Google has taken down yet another Polish link network… this time Prolink.pl was taken down over the weekend. This penalty affects both publishers and advertisers through their link network. Affected webmasters began receiving unnatural link notices through their Google Webmaster Tools account on the weekend. Sebastian Miśniakiewicz from SEO Profi wrote a blog post detailing […]
Implications of Firefox Switching Default Search From Google to Yahoo
When Mozilla Firefox and Yahoo announced that Yahoo would now be the default search engine used by the Firefox browser, it raised some eyebrows. After all, Google is the predominant search engine used throughout most of the world. However, many others have been expecting either Yahoo, Bing, or even Duck Duck Go to swoop […]
Google AdWords Adds New Conversion Estimates to Keyword Planner
Google has announced they have added new conversion estimates into their Keyword Planner tool, timed to coincide with the busy holiday shopping season. When you enter in both conversion rates and values into the keyword planner, Google can show you how they feel changing your bids will impact your conversions. They provide the data for […]
Google Launches Contributor, Payment Program To Remove Ads From Publisher Sites
Google has launched Contributor by Google, a brand-new program designed to be an alternative revenue source for publishers. The cost very small from a visitor perspective, asking only $1-$3 per month. Currently, you can select which websites a visitor wants to support, however this may change in the future as right now there are only […]
Mobile-Friendly May Become Google Ranking Signal With Addition of New Tag in Search Results
Google has been putting the pressure on webmasters to ensure their websites are as mobile friendly as possible. With mobile searches nearly edging out desktop for overall percentage of searches, Google wants to ensure that their users are getting the best overall search experience as possible. Now, Google has begun displaying “Mobile-friendly” tags at the […]
Large Disavow File? Google Can Take 3-9 Months To Process Completely
When disavowing links, many webmasters go and disavow every link they have that could possibly be considered an invalid link in the eyes of Google. For sites that have been the target of massive negative SEO campaigns or the victim of over-zealous link builders, lists can get pretty huge. But now it seems that you […]
New Diagnostic Tab For Merchant Center AdWords Advertisers
If you are running Product Listing Ads, you’ve probably run into problems and either weren’t aware they were causing issues or you weren’t exactly sure how to fix them. Google AdWords is aiming to alleviate some of these issues by launching a brand new Diagnostics tab located in the Google Merchant Center. The new tab […]
Google News Testing Tiny Video Thumbnails Alongside Images
A new Google News test has popped up for a limited number of search queries that displays a tiny thumbnail for a video result inline with a row of related thumbnail images. It is similar to how video results had been displayed several years ago, but something Google had moved away from in favor of […]
Google’s DoubleClick Outage Affected 55,000 Websites For Nearly Two Hours
When Google stopped serving DoubleClick Ads on publisher websites last Wednesday, it turns out that more than 55,000 publishers were affected. The sites, which included major websites such as Forbes.com, The Wall Street Journal and The Guardian, caused issues beyond simple ads failing to load, as it seemed to cause some websites to hang as […]
New AdWords Flexible Bid Strategy Performance Reports Now Live
Good news for flexible bid strategy AdWords fans, as Google AdWords has added new performance reports to help advertisers effectively track and gain more insights into their bid strategies. Advertisers can now access a new strategy-level report, which enables advertisers to quickly see how their bid strategies are performing at a glance. Available metrics to […]