PRISM: Watch Googlers Defend Google
I assume by now you’ve all heard about the U.S. government program named PRISM, where the National Security Agency (NSA) claimed to have direct access to Google, Yahoo, Verizon, etc servers of data…
Maurice Sendak 85th Google Birthday Logo
Today on Google.com and most of Google’s worldwide home pages is a special Google logo…
Google Webmaster Tools Reporting False URL Removals?
A Google Webmaster Help thread has a possible bug report in Google Webmaster Tools.
The issue is…
Video Recap of Weekly Search Buzz :: June 7, 2013
This week I published the monthly Google Webmaster report…
Yandex Islands: Interactive Snippets: A Webmasters Worst Nightmare?
Yandex, Russia’s most popular search engine, announced the launch of a beta of their Yandex “Islands” or as they describe it “interactive snippets,” yesterday in Turkey.
In short, interactive snippets lets searchers complete their goals directly in …
Google Study: Spend More On AdWords To Increase Your Movie Sales
Guess what? Google tells movie producers that if they want their movies to sell better they need to spend more with search ads or AdWords.
Google, I Want To Cloak…
Sometime the shortest responses are the best. A Google Webmaster Help thread has a long detailed example given by a webmaster looking to do some cloaking to make their site work…
Yahoo Search Redesign Live
Yahoo announced they launched a new design for their Yahoo Search search results page.
The new design promises an improvement, by:
Improving the load time of the results
Moving the search results higher up…
Google Advertorials Penalties Are Likely Manual Penalties
As you all know, Google’s Matt Cutts went on record the other day about Google’s stance on advertorials. That is…
Google Maps Blue Dots Missing: User Contributed Photos
In mid-June 2010, Google added blue dots to its maps that display user-submitted images, those blue dots seem to have disappeared for many Google Maps users.
You can still play with them over here but within the Google Maps user interface, for some, …
Google’s Matt Cutts Says Rel=Author Can Help Search Quality
Google authorship rich snippets are everywhere these days and they supposedly do help increase traffic to your web site by improving the visibility of your listing in the search results. But can they help you rank higher…
Google AdWords Now With Images: Image Ad Extensions
Google announced they are testing a new ad extension to allow advertisers within the AdWords product to add images to their text ads.
This should not surprise anyone anymore…
June 2013 Google Webmaster Report
In the past month, we had a major Penguin update, Google went after a link network, likely TLA, Matt announced ten SEO changes coming down the pipe and made a clear stance on advertorials.
It was a busy month…
A Google Update Kicking Into Gear Now?
As I mentioned in our monthly Google webmaster report this morning, it seems like there is an uptick in chatter around a possible Google update kicking off this morning. It is extremely early but I’ve received emails, tweets and other correspondence of…
Google: Your UGC Content May Have Triggered Panda
There is an interesting discussion going on in the Google Webmaster Help forums between an old community site that is supposedly heavily moderated and Google. It is long but in summary…
Google Knowledge Graph Adds Nutritional Information
Now if you want to know how many carbs are in an Apple, you no longer need to go to WolframAlpha, you can just go to Google and ask it.
Google announced they’ve added nutrition information to the Google knowledge graph…
Google’s Matt Cutts: Negative SEO Extremely Rare
Yesterday, Search Engine Watch published a story that was a bit outdated. What they eventually did was redirect the story to an older story which said the same thing.
In short…
Black Hat SEOs: Focus On Your Site, Not Competitors
In the SEO space, there are always two types of personalities. One is those that go head down and focus on improving their own site and then there are those that look at competitors and complain that they are doing things that are illegal…
YouTube Capture: Videos Upload Upside Down
Jennie from the YouTube team posted in the YouTube Help forums that the YouTube Capture app that is currently live is uploading videos upside down.
This seems to be a specific bug to version version 1.4…
Are These Your Best SEO Tips?
A WebmasterWorld thread has Webmasters and SEOs sharing their best SEO tips. The thread was started by moderator, goodroi…