Category: Other Google Topics

Google published on the Google research blog an interesting stat. If you register your site with the Google Search Console and you are hacked…

Yesterday, I did a one-on-one interview with former Google spam fighter, Murat Yatagan, on Google+. Murat hasn’t worked at Google in about a year, but he was very involved in spam fighting and webmaster outreach…

One thing well known about the culture within Google is the heavy level of sarcasm and layers of jokes that go into the conversation there…

We, including myself, can often come off as giving Googlers a really hard time when it comes to certain things that happen there…

Last week, Wednesday night during SMX West, Google brought back the Google Dance. It has been several years since Google hosted the event and it finally returned!

We’ve talked a lot about Google HTTPS over the years and truth is, it seems the ranking benefit is too small to migrate to HTTPS just for that reason. In any event, I migrated this site and others to it and I also launch new sites under HTTPS…
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Google will now remove content through the Right To Be Forgotten legislation from the search results of searchers in those regions. Prior, it was removed only when searchers used the Google cTLD, i.e. Google.co.uk, Google.de…

Matt Brittin, Google’s President, EMEA Business & Operations is now all over social media buzzing about he refused to answer how much he is paid by Google…

I am sure you’ve heard the news that Google’s head of search, Amit Singhal, has announced on Google+ that after 15 years he is leaving the company. He is retiring. Why…

Last week we reported that there was a bug with Google News submissions where Google was not showing when a site was rejected or not accepted into Google News after it was submitted for inclusion. That bug has now been fixed…

Supposedly about a month ago, Google’s YouTube launched a way to move your YouTube Channel from one Google+ profile page to another.

The new help documents are over here and the process is pretty straight forward, however, the changes cannot be undone…

April Fools today… The Google Webmaster channels on both Google+ and Twitter shared a April Fools Prank on Google Panda 5 and Google Panda 6 release…

Matt Cutts, Google’s on leave head of search spam, announced on his personal blog his April Fools prank at http://seo.ninja named AutoSEO.

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This is not easy for me to announce, being that I’ve been covering Google and search quality here for well over ten years. It is both sad as well as exciting for me to tell you the news — I am going to be taking over the role of Google’s head of se…

Google announced this morning that it is “very important” to make your mobile web sites user friendly and devoted a whole blog post about the importance of autocomplete on mobile web sites.

Google said:

Making websites friendly and easy to browse fo…

There is a new addictive search game out there now at googlefeud.com that is basically the game of Family Feud but based on Google Auto Suggestions.

You are able to pick a category and the game gives you a beginning of a search phrase…

Google has tons and tons of help and support pages across all their services. From using Google search to SEO related help all the way to how to use Google+ or Blogger. But now they are starting to show which Googler wrote the vast majority of the help…

In a Google+ hangout from a few weeks ago, a webmaster named Robert O’Haver, asked Google’s John Mueller if Google’s Matt Cutts will return.

As you may remember…

I spotted a thread at the Google Webmaster Help forums where a webmaster was a bit skeptical about getting an email from Google offering one-on-one help to fix his hacked site. So he posted it in the forums and Google’s Eric Kuan said it is legit and …

First noticed by Matt Gibstein and posted on Twitter last night was a “chat” button available for searchers to click on to initiate a Google Chat or Google Hangout chat session with the business…