Google Shows Ratings Snippet 8 Out Of 11?
Dan Barker spotted a fun rich snippet in Google where the ratings displayed for an IMDB movie result was 8 out of 11. Out of 11, not 10…
Google Maps App Update Adds Uber, Offline Maps, Lane Navigation & More
Google announced they made a bunch of updates to both the iOS and Android version of the Google Maps apps. The major changes include adding integration with Uber, the ability to download offline maps, lane by lane navigation help, more local search fi…
Google AdWords MCC Scripts
Google announced a powerful way for developers or tech savvy advertisers to save time when managing their AdWords accounts through MCC Scripts.
Google has now made MCC Scripts available to all advertisers. MCC Scripts is a way to manage your AdWords a…
Matt Cutts: Google May Treat The Same Subdirectories As Unique
Someone asked Matt Cutts, Google’s head of spam, on Twitter if Google would treat the same subdirectory as different pages if the URLs are slightly off.
The example give were:
http://domain.com/dir
http://domain.com/dir/
http://domain.com/dir…
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Google Drops Amazon’s Rich Snippets From Search Results
Gabs at Cre8asite Forums noticed that just recently, Amazon has lost their rich snippets in the Google search results.
About a year ago, Amazon had rich snippets even without them adding the rich snippet markups for product reviews…
Daily Search Forum Recap: May 6, 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: Links Still Have Many Years Left In Them But…..
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Google Pauses Webmaster Tools SSL Warnings In Order Clarify Them In Future
About a week ago, Google began sending out a nice number of SSL warnings via Google Webmaster Tools.
Google has paused those warnings…
Google AdSense Publishers Brace For Lower Earnings In May
A WebmasterWorld thread has some publishers bracing themselves for a pretty bad earnings month via Google AdSense.
Why…
Google’s Matt Cutts: Links Still Have Many Years Left In Them But…
Matt Cutts, Google’s face of search for webmasters, posted a future telling video yesterday on when and how Google may rely less on links in the future for ranking pages…
Google: We Currently Treat New TLDs As gTLDs
As you may know, there are tons of new TLDs that hit the market, such as .cash, .foo, .best and so on…
DuckDuckGo Adds Carousel, Auto-Complete, Local Results & More
DuckDuckGo announced the next version of their privacy search engine at https://next.duckduckgo.com/.
Note, this is where users like us can play around with it and give them feedback. DuckDuckGo wants to switch over to the new version in about a mont…
May 2014 Google Webmaster Report
April was another month chock full of Google webmaster and SEO tidbits. We also suspected at least two updates, FYI, there were some signs of a possible update on May 2nd, although that buzz died down quickly…
Google’s Site Removal For HTTPS Will Remove HTTP Version Also
Might be obvious for most of you but not all know that if you use the site removal tool to remove your HTTPS site within Google Webmaster Tools…
SEOs Debate Google’s Ethics & Morals
Five days ago I reported on a post where a personality in our industry questions the ethics and morals of Google after he posted the private conversation he had with Google’s Matt Cutts while at SMX West.
I am not going to go into what he said here, y…
One Of My First SEO Friends Going To Federal Jail
Shawn Hogan, back in the early 2000’s was known by his company, like I was/am, named DigitalPoint. He and I joined the same circles in the SEO community back in the very early 2000s…
Google Logo Remembers Audrey Hepburn On Her 85th Birthday
Today on the Google home page worldwide is a special Google Doodle, aka Google logo, for Audrey Hepburn. Audrey Hepburn would have been 85 years old today, passing at the age of 63 on January 20, 1993 in Tolochenaz, Vaud…
Video Recap of Weekly Search Buzz :: May 2, 2014
This week in search, we cover how the IRS may have stopped Bing from crawling their site for some time. Should you be worried about doing HARO interviews because of acquiring bad links that can get you penalized in Google…
A Black Hat Loses Everything & Thanks Matt Cutts For Improving Search Results
Sebastian Johnsson, a self proclaimed grey/black hat wrote an incredibly interesting story on his blog on how he started getting into the black/gray hat world of SEO…
Google Search App Adds Parking Reminders, Indoor Maps, In-Store Products & Offline Cards
Google announced on Google+ that the Android version of the Google Search App has been updated to support a bunch of new features, including reminding you where you parked your car.
When you park your car, Google may ask you, do you want to be reminde…
Google AdSense Cross Device Ad Unit Design Update
Google announced that they have launched a new default ad unit style that works better across all devices, mobile to desktop…