Google: ccTLD & Wildcard Subdomain Strategies Won’t Give You An "Unnatural...
Google’s John Mueller responded to a detailed technical question regarding ccTLDs, wildcard subdomains and the likelihood of it being seen as doorway pages in a Stack Exchange thread. In short, the...
View ArticleSmartphone Crawl Errors Added To Google Webmaster Tools
Google announced last night a new feature within Google Webmaster Tools specific for tracking crawl errors on smartphones. There is now a new filter within the crawl errors section of Google Webmaster...
View ArticleGoogle’s Search Algorithm Is Not Dictated By Their Patents
Every now and then I see a thread in the discussion forums come up talking about a patent being awarded to Google. The most recent is a thread at Black Hat World where the SEO tells webmasters to keep...
View ArticleGoogle Maps Brings Share & Embed Feature To New Version
Google has announced on Google+ they brought an important feature from the old Google Maps to the new Google Maps. What feature? The ability to share the maps you are looking at via a short URL or...
View ArticleGoogle Partners Gift: Pen, Notebook & Magnets
Miriam Schwab was at that Israel Google Partners party that we showed off last week with the Google Partners Cake. But what we did not see what the gifts the Google Partners walked home with, which...
View ArticleDaily Search Forum Recap: December 4, 2013
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View ArticleSearchCap: The Day In Search, December 4, 2013
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the Web. From Search Engine Land: Consumer Watchdog Claims Google Shopping Makes Consumers Pay...
View ArticleBreaking – Google Changes the SERP – Images are King and PPC Holds the Key to...
Oops they did it again We know Google is constantly testing things on their SERP (Search Engine Results Page) with new products, new layouts, new colors etc. But lately it seems that Google has really...
View ArticleGoogle’s Matt Cutts: We Don’t Like Content Stitching
Google’s Matt Cutts posted a video yesterday explaining that “stitching content” is a bad idea. In short, stitching content is when you take snippets from various articles across the web and place it...
View ArticleSorry Edmunds & Yahoo Autos: Google Added Cars To Knowledge Graph
Google announced yesterday on Google+ that they have added car/automobile results to the knowledge graph. So now when you search for 2013 ferrari ff (hint, who is your favorite search blogger, would...
View ArticleGoogle Slips Up & Shows New AdWords Ad Format On Google+
We’ve been covering Google experimenting with a new AdWords ad format, where the ad is labeled in a yellow ad banner for a while now. More and more people and searchers are seeing it every day but...
View ArticleGoogle AdSense Enables Performance Reports In Localized Currency
Google announced a new feature within the Google AdSense publisher console to allow publishers to see their performance reports in their own currency of choice. Now when you click on the columns...
View ArticleSanta Tracking Tools From Google & Microsoft Live
Both Google and Microsoft have launched their Santa tracking tools, in preparation for Christmas. You can find the Microsoft powered Santa tracker at noradsanta.org and the Google powered Santa tracker...
View ArticlePenguin Biking Captured On Google Maps Street View
Google Maps often shares fun and/or interesting street view images on their Google+ account. The one they shared yesterday was somewhat mocking SEOs, or maybe they are clueless, by showing a penguin...
View ArticleHow-to Guide: Who Benefits From Facebook and SEM Advertising? by...
Many businesses wonder which advertising platforms match their business model best. Each advertising platform has unique features and a variety of advantages that business can draw on. Putting...
View ArticleGoogle Ad Rank Study: How The New Formula Is Impacting AdWords Performance
In October, Google changed its Ad Rank formula which determines the position order of AdWords paid search ads. The revised formula now factors in the expected impact of ad extensions and ad formats,...
View ArticleDaily Search Forum Recap: December 5, 2013
The content at the Search Engine Roundtable are the sole opinion of the authors and in no way reflect views of RustyBrick ®, IncCopyright © 1994-2013 RustyBrick ®, Inc. Web Development All Rights...
View ArticleHow Important Is Responsive Design: Interview With Michael David by @johnrampton
As part of our SEJ interview series, Michael David of Tasty Placement discusses an issue that’s on every website owner’s mind these days. Just how important is it that your website is optimized for...
View ArticleJewglers Google LEGO Menorahs & More
Google shared pictures on Google+ of how Jewglers, aka Jewish Googlers, celebrate Chanukah while at Google across the world. These pictures are supposedly from New York, Tel Aviv, Mountain View and...
View ArticleGoogle Now Searches Within Android App Content
About a month ago, we reported that Google enabled developers to feed content within apps to them via a protocol named App Indexing. Well the fruits of that labor is not a reality, at least for some...
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