Video: Matt Cutts Interview At SMX Advanced On Payday Loan, Reconsideration Requests & Metafilter
Here is the video from last week’s SMX Advanced last week with Matt Cutts and Danny Sullivan…
Video Recap of Weekly Search Buzz :: June 20, 2014
Lots of topics to cover this week, starting with the trouble Microsoft got in over a sponsored post campaign for Internet Explorer. I think Bing and Google should take some sort of action, especially Bing. Bing is testing Catapult…
Video Recap of Weekly Search Buzz :: June 20, 2014
Lots of topics to cover this week, starting with the trouble Microsoft got in over a sponsored post campaign for Internet Explorer. I think Bing and Google should take some sort of action, especially Bing. Bing is testing Catapult…
Bing Ads Bid Landscape Tool Support Ad Groups
Bing announced they have expanded the Bid Landscape Tool to support not just keywords but also ad groups.
The new feature has launched in the US currently but will be expanded worldwide in the near future…
Google Shopping Products Feeds Update
Google announced that they’ve updated the Google Shopping Products feed specification. This update gives merchants and advertisers more refinements and options when specifying their product data in their feed…
Google Working On Super Secret hreflang Webmaster Feature
Google seems to be working up a new webmaster feature around rel-alternate-hreflang. rel-alternate-hreflang is the attribute to communicate to Google if there are alternative language based web pages for the specific web page the attribute is placed o…
Bing Ads Express Discontinued
Microsoft Bing announced they are shutting down the Bing Ads Express service because their customers need more granular controls when managing search campaigns…
Google Manual Action Over 302 Redirected Links
A WebmasterWorld thread has one webmaster claiming he received a reconsideration request rejection notice and in that notice…
Webmaster: Contacting Google Is Harder Than Storming The Pentagon With A Water Pistol
Disclaimer: You won’t learn a new search tip or news item here but you may laugh and sometimes we all need to laugh…
Does Google Automatically Flag Sites Using The noscript Tag?
SMX Advanced, Maile Ohye of Google warned SMX attendees of using the noscript tag on their web site. She said something like it is an “automatic” issue of some sorts.
What Matt Cutts Thinks About Twitter Adding Animated GIF Support
Yesterday, Twitter made top headlines by adding support for animated GIFs. Yes, Twitter is now complete. You can post pictures of your favorite animated GIF with your friends…
Google Search Adds Phone Numbers That Dial Via Hangouts
Google has now added phone numbers that hyperlink to Google Hangouts for voice dialing and calling.
If you search for your favorite place on Google Local, Google may show a big phone number…
Bing Catapult Is Like Google’s Caffeine Update
Bing announced they are going to get faster, twice as fast to be exact…
Google: Penalized Sites Don’t Get Crawled Less Often
Yesterday in a Google Webmaster Hangout with Google’s John Mueller I asked John if Google crawls penalized sites less frequently and/or slower. He responded that Google typically does not slow the crawl for penalized sites…
Google AdWords Summit : Live Stream Available
Tomorrow and Friday, Google is hosting full day AdWords Summits in London. Coco from the Google AdWords team announced it on Google AdWords Help explaining that not only can you come in person…
Internet Explorer Doing Sponsored Posts: Bing & Google To Dish Out Penalties?
As I covered this morning at Search Engine Land – Will Google & Bing Penalize Microsoft Over Their Sponsored Post Campaign For Internet Explorer?
I suspect they will have to.
What happened?
Microsoft seems to have contracted SocialChorus to run a campaign to generate buzz and awareness over their new Internet Explorer. As you know, IE has been getting a pretty bad rap these days.
Are You Getting Tired Of Google’s World Cup Doodles?
Starting on June 12th and likely through July 13th, a full month, Google will be showcasing tons of different Google Logos, Doodles, for the World Cup. In fact, they may even change throughout the day, depending on who is playing who and at what time…..
Google On Mobile Redirection: Use 302 Redirects
A couple weeks ago, Google has vastly improved their site move documentation…
Google Study: Search Ads Improve Top-Of-Mind Awareness
Google announced a new study they are behind with Ipsos MediaCT where they show how search ads not just improve conversions but also improve brand awareness…
Yandex Strips Search Query Data, Goes 100% Not Provided
At the heels of Google and Yahoo, and Bing’s tests, Yandex, the largest Russian search engine has dropped out all search query data from the referrer. That means…