Google’s Navneet Panda Gets A Published Patent But Was It The Panda Patent?
A couple days ago, Bill Slawski posted his usual Google has a new patent granted, this one he titled Google’s Panda Granted a Patent on Ranking Search Results.
The patent was granted on the 25th and is named Ranking search results…
Google On IE8 Drops SSL & Passes Full Referrer
If you are using Internet Explorer 8 and go to Google, the default experience will not be over SSL and thus the referrer data will pass in full to the webmaster…
Customize Your Google Navigation Bar
Google is rolling out a way to customize the apps and products you want to see in your Google navigation bar.
Google announced this on Google+ saying that this is rolling out over the next few weeks to everyone. Here is an animated GIF of how it will…
Google’s Matt Cutts: Almost All Penalties Are For Quality Violations
The other day, Steve Plunkett asked Matt Cutts of Google, what percentage of penalties/filters are based on violations of Google’s Quality Guidelines versus technology issues or bugs on the webmaster side?
Video Recap of Weekly Search Buzz :: March 28, 2014
This week, we saw a lot of people talking about ranking changes in Google…
Google Notifies Publishers Of A New AdSense Reporting Dashboard
Several Google AdSense publishers are reporting at WebmasterWorld that they received emails from Google the other day notifying them of a new AdSense reporting dashboard that is now available to them…
Site Owner: I Am Going To Be Sued Over Wrong Data In Google’s Knowledge Graph
A Google Web Search Help thread has someone who works at a company named BeyondTrust. The company has a knowledge graph come up for a Google search on the company name…
Now Preview Your Google Places Bulk Uploads
Jade Wang from Google announced in a Google Business Help thread a new feature that was added to the bulk upload tool. Businesses that have a lot of locations and need to maintain their business listings in Google Maps/Local do so with the bulk upload…
Google’s Matt Cutts: Be Careful Linking Sister Country Sites Together When…
In yesterday’s video from Google’s Matt Cutts, Matt addressed a pretty straight forward question we’ve touched on here a few times about how to inform Google of multiple ccTLDs for your business…
Want To Search Bing On Google? You’ll Get Bing SSL Only
Earlier this year, Bing activated SSL as an opt in option, the only way to see it was to go to https://www.bing.com/ directly. By default, Bing, unlike Yahoo and Google, is not SSL.
But if you search for Bing on Google…
Google Does Your Geometry Homework
Google officially announced on Google+ that Google can now solve your geometry homework.
Google said…
Google Now Supports All Sub-Types Of Organizational Schema
Google has quietly added a line to the rich snippets – organizational help document saying they now support “any of its sub-types.”
Here is the new line added to the document:
In addition to the schema.org/Organization type, Google supports any of it…
Google’s Matt Cutts: Don’t Delete Old Disavow Files Before Uploading New Ones
Yesterday, Matt Cutts, Google’s head spam fighter…
A Google Manual Action We Should Worry About & Learn From
There is this big discussion going on at Inbound.org on a penalty Doc Sheldon, a respected SEO in our community, complained about.
In short, he received a manual action on his site for outbound links that sell PageRank or participate in link scheme…
Did Google Do An Algorithm Update Yesterday?
We’ve been noticing a steady and consistent level of chatter in the forums and social networks from webmasters and SEOs around Google’s search results fluctuations…
Google Glass To Get Help From High End Glasses Maker
Google announced on their Google+ page that they are partnering with Luxottica Group, the company behind the brands Ray-Ban, Oakley, Vogue-Eyewear, Persol, Oliver Peoples…
Google Now Warns You Of Traffic Before You Ask
Google announced on Google+ that the new Android Google app update will automatically add to Google Now traffic notifications without you asking for them.
For me…
Chrome Adds Google Now Notifications
Google has added a new feature for those using the Chrome browser on their desktop or laptop – Google Now integration.
Google announced this on Google+…
Google’s Matt Cutts On Telling If Your Site Was Hit By Algorithm
The truth is, for an experienced SEO, this video sheds nothing new about the question on determining if your site was hit by an algorithm or not…
Google Honors Dorothy Irene Height On 102nd Birthday
On Google.com in the US today, Google has a logo honoring the life and contributions of Dorothy Irene Height. She would be 102 today, born onMarch 24, 1912 in Richmond, Virginia and passing away only about four years ago on April 20, 2010 at the age …