Google Spam Algorithm For Spammy Queries: Pay Day Loans+
As expected, Google’s Matt Cutts announced last night before his chat at SMX Advanced on Twitter that they have begun rolling out a new algorithm to target spam in more spammy industries in Google.
Matt Cutts explained…
Google Buys Waze, The Loved Mapping Software
Google has officially acquired Waze, or announced they have agreed to acquire them. Waze is a social mobile app GPS, mapping, directions application with a very dedicated and loving user base.
The company is Israeli based…
Google Takes Stance On Mobile SEO: Site Not Mobile Friendly, You Won’t Rank Well.
Google has taken a strong stance on mobile SEO, announcing there will be demotions if your site is not mobile friendly or is misconfigured when it comes to being mobile friendly…
Google Launches A Google+ Dashboard For Managing Business Pages
Google announced yesterday on Google+ a new Google+ Dashboard for businesses that manage their Google+ local page on Google+.
Jade Wang also posted about it in the Google Business Help forum explaining:
Google’s Matt Cutts On Disavow Tool Mistakes
Google’s Matt Cutts posted a video the other day explaining the top six or so mistakes that SEOs and webmasters make when using the disavow tool.
By far, the most common mistake is uploading anything but text (TXT) files…
Google: When You Move, We Will Transfer Your Maps Reviews In Most Cases
Moving is a stressful process for most businesses, adding onto that losing a lot of your data and confusing your Google Maps listing is something that gets added onto that.
But it seems like Google is trying to make that process easier…
Apple’s Siri In iOS7 Powered By Bing
Yesterday was a big day for Apple, announcing iOS 7 at their WWDC event. Part of that announcement was showing that Bing was the default search engine for Apple’s Siri, replacing Google…
Video: Google Glass Search
Googlers Mike LeBeau, who is in charge of search within Glass and Amanda Rosenberg, the product manager of Glass…
Google AdSense Now Showing Similar Sized Display Ads
Google announced a new change to ad serving with in Google AdSense. Now, if Google finds a better performing ad type, even if it is smaller than the ad slot you currently set up, Google will place the ad in that ad slot and place white space around i…
Google In-Depth Rich Snippets Articles?
Google has confirmed that they are testing a new type of search result, maybe a rich snippet, named “in-depth” articles. Peter Meyers (@petermeyers) from Moz emailed me screen shots…
PRISM: Watch Googlers Defend Google
I assume by now you’ve all heard about the U.S. government program named PRISM, where the National Security Agency (NSA) claimed to have direct access to Google, Yahoo, Verizon, etc servers of data…
Maurice Sendak 85th Google Birthday Logo
Today on Google.com and most of Google’s worldwide home pages is a special Google logo…
Google Webmaster Tools Reporting False URL Removals?
A Google Webmaster Help thread has a possible bug report in Google Webmaster Tools.
The issue is…
Video Recap of Weekly Search Buzz :: June 7, 2013
This week I published the monthly Google Webmaster report…
Yandex Islands: Interactive Snippets: A Webmasters Worst Nightmare?
Yandex, Russia’s most popular search engine, announced the launch of a beta of their Yandex “Islands” or as they describe it “interactive snippets,” yesterday in Turkey.
In short, interactive snippets lets searchers complete their goals directly in …
Google Study: Spend More On AdWords To Increase Your Movie Sales
Guess what? Google tells movie producers that if they want their movies to sell better they need to spend more with search ads or AdWords.
Google, I Want To Cloak…
Sometime the shortest responses are the best. A Google Webmaster Help thread has a long detailed example given by a webmaster looking to do some cloaking to make their site work…
Yahoo Search Redesign Live
Yahoo announced they launched a new design for their Yahoo Search search results page.
The new design promises an improvement, by:
Improving the load time of the results
Moving the search results higher up…
Google Maps Blue Dots Missing: User Contributed Photos
In mid-June 2010, Google added blue dots to its maps that display user-submitted images, those blue dots seem to have disappeared for many Google Maps users.
You can still play with them over here but within the Google Maps user interface, for some, …
Google Advertorials Penalties Are Likely Manual Penalties
As you all know, Google’s Matt Cutts went on record the other day about Google’s stance on advertorials. That is…