Webmaster world and SERoundtable has reported that the Google Adwords advertisers are annoyed over the column sorting bug. When a advertiser tend to sort his data’s with respect to a specific column, the data was sorted accordingly but no more remembered.

This seems to retain for a couple of weeks and Google advertisers seem to be very annoyed according to the discussion in Webmasterworld forum.

Few statements from Advertisers,

Keep reverting to cost, with zero cost ad campaigns at the top. Normally when you change the column sorting, Google remembers. Mine keeps going back to AVG CPC in ascending order.

I keep changing it back to AVG CPC descending order but it won’t remember it. This happened some time ago, and it’s happening again.

It’s still happening. Annoyed

Mark

SEO Tags : Google Adwords, Search Engine Marketing, Google Webmaster Tools, Google

Google Universal search have begun blending results from more than just the web in order to provide the most relevant and useful results possible. In addition to that, result may include video, news, images, maps, and books. This will be advantages for both the searchers and the webmaster.

As per Google statement, searcher are mostly use to web, they were not widely use to other tools like video, news, images, maps, and books. Now web will give the result of all the tools.

To know more about the advantages of universal search Click here.

Kannan

SEO Tags: Google Universal Search

More insight into anchor text was the news in official Google blog yesterday. Google last maonth replaced individual anchor text words in webmaster tools with list of full anchor phrases. The information has been enhanced now. Go to Page Analysis in Statistics tab and note the following changes,

• Number of phrases is expanded to 200.
• Variations on each phrase (for instance, with different capitalization and punctuation)
• The report showing the most common individual words in anchor text which was replaced earlier is also shown.
• Number of common words in anchor text is expanded to 100.
• Common words in your site is also expanded to 100.

Hope this enhancement in webmaster tools will help webmasters.

Mark

SEO Tags : Google, Google Webmaster Tools, Search Engine Optimization

Google webmaster blog has released a news about the new tool Requesting removal of content from Google’s index.

In Google webmaster tools, the diagnostic tab will have URL Removals option. To get started, simply click the URL Removals link, then New Removal Request. From the screen, choose your option.

• Choose “Individual URLs” option if you’d like to remove a URL or image. The URL or image to be removed must be,
• The URL most return a status code of either 404 or 410.
• The URL must be blocked by the site’s robots.txt file.
• The URL must be blocked by a robots meta tag.
• Choose “A directory” option if you’d like to remove all files and folders within a directory on your site.
• Choose “Your entire site” option only if you want to remove your entire site from the Google index. This option will remove all subdirectories and files.
• Choose “Cached copies” option to remove cached copies of pages in our index.
• Choose “Using a meta noarchive tag and requesting expedited removal option”, If you don’t want the page cached at all, you can add a meta noarchive tag to the page and then request expedited cache removal.
• If you want to remove the cached version of a page because it contained content that you’ve removed and don’t want indexed, you can request the cache removal using “Changing the page content” option.
• Check your status regarding the removal, and you also have option to reinclude your removed sites.

This improved feature will make the removal of content from Google more easier.

Mark

SEO Tags : Google Webmaster tools, Google, Search Engine Optimization