Google Discover Changes “More Recommendations” Label To “More Products” Signaling Deeper Push Into Shopping And E-commerce
In March, I wrote a post about “More recommendations” being surfaced in Google Discover. The call to action would show up after researching products in Google Search and would lead to a “task dashboard” containing a boatload of content that helps users…
Poll: Many SEOs Still Guest Post For SEO
A poll by Marie Haynes shows that many SEOs are still doing guest posting for SEO purposes. The poll had over 400 responses and only 44% of those who responded said they do not use guest posting for SEO reasons. 32% said they do and 12% said they do …
Bing Promoting TikTok In Search Results
Microsoft Bing seems to be promoting TikTok video results within the Bing search results. If you do a search for some videos, Bing might add a box on the left side by the video search results box that says “Short videos of X” with a “from TikTok” button.
Google’s John Mueller On When To Use Subdomains
Just when you thought John Mueller of Google was done responding to sub-domain SEO questions – well – now we have a new social platform – so… John said on Mastodon when he would go with subdomains versus posting the content on the main www.
Google Documents Search Ranking Updates As Systems; Labels Live Or Archived Notable Algorithms
Google has published a new document named a guide to Google search ranking system. That document outlines the “notable” ranking updates that are currently live and running for Google Search and also some of the historical updates that are either no lon…
Google AdSense Rewarded Ad Gate Beta
Google AdSense is testing a new ad type for publishers named Rewarded Ad Gate beta program. This program is something Google has in AdMob and basically lets you serve some of your more “loyal” visitors with longer-form ads, even playable ads.
Google: Last Batch Of Sites Moving To Mobile-First Indexing Coming Soon, Again
Once again, Google’s John Mueller said the last batch of sites still being indexed using desktop indexing is going to be moved over to mobile-first indexing “soon.” John said this on Twitter this morning, saying “The last batches of sites are afaik com…
Google Wants Examples Of URLs That Should Be Indexed But Are Discovered – Currently Not Indexed
Gary Illyes is back on social, not Twitter, but on Mastodon and he asked for examples of URLs that you think should be indexed but instead give you the status Discovered, currently not indexed in Google Search Console.
Google’s New Spam Policy: Policy Circumvention
Google has added a new spam policy for policy circumvention. The new section was added to the Google spam policies document and basically says if you try to go around the Google spam policies, you can be penalized.
Vlog #198: Jeremy Meindl On Manipulating Google Search & Never Being Caught
Jeremy Meindl is the co-founder of Target IQ and we spoke about the hotel we are in, its history of it, and the fire he risked his life showing how you cannot burn yourself. Jeremy spoke about his history in a super transparent way and how he got into …
Google: E-A-T Applies To Every Single Query
Out of the Hyung-Jin Kim interview from SMX Next last week, we not only got the scoop on the Coati algorithm but also Hyung-Jin Kim told us that E-A-T is used in every single query, it is applied to everything Google Search does.
Google SEO Docs Adds The Unsupported Meta Tags & Attributes
Google has made a minor updated to the meta tags and attributes that Google supports help documentation and added the two tags Google does not support. Those include the meta keywords tag and HTML tag lang attributes.
Yet Another Weekend Google Search Ranking Algorithm Update – November 18th – 20th
Here we go again, I am reporting about yet another Google search ranking algorithm update over another weekend. That makes it several weekends in a row and I do plan on investigating to see if weekend updates are a real thing or in my imagination.
Bing Webmaster Tools To Undergo Maintenance Today Between 10 and 1pm ET
Bing Webmaster Tools will undergo scheduled maintenance between 10am and 1pm ET today. The Microsoft Bing Search toolset posted this notice at the top of the tool when you login today.
Google “Why To Watch” Carousel For Google Movie Reviews
Google seems to have added a new carousel to the movie search results named “why to watch.” This carousel contains movie critique reviews, which is not new, but the user interface is new.
Introducing our new guide to Google Search ranking systems
Over the years, through blog posts and other public communications, Google has regularly shared
information about our automated ranking systems and how they operate. Now we’ve created a centralized
page called “A guide to Google Sear…
Introducing our new guide to Google Search ranking systems
Over the years, through blog posts and other public communications, Google has regularly shared
information about our automated ranking systems and how they operate. Now we’ve created a centralized
page called “A guide to Google Sear…
Daily Search Forum Recap: November 18, 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.
Google launched a ton of new features across search, maps…
Search News Buzz Video Recap: Google Coati Update, More Weekend Tremors, Local Reviews Bug, Google Ads Bribe, Apple Search Delayed & More
This week, we learned that Google’s Panda update at one point in time evolved into what was called the Google Coati update. Google also had another weekend update last week. Google Search Console added a new shopping tab with more…
Google: Don’t Randomly Change The Author Name, Use Author Annotations & Updated Content Use New Author
Google’s John Mueller was asked about the impact of changing the author’s name on an article. John gave three pieces of advice in response to the question, (1) use author annotations, (2) rewritten content should use the new author’s name and (3) do no…