Google To Split Google News User & Publisher Forums
Forever, Google had a single Google forum for both Google News consumers (i.e. searchers) and publishers (news publications) to share and post their complaints in. So you would have people complaining about the quality of the Google News results and a…
Google Dance Going Away But Events Around The World To Continue
Google is sunsetting the Google Dance, well, at least the name Google Dance. Instead, Google is going to rename the Google Dance to something else and continue to host “dozens” of events like it across the world – like they have been doing in the past …
Google Top Contributors Are Now Google Product Experts
Google announced they have rebranded the Google Top Contributors program into what they are calling the Google Product Experts program. Google is updating the various badges and marketing around this program, but the people and what they do as volunte…
Google Chrome 69 & SEO Annoyances
As you know, Google announced version 69 of Chrome last week. The Omnibox now shows answers as you type, HTTPS sites are no longer green and Google also hides a lot of the URL in the URL bar.
Google Dance Zurich Takes Place On September 21st
Google is hosting their very first Google Dance Zurich event on September 21, 2018. Google has been hosting many international Google Dance events outside of the main GooglePlex location recently. This one takes place at the Google Switzerland office…
YouTube Live Streaming Disabled For Many
I am seeing a huge number of YouTube creators complaining in the YouTube Help forums that their ability to live stream on the platform has been disabled. Google has confirmed there is an issue they are looking into fixing so they restore access to live…
Google Managers Permissions Now Shows Email Addresses Of Managers
You can now see the email addresses of managers with access to your Google brand accounts. This works for Google My Business, Google+, YouTube and more.
Screen Shot: Google Chrome Now Labels HTTP URLs As Not Secure
We knew this was coming, Google Chrome, specifically when you upgrade to version 68, it will mark any URL you go to that is not HTTPS as “not secure…
Google Wants SEOs To Interview In Zurich This Thursday, July 26th
Google’s John Mueller posted on Twitter that Google is specifically looking for local SEOs, those based near Zurich, Switzerland to interview about their help and developer documentation…
Google Is Hiring Webmaster Outreach Folks In Mountain View & Hyderabad
Once again, if you are interested in joining Google to deal with webmaster outreach and support related issues and deal with all the abuse they take…
Google Representatives Are People With Feelings
During my morning research for what is going on in the SEO community…
Danny Sullivan Profiled In His New Role At Google By CNBC
Everyone who reads here knows I am a huge fan of Danny Sullivan, I’ve worked with him for over a decade and I’ve got to know him so well over the years that I just respect and value the man so much…
Google Search For Your Account Privacy & Security Settings
Google announced yesterday they are rolling out on Android now and iOS later a new and improved way to manage your Google Account…
YouTube Improves Likes Spam Filters To Block Paid Likes
I found this YouTube Help thread interesting because it talks about how they improved their spam filters around fake likes or dislikes. Specifically, starting yesterday, June 14, 2018…
Google I/O 2018 In Tweets
So Google I/O is going on now, the keynote was yesterday, I’ll embed the video of it below so you can watch it if you want. There wasn’t that much at all around SEO and search…
Google Analytics Asks Customers To Set Their Own Data Retention Policies
The other day, Google emailed their Google Analytics customers with a long email about GDPR and data retention controls. They told their customers that they need to…
Google goo.gl URL Shortener Shutting Down On March 30, 2019
Google announced that they are shutting down, closing, their URL shortener service on March 30, 2019. Google first launched it in December 2009, and less than ten years later Google is going to shut it down…
Meet Gary Illyes Of Google In Australia Next Week
Gary Illyes, one of our favorite Googlers, will be in be in both Sydney and Melbourne, Australia next week and you can meet up with him. Here is where you can meet him on April 11th in Sydney and April 13th in Melbourne…
Google Dance Tokyo Officially Returns On April 3, 2018
We knew Google was bringing back the Google Dance to their Tokyo office but we were unsure on the status of their Google Dance at the Mountain View, GooglePlex, main headquarters…
Chrome Starts Filtering Ads Yesterday – Examples, Observations & The Path Forward
I probably post a guest post here on average once a year and I really wasn’t in the mood to cover how Google Chrome ad blocking works in detail. I saw Glenn Gabe posting tons of examples on his Twitter account…