Video Recap of Weekly Search Buzz :: March 7, 2014
It was a slower week in search news but we still had a nice number of topics in the SEM space. First we covered the past month in Google search news…
Google AdWords API Upgrade Adds Shopping Campaigns, Search Funnel & More
Google released a new version of the Google AdWords API, v201402…
Google’s Bigger Search Results Are Buggy But It’s A Test
We’ve covered many Google user interface tests and we’ve seen the bigger Google fonts in the search results…
Google Notifies Google Places Users Of Duplicate Listings Issues
Google is upgrading more and more businesses to the new Google business local dashboard and during that process is running into issues with old listings being duplicate…
Google: Don’t Worry If Your Google Webmaster Tools Preview Is Wrong
You know that often, Google Webmaster Tools shows an image preview of your site’s home page on the dashboard listing view of your site profiles within Google Webmaster Tools.
Google’s Matt Cutts On Percolator, Dremel & Pregel
I doubt this will help you with your SEO and rankings but hey it is always fun hearing an engineer talk about some really technical details about how certain things are used at Google…
Wire Transfers Now Available For Google AdSense Publishers In India
Google quietly announced in the Google AdSense Help forums that they are now extending their beta program for publishers in India to get paid via wire transfer over check.
In fact…
Frustrated SEOs: Try The Whack-a-Cutts Game
Since these two SEO games came out, there has been many more following the trend of making themed games around the search community…
New Sponsored Google Knowledge Graph Results
We’ve seen Google Knowledge Graph ads before but those ads lead to local results and were more subtle.
Aaron Wall spotted a new format for Google Knowledge Graph ads for a search on [dont make me think]…
Google: Don’t Disavow Links Based On Arbitrary Metrics
The other day we covered that you do not need to and likely shouldn’t disavow off topic links.
Today…
March 2014 Google Webmaster Report
It was a pretty crazy month in February and if you want to catch up quick on all the webmaster related Google topics…
Got A Google Penalty? Should You Start A New Site?
As more and more Google penalties become more transparent, recovering from them seems to get harder. Even when you do recover…
Google’s Matt Cutts On What Is A Paid Link
Yesterday, Google’s Matt Cutts posted a detailed video trying to define how Google’s manual spam fighters determines what is a paid link versus what is not.
Now, 99% of the time…
Matt Cutts Gave Specific Details On Your Google Link Penalty
What would you pay to get specific actionable advice from Google on how to remove your unnatural link penalty…
Google Places Bulk Upload Listings Known Category Errors
There is a known error with Google Places where when you use the bulk upload listing feature, your business categories may go bonkers.
A parking lot company said they are “having an issue” with their Google Maps listings…
What’s Up With The Fes Marker In Google’s Matt Cutts Videos?
You, like me, have likely watched hundreds of videos from Google’s Matt Cutts. And if you have, you’ve likely seen the map in the background with the pin over Fes…
Google Glass Explorers Upset Over Lack Of Software Updates But Promised Big Stuff
On Friday, there were tons of Google Glass Explorers eagerly awaiting the XE14 software update from Google. There was a private thread with hundreds of posts asking where is the update. Google alluded there would be an update in February, but it neve…
Google Menus Now Officially Live But No Details For Webmasters
Late Friday, Google announced on Google+ that they now show restaurant menus in the search results. This is something we noticed
Google: You Don’t Have To Disavow Off Topic Links
A Google Webmaster Help thread has Google’s John Mueller responding to webmaster concern over off topic links.
Off topic links are when sites that are unrelated to you are linking to your site…
SEOs From Large Companies Can’t Seek Out Google Webmaster Help?
I cannot tell you the number of SEOs who work at high profile companies who have gotten themselves in trouble by asking or posting information in a public Google forum. It is sad to see because sometimes that can lead to the SEO losing their job…
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