Google Panda Impacting Your Mega Site? Use Sitemaps To Recover?
A WebmasterWorld thread has discussion around how to determine which sections or categories of your web site are impacted by Google’s Panda algorithm.
Panda has not gone away and sites are still suffering from not ranking in Google after the Panda alg…
Google On How To Make Better Mobile Web Sites
Maile Ohye, a Google developer lead who has worked on mobile and webmaster topics for a long time, shared on Google+ that she was fed up.
Well…
Google’s Matt Cutts Agrees, Guest Blogging Is Getting Out Of Hand
So Matt Cutts released another video yesterday and this is at least the fourth video on the topic of guest blogging.
The deal is, Google is saying Guest Blogging as a whole is getting spammier by the day. As good things get abused, over time, those g…
Google Penalty Notifications Sent To Anglo Rank Link Buyers
As you know, Google’s Matt Cutts publicly outed that Google went after Anglo Rank’s link network and that the penalties and notifications will go out in a few days…
Happy Thanksgiving 2013 – Here Are Logos From Google & Others
Happy Thanksgiving (and Hanukkah – rare overlap) to all our readers. Today I wanted to share with you the logos, doodles, themes, designs and animations from the search industry…
Apple Updates App Store Search Engine To Handle Spelling Errors
As I reported on Search Engine Land via TechCrunch, Apple has made some updates to their App Store search engine recently.
The most noticeable update is that the App Store will now return search results that have misspellings, typos…
Happy Hanukkah: Check Out Google’s Dreidel Decorations
A search for [hanukkah] or [dreidel] or [menorah] or other Hanukkah related search terms, Google will show dreidel decorations in the Google search bar.
This year, instead of going with Jewish stars like they did in 2012…
Google AdWords Poaching Clients Again?
A senior Google AdWords advertiser and consultant, Whitey, posted in the WebmasterWorld forums that he has seen new cases of Google AdWords employees stealing or trying to poach clients away from AdWords agencies…
OK Google: Give Me A Chrome Extension
Google announced a new Chrome extension that enables the “hotword” for searching Google without hands from your desktop – “OK Google.”
Yes, you can activate a Google search by saying “OK Google.” But only if you first navigate to google.com. Then, y…
Mark Traphagen Creates Virante AuthorRank
Honestly, I am not a fan of tools that measure your reach or popularity but with social and authority becoming more of a factor…
Heaven’s Gate Still Spamming Google Even After Mass Suicide
Hacker News thread points out that heavensgate.com is still live after 16 years. Heaven’s Gate was a religious group/cult where
Google Places For Business Adds Reviews Section
Google announced that Google Places for Business has added a new section for business owners to manage and respond to reviews left on their Google Maps business listings.
Google said:
Today…
Google’s Matt Cutts: Why Google Use To Only Crawl 100 Links Per Page
Google’s Matt Cutts posted a video answering the old question…
Google’s White Ribbon Takes Down The UN Women Web Site
If you visit the Google home page globally, you will see a little white ribbon on under the search box…
Google Search Suggests “Gay Should Die”: Google Policy Team?
If you go to Google and enter into the search box [gay should ], Google will offer up suggestions…
Google To Shabbat Observer Webmasters: GoogleBot Is Jewish Also…
There is this fundamental truth when it comes to GoogleBot, treat it like you would all your other users.
So when someone created a new WordPress plugin named WP-Shabbat, he got into some trouble.
The WordPress plugin shuts down the web site to use…
M-Dot Domains Need To Be Verified Separately In Google Webmaster Tools
In Google Webmaster Help there is a straight forward question and answer about how to handle M-dot (i.e. m.domain.com sites in Google Webmaster Tools.
In short, an M-dot is a separate site and should be verified separately in Google Webmaster Tools……
Video Recap of Weekly Search Buzz :: November 22, 2013
This week we have seen a lot of instability in the Google search results, but I am not sure if there is a Google update going on or not. Same with last Friday…
Doctor Who: Google’s Most Interactive Logo Yet
I bet you are scratching your head asking where is the Doctor Who logo on Google.com…
Google Shopping Adds Shortlists, 360° View & Quicker Browsing
Google announced they made some improvements to Google Shopping before the holiday season – keep in mind, it is a paid product placement service now.
The new features include:
Holiday Shortlists: Premade categories of products you may want to by in t…