Bing Webmaster Tools Adds Malware Re-Evaluation & Geo-Targeting
Bing announced two new features added to Bing Webmaster Tools.
(1) A Malware Re-Evaluation Tool
(2) Geo-Targeting Options
Bing Malware Re-Evaluation Tool
As you may know…
Google Now Available For iPhone/iPad
Google announced that Google Now, the predictive search feature from Google, is now available on iOS devices. You can download it by just downloading or upgrading the Google Search App via iTunes App Store.
Once you do, to activate it, you need to load…
Google: Stop Repeating The Same Keyword Over & Over Again
A Google Webmaster Help thread has one webmaster asking why Google isn’t ranking his seven year old web site.
Google’s John Mueller said that he is over doing it with the web site…
Link Removal Fees Feel Like Ransom Deal
As you know, I have not been a fan of link removal fees, even from link directories.
I spotted this WebmasterWorld thread where
Widest Google AdSense Ad Unit: 970×90
Google announced the support for a new AdSense ad unit, the size is super wide at 970×90.
I cannot even show you a sample of this ad because this site wouldn’t support it properly – it is so wide.
Here is a picture…
Google Showing “See More Results From…” Less Often Now?
A Google Web Search Help thread has complaints from searchers that Google is showing the “see more results from…” feature a lot less often…
3 Years At Google Gets You 60 Massages
Marvin Chow, a Global Marketing Director at Google for the Google+ platform, is celebrating his 3rd year of employment at Google…
Google: Don’t Redirect All Mobile Users To A Single Page
There are two types of people reading this right now, (1) those who are like me and cannot stand when this happens and (2) those who really don’t know it is an issue.
What am I talking about…
Video Recap of Weekly Search Buzz :: April 26, 2013
Google made a nice number of changes to the search results, removing instant previews, adding a green arrow next to the URL, dropping related searches and removing…
Google Analytics Explains The Customer Purchase Journey In New Report
The Google Analytics blog announced a new benchmark tool that is made up of statistics and analytics from 36…
Google AdWords Support Adds Screen Sharing
Zee from the Google AdWords Help forum announced a new support feature from the Google AdWords team. You can now share your screen with the Google AdWords support team.
Why would you want to do this…
Ignore That Last Google Webmaster Tools Notification: Googlebot CAN Access Your Site
In the past twenty-four hours, it seems as if Google sent out a message to thousands, maybe hundreds of thousands, of site owners, that there is a problem with their site.
Typically, you never ever want to ignore a webmaster tools notification but in …
Daily Search Forum Recap: April 23, 2013
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web.Search Engine Roundtable Stories:
Google Has Manually Penalized Mozilla
Mozilla…
Google Has Manually Penalized Mozilla
Mozilla.org, the non-profit organization behind Firefox, Thunderbird and tons of developer oriented tools, was penalized by Google.
Christopher More, Mozilla’s Web Production Manager, posted the details of the penalty in the Google Webmaster Help foru…
Twitter AP Account Whitehouse Hack Leads To Two-Factor Security
I am sure you all know that at around noon yesterday, the Associated Press had their Twitter account hacked by Syrian hackers. The hack was easy but significant…
Google To Mozilla: You Had 12 Megabytes Of User Generated Spam On One Page
Yesterday we broke the news that Google has penalized Mozilla for user generated spam and we did say it was a granular penalty but we didn’t know how granular until today.
It turns out, the penalty was on one specific page…
Google: Searches Don’t Use The Related Searches Option
The other week, AJ Kohn noticed that Google dropped the related searches search option from the options in the search tools
Phone Numbers In Google AdWords Display URLs?
A WebmasterWorld thread has search advertisers discussing the ability and feasibility of using the display URL to show your phone number.
Supposedly…
Google Logo For Ella Fitzgerald, The Queen of Jazz
Today, April 25, 2013, Google is honoring the life of Ella Fitzgerald with a special Google Doodle (logo) worldwide.
Ella Fitzgerald was a prominent singer, vocalist, with the nicknames “First Lady of Song”, “Queen of Jazz”…
Happy Birthday Google’s Penguin Update
Today is the one year birthday/anniversary of the release of Google’s Penguin update – it was released on April 24, 2012.
Since then, we’ve had two additional updates of it on May 24, 2012 and then on October 5, 2012. Now we await the fourth update whi…