Around 3pm yesterday afternoon Google quietly launched an invite-only beta of a domain name registration service called Google Domains. Following up with the concepts of Google My Business, Google Domains plans to extend upon that initiative of getting small businesses online. Google’s goal during the beta of Google Domains is to collect some input on […]
Category Archives: Webmaster News
Google Updates Products Feed Attributes
If you run an eCommerce website than chances are you’ve had some experience with getting a feed generated to add your products to Google Shopping. Depending on the platform you have this may or may not have been a huge pain in the ass. I’m looking at you ONEighty & SMY Performance. Anyway Google has announced that […]
Yandex Joins The “Not Provided” Club
Joining in with Google, Yahoo & recently Bing, Yandex has decided to also strip search query data from the referrer meaning that Yandex is now 100% not provided. The announcement roughly translated from Russian reads as follows: In December last year we started an experiment to encrypt text query in the Referrer , which gradually […]
Bing Announces Plans To Make Things Faster
Microsoft researchers and colleagues from Bing have been collaborating with others from industry and academia to examine datacenter hardware alternatives, and their work, a project known as Catapult, was presented in Minneapolis on June 16 during the 41st International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA). Confused yet? Hold on. Their paper, titled A Reconfigurable Fabric for Accelerating Large-Scale Datacenter Services, describes an […]
WHUK Upgrades VMware Based Cloud Hosting Plans
[frame align=”right”][/frame]Webhosting UK (or WHUK for short) has announced some serious performance upgrades to their line of VMware based cloud hosting plans. The new plans sport new processor performance with double the amount of RAM and storage space than the previous-generation VMware cloud hosting plans offered, at the exact same great low price. So that means that now, […]
1&1 Launches WordPress Optimized Hosting
[frame align=”left”][/frame]With competitors like GoDaddy, MediaTemple, Viper Hosted and more jumping into the WordPress dedicated hosting scene 1&1 wasn’t about to be left out – and so yesterday 1&1 announced the launch of their WordPress optimized hosting solutions. 1&1’s WordPress solution offers a custom dashboard allowing quick and easy WordPress site installation along with a […]
Bing Supports Up To 125 Trillion URLs In Sitemaps
Fabrice Canel, the Principal Program Manager of the Bing Index Generation team, posted their Sitemaps best practices guide for large web sites which shows off some pretty awesome numbers. For starters Bing can support up to 125 trillion links through multiple XML sitemap files. If you’re really curious with one sitemap file, Bing allows you to list 50,000 x […]
Google Launched Yet Another Spam Algorithm Yesterday
A couple weeks ago we saw the launch of version 2.0 of the Google Spam Algorithm, also known as the PayDay Loan algorithm; and surprisingly yesterday Google launched version 3.0. Matt Cutts previously explained that 2.0 was targeting specifically spammy sites, and so 3.0 moves the target over to spammy queries specifically. Looks like the […]
InMotion Upgrades Shared Hosting Plans
[frame align=”left”][/frame]InMotion Hosting has secretly been hard at work upgrading all of their shared hosting plans with a whole slew of awesome new features and I wanted to take a moment and outline those changes here. SSDs Solid-state drives are now available for new customers. SSDs can be used for databases, CMS applications, and static […]
Bing Drops IE8; Google Drops IE9
There’s always been a push to get people to utilize the latest browser versions – and usually the biggest push comes when one of the big guys drops support for an older browser. Today older versions of Internet Explorer seem to be getting kicked to the curb by Bing & Google. In a post on G+ […]
Lets Reset The Net!
Today marks the one year anniversary of the start of the award-winning reporting that has revealed how the National Security Agency (NSA) was secretly invading the privacy of hundreds of millions of innocent people. Federal government senior officials lied and misled Congress, the courts, and the public, about the scope of NSA’s mass surveillance operations […]
Google: How Do I Rank Content Without Links
This week we have another great question in the Google webmaster forums where Ashish from India asks “How does Google determine quality content if there aren’t alot of links to a post?“. Matt Cutts explains that at that point what the search engine has to go by is the actual text that is on the […]
Happy 5th Birthday Bing
Today marks Bing’s 5th birthday – and boy how far they have come. So without any further hesitation I wanted to wish a huge Happy Birthday to the entire team behind Bing. Bing did a great job at outlining their own set of changes here on their blog release; however I wanted to showcase some of the […]
The Ninja’s Are Coming!
This is a pretty awesome week to be a ninja. Whether your a traveling ninja, a cruising ninja, a ninja on vacation – there’s a whole slew of awesome new top-level domain names that are now available for general registration. These new top-level domains become available for general registration. Earlier this week on May 26th we saw […]
2 Links, 1 Page
As I recently mentioned the Google Webmaster forums have been filling up lately with some great SEO related questions; and the Google team has done a good job at stepping in and answering some of these for us. A recent question by a London based webmaster brought up the concept of having two links on […]
Google Adds New Fetch & Render to Webmaster Tools
I was pleasantly surprised today as I logged into my Google Webmaster Tools and noticed a new button called Fetch & Render within the Fetch as Google option. Then I noticed the new drop down which allows you to choose what device you want to emulate the fetch & render with. To see what Googlebot sees, select […]
Google Says Forum Links Are Spam
With all of the changes with Google’s various algorithms there’s been some great questions being posted within the Google Webmaster forums and as of late a discussion has risen around whether or not placing a link to your website within a forum profile/signature of yours would cause any negative SEO effects. For those of us […]
Big Week For Google SEO – Panda 4.0 & Spam Algorithm 2.0 Launched
This is turning out to be a pretty big week in the SEO community as Google announces the release of version 2.0 of the Google Spam Algorithm, and a brand new Google Panda Algorithm (version 4.0). The Spam Algorithm was released over the weekend and confirmed by Matt Cutt’s yesterday via Twitter; while the new […]
More Downtime at HostGator & Bluehost
This year doesn’t seem to be going well for EIG brands Hostgator and Bluehost who are experiencing yet another outage following the April 16th outage, and their New Years Eve one. HostGator first began reporting the outage on their forum at 2:40 a.m. As of 1:22PM EST Bluehost tweeted that “traffic is back to normal & services restored. […]
Shocker – Content Length Doesn’t Actually Matter for SEO
There have always been plenty of myths in the world of SEO about what Google and various other search engines look for when crawling your website – and for years copy writers, bloggers, and webmasters were told to write content that is a minimum of 250 or 300 words long or else Google won’t index […]