Backlinks.com: The Next Link Network Penalized By Google
Google’s head of search spam, Matt Cutts, publicly outed on Twitter another link network that Google has penalized. Matt Cutts’ new trend is the share a link from the marketing material of the link network and then add a word or two to say the opposit…
Google Maps Mobile With Google Now Cards
Google announced on Google+ that Google Maps for iOS and Android now support Google Now like features.
If you have upcoming flights, hotel reservations, dining dates, and so forth, you will see the Google Now cards directly in your Google Maps app…
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Google: It’s Not About How Much Or How Many…
Google’s John Mueller gave the typical Google line at this Google Webmaster Help there – quality over quantity…
Google Structured Data Dashboard Adds Error Reports
In the middle of this year, Google released the Structured Data Dashboard for Google Webmaster Tools. Now…
Google Knowledge Graph Gets Ads
I am shocked to see Google testing ads on the knowledge graph so soon! @gfiorelli1 posted a picture on Twitter of the new car knowledge graph that launched a week or so ago with an ad format on it…
Video Recap of Weekly Search Buzz :: December 13, 2013
This week in search, we had Google go after yet another link network…
Google+ Removed From Google AdSense Scorecard
In June of this year, Google added a Scorecard to the Google AdSense home page portal. The scorecard is designed to give publishers a quick snapshot of how well your ad settings, webpages and content are performing relative to other AdSense publisher…
Google Goes Animated With Christmas Search Decorations
Every year, Google adds decorations to their search results for the holidays. They did it a couple weeks ago for Hanukkah and they do it every year for Christmas, Kwanzaa and heck, even Festivus.
This is the first year…
Reporting Offensive Images In Google Image Search
Google has been changing the way they let searchers report offensive images for years now.
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New: Google AdSense Custom Ad Sizes
Google announced AdSense publishers can now create custom ad size units for both text and display ads on their web sites…
Google Inviting Glass v1 Explorers To Upgrade Before Christmas
Last night, along with other original Google Glass Explorers…
Baby’s First Word: Google
Typically a baby’s first word is eat, mommy, daddy, no, yes, and stuff like that. But would you imagine that a baby’s first word would be Google…
Google Maps: Click To Get Coordinates
When it comes to getting the longitude and latitude of specific locations, I am a junky. Weird, I know, but I use it often. I actually have a bookmarklet to grab the lat/long from the old Google Maps.
But with the new Google Maps…
Google’s NSFW Pearl Necklace Search Result Removed
Yesterday, at Search Engine Land, I covered how the search for the term [pearl necklace] on Google would return an inappropriate and mostly irrelevant search result in the top positions…
Link Spammers Beat Yandex, Forcing Yandex to Change Algorithm
Andy Atkins-Krüger posted an awesome news story at Search Engine Land covering how Yandex is changing their algorithm for some types of queries to no longer count links as a ranking factor.
Yandex is the leading Russian search engine…
Google Maps Wants You To Create Street View Images
Google announced that they want you all to create their street view photos for them using photo spheres…
Mobile Google News Updated
Google announced on the Google News blog that the mobile version of Google News is now updated for Android and iOS devices.
The new look aims at giving users the ability to scan the news quicker and with more options…
Facebook’s News Feed Gets It’s Own Google Panda Algorithm
A week or so ago, Facebook announced changes to the news feed algorithm…
Google+ To Power Google +Post Ads For Display Network
Google announced on Google+ yesterday a new form of display ad powered through Google+ named +Post Ads.
In short, +Post ads allow a brand to take their public Google+ content, photos, videos or Hangouts…
Google’s Matt Cutts: Disavow Links Aggressively
Google’s Matt Cutts released another video this one tries to answer how to remove a penalty for bad link building over a period of time…