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Google Launches New Structured Data Markup Helper Tool
Google is always hard at work to provide better organization and structure for all of their search results and listings – and this is where rich-snippets and Schema.org come into play.
Matt Cutts New Video Explains the Treatment of Native Advertisement
Matt Cutts has posted a video last week discussing the new outlook that the Google spam team will take towards native advertisement. The biggest point that is made
Penguin 2.0 Is Upon Us
Just last week Matt Cutt’s discussed the upcoming changes in terms of SEO for Google and stated that Penguin 2.0 is coming soon; and soon apparently means within a week. Yesterday, May 22 2013, Matt Cutt’s announced via a post on his blog that Penguin 2.0 has officially rolled out. We started rolling out the […]
Google’s Matt Cutts Explains What To Expect In The Coming Months with SEO for Google
Matt Cutts posted a great overview video of Google’s plans for the next few months for orgnic search – what website optimizers and webmasters can expect.
Google Adwords Retiring Spreadsheet Edit Feature
Google first introduced the edit by spreadsheet feature for Google Adwords back in 2009 in an attempt to make performing bulk changes to your campaigns easier. Since then however Google has released bulk editing to help you make large-scale changes across your AdWords account, and keyword bulk uploads to help you add, edit and remove keywords at scale. Bulk […]
Google Integrates Virtual Tours into Google Maps Business Listings
Businesses have been advised for quite a while now to be sure and feature images of their business within their various profiles – such as Google+ Local. The Google+ Local
Need a Job? Open Source Coding with Google Summer of Code
Google Summer of Code is a global program that offers post-secondary student developers ages 18 and older stipends to write code for various open source software projects. Over the past eight years more than 6,000 students have “graduated” from Google’s Summer of Code program, working with almost 400 different open source projects. Students who are accepted […]
DomainDiscount24.com Extends Agreement with Google
[frame align=”left”][/frame]domaindiscount24.com (dd24) and Google have extended their agreement regarding the registration of domains through Google Apps. Since August 2012, Google Apps users can purchase a new domain through dd24 during the Google Apps registration process and connect it with their account. As of now, they can also link a domain, which was registered at […]
Google Introduces X-default hreflang for International Landing Pages
A few days ago Google made an announcement on the Google Webmaster Central Blog introducing the “x-default hreflang” annotation which a webmaster can use to specify
Google News Reminds Us About Promotional and Commerce Journalism
In a recent post on the Google News Blog, Google made a point to touch base on promotional journalism, and the negative impact the submission of these types
Google Images Layout Gets More Updates
At the end of January Google released their first big change to the layout of Google Images providing a more streamlined process – changing their Google Images layout to now display the a preview of the image directly inline with the image you clicked on. However this morning when I went to run a search on […]
Why Am I Not Earning Much From My Google Adsense Ads?
I have spoken to plenty of webmasters and online marketers who utilize Google Adsense over my years working with the Internet, and I have noticed that a common question amongst many of them is “Why am I not earning much from my Google Adsense ads?” This is far from a simple question to answer, and […]
Google Explains ‘How Search Works’
Yesterday Jake Hubert, Product Manager at Google, announced the release of a brand new Google website aimed to explain exactly how Google search works – from the crawling, to indexing, to the algorithms, to the display of results. On the new site, How Search Works, you’ll find: An interactive, graphical explanation of Google Search A view […]
Google Explains Search Queries in Webmaster Tools
Google Webmaster Tools has long been a great resource to analyze the search engine traffic that Google sends over to your website; and I make it a key point to setup each of my basic SEO client’s websites with Google Webmaster Tools. However Google Webmaster Tools can get quiet confusing with all of the information […]
Yahoo Will Run Google Adsense Ads
Yahoo has confirmed a a global, non-exclusive agreement with Google to display ads on various Yahoo! properties and certain co-branded sites using Google’s AdSense for Content and Google’s AdMob services. Yahoo users wont actually notice much of a difference as far as how or where ads appear – the only difference will be that Google Adsense […]
Google Updates Layout for Google Images
Remember how the old Google Images would work? You would click on a picture, a new page would load with the picture in it, and barely any information – along with a link to view the original image. Google has decided to streamline this whole process a little bit – changing their Google Images layout […]
Google SafeSearch Updates & How To Restore Your Image Traffic
At the end of November, Google changed their SafeSearch handling from three levels (SafeSearch could be “Off”, “Moderate” or “On”) to just “On” or “Off.” From what I have been hearing since then
Google Ads New Clickable Arrow to Text Adsense Ads
Google has announced last week a few changes to their Adsense text ads. One change, rolling out already, will make the look and feel of text ads more consistent as consumers and advertisers use screens interchangeably, and distinctions between devices fade. You’ll notice a new clickable arrow icon, as well as slight optimizations to font size, […]
Google Adsense Now Features 300×600 Sized Banners
Google has recently announced the addition of 300×600 units for their Adsense platform. “As screens grow and web content continues to become richer, the format and capabilities of ad units continue to evolve as well,” says AdSense UI engineer Omer Gimenez Llach, adding that one of the top requests from publishers has been for larger ad sizes. […]