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Dear Google: Please Fix the Grammar in Your Search Results

Posted on August 31, 2015 Written by Bill Hartzer

While I was looking at the search results for the title tag of a post that I recently posted today, I noticed that Google’s grammar is less than to be desired. You’d think with all those PhDs at Google the grammar would be better. Dear Google, please fix the bad grammar in your search results to you are not suggesting something that has bad grammar. Take a look at the following screen capture, where Google is suggesting something other than what I searched for:

I searched for “What Happened When I Removed the Blogroll from My Site“, the last post where I wrote about what happened when I removed my blogroll. [Read more…]

RipoffReport.com Removed From the Google Index: But is Back Shortly After

Posted on August 19, 2015 Written by Bill Hartzer

The problematic website Ripoff Report has been completely removed from the Google Index. Based on a Google search for site:ripoffreport.com, I can now confirm that RipoffReport.com has been removed. See the screen capture below:

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Google Sends Warnings About Blocking CSS and JavaScript Files

Posted on July 28, 2015 Written by Bill Hartzer

Google has been very aggressive about sending out warnings in Google Search Console that says that your site is blocking CSS and JavaScript files on your site. Today I received a warning message from Google regarding my site’s blocking of CSS and JavaScript files. But when I first looked at the message, I thought that I wasn’t actually blocking any .CSS or .JS files on my site. Until I looked a little bit further.

Here’s the message I received, July 28, 2015 from Google. Apparently it was so important that Google sent it via the Search Console (formerly Google Webmaster Tools) but they also sent it via email: [Read more…]

Google Doesn’t Understand What None Means

Posted on June 8, 2015 Written by Bill Hartzer

I was searching and looking through the SERPs of some of the people I hung out with last week at SMX Advanced in Seattle. I noticed a rather odd thing showing up in the search results for David Iwanow, where the word “none” is showing up several times in the SERPs (search results pages). Take a look:

This is the knowledge graph entry that shows up next to the search results. For David Iwanow’s entry, he has this showing up: [Read more…]

Will Bing Webmaster Tools Change Their Name?

Posted on May 26, 2015 Written by Bill Hartzer

Of course this is just speculation on my part, but it does not look like Bing Webmaster Tools has any plans to change the name of their product anytime soon. I was having a conversation on Twitter today where a friend from Microsoft mentioned that a name change wasn’t on the radar.

But, of course we know how that goes. Plans can certainly change at any time.

As you might recall, Google recently changed the name of Google Webmaster Tools to the Google Search Console, a move that has surprised many veteran Google Webmaster Tools users, such as myself. [Read more…]

Interview With a Small Business Owner Crushed by Google

Posted on May 18, 2015 Written by Bill Hartzer

Updated March 26, 2025.

May is small business month, so as a follow-up to a blog post I wrote recently, I tracked this small business owner, Ira Zoot, the former owner of TicketStub.com, and interviewed him. Mr. Zoot originally claimed that he, as a small business owner, has been crushed by Google. He’s been only for over 10 years, and, in the past several years Google has taken steps through various algorithm changes and other policies, to crush his business online. [Read more…]

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