In a rather surprising move Google seems to have pushed down the placement of local results in local intent search queries below the fold – causing you to have to scroll through a series of ads before you can view the local listings or local map. Normally you would have the map appear on the top right […]
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Google Cracking Down on Doorway Pages
Google has announced an update to their algorithm & quality guidelines – specifically cracking down on doorway pages. For those of you wondering – a doorway page is a page designed specifically to rank for certain search queries. The search user lands on one of these pages and then either clicks through or gets rather […]
Webmasters: Google Wants To Help You Unblock Resources
Google has been mentioning over and over the importance of not blocking resources and various content from Google crawlers in order to get the best SEO ranking. See Googlebot now has the ability to render your webpage in much the same way a modern browser would – and as such it uses your CSS structure, reads […]
Google Adds 360 Degree Video Support to YouTube
360-degree videography has been picking up steam lately, especially with Google fully supporting and promoting virtual business tours on map listings and place pages. As of this week Google has added yet another tool to the 360-degree video arsenal – full support from Youtube. PC/Mac users utilizing the Google Chrome browser are able to use […]
Google Apps Leaks WHOIS Data For 280,000+ Domain Names
Private data leaks suck, and unfortunately there have been plenty of them over the past few years – and now Google joins the ranks of other companies as the private information regarding the registrations of 280,000 domain names registered via Google Apps has been leaked. Security research group Cisco Talos had noticed a problem that […]
The Google Plus Rumors Are True!
The last week has been littered with rumors about the future of Google+ – and to be honest people always questioned the future of Google’s social network. It was designed to take on Facebook however it never really took off; so will it join the likes of Google’s other social network flops like Orkut, Wave […]
Google To Make Mobile Friendliness A Ranking Signal
Having a mobile friendly website has always been a good idea. You want your mobile visitors to be able to comfortably view your website and browse through your data. That said Google also wants to make sure you don’t forget about your mobile viewers – so as of April 21st Google plans to make mobile-friendliness […]
Google Wins Auction for .APP gTLD
Earlier this week on 25 February 2015, Power Auctions LLC, ICANN’s authorized auction service provider, kicked off an auction for a new gTLD: .APP. Twelve applicants participated in the auction for the new .APP domain name with Google Registry (Charleston Road Registry Inc) prevailing with a winning price of $25,001,000. I have attached the auction results […]
Twitter Tweets Will Start Showing In Real Time Within Google Results
Twitter and Google have closed on a deal to allow tweets to show up within Google’s search results as soon as they’re posted by any of Twitter’s 284 million plus users. Where exactly the tweets …
Google Officially Launches Mortgage Calculator
Back in December of 2014 I wrote about a custom mortgage calculator many of us have found within our search results. The mortgage calculator has come and went since then – showing for some people and not showing for others. However as of now Google has officially announced the launch of their mortgage calculator – meaning […]
Google Earth Pro Is Now Free!
Free things these days are far and few in-between – and I do my best to try to find as many of those free things for all webmasters out there.That being said I am extremely excited to announce a product brand new to the free pricetag: Google Earth Pro. As of this weekend, the original $399 […]
Pinning Posts in Facebook, Twitter, and Google Plus
Now that pretty much all the top social networks support pinned/featured posts in one way or another I wanted to make the following walk-through video to show you how to utilize pinned posts on your Facebook pages, Twitter profiles and Google+ Pages. Furthermore we’ll touch base on when these pinned posts reset and what happens […]
Google Suspends Sales of Google Glass to Focus On Future Glass Versions
Sadly Google has decided to stop sales of the Google Glass project in it’s current form. The Exlorer program that originally allowed someone to buy Google Glass for $1500 is no more; and all units have been pulled so as I write this you unfortunately will not be able to run out and grab a unit. […]
Google Domains Launches Public Beta
Google domains first launched back in August of 2014 and I was lucky enough to get access to the private beta of Google Domains which not only let me enjoy it for myself – but I was lucky enough to have plenty of invites that I shared among all of you. As of Tuesday of […]
Save $10/yr/user of Google Apps for Work
Google Apps for Work is a phenomenal way to organize your entire business, ensure the stability of your emails, and maintain quick and constant communication with your partners and staff. With that in mind I figured that kick-starting the new year with a custom email address for your business, 30GB of online storage space to […]
Google Adwords Introduces Countdown Ad Widget Right On-Time for the Holidays
Earlier this week Google announced a brand new ad widget which allows you to place a dynamic countdown into your Google Adwords ads. This includes the ability to set the following features within your ad copy: the number of days, hours, or minutes left to ship their holiday presents in time daily discounts or promotions for […]
Google Has Their Own Mortgage Calculator
Interestingly enough Google has launched their own mortgage calculator within their search results, accessible via the search interest calculator. Originally reported by Pete Meyers from Moz over on Google+ the mortgage calculator seemed to disappear shortly after being discovered – however it has been consistently showing up in my results for several days now – so I figured […]
Business Tips for the Holidays from Google
Jade Wang, a member of the Google Business Help team, made a new post over at the Google Business Help forums with a set of tips for businesses to make the most of the holiday season. There’s some good tips in here and I thought it would be appropriate to share them here: Got special […]
Google Street View Explores Dubai
Ever wanted to visit Dubai? The hub of modern culture with more than 200 nationalities and some of the most jaw dropping architecture around. Well now you can visually see Dubai for the cost of your monthly internet subscription. Visit the worlds tallest skyscaper, and see one of the worlds largest shopping malls in Dubai with […]
Google Is Going Kid Friendly!
Google currently processes 1.2 trillion search queries every year, and needless to say a portion of those queries are being done by a demographic that Google has yet to cater to – the 12 and under crowd. Let’s face it – children are already using Google in school – be it to watch educational Youtube […]