Google Webmaster Tools Cleans Up Navigation & More
Google has announced a clean up of Google Webmaster Tools, where they reorganized the left hand navigation menu…
Google News Goes Larger With Pictures & Adds Sports & Weather
Google News announced three new changes to the Google News portal and is testing another Google News feature.
The announced changes include that Google is adding a sports box on some pages…
Google: You Are Ugly
I just can’t get over how ugly and unattractive some of the Google search results have come with the addition of the expanded local carousel.
I thought maybe I was the only one who felt it was ugly but no, many do. The reactions on Twitter, via email …
Reports: Google AdSense CTR Drastically Drops
There are reports in WebmasterWorld and Google AdSense Help forums of huge drops in the CTR and earnings for Google AdSense publishers on July 1st.
The responses from official Googlers, at least coming second hand from publishers…
Google’s Matt Cutts: Disavow Can Help With Penguin
Just in case anyone had any questions about Google’s disavow tool being able to help those hit by Penguin, Matt Cutts said the tool can help with Penguin…
Google AdWords Adds Competitive Metrics To Impression Share Reporting
Google announced on Google+ improvements to the impression share reporting section of the AdWords reporting tools…
The SEO Community Has Lost A Legend – Ted Ulle (Tedster)
Tedster, as many of you knew him, Warren “Ted” Ulle, has passed away late Thursday night after a long battle with his illness.
I’ll be honest, it is hard for me to write this, knowing how many people he has helped over his 15 or so years in the SEO/…
Google AdSense Finally With Asynchronous Support
You’d thought the day would never come but it has…
Goodbye AltaVista
Late Friday, Yahoo announced they are shutting down AltaVista for good on July 8…
Google Logo Celebrates 100th Tour de France
Tomorrow, June 29th, 2013, will kick off the 100th Tour de France. To celebrate the special milestone, Google has a tasteful animated GIF Google Doodle for the Tour de France.
The 2013 Tour de France will start tomorrow, June 29th and run through J…
Video Recap of Weekly Search Buzz :: June 28, 2013
This week, Google’s Matt Cutts said thee is a multi-week update being pushed out through July 4th. MozCast is showing huge spikes in ranking changes over the past few days…
Google AdWords With Third-Party Reviews In Ad Copy
Google announced a new AdWords extension that allows you to ad third-party reviews dynamically into your ad copy of your AdWords ads…
Google’s Kaspar Szymanski Leaving Google
Kaspar Szymanski, a loved member of the Google Search Quality team, is leaving Google and Dublin to move to Berlin, Germany.
Kaspar is not like most Google search quality representatives…
Ten Google Sitelinks For Domain Searches
Search Google for your domain name, and if that doesn’t work try [seroundtable.com] – you should see ten large sitelinks come up under the main site listing:
Searching for the brand name…
Google Publisher Coming To Search Results With Google+ Logo?
As you know, authorship in the search results is a big deal. In fact, I am missing my face big time in the search results. But now, it seems that Google was testing Google+ company logos in the search results.
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Google’s Search About Number Of Results Easter Egg
This is not new, I actually covered it at Search Engine Land a year ago but never here and I think some of my more geekier readers will enjoy it if they have not seen it. Search Google for [hex], [binary]…
Matt Cutts As Moses In SEO’s Ten Commandments
I am not sure that Matt Cutts will enjoy this too much but hey, if you ever see him at an SEO convention, it may appear as if he is a god…
Google’s Cutts: Dropping ~ Operator Gives Us More Space To Index More Pages
Tuesday we reported that Google quietly dropped the ~tilde operator due to lack of use.
The operator helped searches find synonymous, a form of expanding your query. It was primarily used by librarians and also SEMs looking for keyword research ideas…
MozCast Shows Huge Google Update But SEOs Don’t Agree
Yesterday, MozCast, Moz’s Google ranking volatility tool, reported the highest level of change in Google’s search results in the history of MozCast. 113 degrees hot. Typically…