Google Highlights Local Services Areas Within Search Results
Mike Blumenthal noticed that Google is now showing and highlighting in the search results the service area businesses service directly in the map preview on the right side of the page…
Google Asks App Developers To Provide App Indexing For App Content Discovery
Google announced they now support the ability for app developers to submit the content within their Android apps to Google, somewhat like through a Sitemap file. This way, Google can index the content, and then display the content within the search re…
The Halloween Witch Google Doodle : Spooky But Offensive?
Today on Google’s home page is the 2013 interactive Google Logo, aka Google Doodle. This is the Halloween Witch, which lets you mix and match potions into a cauldron and then see the output. While the logo is fun and spooky…
Search Extensions Being Tested By Google AdWords
Google seems to be testing a new AdWords Extension, one that has not really been seen or talked about before, from what I can tell.
These are search ad extensions, basically search boxes in the ad…
Jill Whalen Says The SEO Industry No Longer Needs Her
There are few people in the SEO industry who have been as consistent and giving as much and for as long as Jill Whalen.
To many, Jill is the Queen of SEO. She has been working in SEO for almost 20 years, even before the term SEO was around…
Google Webmaster Tools Overtaken By Large Logos?
There are two reports at Google Webmaster Help forums that Google Webmaster Tools has a display bug. Specifically, when you login and try to see your data…
Awesome Google Webmaster Tools Security Issues
Google announced a new outstanding feature for Google Webmaster Tools named Security Issues.
This new dashboard helps quickly know what security issues your site has…
Halloween Logos From Google, Yahoo, Bing, Ask.com & More
Happy Halloween everyone. The search engines all went far out to make some extra creative logos and animations for their home pages today on Halloween…
What’s New With Google+ In Short
It was hard to miss the news that Google announced yesterday around Google+.
If you did and you really don’t have time to sift through everything, Google’s Aygul Zagidullina captured notes in very short bullet point format that makes it quick and easy…
Google May Charge Fees For Google+ Custom URLs
One of the other big announcements was that Google is offering vanity URLs within Google+ for virtually everyone. But if you read the terms of service, Google says for now these URLs are free…
Google Glass Upgraded Version Pictures? Earbuds
Everyone is wondering what Google Glass 2.0 will look like. Google doesn’t want anyone to call them 2.0…
Google AdSense Certified Partner Program
Just like with Google AdWords and Google Analytics, Google has now introduced a certified partner program for AdSense.
The program details are at google.com/adsense/start/partners…
Google AdSense Mute This Ad
Back in July 2012, Google introduced a new feature for consumers to mute AdSense ads. In fact, that feature is still documented in the remove unwanted ads help page at Google.
But I believe that feature disappeared when Google introduced their new A…
Google Exploited Through Wikipedia During World Series For St. Louis Cardinals
@Skitzzo shared a photo of a search he did on Google with me on Twitter showing just how vulnerable Google’s Knowledge Graph is.
A search for the [St Louis Cardinals] yesterday afternoon brought up information in Google’s Knowledge Graph sourced from…
Google Glass 2.0 & Invite Three Friends
Google announced on Google+ they are going to be allowing all Google Glass Explorers to swap out their original Google Glass with an improved version, plus invite three friends to join the Explorer program.
The new Google Glass, people are coining it …
Google’s Matt Cutts: More Pages Doesn’t Directly Influence Your Search Rankings
Yesterday, Google’s Matt Cutts posted a video saying that the number of pages does not directly impact your search rankings.
There may be a side affect to a site having more pages…
Google AdWords Updates “Limited By Budget” Graph Estimator
@SergeyRusak shared a photo on Twitter of a new “limited by budget” graph being tested in the AdWords console. This graph is displayed when Google shows you that your budgets are not meeting the available inventory for your keywords and campaigns…
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Google Logo For Edith Head 116th Birthday
Edith Head would be 116 years old today, the only woman to have won eight Academy Awards. She was a well-known costume designer…
SEOs Get Ready For 15% Reduction In Google Rich Snippets
As many of you know, Matt Cutts, Google’s head of search spam, announced at PubCon that you should expect a 15% reduction in the amount of rich snippets and authorship displayed in the Google search results…
Google Removes Your Manual Penalty But Your Rankings Won’t Improve
I see threads like this Google Webmaster Help thread all the time. In summary they say, my manual penalty was revoked by Google after I spent the time cleaning up my mistakes but days, months, and even years later, my rankings, traffic and thus sales h…