Google Concert Dates Now From Artist’s Official Website
Over two years ago, Google released a new feature to show concert dates in the search results. Yesterday, Google announced that when possible, Google will pull those dates “directly from that artist’s official website when they add structured data mar…
Google: We’re Not Launching Those Huge Banner Ads In Our Search Results
Remember last October when Google was testing huge banner ads in the search results for navigational-like queries…
Google Promises Changes With Not Provided
Danny Sullivan has the long article at Search Engine Land titled Google Reviewing “Not Provided,” Withholding Keywords From Organic But Not Paid Search Clicks…
Google Humans Do Review Every Reconsideration Request
Over the past week or two there has been some people suggesting that Google does not review manually every single reconsideration request…
Google’s Matt Cutts: “World Got Bored” Of Our Search Quality Highlights
No we didn’t! Google’s Matt Cutts on Twitter last night responded to a tweet by A.J. Kohn about Google posting a change log. Matt Cutts responded on Twitter that they did indeed do that, they did, but “the world got bored.”
Google’s Amit Singhal: We’re A Swiss Army Knife, You’re The Corkscrew
Last night at SMX West, during the keynote conversation with Google’s Amit Singhal, Danny Sullivan brought up the knowledge graph a few times and then Dan Barker’s tweet about scraper sites…
Google Pushing Down Navigational Search For Own Google Properties
Christy Kunjumon posted on Google+ the other day an example of searching for a brand on Google and that brand’s search listing being pushed down by Google’s own sponsored result.
Search Google UK for [moneysupermarket]…
Google: Convert One US Dollar To “Proper Money” And Get…
I use currency conversion through Google when I travel a lot but one currency I never thought to convert was “proper money.” A search for [1 USD in proper money] converts $1 US to British Pound Sterling if you are searching while in the UK but when yo…
Google Webmasters Team Now On Google+
I am not sure what took so long, being that Google+ is so important to Google. The Google Webmasters team finally made their own page on Google+ at +GoogleWebmasters and announced it on Google+…
Google In-Depth Article Testing New Design
In mid-2013 Google began experimenting with a new feature in the search results that went live as in-depth articles in August of last year. Since then they have been experimenting with them to make them richer looking but here is a test to make them l…
Google To Slap Link Networks In Italy & Spain
Yesterday, Google’s head spam man, Matt Cutts, issued a stern warning to link spammers in Italy and Spain. This warning will likely be followed up with some unnatural link notifications and ranking penalties within the week…
Google’s Matt Cutts On Good Guys Spamming Google
Daniel from Miami asked Matt Cutts of Google a fun question, which Matt turned around and answered almost a year later in a video response…
Competition Commission Of India May Fine Google $5 Billion
Times of India reports Google may be fined up to $5 billion by the Competition Commission of India.
The commission in India has filed an antitrust investigation and if found that Google has violated anti-competitive laws of the country, it can face he…
Google Will Look At Your Other Sites When You Get A Manual Action
Google does indeed look at the other sites a webmaster or business owner operates when one of their sites gets a manual action – at least, some of the times they do…
Google’s Matt Cutts On Some Penalty Recoveries: “Quite Difficult” To Recover
A hot topic recently is when should you start fresh after a penalty and when should you try to recover.
Google’s John Mueller said it is “never a decision to make lightly” but there may be times where you need to go the fresh route…
Google International Women’s Day 2014 Doodle
12-hours early, Google has posted the Women’s Day 2014 Google Doodle for the annual March 8th International Women’s Day. The logo is an animated video that takes you through some of the women “inspiring” women in history…
Get Google Maps Lite, 3D Or Classic With These URLs
The new Google Maps fully launched a couple weeks ago and some users want to be able to go back and forth between the new and the old version.
Daniel the Google Maps Community Manager shared special URLs that let you either go to the lite version…
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Local SEO Checklist
WebmasterWorld moderator, travelin cat, posted an awesome and free local SEO cheat sheet on WebmasterWorld.
He said he has uses this cheat sheet for “some time” and if you take it step by step in a careful and detailed manner…
Google Updates The AdWords Express Stats Dashboard
Google has announced they have revitalized the AdWords Express dashboard showing more colorful…
Google: Keep URL Length Shorter Than 2,000 Characters
SEOs obsess about the smallest things, even how long is too long for a URL.
A Google Webmaster Help thread has SEOs and webmasters asking how long can they go for a URL. Google actually answered the question…