Google: Lots Of SEOs From Poland Abuse Clients
One of Google’s spam fighters, Karolina KruszyÅ”ska, who focuses on the Poland search market…
Bing Mocks Google About HTTPS Ranking Boost
Yesterday at SMX East on the panel well both Google and Bing sat, there was an open Q&A for the search engines and SEOs who were on that panel…
Is Google Really Releasing Penguin 3.0 Next Week? Maybe…
Yesterday at SMX East, I reported on Search Engine Land in real-time that Google’s Gary Illyes said on stage that Penguin may come next week.
Tomorrow, which is Yom Kippur, will be the one-year anniversary of the last Penguin refresh, Penguin 2.1……
Google Expands Dynamic Remarketing Ads
Google is expanding their dynamic remarketing ads to more verticals including hotels, flights, real estate, classifieds, jobs, auto…
Connection Time & HTTP Status Codes Used By GoogleBot For Crawl Efficiency
There is nothing worse than knowing Google is having a tough time accessing your content unintentionally. Well, truth is, if you robots.txt or nofollow your site out of Google by accident, I don’t feel bad for you. But if your server flakes out on you…
Was I Hit By Google Panda 4.1? Looks Like I Was…
Last Thursday, September 25th, Google announced that they began rolling out Panda 4.1 – a revised algorithm to improve their detection of Panda like signals and ultimately aim at helping smaller sites do better with the algorithm…
8 Weeks After Migrating To HTTPS: Google Webmaster Tools Analytics
The day or so after Google announced there was a ranking benefit from HTTPS (tiny signal they said), I migrated my corporate site over from HTTP to HTTPS. I did so…
Google AdWords PLAs Automatic Item Updates
Google announced a new feature to help reduce the number of ad disprovals due to there being price mismatches between your PLAs feed and what is displayed on your web page.
This is called “automatic item updates” and can be enabled if you have impleme…
Google Wants Ideas For Live Webmaster Hangouts Topics
Google is now frequently conducting live webmaster hangouts with normally one Googler and then nine other webmasters on the Google Webmaster Google+ page.
Google’s John Mueller does a ton of them and he said he is ready to schedule a bunch more but wa…
Google Smartphone Icons Now Testing Again
Back in August 2012 we saw Google testing smartphone icons in the search results and then they went away. Google seems to be testing that again.
Artem Russakovskii from Android Police spotted it in the wild, as have others…
Google’s Online Order Shipment Comes With Search Algorithm Help Request
Thomas Steiner, a PhD Customer Solutions Engineer for Google in Hamburg, Germany placed an order online at Lieferello for some cold beverages and in his order shipment box he found this colorful letter. In a sense, they bribed Thomas with an extra fre…
Matt Cutts Missing Google Search Quality?
Back in July, Matt Cutts shocked the SEO industry by announcing his extended vacation – many thought he’d never come back. He has not come back yet, officially, so it is unclear if he will.
But for one thing, it does seem he misses the search qualit…
Moz: Google Answer Boxes Now Showing Up 60% More Often
If you check out the Mozcast features tool, you may notice that the Answers box tracker shows a huge increase in the Google search results.
This means that according to this tool, Google is now showing answers to queries at the top of the search res…
Google’s New Mobile Display & Video Ads
Google announced their next steps in what they think will improve display ads across desktop and mobile platforms.
In the next few months, Google will begin rolling out “several mobile display ad formats and tools across the Google Display Network…
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Google: There Isn’t A Magical SEO Advantage By Switching To HTTPS
Google’s John Mueller said in a video hangout 22 minutes and 21 seconds in that there is no magical SEO advantage when switching from HTTP to HTTPS.
But didn’t Google tell us that HTTPS is a ranking signal…
Google Panda 4.1 Now Rolling Out; Aims To Help Smaller Web Sites
One of my fears was that Google would announce a big algorithm update while I was offline for Rosh Hashanah and they did just that – although the update was not Google Penguin, it was Google Panda related.
This one…
Bing Search Update Last Week Also?
Everyone is talking about the big Google update, Panda 4.1 but there may have been a Bing search update last week also.
One WebmasterWorld member said he believes there was a Bing update:
Bing…
Google AdWords Ad Customizers
Google announced they are now rolling out a feature to AdWords advertisers named ad customizers.
Ad customizers adapt your text ads to the full context of a search or the webpage someone’s viewing. They can insert a keyword, the time left before a sal…
Yahoo Directory Should Not Be Shut Down; It’s Historical
Yahoo announced that they are closing down the Yahoo Directory. Yahoo was founded on the directory…
On Google’s 16th Birthday, All Of Google’s Birthday Logos
Today is the 16th birthday of Google and for the day…