A group of Google AdWords advertisers have won an appeal that would allow them to sue Google as a group. The previous court had denied the group class certification based on their claims. The appeal case is Pulaski & Middleman LLC v. Google Inc. The group argues that between the July 2004 and March 2008 […]
Google Loses Appeal; Must Remove Right to Be Forgotten Worldwide
Google has lost the appeal in France that requires the search engine to remove “Right to be Forgotten” removed results from all versions of Google – including Google.com – instead of just the Google results in the EU. Earlier this year, the CNIL (Commission Nationale de l’Informatique et des Libertés) ordered Google to start applying […]
Spammers Hit Chilling Effects with Bogus Google DMCA Requests
TorrentFreak has discovered a huge amount of spam being hosted on Chilling Effects, in the form of bogus DMCA requests the site has published. And these requests all include huge descriptions filled with spam URLs of everything from viagra to designer handbags. Here is a typical example: The description looks like something you’d typically see […]
Google Taking Further Action for Abusing Reconsideration Requests
Google has a new blog post today, announcing that webmasters that repeatedly violate the Google webmaster guidelines could see their sites on the receiving end of “further action” being taken on the site. It isn’t uncommon for many SEOs to see sites pop up and down in the search results, and often the reason is […]
Google Sues Local Lighthouse for Impersonating Google in Robocalls
If you have ever been on the receiving end of one of Local Lighthouse robocalls claiming to be Google, you will be happy to know that Google has filed a lawsuit against the company for their business practices and particularly their marketing technique of referring to themselves as Google. Google posted about the problem on […]
Google No Longer Displaying 7-Packs for Local Results in Tablets
Last month, Google was still displaying the old local 7-pack to searchers who were searching from a tablet. But not any longer. Now doing a local search on a tablet device will trigger the same 3-pack that matches what we see in both mobile and desktop results. The 7-packs are no longer being shown at […]
Google Adds New Preview Book Button to Knowledge Panels
Tired of Amazon being the main place you have to go to in order to preview books you are interested in purchasing? Google is getting into the preview book game with a new option they are currently testing that allows searchers to preview a book by clicking on a new box in the knowledge panel. […]
HTTPS Gives Websites an Edge in Competitive Markets
Gary Illyes has said previously that HTTPS acts as a tie breaker in the Google search results. In the hangout this week with Bruce Clay, Illyes says that it acts as a tie breaker, but that it can also give an edge for websites in competitive market areas. If you are in a competitive niche […]
Are you Over-SEOing Your Websites? Some Are, According to Google
We talk periodically about the concept of over-SEOing websites, but for the most part, people don’t really see the downside of it, so long as the over-optimizing doesn’t cross the line into black hat SEO techniques. But in yesterday’s Google hangout with Bruce Clay, Gary Illyes talks about over-SEOing, and specifically the type of over-SEOing […]
Google Panda Future Updates Will Continue to Rollout Very Slowly
One of the big differences with the latest Google Panda refresh was that Google is rolling it out over months, rather than just days or weeks. And its slowness has led to many problems by SEOs to actually determine if it has hit certain sites or not (positive or negative) and it doesn’t show up […]