When Google recently changed their modifiers on how they flag sites that may have been hacked, there definitely seems to be an issue with the specific keywords that are present on a page. And these typically spammed keywords alone, without the presence of any other typical signs of a hacked site, are enough to triggered […]
Archives for February 2015
Twitter on Android Finally Gets the “While You Were Away” Change
If you use Android and have suddenly noticed tweets made hours ago showing up at the top of your newsfeed after not checking it for a couple hours, it’s because Twitter’s “While You Were Away” feature has finally launched on Android. The “While You Were Away” feature was added to iOS last month as a […]
Google Bans All Sexually Explicit Images & Video on Blogger
Google is finally making a move with all the porn on Blogger by banning all sexually explicit images and video on the blogging service. If you have a blog that currently has sexually explicit images or videos, Google will not just automatically delete the site. However they will make it private, meaning only users that […]
Only 12% Drop in Traffic With Closure of Google News Claims AEDE, Spain’s Assoc of Newspaper Editors
The AEDE, Spain’s Association of Newspaper Editors and the group that pushed legislators to pass the so-called “Google Tax”, has claimed that the closure of Google News in Spain has only resulted in the loss of 12% of traffic. AEDE claims that the largest online news publishers in Spain, including El Pais and El Mundo […]
Google Testing New Colored Lines Between Search Results on Mobile
Google is testing new colored lines separating mobile search results on mobile. Here is how it looks on Chrome with colored lines, and how it looks without. The results seem to be exclusive to those using Chrome for mobile devices. The colors are all in the Google logo colors. After the Google knowledge graph and […]
Video Advertisers Can Target Children with Pre-Roll Ads in YouTube’s New Kids App
If you have been looking for a way to target children with online advertising, YouTube’s new kid friendly app is the perfect opportunity to target kids with pre-roll advertising opportunities, similar to pre-roll ads that play on YouTube itself. Targeting to children online has been difficult thing to do as many of the apps and […]
Google Begins Showing Tweets in Google News & “In the News” in Search Results
Google has begun showing results from Twitter within their “In the news” section on the front page of the regular Google search results. Aaron Bradley was the first to notice the change in posted this screenshot on Google+. Google recently signed a deal with Twitter that would see them have access to their firehose, this […]
Google Rolling Out New Hacked Page Classifiers & Causing False Positives for “This Site May Be Hacked” Warnings in Search Results
Barry Schwartz at SERoundtable noticed a huge increase in the number of websites that were showing hacked warnings in the Google search results yesterday. Most of the webmasters who posted on the Google help forums couldn’t find any evidence that their sites had been hacked and there were no notices showing up in Google Webmaster […]
Google Adds New Carousels for Popular Sites in Mobile Search Results
Google has added new carousel results for popular topics and websites in the search results. These new carousels are meant to make it quick and easy for users to flip through multiple articles, videos and more from the same source while on a mobile device. This is also good news for webmasters because this means […]
Separating the SEO Signal from the Noise
With hundreds of voices clamoring to be heard, most professing to be God’s gift to SEO, it can seem impossible to figure out who to listen to. The fact that there is so much disagreement in what they all have to say makes it even tougher. So how do you pick the right voice to […]