Official Google Glass Do’s & Don’t’s
Google Glass actually released their official list of do’s & don’t’s for Google Glass Explorers. I kid you not – they are telling or suggesting what Google Glass Explorers should or should not do with their Google Glass device…
Google’s Dynamic Search Menu Really Bugs Searchers
Just about a month ago, Google revamped their search filters and dropped some filters, while dynamically showing different filters and in different order based on the query. So sometimes the “images” link will be in the second position…
Did Google Penalize Halifax?
Over the past couple weeks there has been a lot of people reporting large brands being penalized by Google and the question has come up if search sites should cover these penalties or not.
Our policy, if the search community is talking about it in a …
Recovery Stories Emerge From Google’s Third Page Layout Refresh
On February 6, 2014, Google did their third refresh to the Page Layout algorithm.
I am happy to report that some webmasters who were initially hit by either the first or second implementations of the Page Layout algorithm have reported recoveries on Fe…
On President’s Day, Google Without Doodle But Bing, Yahoo & Ask.com Have
This should come as no surprise, because I don’t think Google ever had a special Doodle or logo for the President’s Day holiday. Today is no different, Google.com in the US is bare, with a simple Google ordinary logo…
Poll: Should Google Confirm Penalties To Public
The amount of emails I get pointing to a large or small site getting penalized is somewhat insane. There is often a spike in these emails after I cover a penalty on Search Engine Land or here…
SEO Computer Games: Madoogle & Donkey Cutts
This must be a new trend, SEOs making SEO games for the SEO community. Good link bait…
Google Says Switching To HTTPS Won’t Change Your Page Rankings
A Google Webmaster Help thread has someone complaining that his site’s rankings dropped and the one thing he noticed was that his home page and 56 other pages are indexed in Google with the https version…
Google: GoogleBot Follows Up To Five Redirects At The Same Time
Google’s John Muller said in a webmaster hangout on Friday that GoogleBot will follow up to five redirects at the same time, past that, you are probably out of luck.
I don’t believe we had a number, a solid number, on how many redirects Google will fo…
Valentine’s Day From The Search Industry 2014 Edition
Happy Valentine’s Day everyone…
Google’s Advice On Infinite Crawl Pages & SEO
Yesterday, Google’s John Mueller, Maile Ohye, and Joachim Kupke co-authored a technical blog post on the Google Webmaster Blog on how to make infinite scroll pages more search engine friendly…
Google: Reporting Catching Up In Google Webmaster Tools
Earlier this week, we reported about widespread reports of mass impression drops within Google Webmaster Tools. It was so widespread that it had to be a Google bug.
The weird part was, no Google response. Nothing from them saying, we know…
Video Recap of Weekly Search Buzz :: February 14, 2014
This week at the Search Engine Roundtable we cover a nice number of search topics. There was an algorithm refresh for the page layout update on February 6th. Google might have done another update on February 11th or so…
Google Drops New Webmaster Guideline On Not Blocking Google Ads
Yesterday we broke the news that Google added that you should not block Google ads within the technical requirements within Google’s Webmaster Guidelines.
It seems Google has pulled the new line completely from their guidelines…
Google On Valentine’s Day Helps You Make Your Own Chocolates To Share
On the Google home pages today you will see a new interactive logo for Valentine’s Day. The logo let’s you make your own box of chocolates that you can share on Google+, Facebook…
Google Analytics Launching New Navigation Design
Google Analytics is rolling out a new design for their navigation and sidebar. The new design is less bright orange and more gray/white.
Google Analytics said on Google+:
Some of you may have noticed a shiny new nav and sidebar inside of Analytics…..
The Typical Day Of A Google Spam Fighter
Yesterday, Matt Cutts, Google’s head of search spam, posted a long video describing what the typical day is like for a Google spam fighter…
Google On Faceted Navigation: Block A Lot Of It
Google’s Developer Programs Tech Lead, Maile Ohye and Crawl Team, Mehmet Aktuna wrote a detailed blog post on best practices for faceted navigation…
Google February Update: Possibly A Google Panda Refresh?
There is a tremendous amount of chatter going on about Google updating over the past couple days or so at WebmasterWorld.
On February 6th we had the Page Layout algorithm update but that didn’t cause much of a fuss in the SEO forums. But something …
Google Webmaster Guidelines Adds Not To Block Google Ads With Robots.txt
A new update has been made to the Google webmaster guidelines document…