Google AdWords Ad Preview & Diagnosis Tool Technical Issues
There are confirmed reports at Google AdWords Help forums of a bug with the Google AdWords Ad Preview and Diagnosis tools.
Some are reporting that when testing the localization within the tool, the tool is showing that the ads are not running, when th…
Google Shares Common Webmaster Issues With SearchAction Schema & Sitelinks Search
About ten days ago, Google revamped their search within a site feature and renamed it Sitelinks Search. They also gave webmasters a way to communicate that they have an internal search that should be used when using the Sitelinks search.
Google Now Using Lakh Numbering Format For Estimated Search Results
One of our Indian readers from Arindam Inc. sent me a screen shot via email of Google now using the Lakh numbering format for the estimated search results count.
A lakh or lac is a unit in the South Asian numbering system equal to one hundred thousan…
Google: We Sometimes Show Credit For Knowledge Graph & Answers When…
Gianluca Fiorelli asked on Twitter why does Google sometimes show the source of their answers in the knowledge graph or quick answers and then sometimes does not…
Google: Penguin 3.0 Will Most Likely Launch In 2014
Google’s John Mueller in a video hangout this morning on Google+ announced that the 3rd version of Penguin will launch “in the reasonable future” and he expects it will happen within the 2014 year.
The question was raised by @edwardjohnnash…
Google Rel=Agent Replaces Authorship: Maybe Google Testing SEOs
Some savvy webmasters were inspecting the HTML markup behind the last Google Webmaster Blog post and noticed the markup used on the posted by John Mueller hyperlink had a bit of extra code for rel=agent…
Google Processes The Disavow File Continuously
For many SEOs and Webmasters, this is probably not news, but I like to document things like this in any case.
The disavow file, the file you use to tell Google these links are not links I want pointing to my site, is a file that Google “continuously” …
Google Admob Earnings & Ads Not Running For Many Publishers
Google’s AdMob, the ad platform used by mobile app publishers for monetization, like AdSense but for apps, shut down their legacy service on September 2nd…
Video Recap of Weekly Search Buzz :: September 12, 2014
This week in search at the Search Engine Roundtable we break that Google promises to launch Penguin 3.0 in a reasonable time…
Google Robots.txt File Updated & Google Stops Indexing Itself
Yesterday we reported Google was indexing itself and Google caught wind of it and Gary from Google commented on my Google+ post telling me they are looking into it.
Last night at around 6pm EDT…
Google May Hide Your Second Line Of Ad Text On Mobile Search
Google announced that starting on October 15, 2014, they may or may not decide to show your second line of ad text on mobile search results. Google said this will be done to make the ads “more relevant and useful information to your customers.”
Google Webmaster Tools API Gets Infrastructure Update
In 2008, Google enabled an API for Webmaster Tools, since then they’ve been adding functionality to it slowly…
Google Knowledge Graph For B-List Celebrities
Last night on Search Engine Land I reported via Samuel Edwards from Tenthwave Digital that Google has a new Knowledge Graph box…
Google Analytics Benchmarking Report
Google Analytics announced a new report that is rolling out to Google Analytics users who opt in to “share anonymously with Google and others” setting named the Benchmarking Report.
The Benchmarking Report will show you well your site is doing amongst…
Google: We’re Working On A Solution To Refresh Penguin Faster
We know webmasters, especially those impacted by Penguin 2.1 are getting really anxious. It has been 11 months and 6 days since the last complex to refresh Penguin and it is taking them time.
Google confirmed a few newish items around Penguin and what …
Rejected From Google News? Must Wait 60 Days Before Applying Again.
This is probably old but I’ve never heard it before… If your news web site is rejected from Google News, you cannot resubmit it for inclusion again for a 60-day period.
A Google News Help thread has Google’s Stacie C. saying that in the thread…
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Google AdWords Editor 10.6 Now Available
Google quietly announced on Google+ that the Google AdWords Editor has been upgraded from version 10.5 to version 10.6.
Currently, the release notes do not have any documentation on version 10.6…
Google Webmaster Academy Now With 22 Languages
Just a few months ago, Google revamped Google Webmaster Academy as a resource for new webmasters to get acquainted with Google.
Now, Google is bringing that content to 22 other languages.
Google announced this on Google+ saying:
Today…
Google Indexing & Ranking Google Search Results
Google is pretty clear about not wanting to have search results listed in their search results, they have been since at least 2007. So why is Google indexing and ranking their own search results…
Google Panda Update On September 5th
On Friday, I saw dozens of threads in the Google Webmaster Help forums with people complaining about major traffic loses. But the automated tracking tools from Moz, SearchMetrics, Algoroo, SERPS.com and others didn’t really show any signs…