Google: We Want Your Feedback On Search Policies. Really?
Google posted on their blog asking searchers to fill out this form to provide feedback to Google on their search policies…
6 Months Later, No Google Toolbar PageRank Update…
It has now been over six months since the last widespread Google PageRank update. The last update was in early February, where users spotted changes to the Google Toolbar PageRank data.
Since then, I have not seen a major Toolbar PageRank update from…
Video Recap of Weekly Search Buzz :: August 23, 2013
Busy week in search at the Search Engine Roundtable. First I discuss a possible Google update that hit ground a few days ago. then I go into how AdWords lets you tie your Webmaster Tools account together and build a paid and organic report into one…..
Google Definitions Adds Synonyms, Sample Uses, Origin & More
Google has pushed out a major upgrade to their definitions user interface, adding an expandable box with synonyms, ways to use the word in sentences, the origins of the word, translation, use over time and more…
Google AdWords & Webmaster Tools Team Up With Paid & Organic Reporting
Google announced yesterday that you can link your AdWords account to your Webmaster Tools account to obtain a combined paid and organic report…
More Google Search Interface Tests In The Wild
Google, as always, is testing user interfaces and here are two more tests. The first is Google is testing a “next” button, instead of showing the pages available…
Google AdSense Adds Opt Out Options For Five Ad Formats
Google announced that you can now opt out of give new ad format options for your AdSense ads.
Google said…
Some Reports Of An August 21/22 Google Update
Virtually all the keyword tools sent out warnings of a major update that hit around August 21st. But the truth is, based on what I am following in the discussion forums, although there were some people talking about an update…
Google’s Musical Logo For Claude Debussy
Today on the home page of Google worldwide is a special musical Google logo for Claude Debussy on his 151st birthday.
The logo appears like a movie but has little actual interaction…
Google Now Adds Ability To See When Your Employees Get To Work
Google announced on Google+ that they have upgraded Google Now features to add in seven plus new types of Google Now card notifications…
Google’s FAQ On Rel Author Says Not For Product Pages
Yesterday on the Google Webmaster Blog, Maile posted and FAQ on using Google authorship, rel=author…
Google’s Matt Cutts: Page Speed Not More Important For Mobile Ranking
Typically, SEO concepts are very logical. You want your pages to be easy to read, you want your title tags descriptive (bookmarks, etc)…
Google: We Know You’re Confused About Manual & Algorithmic Penalties
There has always been a lot of confusion amongst none experienced SEOs about the difference between a manual and algorithmic action by Google. And Google is aware of that and promises to make changes to help clarify the difference between the two…
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Related Ideas Search Coming To Google Keyword Planner
There have been some criticism around the new Google Keyword Planner.
One such critique is that the old keyword tool had an option for “only show ideas closely related to my search terms.” But keyword planner didn’t seem to have that specific option….
Google Maps App With Waze Data
Remember, Google acquired Waze, the awesome user generated mapping software company…
YouTube App With Search & Watch
YouTube announced that you can now continue to watch the videos on your YouTube app while conducting searches on new videos.
Google’s YouTube said…
Google’s Matt Cutts: +1s Don’t Improve Rankings
Moz published a story yesterday showing a high correlation between Google +1s and Google’s search rankings.
Shortly after, Google’s head of search spam, Matt Cutts, went over to Hacker News and debunked it. He said, +1s do not have any impact on search…
Google Places Listings Auto-Upgraded To Google+ Pages
Google has quietly announced in the Google Business Help forums that they have begun automatically upgrading some Google Places listings to the new Google+ pages with the added social features…
Google+ To Move Support Forums To, Um, Google+
I always felt it was weird that the Google+ support discussion forums was in a Google Groups area and not in Google+ communities.
I know communities was not a feature within Google+ on day one but it has been around for a pretty long time now…
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Google AdWords Adds Time Aggregation To Charts
The Google Ads Google+ account and Jon Diorio from the Google AdWords team announced a new small but useful feature available in the Google AdWords console for advertisers.
Now you can control the time aggregation on AdWords charts to show data by day…