Buffer Migrates To HTTPS, Google Fixes Edge Case
Buffer’s Courtney Seiter posted their August content report documenting an issue when they migrated from HTTP to HTTPS this past month.
Initially…
Video Recap of Weekly Search Buzz :: September 19, 2014
This was a pretty mild week in search as reported at the Search Engine Roundtable…
Google Analytics AdWords Return on Ad Spend (ROAS) Report
Google quietly announced on Google+ a new AdWords metric available in Google Analytics named Return on Ad Spend (ROAS).
Return on Ad Spend (ROAS) is a metric that tells you how much revenue you bring in for each dollar spent with AdWords…
Google Ireland Online Marketing Strategy Event
Google announced on the Google Webmaster Google+ account that they are hosting a series of Hangouts on Air to teach small and medium businesses how to develop an online marketing strategy…
Google+ Business New Review Sharing Feature?
Google seems to be testing a new format for sharing reviews on Google+ of Google My Business (Google Places) listings…
Google+ Dropping From Google’s Knowledge Graph Box
Mark Traphagen posted on Google+ that Google started dropping a lot of the Google+ elements you’d find in the Google Knowledge Box on the right hand side of the page…
Report: Google Sitelinks Searchbox Taking Queries To Publisher Sites
A couple weeks ago, Google announced changes to the search within search box in the Google search results. One of those changes was the ability to direct the query done on Google, directly to the publishers site by adding some schema.
Now…
Google: You Don’t Rank Well Because GoogleBot Is Not Impressed
I am sure you have seen it at least a 100 times, a person complaining their site doesn’t rank well in Google…
HTTPS Migration For Google News Publishers Going Smoothly
On August 12th, I migrated this site, which is not a small site, from HTTP to HTTPS and honestly, the migration has not been bad at all…
Google Upgrades To New My Maps
Google announced they are bringing back the My Maps functionality, enabling users to create their own interactive maps on Google Maps.
Bing: 130 Million URLs Removed For URL Keyword Stuffing
Bing posted something you’d never see from Google, the details around how they detect and filter out spammers who use keywords in the URLs.
Google AdWords Ad Preview & Diagnosis Tool Bug Resolved
A couple days ago we reported about a widespread Google AdWords bug impacting the AdWords Ad preview and diagnosis tool.
I am glad to report, that as of this morning…
Google Penalizes Turkish News Sites For Content Spam
Onur Ã-zcan informed me on Twitter that Google has supposedly slapped several large Turkish news sites for content spam and keyword stuffing on their sites…
Google’s Knowledge Graph Answers Show Randomized Sources?
The other day we reported on why and when Google shows or does not show credit links for quick answers in the knowledge graph areas. Today…
Google Webmaster Tools Notices Of Sitelink Search Box
Google is now sending webmasters notifications of the new Sitelinks search box functionality that we covered here not just two or three times but this would be the forth…
Google’s Jonathan Rosenberg Popping Nooglers Smiley Balloons
Google’s Eric Schmidt posted on Google+, in an effort to promote their book, How Google Works, about Google’s Vice President of Product, Jonathan Rosenberg obsession with popping the balloons of Nooglers (new Googlers)…
Public Google+ Photos Now Will Appear In Google Views & Photo Spheres
Abby from Google quietly announced in the Google Maps Help forum that those who share photos publicly and have location data on the photos within Google+ may find their photos automatically within Google Views and Photo Sphere…
Google Is Now Indexing Google Maps URLs
The other day, Google was caught indexing itself, which turned out to be a bug they fixed and stopped indexing themselves.
Now…
Reminder: When Buying A New Domain, Check Its History
Just a friendly reminder, when buying a new or used domain, make sure to check the archives, wayback machine, and any other data such as links, webmaster tools…
Google Malware Notice Only On Organic Result?
Colin McDermott posted on Twitter that Google shows a malware warning on the organic free search result for a site but not on the paid search ad…