Google Ads, Search and Chrome bosses discussed to boost ad revenue in emails
The documents have been made public by the Department of Justice as the federal antitrust trial continues.
Topic: Google Hangouts
This day in search marketing history: February 3
How Google uses AI in search, plus: an unconfirmed Google algorithm update, Amit Singhal leaving Google, bad ads and more.
Winners and losers: How COVID-19 is affecting search behavior
Social distancing has resulted in wild click behavior swings across sectors including grocers, productivity tools, restaurants and hotels.
Google shutting down Allo, where Google Assistant made its debut
The company is investing in Duo and Android Messages, where it says it's seeing consumer traction.
Google: Fundamentals of writing meta descriptions don’t change with longer search snippets
Google has officially commented about what webmasters should focus on when writing meta descriptions after Google extended their search result snippets.
Google adds emoji & GIF suggestions, translations & more to GBoard for Android
The latest updates give Android users access to emoji and GIF suggestions as they type and the ability to share GIFs in supported apps.
SearchCap: AdWords preview tool, Moz layoffs & AdWords Express
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Moz trims product line to focus on search, lays off 28% of staffAug 17, 2016 by Barry Schwartz Moz, a company many SEOs have grown to love, announced they have made […]
Google says keywords in the TLD part of your URL are ignored for ranking purposes
After a controversial sponsored post on Search Engine Land, Google has said that they ignore the keywords in the TLD portion of your domain names.
Google drops product rich snippets from airline pricing websites
Google confirmed they removed the ability for some airline sites, such as Trip Advisor and Expedia, to show product rich snippets in the search results.
Google sent 4 million messages about search spam last year, saw 33% increase in clean-up requests
It is now even more important to verify your website in the Google Search Console, as you can see in Google's latest webspam report.
Google: AMP Not Yet A Search Ranking Signal
In December, Google said AMP might become a ranking signal. It is not yet, but it still may become a ranking factor when it is more widely launched.
Search In Pics: GoogleBot Band, Inside Out Post-It Art & Hangouts Pillow
In this week’s Search In Pictures, here are the latest images culled from the web, showing what people eat at the search engine companies, how they play, who they meet, where they speak, what toys they have and more. Google Hangouts Pillow Selfie: Source: Google+ Google Inside Out Post-It Art Work: Source: Google+ Google Top […]
SearchCap: Bing Ads Tour, Facebook Event Search & AdWords CPC
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Bing Ads Launches Guided Tours In Web InterfaceDec 18, 2015 by Ginny Marvin Walk through setting up retargeting lists, automated rules, campaigns settings and more. The Search For An Optimal AdWords […]
Decoding GoogleSpeak
There's often a lot of confusion surrounding quotes made by Google representatives, but there doesn't have to be. Columnist Jenny Halasz discusses how to effectively analyze and interpret such statements.
Google May Add Structured Markup & Data To Ranking Algorithm
Google hints it may decide to use structured data in its ranking algorithm some day, though the company has previously denied it.
Google: Going Mobile Only Is Fine For Our Search Results
Google said if you have a mobile-friendly website only, it should also rank just fine in the desktop Google search results.
SearchCap: Google iOS App Update, Google Shopping Adds Automated Bid Options & More
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the Web. From Search Engine Land: Google’s iOS App Now Provides Context-Aware Conversational Search Google recently updated its iOS app to bring context-aware searching to any content within search results. It allows searchers to ask additional questions […]
Google: Panda 4.2 Is Rolling Out Slowly For Technical Reasons
Google's John Mueller tries to explain why the Panda 4.2 rollout is happening so slowly over months and months.
Demanding More Detail, Legal Group Calls On Google To Disclose RTBF Criteria
The group of 80 lawyers and academics want a lot more information from Google.
Google Search Tests “Chat” Button In Local Business Box
Google is testing showing a live chat button in the local search box within the web search results for some businesses.
Nearly A Year Later, Are We Finally Going To Get A Penguin Update Refresh?
In 22 days from now, it will be the year anniversary of the release of the fifth update to Google’s Penguin algorithm, code-named Penguin 2.1. As you can imagine, waiting 11 months and 8 days can be excruciating for those who were negatively impacted by the punitive algorithm. They’ve likely by now cleaned up their […]
As PLAs Come To An End, AdWords Rolls Out New Shopping Campaigns Upgrade Tool
With Product Listing Ad campaigns coming to an end this month, Adwords has launched a new tool to help users upgrade their PLA campaigns to Shopping campaigns in what it claims is just a, “…matter of clicks.” According to the announcement: [blockquote cite=”Google AdWords”]This tool creates a Shopping campaign from your regular PLA campaign, with […]
SearchCap: Internet Explorer’s Sponsored Links, Google Universal Search Study & Yandex Cityguide Apps
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Will Google & Bing Penalize Microsoft Over Their Sponsored Post Campaign For Internet Explorer? This morning, news broke that Microsoft Internet Explorer is getting help from SocialChorus to build more awareness […]
Google Knowledge Graph Adds Phone Numbers With Hangout Integration
Now, if you search for your favorite local restaurant, bar, business and the like on Google; Google may show you a phone number in the knowledge graph top box that is clickable. When you click the phone number, it will dynamically open up Google Hangouts and let you dial them via your computer to make […]
Starbucks & The Economist Admit To Using Google+ For SEO More Than Social
Last Friday, a New York Times report on Google+ spotlighted Starbucks and The Economist as two brands currently using Google+ to impact search efforts. Alex Wheeler, Starbuck’s vice president of global digital marketing, told The New York Times, “When we think about posting on Google+, we think about how does it relate to our search […]
Google Debuts +Post Ads: Lets Brands Turn Google+ Content Into Ads On GDN
Google has introduced its first monetization effort for its social networking platform, Google+. Rather than running ads directly within the platform, Google has announced a new ad unit called +Post ads, which allow brands to turn their Google+ content into expandable display ads. Those ads can then run across the Google Display Network. Brands can […]
Google Offering Online Site Reviews This Monday, November 18th
Google’s John Mueller announced that on this Monday’s Google office-hours, Google will be offering “short website reviews” for webmasters who are looking for advice. To participate, you must add your website to this Google Moderator page. Then, if Google has time and wants to review your site, Google will review it live, this Monday, November […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, October 29, 2013
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Did Hummingbird Just Kill Your Local SEO? Let’s cut to the chase: no, it didn’t (see Betteridge’s Law of Headlines). But Search Engine Land tells me the Hummingbird stuff really drives […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, September 11, 2013
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the Web. From Search Engine Land: Google Quietly Brings Back RSS Feed Option To Google Alerts The Next Web reports Google has quietly added back the RSS Feed option to Google Alerts. I’ve confirmed the RSS Feed […]
Google: Unlinked URLs Are A Source For Indexing New Content
John Lincoln from Ignite Visibility spotted a Google Hangout where Google’s John Mueller confirmed that Google will use URLs or domain names within content that are unlinked, i.e. without an a href attribute, to discover and index new pages of content. John went on to add that typically no PageRank or trust is flown from […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, May 15, 2013
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the Web. From Search Engine Land: Google Knowledge Graph Gets More Stats and 4 New Languages At Google I/O today, Amit Singhal, Google VP of Search, announced that statistics and four new languages are being added to […]
Will Google Penalize Chromebooks, Google Analytics, AdWords & Google+ For Using Advertorials?
A day after warning publishers against advertorials, will Google’s search team now have to penalize parts of its own company for running advertorials? Perhaps, and if so, it wouldn’t be the first time. It’s also another absurd chapter in Google’s war on paid links. Google Says: Advertorials, Beware! After news came out yesterday that Google […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, October 15, 2012
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: DuckDuckGo’s New Video Targets Google’s “Filter Bubble” Of Personalized Results DuckDuckGo’s ongoing mission to challenge Google (and other search engines, but mainly Google) on privacy issues has taken another turn with […]
Google’s Matt Cutts On “Will Search Spam Go On Forever”
Google’s head of search spam, answered some questions in the Power Searching with Google Hangout on Air #2 on October 2nd. In that video, he was asked by fellow Googler, Dan Russell a Search research scientist at Google, will search spam go on forever? This question was asked about 36 minutes into the video, where […]
Google Reminds Webmasters: Selling Links Can Lead To PageRank Penalty
Matt Cutts, Google’s lead of search spam, wrote a blog post named “Why did our PageRank go down?” The post is a reminder to webmasters that selling links that pass PageRank can lead to a Google penalty. Back in October 2007, Google officially came out saying selling paid links can hurt your PageRank and then […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, July 2, 2012
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Amazon Buys UpNext, Will We Soon See Kindle Maps? Amazon has done a really interesting thing: it just bought mapping app UpNext. UpNext is a 3D mapping company that started on […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, March 26, 2012
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Google Says Panda 3.4 Is ‘Rolling Out Now’ Google has announced the latest in its ongoing updates to the Panda algorithm that targets low-quality websites. And they’ve taken the somewhat novel […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, February 3, 2012
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: 5 Common Tracking Problems: How To Troubleshoot & Fix Them I spend a lot of time trying to figure out exactly what is wrong with some clients’ analytics installs. Unlike types […]
Search In Pics: Obama’s Google Hangout, SEO Cake & Zuckerberg’s Desk
In this week’s Search In Pictures, here are the latest images culled from the web, showing what people eat at the search engine companies, how they play, who they meet, where they speak, what toys they have, and more.