3 Years Ago Today, SEO Changed Forever With Google’s Panda Algorithm
Today is a day no SEO and many webmasters will never forget, it is the day Google launched their Panda algorithm. On February 24, 2011, three years ago today…
The 2013 AdWords Top Contributor Badge Awards
For the past few years, Google has been awarding their top top contributors…
Business Names Google Places Quality Guidelines Updated
Google has updated their Google Places quality guidelines once again this time to clarify how you can name your business within Google Places/Google Local/Google Maps.
Jade Wang from Google pulled out the changes and posted them in the Google Places H…
Google Analytics Now Within Google+ Local Dashboards
Daniel Waisberg, the Analytics Advocate at Google, posted on his Google+ page a new feature that rolled out within the Google+ Local Admin Dashboard screens…
Google’s Matt Cutts Stops By WebmasterWorld After Three Years Of Silence
The last time Matt Cutts of Google posted something at WebmasterWorld was over three years ago on January 4…
Video Recap of Weekly Search Buzz :: February 21, 2014
I apologize in advance for the technical issues during the video but I think I covered everything well considering. First, we talk that Bing is no longer allowing keyword stuffing…
Conversion & Device Insights Come To Google AdWords Top Movers Report
Several months ago, Google released the top movers report for advertisers to see how your campaigns are moving in terms of changes to your budgets and clicks.
Now…
Google Shopping Campaigns Now Global
Last october, Google released a new campaign type for Google Product Listing Ads (PLAs) named Google Shopping Campaigns. Now, Google Shopping Campaigns is available to all advertisers – worldwide…
9 Months Later: New Google Maps Is Replacing The Old Version
Over 9 months ago, Google previewed the new Google Maps, since then many have opted to use it but if you haven’t and don’t want to…
Google: We May Show Your Redirected URLs In The Search Results
aakk9999, the moderator at the Google forum at WebmasterWorld spotted that Google’s John Mueller said that Google may display the redirect URL in the search results over the destination URL, when they deem it is appropriate…
Bing Updates Webmaster Guidelines: Keyword Stuffing Now Off Limits
Last night, Bing has updated their webmaster guidelines adding a section about “keyword stuffing.” Surprised it wasn’t there from the onset? Yea, me too but truthfully…
Google’s Matt Cutts: We Tested Dropping Backlinks From Algorithm, It Was Much Worse
Google’s Matt Cutts latest video has Google admitting they did and do indeed test their search results by turning off linkage data as part of their algorithm. Matt Cutts said the results would be “much much worse” if they did indeed do that in real li…
Google AdSense Testing Extremely Wide Arrows
Google recently changed the format for the arrows on AdSense ads to be a thin arrow on a block background color. Google is constantly messing with the AdSense design in order to keep click-through-rates higher on those ads.
The next test being report…
The Guardian Switched Domains, So Can You
The Guardian, a huge UK newspaper, posted a story named How the Guardian successfully moved domain to www.theguardian.com.
Yes, The Guardian migrated content from www.guardian.co.uk, m.guardian.co.uk or www.guardiannews.com to one domain name…
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Raspberry Pi Tells Link Spammer To Stick It Up Their…
Raspberry Pi is loved by computer geeks all around the world, every programming office should have at least one lying around, if not, it is a bad sign. That being said, Raspberry Pi on Twitter slammed an SEO for crying about link spam…
Signs Of More Google Algorithm Updates Early This Week
We reported about a possible Google update around February 13th and I do believe there was something rather large on that date – but now there is more chatter about a possible update early this week…
Official Google Glass Do’s & Don’t’s
Google Glass actually released their official list of do’s & don’t’s for Google Glass Explorers. I kid you not – they are telling or suggesting what Google Glass Explorers should or should not do with their Google Glass device…
Google’s Dynamic Search Menu Really Bugs Searchers
Just about a month ago, Google revamped their search filters and dropped some filters, while dynamically showing different filters and in different order based on the query. So sometimes the “images” link will be in the second position…
Did Google Penalize Halifax?
Over the past couple weeks there has been a lot of people reporting large brands being penalized by Google and the question has come up if search sites should cover these penalties or not.
Our policy, if the search community is talking about it in a …
Recovery Stories Emerge From Google’s Third Page Layout Refresh
On February 6, 2014, Google did their third refresh to the Page Layout algorithm.
I am happy to report that some webmasters who were initially hit by either the first or second implementations of the Page Layout algorithm have reported recoveries on Fe…