SEO Firm Made Of Giants, BlueGlass Is Collapsing
I have this policy of not covering topics here if (1) there are not communities talking about it in forum like settings and (2) if that community is not open, I won’t talk about it. I only cover public threads and content that is available to anyone t…
Google Will Send Notifications To WWW & Non-WWW Webmaster Tools Accounts
Google’s Matt Cutts said in the ongoing Mozilla penalty discussion at Google Webmaster Help that Google will generally send the webmaster tools notification to both the non-WWW and WWW verified Google Webmaster Tools account.
Matt Cutts said the reaso…
Google Authorship Snippet Drops More By… Link
Google has quietly changes the authorship snippet within the search results. Google has removed the “more by” author link, which was added in 2011 and has changed the click behavior of some of the links in the authorship snippet…
Google Drops Instant Previews Over Low Usage
Google has officially dropped the Instant Previews from the search results due to “very low usage” by searchers…
Earth Day Logos From Google & Bing While Chinese Search Engines Show Earthquake Logos
Today is Earth Day throughout the world and Google, Bing, Ask.com, and also YouTube have special logos or themes today for the day. But as many of you know, China had a major earthquake yesterday killing almost 200 people and injuring an astonishing 1…
Samuru: A Search Engine Designed By An SEO
Brandon Wirtz, an SEO who started his own search engine named Samuru…
Google Captures Murder: Body Being Dragged Into Lake?
There are these internet rumors going around that Google Maps Satellite view captured a man dragging a body into a lake in broad daylight.
You can see the satellite imagery yourself on Google Maps at 52.376552…
Can User Generated Comments Cause A Google Penalty
There is this theory going around by “giveaway bloggers” that non-spammy comments can cause a Google penalty. You can read about it over here and over here – where you can see that an SEO told this site that they are penalized in Google because of the…
Google Creates iOS App To Manage Your Google Places Listing
iClarified spotted that Google released (too early) an iOS app that lets businesses manage their Google Maps listings.
I am not kidding you…
Google: Pushing Hundreds Of Thousands Of Pages Can Raise A Red Flag
As I covered at Search Engine Land yesterday, Matt Cutts, Google’s head of search spam, posted a video answer to a question Google’s John Mueller asked named Should I add an archive of hundreds of thousands of pages all at once or in stages…
My Google Traffic After My Linking Penalty Was Lifted
As promised, I wanted to share my traffic changes after I’ve nofollowed my paid links. I already shared with you the interesting reconsideration request submission, response and analysis…
Google’s Paid Clicks Up 20% But CPC Prices Fall 4% In Q1 Earnings Report
Google announced earnings last night and reported revenues of $14 billion and profits of about $3.5 billion for their first quarter of 2013. The key highlights for search marketers are on paid clicks and cost-per-click…
Google To Require Publishers To Agree To New AdSense Terms & Conditions
Google announced they have updated the Google AdSense terms and conditions.
Google did not link to the terms and conditions that are being updated but did pull out the two major changes to the legal agreement…
Google AdSense Message Indicator Showing One For Some Publishers
A Google AdSense Help thread has some AdSense publishers acting concerned over noticing a message indicator showing one unread message but when they click through…
Google: Disavow Links Even If Removed As A Best Practice
A Google Webmaster Help thread has Google’s John Mueller implying that it may be “good practice” to list the sites and URLs in your disavow file even if they links were removed and especially if you simply requested the webmaster to remove them…
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Video Recap of Weekly Search Buzz :: April 19, 2013
Interesting week in the world, with the Boston bombing and the stuff going on this morning. I did my best to do the search…
First Day With Google Glass Highlights
+Brandon Allgood was one of the first Project Glass Explorers to receive and play around with Google Glass and he shared his experience on Google+…
Poll: Blocking Google Images After Image Search Traffic Drop?
In late January, Google launched a new design change for Google Image search. Google said they’ve “seen a net increase in the average click-through rate to the hosting website.”
But webmasters are not seeing that or believing that…
Google Affiliate Network Shuts Down Again
Google announced last night that they are closing their Google Affiliate Network.
Just so you know…
Google Quick View Badge Confirmed
In December we reported some signs of a new test of something called Quick View within the Google mobile search results.
Well, Google has confirmed that this is a test yesterday on their search blog and on Google+…