Thank You Cards From Google AdSense
As you know, Google AdSense turned ten years old the other week and they are celebrating. What you may not know is that Google sent some publishers thank you cards for being with them for 10 years.
The cards were signed by Scott Sheffer…
Video: Google Top Contributors Talk About Challenges & Camaraderie
We’ve talked about the Google Top Contributors a lot here, simply because I have deep respect for what they do on a day to day basis…
Google’s Cutts: Add User Satisfaction Poll To Your Site
Google’s Matt Cutts reshared a post on Google+ about Google consumer surveys adding a free feature for publishers to add code to their site to poll their website visitors if they like the pages…
Linking Your Google AdWords & Analytics Accounts Now Easier
Google announced it is now much easier to link your AdWords account to your Analytics account.
To do so, go to Google Analytics and click on the Admin section. Then click AdWords Linking in the Account column…
Google Search Box Gets A Rainbow For Gay Pride Month
Search Google for [gay], lesbian], [homosexual] or related terms and you will see Google convert the search box to…
Antoni Gaudà Gets A Google Logo
Antoni Gaudí, a Spanish architect born in Reus, in the Catalonia region of Spain, was remembered by Google on his 161st birthday.
He was born on June 25, 1852 and died at the age of 73 on June 10…
Notice: Google Places Users, Do Not Edit Those New Categories
Jade Wang from Google’s local business team announced in a Google Business Help thread that if you see new categories in your business listings, please refrain from updating them…
Google Kills ~Tilde Search Function
As I reported at Search Engine Land via Google Operating System – Google has decommissioned the tilde (i.e. ~) search operator from working.
Google’s Dan Russell, a Search Research Scientist…
Google AdWords Keyword Tool Redirecting Advertisers To Planner Tool
Frederic Chanut shared on Google+ an interesting Google AdWords bug with the keyword tool.
Some are reporting that when you login to your AdWords account and click on the tools drop down and select the keyword tool…
Google AdWords Report Shows How Your Campaigns Change With “Top Movers”
Google announced a new reporting tool to see how your campaigns are moving in terms of changes to your budgets and clicks.
In addition, when possible, Google will try to explain why the change happened. At least…
Google’s Matt Cutts: Multi-Week Update Rolling Out
For the past week or so, I’ve been seeing a lot of chatter around a Google updating happening. The thing is…
RSS No Longer Supported By Twitter Search
Seems like a week or two ago, Twitter has done away with their support for RSS.
Taylor Singletary from Twitter support said in a Twitter Help thread…
Screen Shots Of The New Google Webmaster Tools Structured Data Error Report
Google is now inviting webmasters to try out the new Webmaster Tools structured data error reports.
I signed up for the beta a few weeks ago and was invited yesterday to check out the reports. Fortunately for me, but unfortunately for you…
Google AdWords Inventory-Aware Campaigns Scares Some Advertisers
Google announced that the DoubleClick Search inventory management feature announced in August of last year is now integrated with Google AdWords – if you want.
Basically it integrates with your AdWords campaigns and your Merchant Center feed and build…
Google AdSense Requiring Publishers To Resubmit Tax Information
Last week, I logged into my AdSense account to see the Pong game and noticed my payments were on hold because I needed to resubmit my IRS tax information…
Video Recap of Weekly Search Buzz :: June 21, 2013
This week in search, we reported a possible small Google update. Google’s Matt Cutts was targeted in a black hat spam payday loan mockery. However…
Google Fixes Links Report In Webmaster Tools
About nine days ago Webmasters started noticing an issue with the link report within Google Webmaster Tools. Then the issue grew and more and more webmasters noticed a bug in Webmaster Tools where the link count dropped significantly from what Google …
Google Gets Summer Solstice 2013 Right But First Day of Winter Wrong
Today may be the first day of summer and/or winter depending on where you are. But one thing for sure, if you are in Australia…
Google Links Reconsideration Request FAQs
Two of my favorite Google Search Quality folks, Kaspar Szymanski and Uli Lutz…
Google, Am I That Ugly? Google Drops My Face From Authorship
I know I am not the prettiest guy in the world or even in the SEO space – probably very far from it – but why would Google drop my authorship image for this site…