Webmaster: “Good Content Has Never Been Hit So Hard” By Google
A featured WebmasterWorld thread has an emotional but powerful post from a Webmaster who has been creating web sites for over 15 years. In fact, he joined WebmasterWorld as a member back on March 4, 2003, so he has been around a long time…
Google AdSense 10 Years Old: Which Was Your Best Year?
Google AdSense is ten years old today and Google wants everyone to know about it – as they should. AdSense has given Google a way to bring in a nice and sizable secondary source of income…
Search Spammers Admit Defeat After Spam Algorithm But Vow To Return
Last Wednesday Google released the spam algorithm to target very spammy niches and “illegal” link building and spamming techniques. Did it work…
Link Count Continues To Drop On Google Webmaster Tools
Last Wednesday we reported complaints in the forums of webmasters noticing their links are dropping within Google Webmaster Tools. In short, the links shown in Google Webmaster Tools today versus two weeks ago was a fraction of the number.
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Updated Google Knowledge Graph Carousel
The Google Knowledge Graph carousel, which launched about 10 months ago, is now showing up more and has a slightly updated style.
Reported by Gabs at Threadwatch and in WebmasterWorld, amongst other blogs and tweets…
Google Glass Cruise Fitting For San Francisco Pick Ups
Chas Stewart posted in the Google+ Glass Explorers Community that his pick up invite in San Francisco triggered an unusual notification from Google. It seems that those picking up Google Glass for a fitting in San Francisco in the upcoming weeks will …
Black Hats Mock Google’s Matt Cutts With Payday Loan Hack
As you probably remember, Google launched a new spam algorithm to target spammy queries such as payday loans. It had a serious impact on spammers from what I see, which I will cover right after this story…
Happy Father’s Day 2013 From Google, Bing But Not Yahoo
Happy Father’s Day everyone! This would be the fourth year I am being honored with such a day myself. ;-) That being said, I wanted to wish all our Father’s a very special day today.
Video Recap of Weekly Search Buzz :: June 14, 2013
Busy week, mostly because of all the news that came out of SMX Advanced via Matt Cutts. First up…
Twitter Analytics: Timeline Activity & Followers
Twitter launched free Twitter Analytics under Twitter Ads.
The Twitter Analytics are pretty basic, giving you basic information about what you share and how many mentions, retweets, favorites, clicks and replies each tweet gets…
Google Image Search Now With Related Search Carousel
Google announced on Google+ that they have added a new way to explore related searches within image search through an image carousel…
Facebook #Hashtags
Facebook now finally supports #hashtags, what took so long? I am not sure. Facebook talks about how this will help solve problems with search, discovery, participation and socially connecting…
Google Search Engineer Defends SEO On Hacker News
Normally it is Googlers defending Google on Hacker News but Ryan Moulton, a software engineer at Google since 2006, who I think works on the Google search team, is defending SEO and the SEO business on Hacker News.
In short, a blogger called out an ema…
Matt Cutts: Google Panda Updated Monthly But Slowly Rolled Out
Back in March, Google said they will stop confirming Panda updates because they are now more baked into the index and algorithm. Well, at SMX Advanced, Matt Cutts of Google announced it is still roughly updated monthly but these updates are rolled ou…
Google Disables AdSense Serving From AdSense Veteran
A WebmasterWorld thread has a nine-year old AdSense publisher claiming he was penalized by Google AdSense for user generated content and without proper notification…
Easier Content Removal From Google’s Search Results
One of the most common complaints I see in the Google forums is how does one remove content from Google’s search results…
Google: Target Last Minute Father’s Day Gift Shoppers With AdWords
Google’s Zee posted a thread offering an AdWords tip or two for the Father’s Day season. As you may know…
Google: Our AdWords Ads Wouldn’t Trigger Page Layout Penalty
In January 2012, Google announced the page layout penalty and then updated it in October 2012, it basically sets to penalize sites with too many ads, too much in the way of your organic content…
Are Your Links Missing In Google Webmaster Tools?
There are new reports surfacing of a bug in Google Webmaster Tools…
Example URLs Now In Google Webmaster Tools Notifications
Last night at SMX Advanced, Matt Cutts announced that now most Google Webmaster Tools notifications will contain example URLs with specific examples of what is wrong with your site…