Google Maps To Get Shiny New Look & Feel
Google Operating System reported that Google is completely redesigning and revamping the Google Maps user interface and design.
It is a complete overhaul of the design…
Do You Proactively Use Google’s Disavow Link Tool?
A WebmasterWorld thread asks if one should be proactive when using Google’s disavow link tool or not.
The webmaster said with the next generation Penguin update expected to roll out sometime this year…
Google Logo For Saul Bass, The Designer
Today Google has a special interactive and pretty neat logo, aka Google Doodle, for Saul Bass.
Saul Bass was famous graphics designer best known for his graphic work in films produced in the 1940s and 1950s. Specifically…
Google Webmaster Tools Reporting Stalled
Many many webmasters are complaining in the Google Webmaster Help forums that the reporting in Google Webmaster Tools specifically for the “Crawl Errors” section is stalled, delayed and not updating…
Why Did Google Change It To Google Palestinian?
As you may have seen across the news, Google changes the label on Google.ps from “Palestinian Territories” to “Palestinian…
Google Stops Showing Link To Additional Local Results
Now if you search for a local intent query in Google, Google will still likely show results from Google Places/Maps but it will no longer give you the ability to quickly click and see additional results…
Google: Awesome Sites Are Better Than Perfect SEO’ed Sites
When it comes to SEO, I often meet two types of webmasters. The ones that know nothing about how search engines work and the ones that obsess over the smallest SEO concerns. There is often never a balance…
Google Update Brewing? May 2013
There are some very early signs of a possible Google update brewing as of early this morning. A WebmasterWorld thread has some renewed chatter around an update…
Watch Out For Google Rich Snippet Hacking
There are two reports in the Google Webmaster Help of webmasters noticing that the schema aka rich snippet details show third-party data and links in the rich snippet testing tool…
May 30th, Google AdWords Spreadsheet Edit Shutting Down
Google announced they are sunsetting, removing the option for AdWords advertisers to modify their campaigns through the spreadsheet edit option.
The spreadsheet edit option is going away May 30, 2013…
Google AdSense Changes Reports To Remove Invalid Clicks & Impressions
Google announced on the AdSense blog that effective now, Google is removing not just the earnings associated with invalid clicks but also the clicks and impressions associated with those invalid clicks.
Google: Our Business Places Analytics Is A Bit Fickle
It should be of no surprise to our reader or anyone who has a business listing on Google Maps/Places/Local that the Google Places Dashboard has issues and bugs.
It is one of the most consistent complaints from business owners who interact with Googl…
Video Recap of Weekly Search Buzz :: May 3, 2013
This week I reported on a scary possible Google Rich Snippet hacking issue, I hope it is just a display bug. Bing Webmaster Tools added a malware…
Structure Your Google AdWords Account For Mother’s Day
Mother’s Day is a week from Sunday and most children probably still have not bought their mother’s a gift.
So that means you still have time to create your campaigns to target searchers looking to buy your goods and services on AdWords…
Google Maps Images: Can I Use Them?
One of the more common topics I see come up is the question of, can I use images from Google Maps or Google Earth on my web site, on a t-shirt, in the news paper…
Google’s Cutts Say Search Flux Not Meant To Trick SEOs?
Several months ago we covered discussion around a patent document filed by Google named ranking documents…
Google: Don’t Hide URLs In Search Results. We Don’t Like It.
@tecnonetblog, a man who spots probably 2 – 5 Google experiments per week, noticed a new one where Google is not displaying the search results URL in the search results interface…
Exact Match Domainers: Are You Switching Or Improving?
Several months ago, Google launched the Google EMD Update that went after “low-quality exact-match domains in search results,” according to Google’s head of search spam, Matt Cutts.
Since then…
May 2013 Google Webmaster Report
It has been a pretty busy month over at Google, not much in terms of “official” updates but a lot of discussion about changes on both the algorithm side and user interface side. Plus, we learned a lot from Google comments…
Ask Google’s Matt Cutts Your Webmaster Questions
Google’s Matt Cutts has published over 500 videos in the past four years – most of them answering questions related to SEO or webmaster topics. The questions aren’t made up out of the blue, they come from SEOs and Webmasters asking Matt these question…