Google announced a name change today to their almost decade old Google Webmaster Tools platform, renaming it to Google Search Console in an attempt to broaden the target audience. Google doesn’t want to limit the audience behind Webmaster Tools/Search Console to solely webmasters – they want small business owners, bloggers, designers, and essentially everyone to […]
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Stop Wasting Your Time Setting Priority & Change Frequency Inside Your Sitemaps
Webmasters have always wondered the true importance of the priority and change frequency settings when generating XML sitemaps for their website – however we never really had any definite answer. Various members of the SEO community & various webmasters have made their assumptions – however none of the big search engines have ever stood up and […]
Test Out The New Transparent Youtube Player in TestTube
The transparent video player that YouTube is testing is pretty awesome; however forcing YouTube to let you try it out took some work. Luckily the new player is now available in TestTube – YouTube’s own experiment playground much like Google Labs used to be. Right now there are 2 “experiments” listed there, 1 for 4K videos […]
Google Rejects Your Right To Be Forgotten About 60% Of The Time
Google’s Right to be Forgotten came into play over a year ago now thanks to a European court ruling forcing Google to comply with requests from individuals to remove their names from search results; and originally started off by by Spaniard Mario Costeja González who wanted Google to remove search results that pointed to online […]
Google Testing A New Value Alert Tag in Google Shopping Search Results
Google has been testing a new “Value Alert” tag to Google Shopping search engine results. The alert shows below the store name on the Google Shopping results page similar to the Special Offer tag or a star rating and seems to showcase items that are on sale. This was first spotted by Elizabeth Marsten at CommerceHub on Thursday; […]
Order Your Food from Your Google Search
Google has decided that ordering food is way too complicated these days – and as such figured they would follow along in the footsteps of Bing and let you order food directly from your search results. Well so long as your in the U.S. and the restaurant you want works with either Seamless, Grubhub, Eat24, […]
Google Makes Search Analytics Report Available to All Webmasters
Just a week ago I wrote on here about the new Search Analytics report that Google let me try out – showcasing an overview of website clicks, impressions, and position metrics. Well as of this morning you can try out the Search Analytics report yourself since Google officially rolled out that report to all webmasters. […]
Take Advantage Of These Resources from Google During Small Business Week
First off I have to apologize as this post is a couple days late. Small Business Week technically started on Monday, May 4th – which is also when the attached video was uploaded – however I got caught up with the small businesses I work with and didn’t get a chance to make this post. […]
Scored Poorly in Google’s Mobile Test? Should You Be Worried?
Google rolled out the newest search engine algorithm change this week and we’ve been bombarded with sky-is-falling cries that only mobile-targeted responsive sites will survive and the rest of the web will be lost to the tenth page of search results. Google reps even claimed that PPC advertising costs would rise for non mobile-friendly sites. Don’t worry, […]
Google Mobile Algorithm Now Fully Rolled Out
Google’s mobile friendly algorithm officially began it’s roll out on April 22nd, and according to Barry Schwartz (@rustybrick) that algorithm is now fully rolled out. @methode is the Google Mobile algorithm fully rolled out? Not everyone is seeing the impact yet… — Barry Schwartz (@rustybrick) May 1, 2015 However this doesn’t necessarily mean you’ll be […]
Google Will Start Showing Real Time Tweets In May
Way back in February we learned that Google & Twitter struck a deal to start showing tweets in real-time within Google search results – however we had no real idea as to when this would start rolling out. Well during the earnings conference call for Q1 2015 Twitter’s CEO Dick Costolo finally revealed a more concrete […]
Let Google Recommend Related Posts For Your Readers
When it comes to showing related posts on your blog there are plenty of services out there that currently do the job – however Google thinks there’s room for one more. As such Google announced on their Inside Adsense blog Matched Content – Google’s own content recommendation tool developed specifically for Adsense publishers. Matched content generates […]
Playing With Google’s New Search Analytics Report Inside Webmaster Tools
Earlier this week Zineb Ait Bahajji of Google announced the launch of a new report titled Search Analytics which has been made available to a random sample of users. Luckily I was within that random sample, so I’ve been playing around with the new report these past couple of days. So, what is it exactly? The […]
France Wants Google To Reveal Their Search Algorithm
According to a recent article by french news website, Le Figaro, the House of Parliament has voted in favor of an amendment to a bill which states that search engines should not only show three more rival companies on their homepage, but also reveal their search algorithms to their users in order to ensure the fairness […]
YouTube Testing A New Transparent Video Player
As is the usual case with any Google brand – new things are always being tested and worked on. So while YouTube works to get their ad-free service up and running they’re also testing a new UI for their desktop video player. The new UI offers a transparent control bar which automatically hides when it’s […]
Can We Stop Hating On Google Please?
The webmaster community has quiet the love/hate relationship going on with Google. Unfortunately I think alot of the blame we throw on Google is quiet undeserved. I can understand, to a point, why so many webmasters can get upset with Google – however I also can see how many of the times everyone is putting […]
Google Going After Angieslist?
According to BuzzFeed Google is working on a new product which will help connect Google users to local home-service professionals such as electricians, roofers and plumbers. I suppose Google has recognized that as it sits right now easily targeting your local market and designing the perfect Adwords advertisement to provide your contact info and the […]
YouTube Soon To Offer Ad-Free Version
Half way through the day yesterday as I was sorting through my constantly full inbox I noticed a new email from Youtube titled Updated YouTube Partner Terms – and there was something in that email that immediately caught my attention. We’re excited to build on this momentum by taking another big step in favor of choice: […]
Google Updates Adwords Keyword Planner To Include Comparison Data
Without much fuss, as usual, Google announced a new update to the Google Adwords Keyword Planner tool which is rolling out over the next couple of weeks. The new update will allow you to compare your search term coverage against that of other advertisers – this way you can pick the perfect keyword match for […]
April Fools Jokes From Our Favorite Tech Companies
If you’re anything like me you’ve probably missed the fact that today is April Fools Day and probably didn’t even realize it was April already. This is THE day for practical jokes – and today’s tech giants have quiet the sense of humor. Let’s take a look at today’s practical jokes from our favorite tech […]