Google: We Don’t Control Content On The Web
I spotted a thread that is a common question in the Google Webmaster Help forums about removing content from showing up in Google. The response was even more interesting. Google’s Eric Kuan, from the...
View ArticleGoogle Zeitgeist Live With Inspiring Video
I like to look back at things, when I have time. Google has published their 2013 Zeitgeist at google.com/zeitgeist. It is obviously a nice way to look at all the keywords you may have missed out on....
View ArticleGoogle Glass XE12 Adds iOS, Wink & Breaks Many GDK Apps
XE12 is out and with that comes support for the whole other side of the mobile world, iPhones. Google released the MyGlass App for iOS and quickly pulled it. Why? Well, XE12 was not released yet but...
View ArticleAndroid Collectibles Boxes
Louis Gray shared photos of his latest Android binge, where he picked up Android Series 4 collectibles. You can see the boxes of Android toys stacked up on his car’s trunk. That is a lot of Android...
View ArticleGoogle’s Matt Cutts: Our Algorithms Try To Break Black Hat SEOs Spirits
A couple weeks ago, Google’s Matt Cutts was on This Week in Google (TWiG) and on episode 227 Matt had some interesting things to say. He said that Google specifically tries to break the spirits of...
View ArticleDaily Search Forum Recap: December 18, 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’s Matt Cutts:...
View ArticleGoogle’s URL/Content Removal Tool Now A Wizard
Google has updated their URL removal tool to make it easier and smarter to remove content specifically from third-party web sites. Google told us at Search Engine Land specifically that the tool is...
View ArticleDid The Authorship Reduction In Google Begin?
In October, Matt Cutts of Google at PubCon announced there would likely be a 15% reduction in authorship being displayed in the Google search results. Since then, I haven’t seen many – I’ve seen some –...
View ArticleGoogle AdSense Back To Square Arrows?
When Google introduced the arrows to the AdSense ads, they came with a colored square background button with an arrow overlaid on the square. Then a year ago, Google went from the square background to...
View ArticleGoogle’s Matt Cutts: Ideally ccTLDs Should Have IP In Country
This is probably a topic we’ve covered a dozen times here but it is always nice to have an official video from Matt Cutts on the topic. Matt said, in an “ideal world” it would be “wonderful” for each...
View ArticleGoogle Bus Stop = GBUS STOP
Rich snapped a picture of a Google Bus Stop, aka GBUS Stop, and posted the image on Flickr. Recently there was some controversy around Google Busing but I am not sure if this picture is related to...
View ArticleMatt Cutts: Google Tries To Minimize Search Updates Before Holidays
I am not sure if you noticed but all the Google search results tracking tools flared up yesterday reporting major changes in the Google search results. You can see for yourself at MozCast, SERPs.com,...
View ArticleA New Geo-Targeting Best Practice: Segment Out Location Types into Separate...
I love reading PPC-related blog posts that are outside of the norm and lead to potential new best practices. An example of this was a blog written by Ginny Marvin on Search Engine Land called Google...
View ArticleUpdated: Did The Authorship Reduction In Google Begin? Yes.
In October, Matt Cutts of Google at PubCon announced there would likely be a 15% reduction in authorship being displayed in the Google search results. Since then, I haven’t seen many – I’ve seen some –...
View ArticleGoogle: Authorship Works With Google+ Vanity URLs
Once you get your authorship working, no one wants to mess around and change URLs. Some don’t like to mess around even if the authorship is not live in the search results, in fear changing it might...
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Panda & Penguin KeyCaps For Google Webspam Holiday Gifts
Google’s Matt Cutts shared on Twitter a picture of the holiday presents Googlers who are part of the webspam team are giving each other. One such gift is a panda and penguin keycap. He wrote “The sort...
View ArticleVideo Recap of Weekly Search Buzz :: December 20, 2013
It was an all Google week, like many, with Google breaking the bad guys and loving the good guys. Google penalized another link network, this one named Backlinks.com. Anglo Rank, the network Google...
View ArticleA Holiday Gift Guide For The PPC Professional by @albertcostill
Image Source: christmasstockimages.com Where would your business be without PPC? If it weren’t for a pay-for-click, how else could you get advertisers to pay a fee each time one of your ads is...
View ArticleThe 100th Anniversary Of The Crossword Puzzle Gets A Google Doodle
Tomorrow is the 100th anniversary of the first ever crossword published anywhere. It was published by Arthur Wynne, a journalist from Liverpool, England on December 21, 1913 in the New York World. To...
View ArticleThe US Online Travel & Tourism Industry: Who Are The Top Players in Search?...
Rapidly changing, highly competitive, filled by tremendous amounts of newcomers emerging as we speak – this is how the US Online Travel & Tourism Industry can be generally described. Despite all...
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