Where Is The Kwanzaa In Google’s Happy Holidays Logo
Today, the third-day in a row, Google has a happy holidays logo, this one is more wintery and snowy, with a winter cabin look. But today is not Christmas, it is the day after Christmas…
Google: Sitemaps Do Not Guarantee Indexing
This is likely obvious to most the readers here but it is simple, submitting an XML sitemap to Google does not mean the pages in that sitemap will be fully indexed…
Rap Genius’ Link Scheme Goes Public Leading To Google Penalty
John Marbach outed Rap Genius for masking a link building scheme as an affiliate program. Right before Christmas, Matt Cutts posted first on Hacker News and then on Twitter that Google is looking into it. A day later…
Google Christmas Spam Fighting & Webmaster Support
Google representatives have been in the webmaster forums helping webmasters with their SEO and webmaster related questions all Christmas eve and day.
There are dozens of threads that Google’s John Mueller has responded to both on Christmas eve and day…
Did Google’s Happy Holidays Logo Get More Christmasy With ‘Tis The Season
With all the complaints this year and last year with Google’s Happy Holidays logos, Google may have decided to change it up a bit…
Christmas Day Logos From The Search Industry (2013 Edition)
Yesterday I promised to catalog the Christmas Day logos from the search industry, when I documented the Christmas eve logos. Some of the logos did not change from day to day…
Christmas Eve Logos From The Search Industry (2013 Edition)
Happy Christmas, or Happy Holidays as Google would say, to all our readers. As we do every year, I wanted to share the various logos from around the search community for Christmas Eve.
Tomorrow I will post the Christmas Day logos but here are Christm…
Google Sharing More About What Their Algorithms Think
About a month ago, we reported that Googlers indeed know if a site is impacted by an algorithm or not – not just if a site is impacted by a manual action…
Google’s Happy Holidays Doodle More Christian Friendly This Year?
As you know, Google’s Happy Holidays logos are up today, but for Christmas Eve here and Christmas Day (in Australia now).
Last year, there was huge firestorm about the logo being hurtful to Christians. Why…
When You Have Bad Links Impacting Your Google Rankings, Which Do You Remove?
I see this all the time, a forum thread, where a webmaster knows his rankings are suffering in Google because he was hit by Penguin because he has a lot of really bad…
Google’s Happy Holidays Logos Start Going Live
Google has started to post their Happy Holidays series of Google Doodles today, well, tomorrow but today is tomorrow in Australia. On the 24th of December…
Ok Google Is Not Okay! It’s Spelled Wrong.
A Google Web Search Help thread has a couple of searchers who are upset with Google’s use of English. Specifically in their marketing and use of “Ok Google” for the hot word to trigger a search. They want Google to spell it either “OK Google” or “Ok…
Google Fetch As Googlebot Won’t Crawl When Site Is Too Slow
A Google Webmaster Help thread has one webmaster complaining his site isn’t being crawled by Google and isn’t showing up in the search results. The reason…
Google: Is Amazon Spamming Google With Footer Links?
Remember, the warning from Google’s Matt Cutts on linking too many sites together using footer links and keyword rich anchor text…
Matt Cutts: Google’s Hummingbird Algorithm Affects 90% Of Searches
I keep coming back to this episode 227 from TWiG and in the video, Matt Cutts talked about the Hummingbird algorithm at exactly one hour and twenty minutes into the video. He spent maybe a minute or so talking about it.
Matt Cutts said that the Humming…
The 100th Anniversary Of The Crossword Puzzle Gets A Google Doodle
Tomorrow is the 100th anniversary of the first ever crossword published anywhere. It was published by Arthur Wynne, a journalist from Liverpool, England on December 21, 1913 in the New York World…
Video Recap of Weekly Search Buzz :: December 20, 2013
It was an all Google week, like many, with Google breaking the bad guys and loving the good guys. Google penalized another link network, this one named Backlinks.com. Anglo Rank, the network Google penalized the week before…
Google: Authorship Works With Google+ Vanity URLs
Once you get your authorship working, no one wants to mess around and change URLs. Some don’t like to mess around even if the authorship is not live in the search results…
iOS 6 Jailbreak & Google Search App Don’t Work Together
There are new complaints, since the Google search app was updated…
New Look For Medical Knowledge In Google’s Search Results
A WebmasterWorld thread has discussion around a new look for answers around medical or health related queries in Google.
The results, as described by a webmaster, “replaces results with content…