YouTube Keyword Tool Goes MIA
If you try to use the YouTube Keyword Tool at youtube.com/keyword_tool you will not get very far.
Instead, you will be sent to a YouTube 404 page not found page…
Seen In The Wild: Google Hangout Box In Search Results
Spotted by Ben Fisher and posted on Google+, Google is now showing Google Hangout boxes for upcoming live hangout events in the search results. I know Google has been testing this but now it seems people are seeing it…
GoogleRecon Day Two: Here Are Resources For Reconsideration Requests
Google is offering very very basic tips on reconsideration requests this week, calling it the week of GoogleRecon. Yesterday’s tip was pretty basic also, if you get slapped with a manual action…
Google’s Site Command Not A Great Estimate
Google’s site command, i.e. site:www.domain.com, is known by savvy webmasters and SEOs as not a great measurement of the total pages Google has indexed of your site…
Automating The Google Knowledge Graph With Google’s Knowledge Vault
The New Scientist reports that Google is building a version of the knowledge graph that expands its knowledge through algorithms at mass scale – Google calls it the Knowledge Vault…
September 2014 Google Webmaster Report
Truth is, the month of August was not as crazy as previous months, especially the month of July. We did however have some significant things happen this month…
#GoogleRecon: Google Reconsideration Request Tips Week
Starting yesterday, Google announced on Google+ they will be offering tips on the Google+ Webmaster page tips around reconsideration requests, they are hashtagging this, #GoogleRecon…
GoogleBot Skipping Unrendered Page & Crawling/Indexing Final Rendered Page
A WebmasterWorld thread has a savvy webmaster/SEO noticing that GoogleBot is not bothering to crawl and indexed the pre-rendered web page, instead, it is running all the JavaScript and then crawling/indexing the final rendered page…
Google AdWords Consolidated Billing
Kathleen from Google announced in the Google AdWords Help forum that agencies can now sign up for consolidated billing within AdWords.
AdWords consolidated billing allows you to combine multiple account invoices into one single invoice. Kathleen said …
Does Google Private Search Tool Work?
Mark Traphagen wrote on Google+ that Google has discontinued the Private Results option in the Search Tools section of the Google search results.
Truth is…
On Labor Day, Google Skips A Doodle Again
Today is Labor Day in the United States of America and like every year, Google doesn’t do a special Google Logo, aka Doodle, for the day. Instead, they’ve been placing a small American flag approximately 80 pixels below the Google search box…
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Google AdSense Paginated Ads (Click On The Circle)
This morning I spotted Google testing or maybe pushing out a new AdSense format that enables the ad to have more than one page of content.
In the screen shots below, you will see an AdSense ad with two circles at the bottom center of the ad…
Google Top Contributor Meetup In Munich
It seems like Google is preparing to host a top contributor meetup in Munich…
Google’s New Home Page Disabled For More Browsers
Last week, we reported that many searchers began complaining they were getting the old Google home page but Google is actually doing this on purpose. This is not a bug. If you see the old Google home page that has a black top navigation bar, it is by…
What Google, Amazon & Domino’s Pizza Have In Common? Drones!
Google X announced they are also working on flying delivery drones, just like their friends at Amazon and Domino’s Pizza.
Google announced this on Google+ saying:
Introducing Project Wing from Google[x]…
Google Bringing Back Old Design Or A Bug?
Many folks are reporting in the Google Web Search Help forums that Google is bringing back the old design that has either the black top bar or the gray top bar.
There are people who can see it in all sorts of browsers including Opera, Firefox, Safari….
BingBot As GoogleBot? Maybe, If It Crawls Google’s PageSpeed Tool
A savvy webmaster was curious when he noticed that BingBot was crawling his site from Google IP addresses. Did Google acquire Bing’s crawler? Was it some sort of fake bot trying to rip off content…
Google Kills Off Their Authorship Support
Last night, Google’s John Mueller was tasked to announce on his personal Google+ account that Google has dropped support for authorship, completely.
Yes, completely. They simply removed it from their search results interface and from behind the scene…
Video Recap of Weekly Search Buzz :: August 29, 2014
This week at the Search Engine Roundtable, I cover a wide range of topics. I cover the extreme chatter around more Penguin vibrations. Google completely killed off their authorship support…
Daily Search Forum Recap: August 28, 2014
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web.
Search Engine Roundtable Stories:
Getting Chilly… Google Penguin 3…