62% Say Attacking Google’s Matt Cutts Is Wrong
I am happy to say that the majority of our industry thinks that attacking Google’s head of search spam, Matt Cutts, as wrong…
Google Hot Searches Email Subscriptions
Google announced you can how subscribe to Hot Searches for any country or the top US charts via email.
This way…
Google Penalizes PostJoint Over Guest Blog Links
It seems Google has gone after yet another guest blog network that is being used by SEOs for link building purposes. The link network is named PostJoint and has gone on record that they are different from MyBlogGuest, which was penalized a month ago.
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Google AdSense Quality Score Details Wanted
We all know that Google AdWords used quality score as a major factor with ranking ads and with that, they have added features over the years to communicate to advertisers how they can improve their quality score…
Google Q1 2014 Earnings: Paid Clicks Drop, While CPC Holds
This week, Google announced earnings and the buzz around the industry is that they missed their marks. Google blames the results on the purchase of Nest.
Google AdSense Ad Review Center Improved
Google announced they have made major improvements to the Ad Review Center within Google AdSense.
The ad review center lets publishers monitor and approve/reject ads from advertisers. The new features make it easier for publishers to monitor and make…
Danny Sullivan: 18 Years Covering Search
I’ve been writing about search for over 10 years now but Danny Sullivan yesterday celebrated his 18th year anniversary of covering search.
Danny posted the accomplishment on Google+ saying…
Video Recap of Weekly Search Buzz :: April 18, 2014
This week I noticed a lot of chatter around a possible Google update, maybe related to Panda that Google denied. Facebook is working on new spam algorithms for the news…
Google Brings +Post Ads To All With 1,000 Google+ Page Followers
Google announced they are expanding the +Post Ads to all advertisers who have over 1,000 followers on their Google+ Pages.
In addition…
XE16 Comes To Google Glass With KitKat OS & More Features
Google Glass announced on Google+ that they have pushed out a new software update to Google Glass users, this version jumps from the old version of XE12 to XE16.
The biggest change is that it updates the OS to KitKat…
Google’s Cutts On Big SEO Myths Are…
Google’s Matt Cutts released a video on the topic of some of the largest SEO myths out today.
He broke it down into two categories:
(1) Ads and their influence on organic results.
(2) Quick fixes to break Google’s algorithm.
On the ads from…
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Google Shopping Results In Knowledge Graph Carousel
Spotted via Pete Meyers and posted on Google+, it seems Google is testing showing paid results, i.e. Google Shopping results, product listing ads, directly in the Google Knowledge Graph carousel…
Google Analytics: Visits Now Sessions & Unique Visitors Now Users
Google Analytics has quietly changed the terminology they use within the reports to change what they call “visits” and “unique visitors.”
Now…
Daily Search Forum Recap: April 16, 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:
70% Said Google’s Penguin 2…
Only 13% Claim Google’s Disavow Tool Worked For Them
We ran a poll late last year asking did Google’s disavow link tool work for you or not?
As you know…
Hiring A Black Hat SEO? How Much Do They Cost?
A Black Hat World thread has one newish Black Hat SEO asking others what to charge for his services.
How much do SEOs in the darker spaces charge for their time and services…
Blocking Apple Devices On Your Web Site? You May Block Google Also!
Google’s John Mueller posted on Google+ a hint and reminder about the problems with not thinking too far ahead. In short…
70% Said Google’s Penguin 2.1 Update Hurt them
About six-months ago, Google unleashed a major update to Penguin, the Penguin 2.1 update.
The earlier feedback from that update was that is was a big impact to webmasters and mostly SEOs who used links in an aggressive manner.
So I posted a poll asking…
Poll: Only 10% Of Webmasters/SEOs Feel Google Doesn’t Lie To Them
Late last year, we ran a poll asking Webmaster and SEOs if they think Google lies to them and now we have over 735 responses. I figured I share the results with you now.
Truth is…
Google: Test Us How You’re Using The Webmaster Tools API
Google’s John Mueller posted on Google+ a question on how users, webmasters and developers are using the Google Webmaster Tools API.
John wrote:
I’d love to see more of how the Webmaster Tools API is being used…