New Google+ App Notifications Are Annoying Users
Google+ is polluted with complaints about how there are notifications (little red icons and numbers) in the Google+ iOS and Android apps that you cannot dismiss…
Matt Cutts: PageRank Not Popularity, Topical PageRank Helps & Authority On Subjects Coming
In yesterday’s video from Google’s Matt Cutts, Matt summarized three topics that aren’t necessarily new but often confused by folks in the webmaster and SEO community…
April 2014 Google Webmaster Report
Busy month at work? Didn’t have time to follow all of Google’s changes? Don’t you worry, here is a short recap of what happened over the past month specific to Google changes that may impact SEOs and webmasters…
Google Maps Search Nearby Link Returns
When Google launched the new Google Maps the search nearby functionality got harder to use. That has now changed, Google brought back the quick link to search nearby within Google Maps…
Bing Snapshots Adds Doctors, Lawyers, Dentists and Real Estate Properties
Bing has added over a 150 million new entities to their snapshot/satori engine this past week.
This incorporates adding entity data around doctors, lawyers, dentists…
iOS Google+ Browser Blocks AdSense Ads
Rae Hoffman was complaining on Google+ that the AdSense ads do not load when you are using the iOS Google+ app and then visit a site that does have AdSense ads.
I believe the issue is only when you use the in-app browser found in the Google+…
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Econsultancy Nofollows All Contributor & Guest Posts
Based on all the guest blogging for SEO being dead and sites being penalized over guest blogging, the Econsultancy blog has decided to nofollow all guest blog contributions.
Econsultancy, in my mind, is a respected blog on internet marketing topics……
Matt Cutts: Google’s Search Results Will Always Be In Flux
In an April 1st video released by Google’s Matt Cutts – Matt makes it clear, Google will never stop adapting, changing the search results. The search results will always be changing, the result of that change is “flux,” Matt said…
Google Index Status Reports Now With HTTPS & Subdirectories
Google announced the Index Status reports within Google Webmaster Tools now lets you differentiate between HTTP, HTTPS and subdirectories.
Google’s John Mueller said “If you’re a data-driven SEO (or just love to see how your site’s indexed), you’ll l…
Google’s Cutts: Here Is How Google Evaluates New Algorithms
Google’s Matt Cutts, depicted here in an April Fools style animated GIF, posted a video on how Google goes about evaluating new search algorithms…
Google+ Adds Views Metric To Profiles
Yesterday, there was all this craze about Google+ adding a new metric named “views” to your profile.
Google’s Yonatan Zunger posted on his Google+ profile the meaning behind the views count. In short…
Google’s April Fools Pranks 2014: Webmasters, AdSense, AdWords & More
I really dislike April Fools, yea, I am not fun. But anyway, you’ve probably seen most of the April Fools pranks from Google by now but let me share some you may not have seen yet.
(1) Google Webmaster Blogs have a reward hiding…
Product Images Within Google Organic Results?
Google is now testing product images within the free/organic listings. Google has had product images in the AdWords and Google Product Listing Ads for a long time but it is rare to see Google test showing product images within the free listings…
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Google Webmaster Team Moves Offices & Gets Signage
On Friday, the Google Webmaster Help account posted a picture on Google+ of a new sign outside of the Google Webmaster Team office. What they wrote was…
A Shorter Google Title Tag After Redesign? Maybe.
Google has a new design and with that your title tag length, the blue clickable link in the Google search results, may be impacted.
Pete Meyers from Moz posted New Title Tag Guidelines & Preview Tool…
Time To Get Creative With Your Link Removal Requests
One trend we’ve seen in the past year or so is that link builders are now extremely busy with link removals. Getting links to your web site has never been easy, it is a talent to get webmasters to read your link requests. But getting link removed is …
Google’s Navneet Panda Gets A Published Patent But Was It The Panda Patent?
A couple days ago, Bill Slawski posted his usual Google has a new patent granted, this one he titled Google’s Panda Granted a Patent on Ranking Search Results.
The patent was granted on the 25th and is named Ranking search results…
Google On IE8 Drops SSL & Passes Full Referrer
If you are using Internet Explorer 8 and go to Google, the default experience will not be over SSL and thus the referrer data will pass in full to the webmaster…
Customize Your Google Navigation Bar
Google is rolling out a way to customize the apps and products you want to see in your Google navigation bar.
Google announced this on Google+ saying that this is rolling out over the next few weeks to everyone. Here is an animated GIF of how it will…
Google’s Matt Cutts: Almost All Penalties Are For Quality Violations
The other day, Steve Plunkett asked Matt Cutts of Google, what percentage of penalties/filters are based on violations of Google’s Quality Guidelines versus technology issues or bugs on the webmaster side?