Google Closing Authorship Project?
AJ Kohn, someone who focuses more on authorship and rich snippets than most SEOs I know, wrote a story named Authorship Is Dead, Long Live Authorship.
In that story, he describes why he thinks the classic Authorship Project is slowing being closed dow…
Video Recap of Weekly Search Buzz :: October 25, 2013
I catch up on two weeks of search news after traveling in Israel for about a week, of course, I want you to register and attend SMX Israel in January. Google’s Matt Cutts gave his talk at PubCon this week…
Search Engine Land Wins Best Search Blog At US Search Awards
It has been a while since there have been a reputable place offering “Awards” in the search community. Now, we have the US Search Awards backed by PubCon, Majestic SEO, SEMPO, and some other companies…
Google’s 100 Search Results Per Page Breaks
Google has confirmed the reports of a bug where configuring your search preferences to non-instant results, set to show 100 search results on a page, stopped working.
The bug began sometime around October 18th…
Google’s Universal Analytics Coming To All, Like It Or Not
Google announced that Universal Analytics will become the default for all Google Analytics…
Google+ Saved Searches Going Away
As I covered at Search Engine Land, Google is discontinuing the saved searches interface within the Google+ circles drop down.
Google: Your Disavow File May Not Be Accepted If…
Google’s Eric Kuan said in a Google Webmaster Help thread that even if you use a disavow file to remove links…
Google’s Stop Clock Fixed Again
In early August, Google launched a new feature for a Google timer, but earlier this month, that feature stop working. Google did promise to fix it and they just did…
Google Testing Huge Banner Image Ad In Search Results
@SynrgyHQ posted an image of a search result that I felt was a joke, it couldn’t be real. I immediately emailed Google and they confirmed within ten minutes that this as a small test they are running in the United States…
Yahoo, Under Mayer, Accused Of Slowing Microsoft Partnership Rollout
Reuters reports that U.S. District Judge Robert Patterson Jr said Yahoo breach of the agreement “established irreparable harm to Microsoft” and thus has to continue the rollout in Taiwan and Hong Kong…
Google Matt Cutts Hints At Upcoming SEO Changes At PubCon
One of the highlights of the year for me is Matt Cutts talk at PubCon. So me not being there, being 6,000+ miles away, was unfortunate. It was the first PubCon I’ve missed in, well, I can’t remember…
Google Penalty On WWW Revoked But Remains On Non-WWW
A WebmasterWorld thread has an interesting discussion around how a webmaster said his manual penalty was revoked on his WWW but remains on his non WWW.
The non WWW is 301 redirected to the WWW and the WWW is set as the preferred domain in Webmaster T…
Google Shopping Campaigns
Google announced a new form of Google Product Listing ads management named Google Shopping Campaigns.
In short…
New AdMob Developers Not Linking AdSense Accounts
Google posted a notice in the Google AdSense Help forums that those developers new to AdMob with unapproved AdSense accounts will currently not be able to link the two together.
Google is working on a fix for this but didn’t give an estimate time of r…
Western Union Declines 5% Of Google AdSense Payments This Month
One of the payment methods that Google offers their AdSense publishers is via Western Union. Well, this month…
Google’s Matt Cutts: That Scraper Isn’t Hurting Your Mom’s Site
Google’s head of search spam, Matt Cutts, responded to a Hacker News thread where Dan Goldin was upset with spammer SEOs when he noticed a site was scraping the content and images off of his mother’s site…
Google AdWords Ad Rank Adds Third Factor: Ad Extensions
Google announced that AdWords extensions and formats are now going to be part of the overall AdWords ad rank formula going forward.
Google said, “ad extensions typically improve clickthrough rate and overall campaign performance because they make ads …
Google Parachute Jump Logo For André-Jacques Garnerin
Today on Google’s home pages worldwide is a logo for the first parachute jump that took place 216 years ago today, on October 22, 1797.
French aeronaut André-Jacques Garnerin was the first to jump out of a gondola with a silk parachute at Parc Monceau, Paris…
Google Reminds You That You Recently Searched For Facts
You know when you search for something in Google and click on a result, then come back later and search again…
Google Shows Site Name Instead Of URL Above Title
Google seems to be testing a new interface for their search results.
Instead of showing the URL of the page, Google is showing the name of the site. They’ve done this before, in 2011 but never above the title of the search result…