Google Sochi Olympics Logo For Olympic Charter & Gay Rights
Minutes ago, Google posted their first Google Doodle, aka Google Logo, for the The Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics that kicks off tonight. The logo shows the colors of the Rainbow Flag, also known as the LGBT pride flag…
February 2014 Google Webmaster Report
Here is the monthly recap for all Google webmaster related topics for the past month. January was a pretty wild month with a pretty big update happening on January 8th and 9th, which Google did not confirm…
Google+ Local Pages Now Show To User Before Pin Verification
Google’s Jade Wang posted an announcement in the Google Business Help forum thread that they are changing how Google+ local pages work for business owners.
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Google & EU Settle Antitrust Claims Over Competitor Links
Yesterday, news broke via Bloomberg that Google and the European Union have settled over the anti-trust probe regarding rival links in the search results.
Google will dodge EU fines and any finding that it discriminated against competing sites…
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Google’s Ingress Coming To iOS?
There is some speculation that the incredibly addictive and obsessive Ingress app for Android, designed by Google years ago, is coming to iOS.
Brandon Badger from Google, the Niantic Labs at Google…
Google Giving Some Business Owners 3 Weeks To Save Their Google Place Listing
Some business owners are reporting getting emails from Google and are asking if this is legit in the Google Business Help forums.
The emails are legit and coming from Google and the subject line is…
Google NoFollows Google+ Profile Links
Folks on Google+ noticed that Google+ has recently began nofollow many of the links in your profile by default.
So if you visit my profile page on Google+, the section where it says “Links”, most of those, if not all, seem to be nofollowed…
Playable YouTube Videos Directly In Google’s Search Results
Moz on Google+ noticed a new search result format showing up in the search results for videos.
When you do a search that triggers videos, I think only from YouTube…
Microsoft’s New CEO Is A Search Guy, Satya Nadella
Yesterday, Microsoft named Satya Nadella their new CEO. Yes, he is a familiar name for many of you because he has been involved in search at Microsoft for years.
He keynoted at one of the first, if not the first…
Google Sends Manual Actions For Rich Snippet Spam & Spammy Structured Markup
Rich snippet spam has been an issue since rich snippets came out and eventually added a report rich snippet spam tool. Then Google dropped the amount of rich snippets showing in the search results recently…
Google AdWords Flexible Conversion Counting
Google sent an email to AdWords advertisers yesterday announcing a new change to how Google will allow you to customize how you count conversions.
Kim Clinkunbroomer posted the details on Google+ about what is launching this month in AdWords…
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Google To Bring It On German Link Spammers
Yesterday, Google posted a stern warning on the German Google Webmaster blog telling webmasters that you will be penalized for unnatural links.
Matt Cutts then Tweeted the same warning saying A reminder…
Google’s New Search Funnels Attribution Modeling Tool
Google announced on Google+ a new AdWords tool for determining the attributions that lead to your conversion. The tool is named the Search Funnels Attribution Modeling Tool…
Facebook Turns 10, Why No Google Doodle?
As you may have heard, Facebook turned 10 years old today. Mark Zuckerberg posted his thoughts about this on Facebook. I’ll embed his post below, but it is a major milestone for Facebook. It has changed the internet in a major way…
Can Yahoo Make A Come Back Into Search?
Over the weekend, news broke that Yahoo’s CEO, Marissa Mayer, has started initiatives to get Yahoo back into building its own search technology.
As you may remember…
SMX Israel 2014 Recap: Our Best Show Yet
It is now 9 days after SMX Israel 2014 and honestly, I am still recuperating. The conference completely wiped me out, you can see what I mean if you watch my video from a few days ago. But it was worth it…
Expedia Still Under Google Penalty Two Weeks Later?
Two weeks ago, we reported that Expedia may have been penalized by Google for unnatural links…
Google Kirkland Construction Site Has A Seahawks Logo
Tim Milligan, a Engineering Manager at Google, posted a picture a few days go on Google+ of the Google Kirkland construction site. Yea…
DMOZ Drops Over 1 Million Sites From Directory?
Did you notice that DMOZ, one of the oldest and largest human crafted web directories, has removed over 1 million sites and 10,000 editors from their directory…
Google Places Business Adds 1,000 Categories Internationally
Jade Wang from Google’s Places, business help, team posted in the Google Business Help forums that they have greatly expanded the business category support by adding over a 1,000 new categories internationally…