Independence Day USA: Google’s Logo, Bing’s Home Page & Yahoo Got Nothing
Today is Independence Day in the United States Of America, the 238th birthday of USA. To celebrate, Google, Bing, Ask.com, Dogpile and others have special logos or themes on their home page. But surprisingly…
Google Spews 500 Server Errors This Morning
This morning, tons of people on social networks like Twitter, in the Google Web Search Help forum (only link to one example of many), reported Google was not loading and instead was returning a server error, 500 code…
Google Killer Robots.txt File Blocks Terminators From Co-Founders
Google posted a new robots.txt file at google.com/killer-robots.txt that is designed to help secure the Google co-founders…
Matt Cutts, Google’s Lead Spam Fighter, Takes Extended Time Off
Google’s head of search spam, Matt Cutts, announced on his blog that he is taking “a leave” through October of this year. In short, he is going completely off the grid and not dealing with anything Google related, i.e. his work…
Android Wear Apps Go Live in Google Play Store
Last night, Google announced on Google+ that they have published the first set of Android Wear apps in the Google Play Store.
Jason Calacanis: Google’s Matt Cutts Killed Mahalo & Wants Revenge
Jason Calacanis, a well known angel investor, who helped launch many brands, products and software ideas – is still incredibly mad at Google and directly, Matt Cutts over the Panda algorithm and how it destroyed his other start up…
Google Slaps Two More Link Networks In Poland
Google has slapped two more link networks in Poland late last night.
Google posted details about how reconsideration requests work on the Google Poland blog. And Google’s Karolina Kruszynska confirmed with me this morning that Google went after two…
July 2014 Google Webmaster Report
I thought the June report was massive, well, the past month at Google was even more active. We had the Spam algorithm revised to version 3…
Got To Be A Bug: Google Shopping Ads With Blue Highlights
Aaron Dicks shared with me on Twitter a weird display for the Google Product Listing Ads/Shopping ads (or whatever they are called now). The ads show as they normally do but the product titles are highlighted in this dark blue color…
Google Webmaster Tools Now Notifying Webmasters Of Right To Be Forgotten Removals
Google Webmaster Tools began sending out notices to webmasters who had their content removed from the European versions of Google over the Right To Be Forgotten law in the European Union…
Google Structured Data Testing Tool Also Drops Authorship Image
Last week, we reported that Google dropped the authorship image from the search results for good. But we also documented how the Google Structured Data Testing Tool still showed the old format…
Google May Trust Links Less After They Are Modified
Pedro Dias, a former Google employee who worked on the Search Quality and Webspam team for years, said on Twitter that Google is less likely to trust a link after it is modified…
Google Closing Orkut, Their First Social Network
Google announced that after ten years, they will be closing down Orkut, their first social network.
Google is shutting down the service on September 30, 2014 but the public communities will be archived and viewable starting on the shutdown date…
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Google With Mixed Language Snippets
When it comes to multilingual sites, I am not that knowledgable but it is important as more and more companies and web sites need to go multilingual…
Video: Google’s Secret HREF LANG Webmaster Tools Report
A couple of weeks ago, we told you Google is working on a new href lang webmaster feature that Google would not disclose. In fact, Google was asking for beta testers to sign non-disclosure agreements, if they wanted to participate in the beta.
Well……
What Do I Need To Unlearn From My SEO Days From 5 Years Ago?
They often say, learning new things is way easier than unlearning old things.
A WebmasterWorld thread has an old SEO who hasn’t been in the game for five or more years, asking to be caught up quickly on what has changed.
The answer is…
AP’s New Robot Writers; What Will Google Think?
The Associated Press, AP, announced they will be using algorithms, machines, robots to write their corporate earnings stories for the business news report. Yes…
Google May Show A Right To Be Forgotten Removal Notice Without Removal Requests
Last week, Google began removing right to be forgotten requests from the EU search results page. Yea…
Google HTTPS Everywhere: Why, How & SEO Implications
Google has published a video of the HTTPS Everywhere presentation on YouTube. The presentation was give by Pierre Far from the Google Webmaster team and Ilya Grigorik from the Google Developer team.
The presentation was awesome because it was convers…
Let Google Know About Your Negative SEO
A thread at Google Webmaster Help asks a question that goes unanswered for the most part, “Negative SEO. How can we let the Webmaster Team know?”
How do you let Google know when you think you’ve been hit by negative SEO…