SearchCap: Google Drops Author Stats, Google Shopping Merchants Ship & Reconsideration Requests
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: For More Accurate Shipping Rates In Google Shopping, Merchant Center Gets Shipping Configuration Tool Google launch…
For More Accurate Shipping Rates In Google Shopping, Merchant Center Gets Shipping Configuration Tool
Google launched new features today to help merchants customize the shipping rates that display in Google Shopping. The shipping configuration tool is now available in Google Merchant Center, and a new shipping label attribute can be used in product fee…
SPONSOR MESSAGE: Live Webcast – Digital Analytics Checkup
Tuesday, August 19th join digital analytics expert Jim Sterne, eMetrics Summit, and Jenny Elliott of CrossView, as they discuss which marketing metrics are essential, and how marketers can analyze and use this data to maximize return.Attendees will lea…
Despite Crackdowns, Tech Support Ads In Search Are Still Cause For Consumer Confusion
Just last month, six international tech support scam operators were ordered to pay more than $5.1 million as a result of charges filed by the Federal Trade Commission in 2012. The scammers typically posed as representatives of major technology companie…
“There Is Really No Way To Optimize For This Algorithm Because The Results Are Random And Make No Sense…”
My initial review of Google’s Pigeon results, Picking Through Google’s Pigeon Droppings…, was posted on SEL yesterday, but it was written last week and a lot has changed since I submitted it. I was going to write an update here but Linda Buquet’s massive review of pre and post Pigeon SERPs does the job well, […]
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Google Rolls Out Publisher Center to Improve News Discovery
The tool allows publishers to make changes to Google’s record of their sites and helps ensure those sites show up in Google News and, perhaps most importantly, that readers find the content.
How To Find The Source of An Auto-Generated Google My Business Page in 30 Seconds
A dentist called me a few minutes ago with a request to help get rid of a Google My Business page that had been automatically created by Google. The page was for his nephew who had considered joining the practice but never did. Somehow Google got hold …
Yelp Reviewers – They May be Weird But Andrew Shotland Appreciates their Humor
By now most everyone has heard about the Union Street Guest House, recently outed for threatening a $500 fine if anyone in your wedding party left a bad review. The pile on has started. As of yesterday there were 161 reviews on their page there and most (146) were in response to the news article […]
In PPC, Low CTR = Low Profits
In my column today, I’ll be talking about a PPC strategy that I first presented at SMX Advanced. Hopefully, it will convince you that pursuing a low click-through rate (CTR) is generally a losing bet. A few years ago, the low CTR strategy might have worked out very well for you — in…
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Google Now Showing Full Text Of Original Reconsideration Requests In Webmaster Tools
Google is now showing those who submit reconsideration requests, their original reconsideration request when Google documents that they’ve received it. Google shows this within Google Webmaster Tools messages are. Previous, Google would just confirm they received it and then hopefully respond…
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Why Letting Go Could Kick-Start Your Creativity
To make exceptional creative work, we must defy conventions and accept the risk of failure. This was the main lesson shared at ‘Here London’ (run by publishing platform ‘It’s Nice That’) – a conference I had the pleasure of attending earlier this summer.
Google Mobile Testing Search Results Snippet Descriptions
Google is testing showing site and search results description snippets in the mobile search results interface. Google launched site description overlays in the desktop results earlier this year and now it appears to be coming to mobile results. I perso…
Google Quietly Removes Author Stats From Google Webmaster Tools Labs
In December 2011, Google launched author stats within Google Webmaster Tools, giving those who used authorship across sites, statistics on how well their content did. Author stats were unique in that it would show you how many impressions and clicks yo…
Bing Ads 2014 Recap
In the past year, Bing has added features like product ads, auto-tagging and online insertion orders to make it easier to advertise on the network.
8 Tools To Effectively Organize Your Link Building Campaigns
One of the most difficult parts of a link building campaign can simply be staying organized. Between gathering contact information, sending messages, making phone calls, reading responses, providing content… there’s a lot that goes into it! Plus, let’s be honest — a lot of things…
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Google News Publisher Center: Webmaster Tools For News Sites
Google Webmaster Tools already has special features for Google News publishers, like a separate view of the news indexing and processing details, as well as news specific errors…
Google Webmaster Tools Messages Shows Your Reconsideration Request Submissions
When you submit a reconsideration request, Google notifies you they received it with a blanket message in Google Webmaster Tools. Now, supposedly, Google will also show you a copy of your submission via the reconsideration request form…
Google Learn More About Links With Publisher Images
Just when we think authorship and publisher is dead, because Google dropped author images back in June – we see signs of maybe rel=publisher making some headway…
Google Gives No Comment On Pigeon Updates
On Friday we reported on a refresh of the local search results, after the major Google Pigeon update a week or so before. Google basically told us they have nothing to say on this and likely will not provide future details on local search algorithm ch…
Google Webmaster Tools Drops Author Stats
In December 2011, Google launched author stats, a way to see how your content, across sites, based on your Google Authorship profile, fared. That is now gone…