Google Glass XE8: What’s New For Developers & Lost For Users
Yesterday Google announced on Google+ the next version of Google Glass software XE8. This new version brings many new features for users and developers but also seems to have lost one feature that I...
View ArticleFYI: Google’s Reconsideration Request Now In Manual Actions
Last week, Google launched the new manual actions viewer within Webmaster Tools. Since then, webmasters have been asking where the reconsideration request form has gone. Well, it is now part of manual...
View ArticleGoogle Tetris Costume
Richard Hay from Google snapped a bunch of photos of Googlers dressed up as Tetris pieces forming the Google Logo on stage. The only way to show this off is with an animated GIF, which he provided on...
View ArticleThings You Need to Know About Bing Ads Editor Tool – Part I: How It Works by...
A recent Bing Ads internal study found that its Editor tool facilitates more than 15% of all campaign data changes in Yahoo! Bing Network and the top-5 most frequently changed campaign items are: #1:...
View ArticleGoogle: Links Within Widgets Must Be Nofollowed
Yesterday, Matt Cutts, Google’s head of search spam, posted another video on links clearly telling widget makers and those who embed widgets on their own sites that those links should be nofollowed....
View ArticleGoogle Wants To See You Really Mean It With Reconsideration Request
A WebmasterWorld thread has SEOs and Webmasters discussing what Google expects or wants to see from a reconsideration request for link issues. Whitey from WebmasterWorld thinks Google’s Matt Cutts has...
View ArticleAdWords Editor Update Brings Upgraded Sitelink Management And More
Google released an update to AdWords Editor, version 10.2, that supports upgraded sitelink management and several other smaller feature updates. Apparently now dubbed upgraded sitelinks, these new...
View ArticleDaily Search Forum Recap: August 13, 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: Links Within...
View ArticleAdd Reviews On Yelp Directly From The Mobile App by @smorgs13
Not too long ago, Jeff Chiarelli, taught us how simple it is to claim a Yelp profile. Did you take his advice? Today Yelp released an update (specifically to iOS devices first) to the mobile app that...
View ArticleMatt Cutts Video Mashup: Highlighting Matt’s Moves
A large German based online marketing news site posted on Google+ a new Matt Cutts video mash up named Best of Matt Cutts: “It’s party in here!” You won’t learn anything from this video but you will...
View ArticleWebmasters Fear Linking Out After Google’s Warnings
A WebmasterWorld thread has some fears that I see are beginning to worry some publishers and webmasters – the fear of linking to external sources. With Matt Cutts and the Google spam team pretty much...
View ArticleMy Places (Stars) On The New Google Maps Mobile
The new Google Maps has been available for users to try out for a while now and there is no doubt it is missing a lot of legacy features from the old Google Maps – but there are also a lot of changes...
View ArticleGoogle Analytics Alerts Of Increase In 404 Pages
Daniel Waisberg, a Google Analytics expert and now a new Googler, posted on the Google Analytics Google+ profile a tip on how to set up custom alerts for increases in 404 page requests. There is...
View ArticleGoogle Stair Case With Search Trends
Paul Goldston from Reload Media was at Google Engage the other day and snapped a picture of the stair case at the event. This stair case was outfitted with search trends scrolling through each stair....
View ArticleDaily Search Forum Recap: August 14, 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: Webmasters Fear...
View ArticleThe Relentlessly-Widening Performance Gap
Recently, I had a chance to review a deck produced by one agency handing back over a PPC account to its client owners (or potentially, a future agency). Bullet point after bullet point referred to...
View Article72 Percent of PPC Marketers Plan To Spend Even More In 2014 PPCHero Study
Hanapin Marketing has released its 2013 State of Paid Search report, revealing how PPC marketers are feeling about paid search marketing and where they plan to spend their money in 2014. A large...
View ArticleSearchCap: The Day In Search, August 15, 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: 72 Percent of PPC Marketers Plan To Spend Even More In 2014...
View ArticleAfrikaans, Greek, Hebrew & Serbian Added To Google Translate App
Google quietly announced on Google+ a couple of enhancements to the Google Translate App for Android. (1) New Languages Added To Image Capture (2) New Languages Added To Handwriting New Languages Added...
View ArticleMaybe I’m Not That Ugly, My Face Is Back In Google
Two months ago, I got very emotional about my ugly face not showing up in Google. To make a long story short, whenever anyone searched on virtually anything about search, SEO or Google, my face was...
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