Entries from Search Engine Roundtable tagged with 'google search'

A WebmasterWorld thread has some interesting observations, which I thought would be fun to name the "Floating Four" symptom. In short, it seems like there are some pages that happen to float into the fourth position at Google's search results...

Posted on May 6, 2008 8:30 AM

WebmasterWorld moderator posted a detailed thread at WebmasterWorld claiming that he feels the proxy hijacks that Google has suffered from in 2007, and was getting better towards the end of 2007 seems to be 100% cleaned up now. IncrediBill concluded:...

Posted on April 24, 2008 7:56 AM

As Danny reported over the weekend, Google added a significant search feature (Matt Cutts mentioned it first to let us know). You can now type into Google, whois domain.com and get the whois information for that domain. For example, whois...

Posted on April 23, 2008 11:26 AM

Google has finally written a formal post at the Google Webmaster Central blog named Best practices when moving your site. It honestly is a nice place to send a client or webmaster when the question comes up. Does it give...

Posted on April 17, 2008 7:33 AM

I'll be honest, I keep watching the WebmasterWorld thread discussing the April 2008 Google update, code named Update Dewey. The latest thing that I noticed were recent reports from very senior members saying that Google is shuffling around the results,...

Posted on April 16, 2008 7:44 AM

We should have seen this coming, based on the number of reports that Google was submitting GET forms. But often, it is hard to validate those types of reports, due to people spoofing Googlebot and similar tactics. In any event,...

Posted on April 14, 2008 7:50 AM

I don't think this is exactly related to Google mixing up titles and URLs from yesterday (if you have examples, please comment, so Matt can address them at Google). But over at Search Engine Roundtable Forums, PPCBlogger showed us an...

Posted on April 11, 2008 7:01 AM

This is no April Fools joke, Google is really showing the same search result for some queries in special cases. A WebmasterWorld brought it my to attention and then I was given a way to reproduce it by Andreas. The...

Posted on April 2, 2008 8:52 AM

A couple days ago, I announced on my personal blog that I expanded the keyword list that triggers the Google Co-Op subscribed links from showing up. If you don't remember, the Google Co-Op subscribed links are a way for a...

Posted on April 2, 2008 7:56 AM

On the last day of March, I reported on a major Google search index update which seemed to have impacted tons and tons of SEOs, as opposed to just a ton of SEOs (if you know what I mean). Yes,...

Posted on April 2, 2008 7:36 AM

The huge WebmasterWorld thread devoted to tracking Google changes over the course of March 2008 has sprung some late March legs. Reseller, well known at WebmasterWorld for tracking the slightest changes at Google, posted two data centers that are very...

Posted on March 31, 2008 7:03 AM

There are many reports via DigitalPoint Forums that Google has added the Sitelinks feature to many new sites. Tamar even mentioned to me yesterday that a search on tamar weinberg now returns Sitelinks for her site. The last Google Sitelinks...

Posted on March 27, 2008 8:08 AM

One of the oldest questions in the search engine optimization practice is on the META description. The META description is this little tag you include in the header file, that provides a machine readable short summary of your page. Many...

Posted on March 27, 2008 7:06 AM

Brent Csutoras reported that when searching for social media consulting on Google, up came an indented result for his site. But the indented result, under the main result was from a different site. He took a screen capture of the...

Posted on March 17, 2008 7:25 AM

Google seems to have updated the design of the advanced search form. Here are pictures of the new page design, as I see them right now: Now if you click on that plus sign to open the "Date, usage rights,...

Posted on March 5, 2008 7:15 AM

We now have three different threads in the past week that report Google has the wrong site in its cache for a query. We have seen this before, where we said Google Slow to Update Cache Data? In that case,...

Posted on March 4, 2008 7:33 AM

An interesting thread has been brewing over at WebmasterWorld with reports of an unusual Google query test. It seems like searchers in the UK, searching on UK based IPs at Google may see different results when they search first in...

Posted on February 28, 2008 9:04 AM

I am very confused by a search result at Google Netherlands. Stay with me now, and search for internet publishing at Google.nl. What comes up in the second result for me is www.publiceren.net, which looks to be a video result....

Posted on February 22, 2008 6:44 AM

Over the weekend, in a WebmasterWorld thread that is tracking the Google February 2008 SERP changes, the recent discussion is around a new Google update. This Google update is reportedly impacting the search results in the position two, three, four...

Posted on February 18, 2008 7:01 AM

Besides for Google discounting their search API registration it appears that the Google Search API results are not always matching those of a normal Google search. Now, this has been the case for as long as I remember. Since back...

Posted on February 15, 2008 7:48 AM

A WebmasterWorld has several reports from non-US based site owners saying their rankings in the main USA based Google.com has dropped from the first page to page five or beyond. This is not just one report from people complaining, there...

Posted on January 31, 2008 6:30 AM

In late December, we reported about a possible Position 6 Google Penalty. What that meant was that many people noticed their number one or two rankings all of a sudden dropped to position number 6. Google's Matt Cutts denied such...

Posted on January 23, 2008 7:36 AM

Google launched Universal Search back in mid-May of last year. Since then, SEOs and Webmasters have become interested in how to leverage that to their benefit. But some are just upset and want the universal search blend to go away....

Posted on January 22, 2008 7:45 AM

It appears Google made a slight change in how they display the "cache" and "similar pages" link within the search results listings. Yesterday, the link appeared on the same line as the URL, as shown here: Today, the link appears...

Posted on January 10, 2008 7:10 AM

A WebmasterWorld thread reports seeing Google Local results above the sponsored listings on the right hand side of the Google search results page. Back in December, I reported at Search Engine Land that Google was testing vertical results in that...

Posted on January 8, 2008 7:24 AM

There are many many ways to remove content from Google. We have discussed this topic over and over again. In fact, here are those articles: A New Way To Remove Content in Google.com via Google Webmaster Central Removing A Page...

Posted on January 4, 2008 7:18 AM

The Ultimate Fate of Supplemental Results from the Google Webmaster Central blog announces, what Google calls, the "next major milestone" for Google's supplemental results. What is happening exactly? Google is implying that when you conduct a search in Google.com, Google...

Posted on December 20, 2007 7:44 AM

We asked the question a while back, Should Google Display RSS Feeds in Web Search Results and we determined, no. Then GoogleGuy confirmed Google does not want to display most RSS feeds in the Google index. The Google Webmaster Central...

Posted on December 19, 2007 7:43 AM

A WebmasterWorld thread has a nice amount of Webmasters noticing an increase in the number of supplemental pages being returned by Google. How does one measure the number of supplemental pages in the Google index for their site when Google...

Posted on December 19, 2007 6:52 AM

Permanent redirects, also known as 301 redirects, are the life blood for webmasters when they make changes to their URL structures. It is common practice and knowledge, that when you change a URL from one location to a new location,...

Posted on December 18, 2007 7:38 AM

This weekend has been a landmark time in the SEO industry. To huge blog posts, with dozens of policy changes over the past couple of weeks, have been instrumental in what makes this weekend so significant. The official Google Webmaster...

Posted on December 3, 2007 7:49 AM

Ever wonder what exactly makes up the pieces of the search results you see at Google? Matt Cutts, the head of "search quality" at Google blogged about it over at the Google Webmaster Central Blog. Here is the video where...

Posted on November 27, 2007 7:17 AM

Reports are coming from WebmasterWorld that when you conduct a country specific search, you are no longer able to see which pages are supplemental. The example given was a search at google.co.uk. When you conduct a site: specific search for...

Posted on November 20, 2007 7:15 AM

The Google Advanced Search page has added new date parameters to the date option drop down. Prior, I believe they only had the option to choose by the past 3, 6 or 12 months. Now you can also search by...

Posted on September 5, 2007 7:58 AM

Is there any mileage to the claim that it is possible to get your site spidered faster if you integrate the Google Custom Search Engine into your website? This is the question a new webmaster is asking on the High...

Posted on July 16, 2007 9:08 AM

Yesterday, 2 burglars tried to raid an amusement center, but after an hour, couldn't open the safe, according to the Colorado Springs Gazette. The burglars tried to disable a security camera by repeatedly spraying it with WD-40 — it only...

Posted on July 11, 2007 10:35 AM

There have been lingering reports at both Search Engine Roundtable Forums and WebmasterWorld that Google's site command feature for the UK search engine is broken. For example, if you conduct a site:www.bbc.co.uk and restrict it to "pages from the UK",...

Posted on June 7, 2007 7:54 AM

The folks over at Google Webmaster Central keep pumping out more and more features. The latest feature is showing how other sites link to you, by showing the "most common words used in anchor text to your site." How do...

Posted on March 16, 2007 7:53 AM

Big news last night, Google wrote they will be taking steps to further improve our privacy practices. What that means is that after 18 to 24 months, Google will begin to anonymize their sever logs to help protect it a...

Posted on March 15, 2007 7:00 AM

Matt Cutts posted an interesting write up he named Search results in search results. In that post, he located a Google Groups thread started by Philipp Lenssen asking: Is there any official Google statement regarding that search result on one's...

Posted on March 12, 2007 10:45 AM

Yesterday, I was conducting a search on michael jordan for this post and I spotted related searches at the bottom of the Google results. It looked like this: View Full Size Image I thought it was new, but waited on...

Posted on December 19, 2006 8:19 AM

A member at DigitalPoint Forums was told to learn how to spell negligible but searching for it in a search engine. So he entered in neglible (misspelled) into Google.co.uk (same works for .com) and Google did not offer up a...

Posted on November 9, 2006 7:04 AM

Several WebmasterWorld members report conducting a search on a keyword phrase at Google.com and being presented with results in the form of URLs only, for all 10 results. This is not just reported for one obscure query, but several other...

Posted on October 23, 2006 8:04 AM