Should SEO Bloggers & Writers Go Away?
A couple weeks ago, Bill Slawski posted on Twitter asking if SEO writing is dead.
Bill Slawski has been in the SEO industry since the 90s, before even me. :) He writes some of the most detailed and technical SEO posts out there, more than almost anyon…
Google’s New Content API For Google Shopping
On Friday, Google announced they launched a completely new Content API for Google Shopping…
Google AdSense Responsive Ad Unit Performs Well
10 months ago, Google introduced, in beta, the AdSense responsive ad unit – it is still in beta, but many publishers have adopted it on their responsive design web sites.
A responsive ad unit works on sites that are responsive…
My Site Is Boring. How Do I Get Links?
The topic of getting links to boring web sites or web sites that compete with dozens or hundreds of other web sites is not new…
WhoCalld.com Admits Phone Number Sites Are Google Spam After Matt Cutts Debate
As you may remember, Matt Cutts and the Google web spam team is not all that happy with phone number sites. They simply dislike how many of them do not add “value add” to the experience and thus have gone after them for the past couple years.
More inte…
First Animated Doodle 4 Google Logo
Today on the Google home page, Google is featuring the logo for the winner of the Doodle 4 Google competition. The winner is Audrey Zhang, an 11 year-old from New York. Her Doodle was titled “Back to Mother Nature…
Google: We’ve Massively Updated Our Site Move Help Documentation
Later on Friday, Google announced that they’ve updated their site move guidelines and documentation.
Pierre Far…
Webmaster: I’ve Tested Negative SEO Through Links & It Works
Last week we reported that most webmasters are claiming negative SEO is easier now than ever. If you look at the conversation there, you will see it is somewhat of a hot topic…
Video Recap of Weekly Search Buzz :: June 6, 2014
This week in search at the Search Engine Roundtable, I post the monthly Google webmaster report. Google released a new feature that warns searches of bad mobile redirects. Google App Indexing now supports other languages outside of English. We poste…
Google AdSense Updates Making Ads & Offers Huge Ad Units
Google announced two updates this week for AdSense. One, that they’ve upgraded the AdSense ad unit creation process to make it easier. Two…
Google’s Matt Cutts: The Number One SEO Mistake Is…
If you had to guess what the most common SEO mistake would be, what would you guess? Building a site of all images or in Flash? Not making a title tag that says home versus your core keyword phrase? Spamming Google…
Redirecting Google Mobile Users To Your Home Page? Watch Out!
Google announced that if you are redirecting your mobile users from a specific landing page listed in Google to your mobile home page, then you need to watch out…
Google Car Search Discontinued
Dan Barker posted on Twitter that google.com/cars no longer works.
In 2012, Google launched Google cars that allowed you to search for cars by make, model, year, color and so on. That is now gone…
Google: Keywords In Domain Aren’t Needed For Ranking Well
Google’s John Mueller posted a response in a Google Webmaster Help thread responding to someone asking if they need their keyword in their domain name.
In short, John said no, you can rank fine without having a keyword in your domain name…
Daily Search Forum Recap: June 5, 2014
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web.Search Engine Roundtable Stories:
16% Claim Recovery After Google’s Panda 4…
58% Say Google’s Penalties Are Immoral
In May, we wrote twice about the ethics of Google penalties and covered the debate around that, asking you to vote and let us know if you think Google penalties are unethical or immoral…
IE8 No Longer Supported For Bing Ads
It seems that advertisers within the Bing Ads network are no longer able to use Internet Explorer 8 to manage their ads in the Bing Ad console.
A WebmasterWorld has some advertisers noticing the new requirement. Bing Ads write:
Bing Ads no longer su…
SEOs: Negative SEO On Google Much Easier Now
As you all know, negative SEO is not new, in fact, Google has said it is rare but possible since 2007. Sites as large as Expedia may have suffered from it and Google had to reword their documentation on the topic…
16% Claim Recovery After Google’s Panda 4.0 Update
On May 20th, Google began rolling out Panda 4.0 and shortly after we asked you to take our Panda poll. Thousands of you did and I wanted to share the results.
I asked, How Did Google Panda 4…