Google Search App For iOS Gets More Voice Friendly
Google announced on Google+ that they’ve upgraded the iOS Google Search App.
The new app is labelled version 4.0 and is available for download in the App Store…
Would A Domain Like appleandapples.com Trigger A Google Penalty?
Sometimes I see these unique questions in the SEO forums and I just have to share them.
This one comes from High Rankings Forums where a webmaster asks if he can use a singular and plural version of the same word, to be his brand name and domain name….
Matt Cutts Likes Duane Forrester’s Example Of Good Links: Unknown Links
On Monday, we shared a bold example from Bing’s Duane Forrester about what good links are versus bad links.
It was bold because Duane from Bing basically said the only real valuable links are the ones you don’t know you are getting in advance…
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Bing: Link Spam Killing Links & Google: Links Still Matter
The other day we covered a topic on hold Bing’s Duane Forrester has a bold statement that you shouldn’t know where your links are coming from and honestly, I think it is awesome advice but people may take it to mean, if you do, it may lead to a penalty…
Google’s Matt Cutts Looks Back & Shares His Webspam Regrets…
I rarely submit questions for Google’s Matt Cutts, but I did submit one and he actually answered it in a video.
The question was, Matt – what are your regrets related to web spam…
European Court Requires Google To Delete Personal Info: Reputation Management Just Got Easier
A major ruling just knocked Google over the head, where Europe’s top court, the The Court of Justice of the European Union…
Google: Nothing To See Here, No Update Going On…
Despite all the signals, chatter and reporting showing that Google’s search results appear to be updating as if there was an algorithmic change at Google, Google has told me that there is nothing going on.
Google said that they are not working on anyth…
Google’s Official Advice On Home Page Handling For International Users
Google’s Zineb Ait Bahajji posted on the Google Webmaster Central blog, Google’s official advice on how to handle home pages for sites with internationalized content.
In short…
Google: Short Content Is Not Low Quality Content
You see it all the time, SEOs requiring content to be a certain length or else be penalized by Panda…
Google Logo For Dorothy Hodgkin, British Scientist
Today on most of the Google home pages is a logo for a female biochemist named Dorothy Mary Hodgkin. It would be here 104th birthday today, born on May 12, 1910 in Egypt and passing at the age of 84 on July 29, 1994 in England…
Bing: Unnatural Links = Advanced Knowledge Of Links
On Friday, Duane Forrester from Bing posted his 10 SEO Myths and honestly, most of it was basic stuff, so much so that I missed a wowzer in there that Mat McGee caught and told me to cover at Search Engine Land, which I did immediately…
Google’s Update From Last Week Reversing Itself?
On Friday I reported about a lot of chatter and signals of a possible update from Google coming down the pipe.
Well, as of this morning, it seems some are saying their rankings are back to where they were…
Super Mom On Bike As Google Doodle For Mother’s Day & More
Today on Google’s home page is a special Google logo, aka Google Doodle for Mother’s Day. In fact…
Video Recap of Weekly Search Buzz :: May 9, 2014
This week in search, I posted the monthly Google webmaster report. Google may be preparing for a large update, we saw shifts on May 2nd and 7th. Bing also may have done an update…
Amp-what: A Unicode & HTML Entity Search Engine
Who doesn’t love HTML Entities, unicode characters and the like…
Bing Algorithm Update On May 5th?
It is rare for SEOs and Webmasters to bring up changes to the Bing search results and as you know, Bing powers Yahoo’s organic search results also.
But one webmaster, who actually sent me real data via email off the record…
Google Preparing Large Update? Shifts On May 2nd & 7th
I mentioned there was some chatter about a Google update on May 2nd but now we are seeing even more chatter and signs of flux in the Google search results on May 7th…
Two Top SEM Firms Featured As Offering Poor SEM Results By WSJ
It is not every day you see SEM companies featured in Wall Street Journal articles but a few weeks ago, they ran a story named Small Businesses Search in Vain for Web-Ad Help.
It isn’t good.
It calls out two very large SEM companies …
Publishers Upset Over New Google AdSense Earnings Screen
A WebmasterWorld thread has several publishers upset over the new beta Google AdSense console. Their issue is, the overview screen is missing two data points they enjoy seeing…
SearchMetrics Shows Expedia’s Google Traffic Return, But Did It Ever Drop?
In January, we reported how Expedia may have been penalized by Google because SearchMetrics showed a huge drop in search visibility for the company’s website.
Now, after about three months, SearchMetrics is showing an increase in their Google traffic….