What’s New feature in Google My Business?

There is a new navigation panel that helps users get less confused when navigating around in the dashboard. The area to add managers is in a much more visible place in a new vertical column on the left. Google My Business Locations (GMBL) – What’s New & Improved? You can now see G+ Brand Pages that are not connected to Maps easily right in the main dashboard. Before, you had to go to Google Plus to see these. You...

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Duplicate URLs In The Disavow Is Not An Issue Said by Google

An SEO asked on Twitter if listing the same URL in the disavow link file will hurt or what happens? Does listing it twice negate it? Does listing it twice show more importance? Or does Google ignore duplicate listings? Google's John Mueller responded on Twitter saying "duplicates don't cause problems." John did add that it might make it hard for you to maintain the file. If you ever removed the URL, you might not notice the URL is...

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Best Trick For Get Google Plus Vanity Short URL As Your User Name

The trend of Verified accounts are not so new in social media sites. Twitter is using this feature for many years. Google+ is using this feature from the beginning. Yeah, Facebook and YouTube has introduced this feature recently. Verified Names are having verification badges/checkmarks along with there names in these Social Networking websites that helps people to find out and identify Official channel, profile, page about a business or a...

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Now You Can Connect Your Google+ Page With Your Google Maps Listing

You can finally connect your Google+ company page to your Google Maps listing. For the past year or so, I had two listings for my company in Google+. Then, somehow, I had a third. Now, I was able to connect my Google Maps verified listing to my Google+ company page. And the biggest surprise to me, it worked! Google Maps is known for bugs and this seemed to actually work. My company's Google+ page, over here now also has a "verified...

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Google Webmaster Tools Adds Block Resources Debug With Fetch & Render

As expected, Google has introduced a new tool to help webmaster determine what JavaScript, CSS, and other resources they are blocking from GoogleBot's crawl. Google announced it yesterday, as a new feature in the Fetch as Google tool in Webmaster Tools, which now has Fetch & Render: Clicking on it will give webmasters the option to specify how Google should fetch it, i.e. desktop, smartphone or feature phones. Then it will show you...

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Google Panda 4.0 Now Rolling Out; A New Panda Algorithm

On May 21, 2014, was pretty wild, with Google confirming an update over the weekend targeting spammy queries and also Google's Matt Cutts posting on Twitter that Panda 4.0 was released. This is a new Panda algorithm, not a refresh that we've seen almost monthly but enough for Google to name this 4.0, which means a new algorithm update to it. Google's Matt Cutts told us at Search Engine Land that this Panda 4.0 update impacts ~7.5% of English...

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Google Update - Google Keyword Planner Tool Gets New Features

Kim reports the keyword planner tool within the Google AdWords console has quietly added nine new features today. The new features include: Specify a time period for keyword data Compare time periods over time View absolute and relative changes for each ad group and keyword’s volume comparing two periods Visualizing mobile trends See breakdowns by device and targeted locations Flexible time periods Device segmentation and bid adjustments Location...

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Tips - Google's Matt Cutts On How To Buy Domain Names

Google's Matt Cutts posted a video on the question How can I research a domain that I may want to purchase? Matt Cutts gave a few tips on what to do, what steps to take, when researching a domain name buy. (1) Do a site command and if no content is found, that can be a bad thing. Of course, if the domain name was never registered or is new or is parked, then it is likely no content will be found. But if it is buying someone else's domain...

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Google Penalizes PostJoint Over Guest Blog Links

It seems Google has gone after yet another guest blog network that is being used by SEOs for link building purposes. The link network is named PostJoint and has gone on record that they are different from MyBlogGuest, which was penalized a month ago. Matt Cutts confirmed on Twitter in a round about way that PostJoint and likely all the publishers in the network, were penalized. I bet they will start seeing unnatural link notifications...

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70% Said Google's Penguin 2.1 Update Hurt them

About six-months ago, Google unleashed a major update to Penguin, the Penguin 2.1 update. The earlier feedback from that update was that is was a big impact to webmasters and mostly SEOs who used links in an aggressive manner. So I posted a poll asking you how you did with the update. Being that six-months later there has been no reports of a new Penguin refresh or update, I figured I post the poll results today. We had over 2,800 responses...

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65% Prefer Google Manual Actions Over Algorithmic Demotions

A while back, we polled our audience asking if they prefer manual or algorithmic penalties by Google - that is, if you had to pick one or the other. Imagine Matt Cutts coming over to you and saying, you're a bad boy. You deserve a penalty but I'll let you pick, you can have an algorithmic demotion or a manual action. Which would you pick? I explain in detail the different between the two over here and the response was that 65% prefer a manual...

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Universal Analytics: Out of beta, into primetime

Universal Analytics is the re-imagining of Google Analytics for today’s multi-screen, multi-device world and all the measurement challenges that come with it. Since we launched UA in beta, we’ve seen some exciting use cases. Today we’re happy to finally announce: Universal Analytics is out of beta and everyone can use it with the same robust set of features you’re used to with classic Analytics! Feature parity with Classic Analytics,...

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Google Panda Refresh Or Softer Panda Update?

Let me start off by saying that I normally would wait another 24 hours before posting this because the chatter is so new, but I will be offline tomorrow and the day after and I am going with what I see now. It seems, based on the very very early chatter that a Panda refresh started late last night or this morning. Some are asking if it is that version two of the softer Panda update that Google's Matt Cutts promised. The ongoing WebmasterWorld ...

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Local Businesses Losing Reviews After Yelp-Yahoo Deal

The recent Yelp/Yahoo partnership has angered some local business owners who say years of positive reviews are now gone from their Yahoo Local business listings. Some of their stories were told this week in the Wall Street Journal, including Colonial Hardwood Flooring of Lexington, Mass. The company says it had built up “six years of mostly positive feedback” on its Yahoo Local listing, but now it only shows one Yelp review that was posted...

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Google Says Our Algorithms Picked Up On Your Keyword Stuffed Page

Keyword stuffing is as cute as a teddy bear that is losing their stuffing - don't do it.A Google Webmaster Help thread has one site owner complaining his site suddenly dropped in the rankings.Why? Well, Google's John Mueller said it doesn't help that your site's home page has over 300 mentions of the term "batteries" throughout the page, especially in the footer. I viewed the source code of just the home page and there are over 600 mentions...

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Google Changed his Privacy - Google Updates Its Privacy Policy

You may have noticed Google’s Privacy Policy has been updated as of March 31, with a red letter “Updated” call-out the site’s home page preceding Google’s Privacy & Terms link. This is the first time the company has updated the policy this year, following an update in December of 2013. There were only two updates last year, one occurring on June 24 and the other on December 20. Google posted a “Comparison” page to outline the most recent...

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Google’s April Fools Video: No We Won’t Stop Changing; While Shirt Constantly Changes

If you didn’t have enough April Fools day fun today, here is one more for you.  In today’s video from Matt Cutts, Matt answered a real question from Dave in the UK, who asked, “When will Google stop updating its search results?” The answer was never! And to prove his point, Matt animated his shirt to change different colors and then overlay flowers on top of the shirt. I made an animated GIF image to show the various colors and tricks...

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It's Time To Get Creative With Your Link Removal Requests

Why is it harder? Well, asking for a link is a positive thing. People like positive things. You tell them they have a great site, you are wonderful, etc etc. But link removal requests are negative and people do not like negative things. You are asking a webmaster to remove a link you have to them because Google thinks it is low quality. How dare you tell a webmaster their site is low quality! Shai Barel of Brilliance said it worked well...

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Did Google Do An Algorithm Update on 26 March 2014?

We've been noticing a steady and consistent level of chatter in the forums and social networks from webmasters and SEOs around Google's search results fluctuations.  The search results tracking tools all report heavy activity over the past couple days, this includes Mozcast, SERPs.com, SERPMetrics and Algoroo. Here are screen captures of those charts: Truth is, my internal signals from all of this makes me believe there...

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Disavow Links Aggressively says by Matt Cutts

Matt Cutts released a new video for remove a penalty of bad link building links which is earn in previous time. Only on disavow may gives the features to remove these urls which is maked by you hired a SEO company. Read More here... http://www.seroundtable.com/google-disavow-aggressive-17793.htm...

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