Category: Other Google Topics

For the past 13+ years I have been causing unnecessary stress for Googlers who work in the search department. I mean, think about it, I hang on every word, tweet, forum post, public message or statement given by these Googlers…

Gary Illyes, the Googler we cite here way too often, is going to be in Boston part of next week. He posted on Twitter that he is open to chatting with folks about “internet things” over coffee, lunch and/or dinner.

So if you are in town…

Google announced that they updated the site status tool with a “cleaner UI, easier-to-interpret language…

Last night, Google had an event for webmasters, SEOs and SEMs called the Google Dance. It was an event they ran annually and then stopped doing for some time until last year and has now done again, a second time in a row…

In a Google webmaster hangout, John Mueller this morning read a question submitted by an SEO that shocked everyone…

Paul Haahr is a top ranking engineer at Google, I believe he is mostly responsible for the ten blue links in the search results – but I may be wrong. In any event, we’ve covered him a lot here despite him being pretty quiet and a low-key person…
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Kara Swisher broke the news yesterday that the former head of search at Google, Amit Singhal…

Maile Ohye quietly announced on Google+ that she is leaving Google. She started with Google almost 12 years ago in September 2005, she was instrumental…

Gary Illyes from Google, one of the webmaster trends analysts that is incredibly helpful to webmasters and SEO, said on Twitter this morning that it is best not to email him for advice or help. Why…

The big Google news yesterday was around the AMP team announcing that you can now easily discover, copy, and share the canonical URL of an AMP page…

Yesterday, Google Search Console sent batches of alerts and notifications to webmasters operating popular CMS (content management systems) such as Wordpress and Joomla to update their version of their CMS if they were out of date…

Google just updated their hacked site resource guide and now, today at 11am ET…

Google’s Nathan Johns announced on Twitter that Google has released “new support content around help for hacked websites.” The new content can be found at developers.google.com/webmasters/hacked…

Last year, after years and years of the Google Dance going on a hiatus, Gary Illyes and Nathan Johns, amongst others at Google, brought it back in 2016. It really acted as an olive branch from Google to the webmaster community and, in my opinion, was …

Amit Singhal, who retired from Google less than a year ago to pursue philanthropic efforts to help children with their education in India, is now joining Uber as a Senior Vice President…

Marissa from Google posted in the YouTube Help forums that if you want to beta test new versions of the YouTube app before they are released, you can.

They opened a method for iOS users to test new versions of the app using TestFlight…

Google has finally brought the Gboard which came to iOS six-months ago, to Android devices. It is named Google Keyboard and should replace…

Yesterday, as first reported by Alex Chitu, Google has posted their annual holiday decorations in the search results. I have an animated GIF of them sliding through above but you can see them live by searching for [christmas], [hanukkah] and [kwanzaa]…

Yesterday, Marissa from the YouTube community team posted in the YouTube Help forums an “update on trending” at YouTube. She said that “we’ve heard questions from…

Over the past few days, before the election, many webmasters were complaining that in their analytics…