Page Speed Suggestions Now Directly In Google Analytics
Ilya Grigorik, Google’s “Developer Advocate, Make the Web Fast and Google Chrome” shared on Google+ that Google Analytics has a new report named “Page Speed Suggestions”…
Google Reconsideration Request Errors Happen
There is an interesting discussion at Google Webmaster Help forums where a new site at microbialgenomics.org…
Reports Of A Google Update Between November 1st & 5th
I have been seeing some chatter at WebmasterWorld and other sources of a possible update that is being pushed out slowly since late October 31st through today.
If you read the thread…
New Google Penalty For “Image Mismatch”
There is a new Google manual action that you need to be aware of named “image mismatch.” This manual action is when your images on your site don’t match what Google is indexing and displaying in their search results…
OK Google Now On iOS Google App: Some Bugs Reported
Google announced yesterday the release of the updated iOS Google search app. It brings the “OK Google” prompt to search handsfree with the app plus a lot more. It has much better Google Now reminders, as well as some bugs…
Google Ads: Search Network With Display Select
Google announced yesterday a new campaign type named Search Network With Display Select.
Google said “this new campaign type offers better results on the display network than the old Search & Display Networks campaign type…
Dell’s Google Start Page Dies With iGoogle
A few days ago, iGoogle officially went offline and with that, Dell’s start page for their native browser.
You’ve all seen this page. The moment you turn on a new Dell computer, open up Internet Explorer…
Google Local Maps Spam Invades Knowledge Graph
Linda Buquet, a top contributor in the Google Local forums, posted a thread in the Google Webmaster Help forums complaining about a massive spam attack in Google that started working on August 22, 2013…
Google Train Doodle For Raymond Loewy
Today on the Google home page is yet another logo celebrating the life on Raymond Loewy on his 120th birthday. Raymond Loewy was a well respected industrial designer who designed some of the most iconic brand logos and designs we still see and recogn…
Google AdWords Tests New “Ad” Label
We covered this on the mobile ad side about two months ago, where Google is testing showing an “ad” label on the AdWords ad…
Diwali? Google Has Logo For Shakuntala Devi, The Human Computer
On many Google home pages, with the exception of Google.com in the USA and many other countries, you will see a logo for Shakuntala Devi.
At first the logo looks somewhat like a ticking time bomb, but in reality…
YouTube Search On iOS App Broken
There are dozens of complaints in the YouTube Help forum that the YouTube App for iOS won’t let you perform a search for videos.
The issue is, no matter what you search for, YouTube responds with “No Results” found…
Google Cites Disavowed Links As Bad Link Examples
There are two different threads at Google Webmaster Help where sites with Google manual actions received responses back from Google citing bad link examples including links already in the site’s disavow file.
As you can imagine…
What’s Different With New Google Glass?
Everyone is making a lot of buzz around the new updated version of Google Glass but what is really different outside of those fashionable ear buds…
You Can Disable Google SSL & Pass Search Referrer Queries
I reported this at Search Engine Land on Friday and to be honest, it is not a feature most of you will benefit from, but if you want…
Video Recap of Weekly Search Buzz :: November 1, 2013
This week in search…
Daily Search Forum Recap: October 31, 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:
Halloween Logos From Google, Yahoo, Bing…
iGoogle Rest In Peace
iGoogle is now officially closed, if you try to access iGoogle at google.com/igâ you will be redirected to the Google home page.
iGoogle launched in May 2005, which was over eight years ago. About 18 months ago, Google announced iGoogle’s closure would be today, November 1…
Friends Are Getting Invites To Buy Google Glass
Earlier this week, we shared that Google Glass Explorers were now able to invite three friends to also join the Explorer program. They had 14
Google’s Nexus 5 & KitKat Launches
Google announced yesterday the new Google phone, the Nexus 5, plus that they are rolling out Android 4.4, aka KitKat to all Nexus 4, Nexus 7, and Nexus 10, as well as the Samsung Galaxy S4 and HTC One Google Play Edition and of course…