Google: Don’t Worry About Duplicate Content With Mobile Sites
Mobile sites are incredibly important these days but some SEOs and webmasters are concerned that it will cause duplicate content issues.
Going responsive or the same URL, for the most part, removes the duplicate content worries completely…
Google AdWords To Enable Conversion Selection For Bid Automations
Google announced on Google+ that they are adding a new feature to Google AdWords that will enable you to choose which specific conversions to include in bid automation…
Bing Malware Notifications Correct?
Recently, Bing updated their safety page to bolster the features and make for a better…
Google AdWords New Bulk Update Interface
Google quietly announced a new tool to bulk update your ads within the AdWords interface.
The new tool lets you quickly update your settings across campaigns within your accounts, specifically location changes, language changes, campaign end dates…
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Google Now Alternative Flights When Your Flight Ain’t Working Out
The new Google app on Android now gives you flight alternatives when your flight is delayed or cancelled, powered of course by Google Now.
Google announced this on Google+ saying:
Google Now already gives you a heads up about cancelled or delayed fli…
Google’s Head Of Search 10 Biggest Search Milestones With 890 Changes In Past Year
Matt Cutts has a boss, it is Amit Singhal – he is in charge of all of search and he posted on Google+ looking back at the past 14 years of him working there, including the IPO which was 10 years ago today…
Twitter Outranks Me After HTTPS Migration
Exactly a week ago I migrated this site to HTTPS and truth is, it is almost impossible to check rankings and traffic for a site like this when making these changes…
Google Testing Dropping Local Carousel
Pete Meyers spotted another Google test and posted it on the Moz Google+ page…
Google AdWords Website Call Conversions
Yesterday…
Google Penalizes Link Networks In Europe & Germany Over Weekend
Yesterday morning, @gfiorelli1 notified me of that Google has “launched a massive amount of links manual penalization emails” specifically in Spain…
Google Birthday Doodle Shows Your Age In Seconds
Google started showing personalized birthday Doodles to logged in users back in 2010. But one thing they promised was to never show your age in the Doodle. Well that has gone out the window…
Negative SEO Extortion Emails: Are Your Concerned?
As you may have heard, last week, many SEOs, including Dan Petrovic, Steve Webb and George Zlatin received extortion emails from an alleged SEO claiming they will perform negative SEO on their site if they do not pay up $1,500.
The email starts off re…
Google Ranking Returns 30 Days After Domain Expired
A WebmasterWorld thread has a webmaster who was kind enough and not embarrassed enough to share he let a domain name of his expire, which resulted in his site being removed from Google and then a month of really bad rankings. He shared his story so th…
Google AdWords Paintball & Other Dangerous Weapons Ban
In less than a month, Google will be banning the advertisement of airsoft guns, paintball guns, bb guns and gun scopes, ammunition, ammunition clips or belts in September.
Google posted a preview of the change to their policy…
Video Recap of Weekly Search Buzz :: August 15, 2014
I ran through tons of topics in less than 10 minutes in this weeks search video recap. I covered the huge fluctuations going on this whole week in Googleâs search results…
Google AdWords Tests New Hotel Ad Booking Format
Moz reports on Google+ that Google is testing yet another AdWords format, this one around nearby hotels.
Here is a search for [boca raton resort] that normally brings up a carousel at the top of the page but here…
Security Certificate Companies Promoting Google’s HTTPS Algorithm
It has been about a week since Google announced their new HTTPS ranking signal and the security SSL certificate companies have begun promoting this fact to prospective customers…
Google AdWords Exact Match Now Matches On All Plurals, Misspellings, Etc.
Google AdWords announced last night that they are now dropping the option to opt out of close variants for exact match keywords. That means, Google will match your exact match keywords for plurals, misspellings and other close variants – even if you d…
Bing Search Now Conversational
Bing announced they now have conversational search, similar to how to how Google introduced it over a year ago.
I tested it out search for [who is the president of russia?]
Why Do Google Manual Actions Return: A Bug, Error Or Penalty?
Jennifer Slegg posted an interesting case of a manual action being revoked and then the same day reappearing and then being revoked again. Interestingly enough…