December 2022 link spam update releasing for Google Search
Today, we’re leveraging the power of SpamBrain to neutralize the impact of unnatural links on
search results.
Google Gives Official Names Of Some Search Features With Visual Elements Gallery
Google has launched a new visual elements of Google Search gallery that documents some of the more popular search features in Google Search. Now we no longer have to guess or make up names for some of the Google Search features.
New Google Search Status Dashboard Tells Us When Crawling, Indexing Or Serving Goes Down
I always wondered why Google had status dashboards for hundreds of other products across Gmail, Drive, Google Ads, etc., but not for Google Search – its most important product/service. But that all changed today when Google launched its Google Search …
Google: Disallowing Crawling Is Not A Super Fast Way To Deindex A Site
John Mueller of Google said in a post on Reddit that disallowing Googlebot to crawl your site would not immediately lead to the site being deindexed. He added that “it would take quite some time for the whole site to drop out,” and the home page may n…
500/503 HTTP Status Code On Robots.txt Can Remove Your Site From Google Search
Gary Illyes from Google said on LinkedIn that if your server returns a 500/503 HTTP status code for an extended period of time for your robots.txt file, then Google may remove your site completely from Google Search.
Google Again: Time Spent On Page Is Not A Ranking Factor
Google’s John Mueller repeated it, the time spent on a page by your users is not a factor Google uses for ranking. Time spent on the page is not a Google ranking factor, he said, “It doesn’t,” meaning Google doesn’t care about time spent on the page fo…
Google Hanukkah Decorations Are Live For 2022
I’ve been checking for the past week, multiple times per day, and just now, Google has launched the Chanukah/Hanukkah decorations for the 2022 season. Chanukah starts this Sunday night, so I was expecting it to come soon, and it is here with a family …
Introducing the Google Search Status Dashboard
As we head into 2023, we want to introduce another tool for the public to understand the most
current status of systems which impact Search – crawling, indexing, and serving. While
system disruptions are extremely rare, we want to be…
Introducing the Google Search Status Dashboard
As we head into 2023, we want to introduce another tool for the public to understand the most
current status of systems which impact Search – crawling, indexing, and serving. While
system disruptions are extremely rare, we want to be…
Daily Search Forum Recap: December 13, 2022
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.
No…
Google: There Is No Helpful Content Score Or Threshold
Google’s John Mueller said there is no score or threshold for the Google helpful content update. He said on Mastodon “There is no “HCS score” or threshold at which HCS [helpful content score] would switch from unhelpful to helpful for SEO.
UK Financial Services Advertisers Now Needs Verification For Microsoft Advertising
Microsoft announced that if you do financial service ads in its network, like on Bing Search, in the UK, you will need to be verified in early 2023. “Starting early 2023, we’ll allow only advertisers duly authorized by the UK Financial Conduct Authorit…
Google: Your Content Does Not Need To Be Niche, It Can Be Diverse – Just Write For Your People
Danny Sullivan, the Google Search Liaison, said on Masoton that your content does not need to be on one topic, one niche topic, for it to rank well. You can write about diverse topics on your site. The main thing, Danny said, was that you should write …
Study: Google Local Guides Reviews Stay At The Top Longer
Joy Hawkins has published another local SEO case study, this one on whether reviews left by Local Guides do better than any ordinary reviewer on Google. The answer is yes; reviews left by Local Guides seem to do better and last longer than other reviews.
Google Tests Featured Snippets Not In Position Zero, Again
Google is once again testing showing the featured snippet, aka position zero, not in the first or position zero slot but rather under position one or even further down the page.
Visual Elements of Google Search
It can be challenging to find a certain search feature or UI element that you want to learn about,
especially when you don’t know what it’s called. The brand new Visual Elements Gallery was
built to help you with this: it contains th…
Visual Elements of Google Search
It can be challenging to find a certain search feature or UI element that you want to learn about,
especially when you don’t know what it’s called. The brand new Visual Elements Gallery was
built to help you with this: it contains th…
Vlog #201: Jeremy Meindl On Failing in Digital Marketing
Part one and part two with Jeremy Meindl was more on black hat SEO stuff and now in part three, we get into more white hat topics talking about CRM targeting. Then in the last part, we spoke more about his failures over the years…
Google On Pages Popping In & Out Of The Google Index
Google has spoken about being on the edge of indexing is similar to Google thinking those pages are on the edge of quality – they seem to go hand in hand. If Google does not deem the page to be high quality enough to be indexed, it won’t be indexed. J…
Google Featured Snippet Perspectives Now Live On Mobile?
In August, we covered a new form of featured snippets in Google Search named Google perspectives. It seems like the perspectives feature is now live on the Google mobile search results.