Google Disavow Removal After Penalty Removal
A WebmasterWorld thread asks the question most SEOs and webmasters try not to ask in a public forum. After a penalty is lifted, should you go ahead and remove your disavow file or even remove some of the links from the disavow file?
Why would you do th…
Friedrich Nietzsche Google Logo In Select Countries
Google, in Germany and a bunch of other select countries, has a special birthday logo for the 169th birthday of Friedrich Nietzsche.
Matt Cutts: Spamming Google Gets Harder & Harder
In a recent video by Matt Cutts, Google’s head of search spam, said that it will continually get harder to take short cuts and spam Google.
Month to month…
Google AdWords Review Ad Extensions Going Live
In June, Google released a beta of a new form of AdWords extensions for showing third-party reviews. That beta is now being rolled out to all advertisers over the next few days…
Google Search By Image Not Working
Google’s Search By Image, a feature launched in June 2011 is currently not working.
When you upload an image in any format, be it .jpg, .gif, .png, .bmp, .tif, or .webp. Google will return an error message that reads, “The image must be in one of the …
The New Google AdWords Partners Logo
Google has completely redone the AdWords Partners Logo. I suspect it has to do with Google’s new branding coming to AdWords, that we spotted earlier.
The new logo, well, looks nothing AdWords like now. In fact, it is almost hard to know what this r…
Google’s Search Tip Calculator
Google announced on Google+ a new search feature that allows you to quickly calculate the tip you should give after your dinner date.
The default tip is 15% with Google’s tip calculator…
Google’s Terms Of Service Update To Use Your Data On Ads
Starting this Friday, Google sent out a terms of service update specifically around how Google will display your details and information in their content and ads…
Read The Google Patents Related To Google Hummingbird
The talk of the SEO town these days, outside of Penguins, is all about the Hummingbird. To be honest…
Microsoft Also Working On Cookie Replacement
The big ad news from last night was that Microsoft is also working on their own technique for tracking ads and replacing the cookie tracking system that has been around for over a decade…
Video Recap of Weekly Search Buzz :: October 11, 2013
This week in search news we covered our monthly Google recap…
Google Shopping Adds Local Availability & Local Storefronts
This week, Google announced two new features for Google Shopping Product Listing Ads. The two new features are (1) local availability listings and (2) local storefronts.
So when you search for a product and local results come it…
Moderation & Email Controls Improved In Google+ Communities
One of the most annoying aspects of Google+ Communities, at least for me, were the email notifications I received for communities I happen to be a moderator off. Google said they added email notification controls with an update yesterday…
Google Says Thank You To Top Contributors
Google posted on their official blog a thank you to the top contributors who spend countless hours helping support Google products and services without compensation.
As you know, the other week, the top contributors were mostly at Google for a speci…
See The New Google AdWords Console Design & Logo
Google is about to launch a new AdWords logo and design for the AdWords advertising console.
There are a select number of advertisers who are currently seeing the new interface and posting screen shots of it on Twitter & Google+…
Google Search Date & Country Filter Bug?
A Google Web Search Help thread has one searcher doing research on European Central Bank (ECB) content within Ireland…
Google Maps Drives In More Predictive Search
Google announced new features being added to the new version of Google Maps. The big announcement is a yawn because the old version of Google Maps had this…
Google’s Matt Cutts: Geo-Location Is Not Spam
In a recent video by Google’s Matt Cutts, he said that geo-location is not spam. Cloaking and showing GoogleBot content that you wouldn’t show users, is spam. But showing geo-location based content to users, while showing that content to GoogleBot……
Google Bakes In Knowledge Graph With Bacon Number
If you search for an actor/actress in Google and then click on the “People also search for” section in the knowledge graph, Google will show you the bacon number or the connection/relationship between the first person you searched for and the second pe…
SEOs Adapt To Google’s Hummingbird Algorithm
As you know, Google announced their Hummingbird algorithm about a month after it launched, claiming no one noticed and no one should notice. But we do think we did notice but no one can confirm that outside of Google and they won’t…