Bing Turns 4: Was There A Search Update?
As you can see from the design of this site today, we are all decked out celebrating Microsoft’s launch of Bing four years ago today.
But that is not why I am writing this story, there seems to be some chatter, again…
Google’s Matt Cutts: Text Link Ads Link Sellers Targeted
A few weeks ago, we reported that Google busted another link seller network. We didn’t know which link seller network it was – until now. Matt Cutts, Google’s head of search spam, tweeted last week that the link network they went after was “TLA linkse…
Google (Rich Snippets) Structured Data Markup Helper Tool
In December 2012, Google launched a data highlighter tool that aided more novice webmasters in creating structure data for use in the rich snippets in Google’s search results.
Google announced that they added more data types support to that tool…
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Google’s Official Tips On Internationalizing A Web Site
Google’s Jens O. Meiert and Tony Ruscoe posted on the Google Webmaster Blog 6 quick tips for international web sites.
This is a topic we covered a lot and honestly is somewhat foreign (pun) to me.
The 6 tips in short are:
1. Make pages I18N-ready …
Have Links To Disavow? Google Says Google Webmaster Tools Link Report Is Enough?
Last week I wrote about How Do You Uncover Your Spammy Links? There I said, when you want to disavow links or have them removed, using Google Webmaster Tools link report is probably not enough. You probably need to use third party tools as well.
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Video Recap of Weekly Search Buzz :: May 31, 2013
This week in search news we posted a poll where I want to know if you were hit by the Penguin 2.0 update…
Bacteria! Julius Richard Petri & The Google Petri Dish Logo
On the Google home page today, in virtually every localized version of Google, is a special and awkward looking logo for the 160th birthday of Julius Richard Petri. If you look closer, you will ask yourself…
Google Knowledge Graph Attractions Tests
Jason Morton posted on Google+ an interesting user interface for how Google displays attractions or points of interest on a specific city, town, or geographic location…
Google’s Cutts On Internal Links Hurting You
A WebmasterWorld thread asks the question, is having too many internal links with the same anchor text something you have to worry about post Penguin 2…
Google’s Cutts: Your Ugly Face Didn’t Hurt Your Rankings, Penguin Did.
Alex Yumashev wrote a blog post about how authorship lead to a drop in traffic from Google to his site.
He said he noticed this when Google sent him a warning that his traffic suddenly dropped. He noticed his authorship showed up for a specific bl…
Blekko Dazzles Search Results Design But Does That Improve Relevancy?
Blekko announced a major redesign yesterday – from their logo color schemes (dark red to light blue) to pretty much everything you see…
Bulk Upload Your Ads & Ad Groups To Google AdWords
Google announced on the AdWords blog that they now support bulk uploads for ads and ad groups.
This will allow advertisers to download this data…
How Do You Uncover Your Spammy Links?
A WebmasterWorld thread has a webmaster who seems to have been hit by the Penguin 2.0 update. He is now asking how he should go about discovering which of his links are spammy.
He asked in the thread:
The only thing I can think of is that I may hav…
Google AdSense Updates Ad Review Center
Google announced even more improvements to the ad review center which launched back in 2007 and has been getting continued improvements over the years…
Google’s Cutts: Nofollow Links In Advertorials Or Else!
Yesterday, Google’s head of search spam, Matt Cutts posted a video on Google’s stance on using advertorials in a way to manipulate Google’s search results.
As you can imagine, if you use advertorials …
The Google Glass Tefillin Stand: Geeky Religious Marketing
A reader who is actually an ex-Googler and orthodox Jew, forwarded me an email he received from the Chabad of Stanford that was titled “Google Glass Tefillin Stand.”
Slow Motion Option Added To YouTube Editor
One of the biggest complaints I get about my search videos is that I talk way too fast. I get that complaint in general about the way I talk, but when you have thousands of views on each video, I know I should slow down…
Google AdWords Weekly Reports No Longer Just On Mondays
Google quietly announced on Google+ a change on how weekly scheduled AdWords reports can be emailed to you.
Prior, when you scheduled your reports to be emailed to you on a weekly cycle, it would only arrive on Monday. Now…
Google Shares Insight Into Content Removal: 404s Confirmation & More
A Google Webmaster Help thread has some interesting details from Google’s John Mueller about content removal from Google’s index and/or search results.
Some of these points you already know but every SEO and webmaster should understand these. Heck……
Poll: Were You Affected By Google Penguin 2.0?
It has been just under a week since Google Penguin 2.0 (#4) was released and I wanted to gauge in an anonymous poll how SEOs and webmasters were impacted.
With Penguin 1.0, 64% claimed they were hurt by that update. There were very few recoveries si…