Dilbert On Search Keyword Research
A Dilbert cartoon from last week talks about the process of doing and delivering keyword research to your client or boss. It is kind of funny…
Bing Search App Linking
Late last year, Google introduced a protocol named app indexing, which allows app developers to add meta data that will link a search result to a specific place within an Android app. It went live in the search results a month later…
Google’s Matt Cutts: Mobile Sites For “Most Part: Only Impact Mobile Search Results
At SMX West, Google’s Matt Cutts said something very interesting. I tweeted it and Matt Cutts responded but that made it even more interesting…
Google Secure Search Going Global, So Is Not Provided
A WebmasterWorld thread links to a story that says Google has recently begun defaulting to Google’s secure, encrypted search worldwide…
Google Penalized Link Networks In Spain, Italy & Germany
Google has penalized a few more international link networks on Friday afternoon. Google went after, as promised Italian and Spanish networks and those who participated in them – as well as a couple more Germany link networks…
Google: Being Disavowed Won’t Hurt Your Site
I am pretty sure we covered this before but the message is not getting out. If someone puts your site in their disavow link file…
Google Referrer Data From IE8 To Stop Working For 2 Weeks
Remember when there was an issue with Mobile Safari passing referrer data via Google search results properly…
Saint Patrick’s Day Logo From Google
Today is Saint Patrick’s Day and Google and the other search engines have special logos, themes, designs and more on their home pages…
Video Recap of Weekly Search Buzz :: March 14, 2014
Busy week in search, a lot of news coming out of SMX West, I just landed a couple hours ago – so excuse the tired look. Googleâs Matt Cutts announced…
Yelp Results Now In Yahoo’s Local Search Results
Yelp and Yahoo have partnered to show Yelp local content within Yahoo Search results.
Specifically, when you search Yahoo for local US businesses, you may see Yelp’s rich reviews, ratings, photos and business information directly in the Yahoo results….
Google’s Matt Cutts Wants To Give Ranking Boost To SSL Sites
At SMX West Matt Cutts gave the attendees a few tidbits, one of those items was that making your site secure, encrypted, i.e. SSL enabled, is an important trend for 2014.
At the end of the session…
I Got In A Fight With My AdWords Rep & Google Dropped My Organic Rankings
Here is a fun story at the Google Webmaster Help of a webmaster who said his rankings dropped the day after he got in a fight with his AdWords representative.
As you may know, Google has said time and time again…
Yandex Dropped Link Factors From Their Search Ranking Algorithm
Back in December, Yandex announced they will be dropping link factors from part of their search ranking algorithm. They made that decision because the links were being abused so much that it ruined the overall relevancy of the search results…
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Google’s Matt Cutts: New Softer Panda Update Coming Soon
At SMX West Matt Cutts of Google announced they are actively working on the “next generation” Panda update that will “soften” the algorithm.
Matt specifically said this is aimed at helping small businesses that may be impacted by the Panda algorithm….
That New Google Search Results Design Test You Didn’t Like Is Now Officially Live
As expected, Google was testing a new design for some time now and now it is officially rolling out to everyone.
Jon Wiley, the Lead Designer for Google Search…
Google’s Cutts Confirmed That Author Authority Is Uses For In-Depth Articles
On Twitter, Google’s Matt Cutts confirmed that Google uses a form of author rank or author specific authority in the in-depth articles ranking formula…
Google Concert Dates Now From Artist’s Official Website
Over two years ago, Google released a new feature to show concert dates in the search results. Yesterday, Google announced that when possible, Google will pull those dates “directly from that artist’s official website when they add structured data mar…
Google: We’re Not Launching Those Huge Banner Ads In Our Search Results
Remember last October when Google was testing huge banner ads in the search results for navigational-like queries…
Google Promises Changes With Not Provided
Danny Sullivan has the long article at Search Engine Land titled Google Reviewing “Not Provided,” Withholding Keywords From Organic But Not Paid Search Clicks…
Google Humans Do Review Every Reconsideration Request
Over the past week or two there has been some people suggesting that Google does not review manually every single reconsideration request…