Google Maps Pokémon Winners Get Awards: It Is…
Remember the Google Maps Pokémon Challenge on April Fools Day? Well…
Google Glass Explorers We Knew We’d Be Mocked By The Daily Show
As you may have seen by now, Google Glass Explorers were on The Daily Show, in a segment named Glass Half Empty. In short, it severely mocks Google Glass owners who were physically targeted for wearing Google Glass…
Google’s New Reconsideration Requests With A Note From Your Reviewer
Last week, we reported that Google is improving their reconsideration request rejections with more feedback.
Well…
Google’s Matt Cutts Said Pay Day Loan Algorithm Rolled Out But Did It?
As I reported from the airport Thursday night at Search Engine Land, Google’s Matt Cutts said the Payday Loan Algorithm was rolling out but truth is, I haven’t seen signs of it.
In fact, I’ve asked many folks in the black hat and spammy categories abou…
For Father’s Day 2014, Google Has Father & Son At World Cup
Today is Father’s day in the US and to celebrate, the search engines have special logos and designs. We have logos from Google, Yahoo, Bing, Ask.com, Baidu and others. But this year…
Video Recap of Weekly Search Buzz :: June 13, 2014
Please excuse the tired video recap but I do cover some important search topics. First, Google released version 3.0 of the Pay Day Loan algorithm…
Personalized Certificates & Public Profiles Pages For Google Partners
Google announced that Google Partners now have two new ways to share their AdWords certification with prospects or clients.
(1) You can now get a personalized HTML certificate that you can showcase.
(2) You can now also use your sharable public profi…
The MetaFilter Google Update Is In Process Says Google’s Matt Cutts
As you may remember, MetaFilter got nailed by an unconfirmed update on November 17, 2012 that Google denied.
Google has now confirmed that update, 1.5 years later…
Google’s Gay Pride Banner Live In Search Results
Every year for Gay Pride Month, Google has dressed up their top bar, like they do for the year-end holidays, with rainbow colors. This year, the colors are much more vibrate…
Google Flight Search Gets Full Screen & I’m Feeling Lucky Button
Google Flight Search has announced new features, they include:
(1) Full Screen Mode (2) Most Popular Destinations (3) I’m Feeling Lucky Button…
The World Cup 2014 Google Doodle
On Google’s home pages today, you will see a special Doodle, aka…
Google My Business: Google’s Answer For Local Business Woes
All of you who read here daily know about many issues Google has with Google Local, Google+ Local, Google Places, Google Maps for Business and all the other names Google has for it. It is a disaster, but Google My Business is aimed to fix all of that….
Google Reconsideration Requests Now Allow More Feedback From Googlers
Last night I covered at Search Engine Land based on Google’s Matt Cutts keynote at SMX Advanced that Google has launched a new reconsideration request process to help Googlers give more feedback during the reconsideration request rejection process…
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Webmasters Complain Of Google Structured Data Items Dropping
I’ve received several reports from webmasters that the Google Structured Data report in Google Webmaster Tools is all of a sudden showing a huge drop in the items being reported.
Some are saying they’ve gone from 3…
Google Spam Algorithm Version 3.0 Launches Today
As I reported last night out of the SMX Advanced keynote with Matt Cutts – the third version of the Google Spam Algorithm, also known as the PayDay Loan algorithm…
Moz Analytics Gains Not Provided Report
Moz announced they have a new report that helps SEOs and webmasters with the [not provided] problem. Not provided is where Google is no longer reporting keyword data in Google Analytics and other analytics products. This report aims to help a bit wit…
Bing: You Can Have Up To 125 Trillion URLs In Sitemaps
Fabrice Canel, the Principal Program Manager of the Bing Index Generation team, posted their Sitemaps best practices guide for large web sites.
Bing says they can support up to 125 trillion links through multiple XML sitemap files…
Royal Carriage Transit Directions In Google Maps
The other week we had Google Maps directions by Loch Ness Monster and this week…
Google Glass Gets World Cup Scores, Parking Location Reminders & Package Tracking
Google announced new features for Google Glass last night on Google+. The new features include more Google Now reminders right on your Glass device.
You can see World Cup scores if you sign up via Google Now:
It will reminder you where you par…
Google AdSense Ads Without Ad URLs
Some Google AdSense publishers are reporting seeing AdSense ad units without the URL and fav icon displaying.
Folks at WebmasterWorld have reported this saying Google is testing an ad unit that removes the URL and icon…