Search Engine Roundtable

Daily Search Forum Recap: November 6, 2009

barry@rustybrick.com (Barry Schwartz) — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 13:00:00 PST

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web....

Video Recap of Weekly Search Buzz :: November 6, 2009

barry@rustybrick.com (Barry Schwartz) — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 11:37:00 PST

Google shows about ten Sesame Streets logos over three days for their 40th anniversary. Google, Yahoo, Bing, AOL and others dressed up for Halloween. Google's home page fade adds "this space left blank," and it is ridiculous. AdSense is testing...

Google To Treat .UA Domains as Root Domains Soon

barry@rustybrick.com (Barry Schwartz) — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 05:56:06 PST

A Google Webmaster Help thread reports that because .UA domains are currently not considered "root domains" by Google, the change of address tool doesn't work for them. I am not sure if Google did not consider them root domains or...

Google Keeps Banning AdWords Advertisers

barry@rustybrick.com (Barry Schwartz) — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 05:49:06 PST

Back in late September, Google began mass banning AdWords advertisers. A couple days later, after pushing Google for a response, they offered somewhat of a lame response. I was hoping to see Google come back to the thread and answer...

iPhone OS 3.1.2 Breaks Gmail Push: Not Covered by SLA

barry@rustybrick.com (Barry Schwartz) — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 05:41:25 PST

In the past few days, many users of the iPhone and Gmail Push service through active sync have been reporting that it is not working. A large Google Mobile Help thread has dozens of posts from unhappy Gmail users. Google...

AdWords Keyword Phrase Not Triggering Ads? You May Be Banned

barry@rustybrick.com (Barry Schwartz) — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 05:37:01 PST

Are you getting a message from the Google AdWords console that reads, "The keyword phrase doesn't currently trigger any of your ads"? If so, that might be a sign that your account is under review and you may be banned...

Google Really Likes, Really Likes, Sesame Street: Adds Cookie Monster and Ernie & Bert

barry@rustybrick.com (Barry Schwartz) — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 05:32:17 PST

Google has seven different doodles (logos) on the day of Sesame Street's 40th anniversary. Then yesterday and today, they had two different logos, celebrating the same anniversary. November 5th was Cookie Monster: Today, November 6th is Ernie & Bert: What...

Some Keywords in AdWords Ads Diagnostic Tool Require Content Network?

barry@rustybrick.com (Barry Schwartz) — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 05:23:22 PST

The Google AdWords Help thread has an advertising asking why the Ads Diagnostic tool within the AdWords console is giving off this message: To test this keyword, your campaign must be opted in to the search network. AdWordsPro Sarah, from...

Daily Search Forum Recap: November 5, 2009

barry@rustybrick.com (Barry Schwartz) — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 13:00:00 PST

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web....

Publishers: Google News To Require A New Sitemaps File

barry@rustybrick.com (Barry Schwartz) — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 11:39:18 PST

Big news for publishers in the Google News index. Inbal from Google announced in a Google News Help thread that in six months, Google will stop supporting the old News Sitemaps format and require you to switch over to the...

Google's New Beta AdSense Interface Looks Slick

barry@rustybrick.com (Barry Schwartz) — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 11:14:12 PST

There is currently no AdSense publisher that would say they like the AdSense management console. Yes, Google knows that and they have finally announced a limited beta for the new AdSense console interface. And let me tell you, it looks...

Google Finally Creates a Dashboard to Manage Your Google Life

barry@rustybrick.com (Barry Schwartz) — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 05:22:03 PST

One of the more obvious complaints about Google is not about their products but rather how to find all their products and manage how you have access to those products. Google just launched the Google Dashboard which brings many -...

Google's Matt Cutts Goes a Year Without Posting at WebmasterWorld

barry@rustybrick.com (Barry Schwartz) — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 05:14:23 PST

Google's Matt Cutts, the man who is incredibly responsible the idea of webmaster and search engine communication, has gone over a year without posting anything at WebmasterWorld. His last post was on November 2, 2008 in a thread named Google.com...

Google NEAR Operator & Exclude Faces on Image Search

barry@rustybrick.com (Barry Schwartz) — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 05:07:12 PST

There are two threads at Google Web Search Help where there are two search suggestions that Google has listened to as a possible addition to Google's advanced search. The first thread talks about how some searchers want a NEAR operator...

Daily Search Forum Recap: November 4, 2009

barry@rustybrick.com (Barry Schwartz) — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 13:00:00 PST

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web....