Only 5% Of SEOs Feel Google Views Link Building As Not Spam
Back in July, we polled you guys asking your view on how Google sees link building, ie is it spam or not. We have just about 500 responses thus far and truth is…
Google SEO HTTPS Migration Checklist
Despite most not seeing many changes after migrating from HTTP to HTTPS for the Google HTTPS ranking boost, still webmasters want to do it.
If you are going to do it, you need to do it right…
Google: Bad User Experience For Mobile Users May Lead To Ranking Issues
As I reported at Search Engine Land, Google may add mobile UX as a ranking signal in the upcoming months.
Here is the statement Google sent me around my questions on mobile UX and ranking in Google…
Programming Note: Offline Stories Thursday & Friday
Tonight is the holiday of Sukkot and I am offline, completely offline, Thursday and Friday for it.
Since I am Jewish and observant…
Google Custom Affinity Audiences
Google announced a new targeting option for the Google Display Network named Custom Affinity Audiences.
Custom Affinity Audiences enables advertisers to create audiences that are more tailored to their brands, compared to Google’s current broad…
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Google Now With Bill Payment Reminders
Google announced on Google+ that they can now remind you to pay your bills via Google Now. Plus, if you search for [Show me my bills] or [My bills due this week] and you have emails in your Google account with bills…
Google Processes Link Disavow Files Automatically, Without Human Review
The disavow tool is a very popular SEO/webmaster product from Google these days but don’t be mistaken, humans at Google are likely never going to look at your disavow file manually. Google says that generally they are processed completely automaticall…
Google Testing New Local Interface In Web Search Results
Max Minzer posted on Google+ a screen shot of a new user interface Google is testing for local results within the web search results. We spotted something similar back in August where Google was dropping the local carousel from the search results with…
Google News Box No Longer Just From Google News Sources
Google made a significant change to the news articles that show up within the web search results. Those news articles no longer have to come from a human-approved Google News source – they can come from anywhere…
Google Webmaster Tools 404 Errors Sorted By Priority
Did you know that the Google Webmaster Tools report for crawl errors, specifically the 404, page not found report…
Google Mobile Warnings For Flash Sites Rolling Out Globally Now
Back in July, Google began issuing warnings to mobile searchers when a search results displayed lead to a site that uses flash.
Google’s Pierre Far announced today on Google+ that this is now rolling out globally…
Google Poland Blog With Keyword Rich Anchor Text To Personal Googlers Blog
Yesterday we covered how Google Poland is warning SEOs about their behavior there and harming their clients by not adhering to the Google Webmaster Guidelines…
Google: We Won’t Be Updating Toolbar PageRank
December 6, 2013 was the last time we had a Google Toolbar PageRank update, that was over 10 months ago – not as long as a Penguin refresh (which is way more important) but still…
Chatter: Google Penguin or Panda Refresh Happening?
The forums and SEO community has been buzzing all weekend about major shifts in the Google search rankings. Some are 100% positive it is the final roll out of Panda 4.1 while others are saying Google is rolling out Penguin 3.0.
I am honestly not sure…
Google: The Polish SEO Agencies Harming Non Profits, Sometimes For Free
Last week we reported on a tweet from a Google Poland spam fighter about Polish SEOs harming their clients too often.
Well, as promised, this morning they posted the blog post on the Google Poland blog and thanks to Google Translate…
Google Actively Working On HTTPS Validation Before Ranking Boost
I’ve been obsessively covering the Google HTTPS ranking boost and I have some more nuggets to give you.
You know that Google told us that invalid HTTPS pages still get the ranking boost…
October 2014 Google Webmaster Report
The last Google webmaster report was fairly slow compared to what we had this past month. This past month we had a change to the Panda algorithm that may or may not have hit this site.
We have some serious reports of major Google flux going on right …
Sad Day: Google Penguin Goes One Year Without A Refresh &…
Today is a sad day, being that Google has not refreshed the Penguin algorithm for a year. Today, October 4th, is the year anniversary of Penguin 2.1 – those hit a year ago, are probably out of business by now.
Today is also Yom Kippur, well…
Video Recap of Weekly Search Buzz :: October 3, 2014
In this weekâs video, I catch up on the past two weeks of search news. First, Panda 4.1 was released on the first day of Rosh Hashanah, it aimed to help smaller/medium sized web sites but it may have hurt this site badly. Google may be releasing Penguin 3.0 next week…
Google SafeSearch For Network Administrators Goes Secure
Google is migrating much of their infrastructure over to HTTPS still and the next thing is the feature to enable network administrators, mostly for schools…