Google AdSense New Formats: Blue Circle Arrows & Cleaner Spaced Ads
Google is testing a new AdSense ad format. The new format has a whiter and cleaner feel, with blue circle enclosed arrows, with hover over animations that expand the ad. The old format had block arrows…
Weird Google Maps iOS Transit Directions Bug
A Google Maps Help thread has a bug report from two different iOS users with the transit directions in the new Google Maps app.
In short…
On 9/11 Searchers Upset With Google’s Small Black Ribbon
On the 12th year of the horrific events of September 11th, the search engines are offering some level of remembrance for those who lost their lives. Google, Bing, Ask.com and others in the search industry have placed ribbons or powerful background ima…
Google AdWords Conversion Import Tracks Offline Sales
Last week, when I was offline, Google announced a new AdWords feature that lets you track offline sales triggered by online search ads.
Give Examples: Is Google Lying To Us?
If any of you read some of the comments left on the stuff I write here, you will see some of the anger and actual hate some webmasters have towards Google and even myself. They think that I am paid by Google to feed you things that they want you to hea…
Every Google Manual Action Impacts Your Site Or Pages On Your Site
For some reason, I was under the impression that there was one manual action that Google sends out to some webmasters that is a warning of something that looks spammy but no negative manual action was taken on the site.
I was wrong…
Microsoft Updates Bing Video Search
Bing announced updates to their video search engine…
Google’s Matt Cutts: The Nofollow Can Only Hurt You When…
Matt Cutts, Google’s head of search spam, posted a video yesterday on the question of, “can nofollow links hurt your site…
Google Maps Drops Wikipedia Layer
It seems as if Google dropped the Wikipedia layer from Google Maps a few weeks ago.
A Google Maps Help thread has dozens of complaints from Google Maps users that the Wikipedia layer is gone.
The layer provided additional content from Wikipedia a…
Google Glass XE9 Snagged My “How Do I” App With “How To” Video Results
Google released an update to the Glass software codenamed XE9, the update is tremendous and adds a ton of search and other features…
Google Authorship Rich Snippets Even Easier Now With Google+ Signin
Google is really encouraging people to (1) sign up for Google+ and (2) mark their pages with rich snippets and authorship for the search results.
Google came out with a way to encourage publishers and webmasters to do both of these…
Daily Search Forum Recap: September 9, 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:
Google Offering Links To Yell, Yelp…
Do You Like The New Yahoo Logo?
Yahoo announced its new logo this past week and it has now been on the Yahoo properties for the past few days. You’ve had time to adjust to it and see how it blends into the site.
What do you think of it…
Bing News Updates: Adaptive Design, Trending & Facebook & Twitter Content
Bing announced a major overhaul of the Bing News portal.
The first thing you will notice is the new look. The new design is very basic, but allows for an “adaptive design,” so that it works on all devices. Yes, tablet…
Google Calls DMOZ Link Unnatural By Mistake
Dave Cain posted on Google+ that his client received an unnatural link warning via Google Webmaster Tools and one of the two examples given was a link he has from DMOZ, the Open Directory Project…
Google Offering Links To Yell, Yelp, 118.com & Other Local Search Providers
I can’t remember when, but Google made a concession in the EU to provided easier access to other local search providers in their own search results. This came after a lot of pressure in the EU. But that may be live now…
Google: Alright, We Will Give You One Year Worth Of Top Search Queries In Webmaster Tools
On Friday, Danny Sullivan reported at Search Engine Land that Google is planning to give webmasters a year worth of top search query data within webmaster tools.
Currently, Google only provides 90 days worth of this data…
Google Maps Mobile Adds Dynamic Re-Routing
Google Maps announced this week on their Google+ page that you can now use “dynamic re-routing” on your Google Maps app while you are driving with GPS directions.
Google said…
Only 7% Claim Full Recovery From Google’s Penguin 2.0 Update
Yesterday we covered the poll results of those impacted by Penguin 2.0 and today I wanted to share the results from our June poll asking how many of you recovered from the Penguin 2.0 update…
Publisher: Yahoo Ranks Above Me For My Content
A week ago, we shared the news that Google is collecting information on small sites that should rank better in Google.
Well…