Google Wants To See You Really Mean It With Reconsideration Request
A WebmasterWorld thread has SEOs and Webmasters discussing what Google expects or wants to see from a reconsideration request for link issues…
Google: Links Within Widgets Must Be Nofollowed
Yesterday, Matt Cutts, Google’s head of search spam, posted another video on links clearly telling widget makers and those who embed widgets on their own sites that those links should be nofollowed.
He said clearly, “I would recommend putting a nofol…
Erwin Schrodinger, Austrian Quantum Physicist, Honored On 126th Birthday
Today on Google worldwide you will see a scientific looking logo with a cat on it, over a yellow background making up the Google Doodle today. It is to celebrate the life and accomplishments of Austrian quantum physicist…
In-Search Video Google AdWords Ads Not Working
We have confirmed reports in the Google AdWords Help forum that in-search Google AdWords video ads are not working.
Chris, an AdWords advertiser reported the bug last week saying it simply stopped working. He said while in-search ads stopped working….
Google Manual Actions Report Back In Webmaster Tools
Friday we reported that Google launched manual actions within Webmaster Tools, which basically shows you in almost real time if you have any manual actions against your web site.
Shortly after, Google had to take down the tool because of some issue……
Google Skip Redirects Adds Support For rel-alternate-media Annotations
Google’s Pierre Far, their mobile SEO man, announced on Google+ that Google has quietly added support for skip
Video Recap of Weekly Search Buzz :: August 9, 2013
Very busy week in search, so my video is about eleven and a half minutes long – I apologize but I think I sound good in this video. Google launched a new Webmaster Tools feature for viewing your manual spam actions. With that…
Google Guidelines: Make Your Mobile Pages Rendered Incredibly Fast
Earlier this month we covered Google’s revamp of their pagespeed insights tool, where they greatly improve the usability and details within the tool itself.
Last night, Google announced this new tool on the webmaster blog and added new mobile guidelin…
All Of Google’s Manual Actions For Search Spam
As I mentioned a few minutes ago in my story about Google’s new manual spam action viewer – Google has documented all of the manual actions a site may receive for spamming their search results…
Google Webmaster Tools Shows Your Manual Spam Actions
Google announced the introduction of a new awesome feature in Google Webmaster Tools named manual action viewer.
The manual action viewer let’s you see if your site currently has any manual actions applied to it…
Yahoo’s Logo Is Changing, As The Company Changes
Yahoo announced they are changing their logo on September 4th at 9pm PT or midnight of September 5th. The change is a result of Marissa Mayer taking over the company and making huge changes throughout the organization, culture and via acquisitions…
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2013 Local SEO Ranking Factors Released
David Mihm and the folks at Moz released their 2013 local search ranking factors last night. They polled dozens of local SEO experts on 104 different ranking factors and asked hundreds of questions to come up with this report.
You can read the detail…
Google’s Matt Cutts: Don’t Worry About Bad Links, Just Disavow Them
In one of his shortest video responses, Matt Cutts, the head of search spam at Google…
Google AdWords Adds More Conversion Reporting Metrics
Google AdWords has quietly added additional conversion reporting options to the campaigns reporting section. In total…
Google Said Webmaster Tools Links Is Enough But It Is Not!
Two months ago, we quoted a Google search quality representative named Aaseesh as telling us that all the links you need to analyze can be found within Google Webmaster Tools link report. Despite it only being cited as a “sample” of links…
Google AdSense To Detail Policy Violations Going Forward
One of the biggest complaints I see in the forums is from publishers complaining their Google AdSense accounts were suspended or banned but claim they have no idea why…
New Google Analytics Administration Screen
Google has quietly launched a new Analytics administration screen for you to manage your analytics profiles. Now, with the new look…
Beware: Google AdWord Enhanced Campaign Bug Turns Off Video Ads
About a month ago, one Google AdWords advertiser reported a bug with upgrading to enhanced campaigns in the Google AdWords Help forum. He said that as soon as he upgraded, all of his ads stop showing up…
Google In-Depth Articles Goes Live, Here Is How To Be Included
A month ago, we reported tests of in-depth search snippets from Google – well that test is now a reality. Google announced last night that they will show these in-depth articles in the search results when the query is about understanding a broader topi…