75% Of SEOs Want Yahoo To Return To Search
A couple months ago new rumors surfaced around Yahoo making a return to search…
Confirmed: Google AdWords Query Not Passing In Referer String
As you know, Google AdWords went not provided, although there are ways to get the data and for the data to not be as secure as you want.
That being said, I decided to confirm and test this by setting up a test…
Schema.org Actions: What Is It?
On Friday, I reported at Search Engine Land that Schema.org launched Actions, a new markup that describes actions that have taken place in the past [past actions] or could take place in the future [potential actions].
Note, Schema…
How SEOs Would React To Google Dropping Links As A Ranking Factor
As you know, Yandex, the popular Russian search engine…
62% Say Attacking Google’s Matt Cutts Is Wrong
I am happy to say that the majority of our industry thinks that attacking Google’s head of search spam, Matt Cutts, as wrong…
Google Hot Searches Email Subscriptions
Google announced you can how subscribe to Hot Searches for any country or the top US charts via email.
This way…
Google Penalizes PostJoint Over Guest Blog Links
It seems Google has gone after yet another guest blog network that is being used by SEOs for link building purposes. The link network is named PostJoint and has gone on record that they are different from MyBlogGuest, which was penalized a month ago.
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Google AdSense Quality Score Details Wanted
We all know that Google AdWords used quality score as a major factor with ranking ads and with that, they have added features over the years to communicate to advertisers how they can improve their quality score…
Google Q1 2014 Earnings: Paid Clicks Drop, While CPC Holds
This week, Google announced earnings and the buzz around the industry is that they missed their marks. Google blames the results on the purchase of Nest.
Google AdSense Ad Review Center Improved
Google announced they have made major improvements to the Ad Review Center within Google AdSense.
The ad review center lets publishers monitor and approve/reject ads from advertisers. The new features make it easier for publishers to monitor and make…
Danny Sullivan: 18 Years Covering Search
I’ve been writing about search for over 10 years now but Danny Sullivan yesterday celebrated his 18th year anniversary of covering search.
Danny posted the accomplishment on Google+ saying…
Video Recap of Weekly Search Buzz :: April 18, 2014
This week I noticed a lot of chatter around a possible Google update, maybe related to Panda that Google denied. Facebook is working on new spam algorithms for the news…
Google Brings +Post Ads To All With 1,000 Google+ Page Followers
Google announced they are expanding the +Post Ads to all advertisers who have over 1,000 followers on their Google+ Pages.
In addition…
XE16 Comes To Google Glass With KitKat OS & More Features
Google Glass announced on Google+ that they have pushed out a new software update to Google Glass users, this version jumps from the old version of XE12 to XE16.
The biggest change is that it updates the OS to KitKat…
Google’s Cutts On Big SEO Myths Are…
Google’s Matt Cutts released a video on the topic of some of the largest SEO myths out today.
He broke it down into two categories:
(1) Ads and their influence on organic results.
(2) Quick fixes to break Google’s algorithm.
On the ads from…
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Google Shopping Results In Knowledge Graph Carousel
Spotted via Pete Meyers and posted on Google+, it seems Google is testing showing paid results, i.e. Google Shopping results, product listing ads, directly in the Google Knowledge Graph carousel…
Google Analytics: Visits Now Sessions & Unique Visitors Now Users
Google Analytics has quietly changed the terminology they use within the reports to change what they call “visits” and “unique visitors.”
Now…
Daily Search Forum Recap: April 16, 2014
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:
70% Said Google’s Penguin 2…
Only 13% Claim Google’s Disavow Tool Worked For Them
We ran a poll late last year asking did Google’s disavow link tool work for you or not?
As you know…
Hiring A Black Hat SEO? How Much Do They Cost?
A Black Hat World thread has one newish Black Hat SEO asking others what to charge for his services.
How much do SEOs in the darker spaces charge for their time and services…