Search News Buzz Video Recap: Google Core Update Done, Title Link Algorithm Update, Google Ads API, Reviews Missing & More
This week, we had a lot of vocality around the Google core update and it has officially completed rolling out yesterday…
Bug? Google Search App Prevents Saving Images From Google Image Search.
There is currently a trending issue in the Google Web Search Help forums with complaints around the Google Search App not letting searchers to save images to their devices anymore.
Why Google Doesn’t Like SEO Metrics – At Least Some…
We see Googlers over the years downplay, nullify and even mock some SEO metrics. They’ve done this with third-party tools and their own tools – heck, that is why they did away with the toolbar PageRank metric. But why do Googlers dislike these SEO met…
Google Ads API Version 11 Now Available
Google announced that version 11 of the Google Ads API is now available. Version 10.1 was released on April 27, 2022 and version 10.0 was released on February 9, 2022. And Google has sunset the AdWords API on April 27th which will completely stop work…
Google Expands Verification Program For Financial Services Ads
Last year, Google began tightening controls around financial products and service ads in the UK. Well, now Google is expanding those policies to more regions starting with Australia, Singapore and Taiwan.
Currently, EU Publishers Can’t Block US Users Without Blocking Google
There is currently no safe mechanism for European publishers, or any publishers outside of the US, to block US based users and also not block Googlebot or Google from your site. Google crawls from the US and if you block US users, you would also have t…
Google Picks First HTTP Result Codes When More Than One Is Provided
Google’s John Mueller was asked at the 1:20 mark in Friday’s Google hangout about serving two or more HTTP result status codes. If you serve two more more, which does Google Search decide to use? The answer is generally the first, the first HTTP result…
Google May 2022 Core Update Done Rolling Out On Day 15
Google has announced this morning at 3:44am ET that the May 2022 broad core update is now done rolling out. Google said “The May 2022 core update rollout is now complete.” This comes a day after noticing a lot of volatility, so maybe today we will see…
Bing Tests Ads Tab Under Search Bar
Microsoft Bing seems to be testing an “ads” tab under the search bar, where you see the images, videos, maps, news, shopping, etc options. Honestly, this seems very out of place but hey, Bing, like Google, tests a lot of interesting things.
Google: You Can Restrict XML Sitemaps Access To Search Engines
Google’s John Mueller said it is acceptable to restrict access of your XML Sitemaps to just search engines. So you can technically block humans from seeing your XML sitemaps but allow Google to access it.
Bing Adds Visit Site Button To Branded Sidebar Navigation
A couple weeks ago we reported how Microsoft Bing was testing a branded sidebar search results snippet feature on the left side bar. Well, Bing added a “Visit Site” button to that sidebar at the top – which makes this more visible feature even more vi…
Google Search With Both Short Videos & Visual Stories (Within An Accordion)
A month ago, we reported how the trend Google is headed is going away from web stories / visual stories and headed towards showing more short videos. Well, now we are seeing Google show the short videos very prominently in the search results, and then…
Google May 2022 Core Update Not Done Yet…
Today is officially day 14 since the May 2022 core update first started rolling out and it does not seem to be done rolling out yet – it is not complete. Google’s Danny Sullivan said last night “We’re not there yet.” I asked Google’s John Mueller this …
New Google Ads Travel Features: Business Profile Hotel Rates, Feedless Onboarding & Travel Goals With Performance Max
Google announced last week a bunch of new travel ad and local features. These include the ability to add hotel rates directly on Google Business Profile, “feedless onboarding” for Google Hotel Ads, and Performance Max that use travel goals.
Google Expands Browse By Search Features: Material, Product Line & More
Google seems to have expanded the browse by feature to let you browse search results for products by material, product line and more. We’ve seen many variations of this before – so this might not be new but it is nice to see Google probably dynamically…
Google Title Link Algorithm Update For Multi-Language Or Transliterated Titles
Google announced that it made an algorithmic adjustment (it thinks for the better) for how it decides to display title links for those pages that use multi-language or transliterated (scripted) titles. In short, if your title tag does not match the co…
Google: Don’t Put Your Company Name In Blank Image Alt Text
Most sites I know do not fill in their image alt text for many images. I know a lot of SEOs work on this task but sometimes it is a lot of work. One SEO said his client wants to take a shortcut and autofill any blank alt text with his company name. Jo…
Google May 2022 Core Updates Continue But We’re Probably At The End
Google’s May 2022 core update is now just about 13 days in, we expect Google to say the update is now rolling out sometime in the next 72 hours or so. But till then, it does seem like the tremors have continued, with big spikes on Sunday, June 5, 2022…
June & May 2022 Google Webmaster Report
Some how, I forgot to post the Google webmaster report last month, so this one will be a bit longer as I am combining the June and May Google webmaster report in one big report. Sorry for missing that report, but here is the catch up. The big items for…
Vlog #176: Alcides Aguasvivas On Starting An Digital Agency During College, 18 Years Later
Alcides Aguasvivas is a co-founder of Pix-l Graphx, he has been running the company for 18 years now and they are based around the corner from my office in Rutherford, New Jersey. He is most passionate about search…