Google London Bus
Google UK posted on their Google+ page a picture of the bus that took some students in England, Wales and Northern Ireland across the area. I am not sure if the bus actually worked or if it was just...
View ArticleVideo Recap of Weekly Search Buzz :: August 16, 2013
This week at the Search Engine Roundtable, we covered that the manual actions tool returned after a bug turned it off. The reconsideration request feature was moved to manual actions screen. Google...
View ArticleGoogle: Here’s Why AdWords Cost Per Conversion Calculations Don’t Always Add Up
In the past couple of weeks, the question of how Google calculates cost per conversion in AdWords has been percolating in the PPC community. Robert Brady wrote a post illustrating that the cost per...
View ArticleSearchCap: The Day In Search, August 16, 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: Google: Here’s Why AdWords Cost Per Conversion Calculations...
View ArticleDaily Search Forum Recap: August 16, 2013
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View ArticleSpotted: Stunning AdWords Policy Violations, That Facebook & Google Shouldn’t...
Behold a brilliant display of Google AdWords advertising policy violations: This ad was spotted by Luke Alley from Avalaunch Media. As it turns out, Alley unearthed a deep pit teeming with ad...
View ArticleCreating Authority Blogs and Passive Monthly Income Session at Affiliate...
Today I will be speaking at Affiliate Summit East in Philadelphia! The full session is: Creating Authority Blogs and Passive Monthly Income Session 1b Location: 122AB (Level 100) Time:...
View ArticleGoogle Documents Page Download Time For GoogleBot
There has always been a lot of talk about page speed and Google rankings. There are several tools that Google has for documenting page speed and improving it. Google even has the features in Google...
View ArticleGoogle’s Matt Cutts Defends Google’s 20% Time
A hot story at Quartz named Google’s “20% time,” which brought you Gmail and AdSense, is now as good as dead was all over the internet. Google quickly responded officially that 20% time is still part...
View ArticleA Harley-Davidson SEO
Jody Raines, an SEO and social media at WebMarCom, snapped a picture of herself wearing the Search Engine Roundtable t-shirt while she was on her Harley Davidson. Who knew, how many SEOs out there...
View ArticleGoogle On Why Links Within Webmaster Tools May Or May Not Be Enough
Back in early June I reported how Google told us that the only links you need are the links in Webmaster Tools for reconsideration request purposes. Then about a week ago, we showed a clear example of...
View ArticleGoogle Search Text Previews Test
Google seems to be testing a new feature where you can hover your mouse cursor over a link in the search results by the URL of the snippet, and it will overlay a text preview and summary of the search...
View ArticleDaily Search Forum Recap: August 19, 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 On Why Links...
View ArticleYouTube 5.0 For Android Gets Released Tomorrow Morning by @smorgs13
Tomorrow morning Android users will get to experience the new YouTube 5.0 app. It will sport a newly designed interface and a new logo. The update for iOS devices will be coming, but no exact date has...
View ArticlePoll: Do You Prefer A Manual Or Algorithmic Penalty?
A WebmasterWorld thread has SEOs and webmasters discussing what is better, a manual penalty or an algorithmic penalty? If you had to choose between Google giving you a penalty, which would you choose?...
View ArticleGoogle Translate Now In Google+
Don’t you hate it when you read a post from a thread on a social network, like Google+ and it is written in a language you don’t understand? Well, now Google has added Google Translate features to...
View ArticleMy Google Maps Business Listing Was Taken By…
A Google Business Help thread has one business owner complaining that someone else registered his business listing within Google Places and he has no access to make changes. What does one do? Jade Wang...
View ArticleGoogle AdWords Adds Time Aggregation To Charts
The Google Ads Google+ account and Jon Diorio from the Google AdWords team announced a new small but useful feature available in the Google AdWords console for advertisers. Now you can control the time...
View ArticleGoogle+ To Move Support Forums To, Um, Google+
I always felt it was weird that the Google+ support discussion forums was in a Google Groups area and not in Google+ communities. I know communities was not a feature within Google+ on day one but it...
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