Google Image Search Now With Related Search Carousel
Google announced on Google+ that they have added a new way to explore related searches within image search through an image carousel…
Facebook #Hashtags
Facebook now finally supports #hashtags, what took so long? I am not sure. Facebook talks about how this will help solve problems with search, discovery, participation and socially connecting…
Google Search Engineer Defends SEO On Hacker News
Normally it is Googlers defending Google on Hacker News but Ryan Moulton, a software engineer at Google since 2006, who I think works on the Google search team, is defending SEO and the SEO business on Hacker News.
In short, a blogger called out an ema…
Matt Cutts: Google Panda Updated Monthly But Slowly Rolled Out
Back in March, Google said they will stop confirming Panda updates because they are now more baked into the index and algorithm. Well, at SMX Advanced, Matt Cutts of Google announced it is still roughly updated monthly but these updates are rolled ou…
Google Disables AdSense Serving From AdSense Veteran
A WebmasterWorld thread has a nine-year old AdSense publisher claiming he was penalized by Google AdSense for user generated content and without proper notification…
Easier Content Removal From Google’s Search Results
One of the most common complaints I see in the Google forums is how does one remove content from Google’s search results…
Google: Target Last Minute Father’s Day Gift Shoppers With AdWords
Google’s Zee posted a thread offering an AdWords tip or two for the Father’s Day season. As you may know…
Google: Our AdWords Ads Wouldn’t Trigger Page Layout Penalty
In January 2012, Google announced the page layout penalty and then updated it in October 2012, it basically sets to penalize sites with too many ads, too much in the way of your organic content…
Are Your Links Missing In Google Webmaster Tools?
There are new reports surfacing of a bug in Google Webmaster Tools…
Example URLs Now In Google Webmaster Tools Notifications
Last night at SMX Advanced, Matt Cutts announced that now most Google Webmaster Tools notifications will contain example URLs with specific examples of what is wrong with your site…
Google Spam Algorithm For Spammy Queries: Pay Day Loans+
As expected, Google’s Matt Cutts announced last night before his chat at SMX Advanced on Twitter that they have begun rolling out a new algorithm to target spam in more spammy industries in Google.
Matt Cutts explained…
Google Buys Waze, The Loved Mapping Software
Google has officially acquired Waze, or announced they have agreed to acquire them. Waze is a social mobile app GPS, mapping, directions application with a very dedicated and loving user base.
The company is Israeli based…
Google Takes Stance On Mobile SEO: Site Not Mobile Friendly, You Won’t Rank Well.
Google has taken a strong stance on mobile SEO, announcing there will be demotions if your site is not mobile friendly or is misconfigured when it comes to being mobile friendly…
Google Launches A Google+ Dashboard For Managing Business Pages
Google announced yesterday on Google+ a new Google+ Dashboard for businesses that manage their Google+ local page on Google+.
Jade Wang also posted about it in the Google Business Help forum explaining:
Google’s Matt Cutts On Disavow Tool Mistakes
Google’s Matt Cutts posted a video the other day explaining the top six or so mistakes that SEOs and webmasters make when using the disavow tool.
By far, the most common mistake is uploading anything but text (TXT) files…
Google: When You Move, We Will Transfer Your Maps Reviews In Most Cases
Moving is a stressful process for most businesses, adding onto that losing a lot of your data and confusing your Google Maps listing is something that gets added onto that.
But it seems like Google is trying to make that process easier…
Apple’s Siri In iOS7 Powered By Bing
Yesterday was a big day for Apple, announcing iOS 7 at their WWDC event. Part of that announcement was showing that Bing was the default search engine for Apple’s Siri, replacing Google…
Video: Google Glass Search
Googlers Mike LeBeau, who is in charge of search within Glass and Amanda Rosenberg, the product manager of Glass…
Google AdSense Now Showing Similar Sized Display Ads
Google announced a new change to ad serving with in Google AdSense. Now, if Google finds a better performing ad type, even if it is smaller than the ad slot you currently set up, Google will place the ad in that ad slot and place white space around i…
Google In-Depth Rich Snippets Articles?
Google has confirmed that they are testing a new type of search result, maybe a rich snippet, named “in-depth” articles. Peter Meyers (@petermeyers) from Moz emailed me screen shots…