Google has begun showing results from Twitter within their “In the news” section on the front page of the regular Google search results. Aaron Bradley was the first to notice the change in posted this screenshot on Google+. Google recently signed a deal with Twitter that would see them have access to their firehose, this […]
Google Rolling Out New Hacked Page Classifiers & Causing False Positives for “This Site May Be Hacked” Warnings in Search Results
Barry Schwartz at SERoundtable noticed a huge increase in the number of websites that were showing hacked warnings in the Google search results yesterday. Most of the webmasters who posted on the Google help forums couldn’t find any evidence that their sites had been hacked and there were no notices showing up in Google Webmaster […]
Google Adds New Carousels for Popular Sites in Mobile Search Results
Google has added new carousel results for popular topics and websites in the search results. These new carousels are meant to make it quick and easy for users to flip through multiple articles, videos and more from the same source while on a mobile device. This is also good news for webmasters because this means […]
Google AdWords Launches New AdWords Features Page
Google AdWords has released a new feature that will make it easier for advertisers to keep up on the latest changes. Something’s got announced in a blog, other things and announce on Google plus, and it can be hard to keep track of everything AdWords is doing. Adwords is hoping to solve this problem by […]
Yahoo’s Search Share Grew By Another 1.2% in January
Yahoo’s search market share continues to grow following the switch by Firefox from Google to Yahoo as the default search engine in their browser. Many people expected Yahoo’s search market share to start declining after the initial jump, as more users became aware that the default search they were using wasn’t actually Google. But in […]
Google Webmaster Tools Updating Search Query Data Once Again
Search query data is once again showing up in Google Webmaster Tools after disappearing for about a week. There was some speculation that the missing data was somehow related to the alpha test of the new search query reports. However the problem is affecting both people who had applied to be a tester of the […]
Google Analytics Data From February 9th Finally Restored
If you are among those people with missing data for February 9, 2015 in Google Analytics, the data has now been restored. It is unclear what made the information vanish for a week, although people were suspecting it might have had something to the corrupted database. Many people were seeing the data from the 9th […]
Google Helpouts Closing, Citing Slow Growth of the Expert Video Advice Service
Google is planning to close down their Google Helpouts program on April 20, 2015. Google launched help out as a way for experts in various topics to give personal advice to others for a fee. However Google feels the program hasn’t grown as much as they expected to, so they are closing down the program. […]
Increase Google AdSense Publisher Revenue By Utilizing Google Display Network Data
From an Old Google AdWords Advertiser The good news: AdSense success is not all about your content or headlines. No, really, that’s good news! Knowing a few insider tips can help you be more competitive in the AdSense publisher space from the start as well as help you get more traffic to your website and […]
Which is Better: Subdomains or Subdirectories? Here’s What Google Says
There has been plenty of discussion lately over whether subdomains or subdirectories are the better route to go – with many people from both sides supplying Google Analytics screenshots details to prove their argument, with probably the subdirectories side winning the argument. Obviously someone else who has seen all these posts and tweets lately decided […]