Link Spammers Beat Yandex, Forcing Yandex to Change Algorithm
Andy Atkins-Krüger posted an awesome news story at Search Engine Land covering how Yandex is changing their algorithm for some types of queries to no longer count links as a ranking factor.
Yandex is the leading Russian search engine…
Google Maps Wants You To Create Street View Images
Google announced that they want you all to create their street view photos for them using photo spheres…
Mobile Google News Updated
Google announced on the Google News blog that the mobile version of Google News is now updated for Android and iOS devices.
The new look aims at giving users the ability to scan the news quicker and with more options…
Facebook’s News Feed Gets It’s Own Google Panda Algorithm
A week or so ago, Facebook announced changes to the news feed algorithm…
Google+ To Power Google +Post Ads For Display Network
Google announced on Google+ yesterday a new form of display ad powered through Google+ named +Post Ads.
In short, +Post ads allow a brand to take their public Google+ content, photos, videos or Hangouts…
Google’s Matt Cutts: Disavow Links Aggressively
Google’s Matt Cutts released another video this one tries to answer how to remove a penalty for bad link building over a period of time…
Google Panda Impacting Your Mega Site? Use Sitemaps To Recover?
A WebmasterWorld thread has discussion around how to determine which sections or categories of your web site are impacted by Google’s Panda algorithm.
Panda has not gone away and sites are still suffering from not ranking in Google after the Panda alg…
Google On How To Make Better Mobile Web Sites
Maile Ohye, a Google developer lead who has worked on mobile and webmaster topics for a long time, shared on Google+ that she was fed up.
Well…
Google’s Matt Cutts Agrees, Guest Blogging Is Getting Out Of Hand
So Matt Cutts released another video yesterday and this is at least the fourth video on the topic of guest blogging.
The deal is, Google is saying Guest Blogging as a whole is getting spammier by the day. As good things get abused, over time, those g…
Google Penalty Notifications Sent To Anglo Rank Link Buyers
As you know, Google’s Matt Cutts publicly outed that Google went after Anglo Rank’s link network and that the penalties and notifications will go out in a few days…
Happy Thanksgiving 2013 – Here Are Logos From Google & Others
Happy Thanksgiving (and Hanukkah – rare overlap) to all our readers. Today I wanted to share with you the logos, doodles, themes, designs and animations from the search industry…
Apple Updates App Store Search Engine To Handle Spelling Errors
As I reported on Search Engine Land via TechCrunch, Apple has made some updates to their App Store search engine recently.
The most noticeable update is that the App Store will now return search results that have misspellings, typos…
Happy Hanukkah: Check Out Google’s Dreidel Decorations
A search for [hanukkah] or [dreidel] or [menorah] or other Hanukkah related search terms, Google will show dreidel decorations in the Google search bar.
This year, instead of going with Jewish stars like they did in 2012…
Google AdWords Poaching Clients Again?
A senior Google AdWords advertiser and consultant, Whitey, posted in the WebmasterWorld forums that he has seen new cases of Google AdWords employees stealing or trying to poach clients away from AdWords agencies…
OK Google: Give Me A Chrome Extension
Google announced a new Chrome extension that enables the “hotword” for searching Google without hands from your desktop – “OK Google.”
Yes, you can activate a Google search by saying “OK Google.” But only if you first navigate to google.com. Then, y…
Mark Traphagen Creates Virante AuthorRank
Honestly, I am not a fan of tools that measure your reach or popularity but with social and authority becoming more of a factor…
Heaven’s Gate Still Spamming Google Even After Mass Suicide
Hacker News thread points out that heavensgate.com is still live after 16 years. Heaven’s Gate was a religious group/cult where
Google Places For Business Adds Reviews Section
Google announced that Google Places for Business has added a new section for business owners to manage and respond to reviews left on their Google Maps business listings.
Google said:
Today…
Google’s Matt Cutts: Why Google Use To Only Crawl 100 Links Per Page
Google’s Matt Cutts posted a video answering the old question…
Google’s White Ribbon Takes Down The UN Women Web Site
If you visit the Google home page globally, you will see a little white ribbon on under the search box…