IE8 No Longer Supported For Bing Ads
It seems that advertisers within the Bing Ads network are no longer able to use Internet Explorer 8 to manage their ads in the Bing Ad console.
A WebmasterWorld has some advertisers noticing the new requirement. Bing Ads write:
Bing Ads no longer su…
SEOs: Negative SEO On Google Much Easier Now
As you all know, negative SEO is not new, in fact, Google has said it is rare but possible since 2007. Sites as large as Expedia may have suffered from it and Google had to reword their documentation on the topic…
16% Claim Recovery After Google’s Panda 4.0 Update
On May 20th, Google began rolling out Panda 4.0 and shortly after we asked you to take our Panda poll. Thousands of you did and I wanted to share the results.
I asked, How Did Google Panda 4…
Google AdWords Drops IE9 Support
While Bing Ads dropped IE8 support, Google AdWords is dropping Internet Explorer 9.
If you want to login and manage your Google AdWords account, you need to use the latest version of Internet Explorer or Safari, Chrome or Firefox. Basically…
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You Can Now Connect Your Google+ Page With Your Google Maps Listing
You can finally connect your Google+ company page to your Google Maps listing.
For the past year or so, I had two listings for my company in Google+. Then, somehow, I had a third. Now…
Surprise: Most Of You Dislike The New Google Design For Ads & Results
Back in March, Google launched their redesigned search results page, which removed the yellow background color for the ads and gave things a bit more spacing. Jon Wiley from Google said then the new design “improves readability and creates an overall …
Loch Ness Monster Transit Directions In Google Maps
On Google+, Google posted a new Google Maps easter egg that lets you do directions by Loch Ness Monster aka Nessie.
Google wrote…
70%+ Want Public Disclosure Of Google Penalties
Back in February we covered the topic of penalty disclosure and asked our audience if Google should confirm, publicly…
June 2014 Google Webmaster Report
May was an incredibly busy month for Google SEO related topics, specifically seeing Panda 4.0 roll out, the Google Spam algo being updated, press release sites taking a dive and several unconfirmed updates that Google wouldn’t talk about…
DuckDuckGo Coming To A Safari Browser Near You
Yesterday at the Apple WWDC, Apple announced quietly (actually, I don’t even think they said it…
Bing Is Five Years Old
Today is Bing’s fifth birthday and as you can see, we dressed up our site to celebrate the big day. Five years old…
Important: Patch Your All in One SEO Pack WordPress Plugin
Personally, I am not a fan of WordPress or software products that are completely open to anyone who can read their code – but that is me…
Google’s Cutts On Content Without Links
Google’s Matt Cutts answered a question on video on how Google handles content with little or no links…
Apple Sticks It To Google By Adding Bing In Spotlight Search
Yesterday at the Apple WWDC event, which you can watch over here if you missed it, Apple showcased the new Spotlight feature in their preview of OSX…
Tabke: Google Penalized eBay For Dropping AdWords Ads
As you know, eBay was penalized by Google either via a manual action or algorithmic action or both. Google and eBay won’t confirm it, but it is clear from the SearchMetrics charts.
The reason for the penalty is not 100% clear…
Here Is How To Remove Content From Google Via Google’s Right To Be Forgotten Form
As you know, the EU’s top court has required Google to enable people to force Google to take down personal information about themselves. This obviously is something that Google is not happy about but they had to and have complied…
Google App Indexing Now Supports Other Languages
Google announced Friday that their App Indexing protocol, the ability to markup your content and have Google deep link to your Android apps content from the search results…
One On One With Google’s John Mueller This Morning
Google’s John Mueller announced on Google+ that instead of the standard Google Hangouts he does where he just answers questions off a list or via prompts, he will be doing one-on-one sessions, with 8 webmasters, giving them 4 minutes each…
Google: You Rank As You Should, It’s Not Panda
I honestly love seeing this because it somewhat upsets me to see, I know weird… But Google’s John Mueller responded to a webmaster in a Google Webmaster Help thread about him losing 90% of his “indexing” after the Panda 4 .0 update. He said…
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Press Release Sites See Huge Drop In Google Ranking After Panda 4.0
Yesterday I reported at Search Engine Land that Panda 4.0 may have hurt press release sites and showed SearchMetrics data for PRWeb, PR Newswire…