Google On IE11 Displays Left Aligned
Google and Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 11 are not acting nicely together. In short, if you are using IE11 and you do a search at Google, the results will be extremely close to the left hand side of the page…
Google: Duplicate Content Pollutes 25-30% Of The Web
We all know Google’s take on duplicate content, it is not spammy, it is not something they have penalties for unless you are being completely evil…
Did Google Soften The EMD Algorithm?
Over a year ago, Google introduced an algorithm to reduce the amount of exact match domains from showing up when those EMDs are not as useful as other sites.
Some at…
Daily Search Forum Recap: December 16, 2013
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web.Search Engine Roundtable Stories:
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Anglo Rank Promises To Rebuild After Google Link Penalty
As many of you remember, Anglo Rank was penalized outwardly by Google, as Google keeps targeting more and more link networks.
Shortly after, some customers began receiving Google penalties and the owner of Anglo Rank has been reversing link orders s…
Google Asks Searchers: Did You Find This Ad Useful?
We’ve seen this before on the organic and paid side, where Google explicitly asks the searcher, did they find the ad or the search result useful. Instead of using actions to measure, in this case…
Backlinks.com: The Next Link Network Penalized By Google
Google’s head of search spam, Matt Cutts, publicly outed on Twitter another link network that Google has penalized. Matt Cutts’ new trend is the share a link from the marketing material of the link network and then add a word or two to say the opposit…
Google Maps Mobile With Google Now Cards
Google announced on Google+ that Google Maps for iOS and Android now support Google Now like features.
If you have upcoming flights, hotel reservations, dining dates, and so forth, you will see the Google Now cards directly in your Google Maps app…
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Google: It’s Not About How Much Or How Many…
Google’s John Mueller gave the typical Google line at this Google Webmaster Help there – quality over quantity…
Google Structured Data Dashboard Adds Error Reports
In the middle of this year, Google released the Structured Data Dashboard for Google Webmaster Tools. Now…
Google Knowledge Graph Gets Ads
I am shocked to see Google testing ads on the knowledge graph so soon! @gfiorelli1 posted a picture on Twitter of the new car knowledge graph that launched a week or so ago with an ad format on it…
Video Recap of Weekly Search Buzz :: December 13, 2013
This week in search, we had Google go after yet another link network…
Google+ Removed From Google AdSense Scorecard
In June of this year, Google added a Scorecard to the Google AdSense home page portal. The scorecard is designed to give publishers a quick snapshot of how well your ad settings, webpages and content are performing relative to other AdSense publisher…
Google Goes Animated With Christmas Search Decorations
Every year, Google adds decorations to their search results for the holidays. They did it a couple weeks ago for Hanukkah and they do it every year for Christmas, Kwanzaa and heck, even Festivus.
This is the first year…
Reporting Offensive Images In Google Image Search
Google has been changing the way they let searchers report offensive images for years now.
Now…
New: Google AdSense Custom Ad Sizes
Google announced AdSense publishers can now create custom ad size units for both text and display ads on their web sites…
Google Inviting Glass v1 Explorers To Upgrade Before Christmas
Last night, along with other original Google Glass Explorers…
Baby’s First Word: Google
Typically a baby’s first word is eat, mommy, daddy, no, yes, and stuff like that. But would you imagine that a baby’s first word would be Google…
Google Maps: Click To Get Coordinates
When it comes to getting the longitude and latitude of specific locations, I am a junky. Weird, I know, but I use it often. I actually have a bookmarklet to grab the lat/long from the old Google Maps.
But with the new Google Maps…
Google’s NSFW Pearl Necklace Search Result Removed
Yesterday, at Search Engine Land, I covered how the search for the term [pearl necklace] on Google would return an inappropriate and mostly irrelevant search result in the top positions…