January 28th those two reports will only be available within the C…
Google France Displays Memorial For Terrorist Attack
If you visit Google France at google.fr or Google News France at news.google.fr you will be shown a memorial that has the words “Je suis Charlie…
Did Your Google Now Cards Go Missing? You Are Not Alone.
Many users of Google Now on iOS and Android devices are surprised to see that they are not seeing their typical Google Now Cards.
Google Now Cards would show users traffic to work or home, weather…
Google: Top Problems We See With Dynamic Serving Mobile Implementation
Google is providing mobile optimization tips all this week on their Google+ channel and as expected, most of them are pretty basic stuff…
Hear Google’s Matt Cutts Talk For Free At UNC-Chapel Hill Tomorrow
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is hosting a distinguished alumni speakers series and Google’s Matt Cutts is part of the line up. He will be speaking at the FedEx Global Education Center at 301 Pittsboro Street, Chapel Hill, NC 27516 t…
Poll: Should This Site Be Hit By Google Panda?
When Google Panda 4.1 touched down, it appeared that one of the sites negatively impacted by it, was this one.
On December 30th…
60% Say Matt Cutts Won’t Return To Google
As you all know, Matt Cutts has been on leave, an extended vacation for a while now. He extended it even more in November and there are no signs of him coming back any time soon.
I asked in November…
Video: Google AdWords Planning For 2015
The folks at Google, from the Google AdWords team, put together a 10 minute video overview of how you should use your 2014 AdWords data to plan for your 2015 ad campaigns.
Google: The News Algorithm Has Over 200 Ranking Factors
Stacie Chan from the Google News team posted in a Google News Help thread implying that the Google News ranking algorithm uses over 200 ranking factors for ranking…
Google Webmaster Help To Provide Mobile Optimization Tutorials This Week
The Google Webmaster team announced on Google+ that they will be offering advice, tips and optimization techniques around mobile design options.
Google said:
There are three common configurations of #mobilefriendly sites: Responsive web design, dynam…
Google AdSense Publishers Fear Increases In Click Through Rates
You’d think that increasing your click through rates and earnings on your web site would be a good thing that de-stresses you…
Does My Home Page Need To Be Listed First In Google’s Site Command?
Last week, we reported that John Mueller of Google said the site command is nothing to worry about, this is despite Google’s Matt Cutts telling us five years ago that the site command is ordered and ranked in some logic…
January 2015 Google Webmaster Report
This past month in Google, we had Google tell us that the Penguin shifts are ongoing – although, it died down after that for the holidays. Google rolled out their local search algorithm, we code named Pigeon…