AJAX Hash Bang URLs No Longer Work In Fetch As Google Tool
This week, Google introduced the new fetch as Google tool that now supports rendering the page as well. The tool is actually very sweet in many ways, including visualizing what Google sees and showing you what Google cannot see…
Google’s Search Results Are Crafted By Mostly White Males
It is not uncommon to see high tech, largely programming related companies filled primarily with men who are white or asian. Honestly, my programming company is the mostly men, mostly white.
Google announced and published diversity report…
Google: In 2009 We Selected Only One Of Your Anchor Text When…
Back in 2008, Moz published a report claiming the first anchor text counts – meaning, if you have a web page that has two or more links going to the same page, but the anchor text of those links differ…
Google AdWords Knowledge Graph Overlays
@ArianaWolf spotted Google placing those knowledge graph overlays we see often in the organic search results…
Does Deleting Your Web History At Google Really Do Anything?
Jacques Mattheij wrote a blog post named Google Web/Search History Disable Does Absolutely Nothing. Basically claiming that when you hit that delete button, Google just hides it from your Google Web History page but does nothing more…
Google’s Prototype Self Driving Autonomous Cars
We’ve covered many topics on the Google self driving car here before but now, Google is working on building out their own car for it.
The car, as you can see from the picture above, looks cartoon like, but it works…
Bing: Webmaster Forums Closing Down, Go To WebmasterWorld Instead
Duane Forrester from Bing announced on the Bing Webmaster Blog that they are closing down the Bing Webmaster Forums in the upcoming days.
Honestly…
Google: Adult Web Sites Are Not Automatically Spammy Web Sites
Some folks in the search space feel that adult sites, pornographic sites, are automatically considered to be spammy by Google. Truth is, while there is a ton of spam in those industries, not all adult sites are spammy.
Google’s John Mueller said so i…
Google Webmaster Tools Adds Block Resources Debug With Fetch & Render
As expected, Google has introduced a new tool to help webmaster determine what JavaScript, CSS, and other resources they are blocking from GoogleBot’s crawl…
Google May Be Pushing Out A New Update: Possibly Penguin?
I am seeing very early signs of another possible Google update both based on chatter at the WebmasterWorld and in other forums and social media spaces. I am also getting private data shared with me by those who are tracking this closely…
Marine Biologist; Rachel Louise Carson, Gets A Google Logo
Yet another women who get’s a Google Doodle in 2014 after Google Doodle equality being questioned, this time, we have a Doodle from Google for Rachel Louise Carson.
Rachel Carson was Pennsylvania born marine biologist and author…
Google: Forum Link Drops Can Get You In Trouble
Sometimes you see some of the most obviously painful questions in the forums and you scratch your head…
Why Google+ Doesn’t Have -1s
Yonatan Zunger, the Chief Architect of Google+, posted on Google+ a study of how positive and negative feedback on people’s posts in social networks affects their future behavior…
eBay Slapped By Google: But Was It Algorithmic Or Manual?
As you know, Google released Panda 4.0 last week today and a bunch of sites dropped like rocks, including eBay.
In fact, here is an updated SearchMetrics chart of the drop, it is a 78% loss in search visibility…
Law Firm Sues Their SEO Company For Using Spammy Tactics
Google’s Matt Cutts posted on Twitter a link to Eric Goldman (a guy who knows his legal SEO stuff) story about how a law firm sued their SEO company. Not necessarily for not achieving the rankings they wanted but rather for violating Google’s webmaste…
Daily Search Forum Recap: May 26, 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:
Google’s Matt Cutts: Panda 4.0 Has A New Architecture With A Softer Side…
Finally, Google Adds The Memorial Day Ribbon To Home Page
This morning we reported how Google didn’t have a mention of Memorial Day on Google.com.
I’ve been checking throughout the day, because even though Google would not put a Doodle on their home page, they have in the past done a Memorial Day Ribbon…
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No Honor For Memorial Day By Google But Bing, Yahoo & Ask.com Give Respect
Today is Memorial Day in the United State of America, an important day where Americans honor the lives and contributions of those who died while in service for the country…
Did You Notice Google Changes Their Logo?
Did you notice Google changed their logo again…
Google Working On Webmaster Tools Reports For JavaScript Errors
On Friday, Google posted their annual we’re getting better at JavaScript, crawling it, indexing what is behind it, and understanding JavaScript. That itself, did not get me excited, they’ve been messing with it since 2004…