Video Recap of Weekly Search Buzz :: December 26, 2014
Happy holidays all, sorry for my voice…
TripAdvisor Fined By Italy For Not Stopping Fraud Negative Reviews
The New York Times reported that TripAdvisor, the large hotel and travel booking reviews site, was fined by the Italian Competition Authority for not preventing fake negative reviews on the site.
The fine was about $610…
Who Is The Google AdSense Client?
couple weeks, there were two high profile stories on AdSense and possible corruption around it.
(1) Google’s Search Ad Policies
Google: Working On Fun Stuff With Search Query Reports In Webmaster Tools
Google’s John Mueller said in a Google+ hangout the other day that Google is working on some “fun stuff” around the search query reporting tool in Google Webmaster Tools.
John said this at 25 minutes and 55 seconds into the video…
John Mueller Helping With Google Webmaster Questions On Christmas Eve
Excuse the horrible job photoshopping the Santa hat onto John Mueller but he was up at 1:30am his local time, last night, Christmas eve, responding to Webmasters in the Google Help forums…
Google: Hidden Content On Mobile Is Okay
I asked Google’s John Mueller yesterday, based on an argument I had with a group of SEOs the previous Friday, if Google will also look at the mobile template to determine if content hidden…
Google News RSS Feeds For Custom News Broken
Searchers are reporting in the Google News Help forum that the RSS feed located at the bottom of the Google News page no longer shows your custom news personalizations you made to your Google News feed…
Google At Webwinkel Vakdagen : Join For Free
If you are in the Netherlands between the dates of January 21st and the 22nd, and you want a chance to talk to Google employees who are part of the search and broader teams…
Google Doesn’t Put GoogleBot On A Leash – Manually That Is
A Google Webmaster Help thread has one webmaster asking why GoogleBot seems to be maxed out at crawling his site at 10 requests per second. The webmaster even documented the behavior over time and plotted it in this graph below…
With App Indexing On Mobile Sites With Separate URLs, Link To Both Desktop & Mobile URLs
Google App indexing is taking on and as more and more app developers start to integrate their app content within Google search, more and more questions arise.
App Indexing lets you send your mobile searchers directly to your content within your app……
Google Easter Egg For Bletchley Park
On Google, search for [Bletchley Park] and then watch the right hand knowledge graph box decipher the code to spell out Bletchley Park. That is the latest Google Easter Egg on their search results.
Google Pigeon Algorithm Rolls Out Globally In English Locales
Google revamped their local search algorithm, we named Google Pigeon, in July of this year. It was a significant change to how Google ranked and ordered the local search results both for local queries in Google search, and within Google Maps…
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Google’s Holiday Logo Goes With ‘Tis The Season! Messaging
Google has started their three day logo/doodle marathon for the holiday season, specifically the holiday of Christmas…
Duane Forrester Has A New Job: He Is Working At Bing
Remember, a couple months ago, Microsoft dropped Duane Forrester as part of their mass layoffs? He was let go from the Bing team and the search community erupted…
Google Now Shows Song Lyrics In Search Results
Another One Bites the Dust… The lyrics business just got hit big, Google is now showing detailed lyrics for many song titles in the search results…
Notable Alumni In The Google Knowledge Graph
This actually dates back at least a couple months, but no one really talked about it in our community until now. That is, the Google Knowledge Graph “Notable Alumni” carousel.
A WebmasterWorld thread has one user saying “it’s not inaccurate…
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Google AdWords Store Visits: Tracking In-Store Conversions
Google announced something really big, which I am surprised the search marketing community isn’t talking about more. They launched “Store Visits,” a new estimate added to your estimated total conversions within your AdWords campaign that aims on bridgi…
The Winter Solstice By Google Doodle
Google has a Doodle, aka Google Logo, on their home page on many of the Google properties for the Winter Solstice, the shortest day and the longest night of the year.
The Doodle also represents the first day of Winter…