New Google AdSense Arrows: Square Backgrounds With Thin Arrow
A WebmasterWorld thread is chatting about a new Google AdSense test where the arrows in the AdSense units are once again changing.
I was able to find a picture of this in action on my own personal blog…
Was Expedia Penalized By Google? SearchMetrics Says So.
Yesterday morning Patrick Altoft tweeted to me that SearchMetrics is reporting Expedia lost about 25% of their Google traffic overnight.
SearchMetric is indeed reporting this and I confirmed it with Marcus Tober from SearchMetrics via email…
Google’s Matt Cutts: Guest Blogging For Links Or SEO Is Over & Dead
Yesterday, Matt Cutts, Google’s head of search spam and the most loved to be hated man at Google, posted on his personal blog that guest blogging is dead at least for link building or SEO purposes…
Google Bolding Related Words In Search Snippets – Not Titles
Mark Traphagen posted on Google+ how Google is getting better at understanding Semantic Search. Truth is…
Google Bolding Related Words In Search Snippets – Not Titles
Mark Traphagen posted on Google+ how Google is getting better at understanding Semantic Search. Truth is…
Google Glass Mirror API Gets New Templates
Timothy Jordan from the Google Glass Developers team announced on Google+ added new templates for the Mirror API…
Google Glass Mirror API Gets New Templates
Timothy Jordan from the Google Glass Developers team announced on Google+ added new templates for the Mirror API…
Martin Luther King, Jr. Logos From Google, Bing, Ask.com & Dogpile
Today is the official holiday for Martin Luther King, Jr.’s birth, which was on January 15, 1929 but is celebrated the Monday after…
Google Removed 350 Million Ads & Rejected 3 Million Publishers
Google announced on Friday their efforts to keep their ad network safe, in-line and trustworthy. They shared some pretty crazy stats on what that means for their ad network…
Google AdSense New Policies FAQs Teach Publishers New Rules
Google announced the new policies FAQs for AdSense and guess what…
Hold Your SEO Client Hostage With Negative SEO Threats
A WebmasterWorld thread has a story of a webmaster who received a phone call from someone with an Indian accent threatening to use negative SEO on their site if they don’t pay up. A form of search pirates…
“Okay Eye” – Google Contact Lens
You thought a personal computer was cool, then a laptop was cool, then the smart phone, whoa, Google Glass. Scratch all that, how about contact lenses.
No more…
Google Play Music Timeline
This is pretty cool, the Google Music Timeline, which plots genres of music based on how many Google Play Music users have an artist or album in their music library.
Google: You Stopped Ranking For Maternity Jeans Because You Spammed Us
Google is really stepping up their transparency about sites spamming them.
A Google Webmaster Help thread has a site owner upset his site no longer ranks for [maternity jeans] in Google…
Video Recap of Weekly Search Buzz :: January 17, 2014
This week in search, we are still tracking a Google update. Google had a major hack in their hotel listings in Google Maps, they apologized and swept it under the rug. Bing is testing SSL search…
Google’s Matt Cutts: We Don’t Have Different Algorithms For Different Ranking Positions
Google’s Matt Cutts released a video yesterday answering the question…
Google Maps: One Does Not Simply Walk Into Mordor
This is an old one, but I’ve never seen it. Michael Gray on Twitter noted that when you do walking directions in the (not new) Google Maps from The Shrine to Mordor, you get a funny response from Google.
Yes, Google says…
Google Apologizes For The Hotel Listing Hijack In Google Places
I have to assume most of you by now heard about the huge mess going on with Google Maps business listing in the hotel sector…
Mistake Shows TD Canada Trust Mobile Site In Google Desktop Results
Patrick Wagner, the Senior Search & Digital Analyst at TD Trust Canada, a major bank, posted in the Google Webmaster Help forums complaining that Google listed their mobile site in the desktop search results.
In short, if you search for [canada trust] in Google Canada…
Dian Fossey Google Zoologist Doodle
If you visit Google today, in virtually all Google home pages across the world, you will see a special jungle, mountains, gorillas logo with a picture of Dian Fossey.
Dian Fossey was born today, January 16th in 1932…