Google Continues Work On Promoting Topic Authorities
Back in May, we covered how Google is planning on releasing an algorithm to promote subject authorities in the search results. Some call this the “good guy algorithm” and some call it the “author authority algorithm,” while others may have some other …
Google December 19th Ranking Fluctuations Reported
So Google confirmed they reduced the authorship snippets from showing in the results. We know that. Matt Cutts strongly implied that there was no update on December 17th…
Google’s URL/Content Removal Tool Now A Wizard
Google has updated their URL removal tool to make it easier and smarter to remove content specifically from third-party web sites…
Matt Cutts: Google Tries To Minimize Search Updates Before Holidays
I am not sure if you noticed but all the Google search results tracking tools flared up yesterday reporting major changes in the Google search results. You can see for yourself at MozCast, SERPs.com…
Google’s Matt Cutts: Ideally ccTLDs Should Have IP In Country
This is probably a topic we’ve covered a dozen times here but it is always nice to have an official video from Matt Cutts on the topic.
Matt said…
Google AdSense Back To Square Arrows?
When Google introduced the arrows to the AdSense ads, they came with a colored square background button with an arrow overlaid on the square. Then a year ago…
Did The Authorship Reduction In Google Begin?
In October, Matt Cutts of Google at PubCon announced there would likely be a 15% reduction in authorship being displayed in the Google search results. Since then, I haven’t seen many – I’ve seen some – complaints about authorship going away…
Google: We Don’t Control Content On The Web
I spotted a thread that is a common question in the Google Webmaster Help forums about removing content from showing up in Google. The response was even more interesting.
Google’s Eric Kuan…
Google Glass Won’t Replace Unit For Accidental Damage
Deb Lentz, a Google Glass Explorer, slipped on some ice and her Google Glass unit fell off and landed on the pavement. When they landed, the Glass arm snapped off and broke. The shocking part is that when she called Google to replace them…
Google’s Matt Cutts: Our Algorithms Try To Break Black Hat SEOs Spirits
A couple weeks ago, Google’s Matt Cutts was on This Week in Google (TWiG) and on episode 227 Matt had some interesting things to say. He said that Google specifically tries to break the spirits of black hat SEOs…
Google Glass XE12 Adds iOS, Wink & Breaks Many GDK Apps
XE12 is out and with that comes support for the whole other side of the mobile world, iPhones. Google released the MyGlass App for iOS and quickly pulled it. Why…
Google Zeitgeist Live With Inspiring Video
I like to look back at things, when I have time. Google has published their 2013 Zeitgeist at google.com/zeitgeist.
It is obviously a nice way to look at all the keywords you may have missed out on. But obviously, you should not be targeting keyword…
Google: Let’s Go Caroling Card
There is a new Google Now card for a search on [Let’s Go Caroling], honestly, I am surprised it does not work on all Google searches.
In any event…
Google AdSense A/B Test Winner Not Setting?
A month ago, Google launched native A/B testing for AdSense ads.
When Google was 95% confident of an ad type being a winner, it would show you the results and let you choose the winner to continue to run…
Google On IE11 Displays Left Aligned
Google and Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 11 are not acting nicely together. In short, if you are using IE11 and you do a search at Google, the results will be extremely close to the left hand side of the page…
Google: Duplicate Content Pollutes 25-30% Of The Web
We all know Google’s take on duplicate content, it is not spammy, it is not something they have penalties for unless you are being completely evil…
Did Google Soften The EMD Algorithm?
Over a year ago, Google introduced an algorithm to reduce the amount of exact match domains from showing up when those EMDs are not as useful as other sites.
Some at…
Daily Search Forum Recap: December 16, 2013
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web.Search Engine Roundtable Stories:
Backlinks…
Anglo Rank Promises To Rebuild After Google Link Penalty
As many of you remember, Anglo Rank was penalized outwardly by Google, as Google keeps targeting more and more link networks.
Shortly after, some customers began receiving Google penalties and the owner of Anglo Rank has been reversing link orders s…
Google Asks Searchers: Did You Find This Ad Useful?
We’ve seen this before on the organic and paid side, where Google explicitly asks the searcher, did they find the ad or the search result useful. Instead of using actions to measure, in this case…