Google SEO Question: How Much Plagiarism Percentage-wise Is Allowed?
I spotted a weird question that was asked of Google’s John Mueller around plagiarism. The question was, what percentage level of plagiarism does Google allow so a site can rank in Google. Is it 5%, 10%, etc? The question is weird but I guess there ar…
Google Featured Snippet With Question Header
I am honestly not sure if this is new, but I tried to replicate this and it took a few tries on various mobile browsers to trigger it. Google is showing a featured snippet that leads with a question in the header of the snippet.
Rumor: Apple To Announce New Search Engine Next Week
Robert Scoble posted a bunch of items around what to expect from the Apple World Wide Developer Conference (WWDC) that is happening Monday, June 6th. Robert said a bunch of things but specific to search he said “and a new search engine is coming too.”…
Google Core Updates Uses Data Before Launch But May Update Data Between Launches
Google’s John Mueller was asked what are the timeframes for the data used when calculating quality metrics for the Google broad core updates. John said that there is a lot of “work that’s done well in advance” and “usually with data collected until th…
Vlog #175: James Pate On Enterprise SEO Adoption & SEO Driven Taxonomy
In part one with James Pate, we spoke about doing SEO at IBM and using Airtable for managing enterprise SEO data. In part two, we talk about enterprise SEO adoption and SEO driven taxonomy…
Google Memorial Day Logo With Remembrance Day Poppies
Google has its grayed out logo for Memorial Day today but it also has remembrance day flowers, red poppies, in the footer of the search results. So when you click on the logo or search for [memorial day], you will see these poppies in the footer load….
Google Ads Under Review Status Now Won’t Trigger Ads
Google updated its Google Ads policy saying that keywords won’t be able to trigger ads until they’ve been reviewed. This is effective immediately and will be fully ramped up and enforced within a two months period.
Google Doesn’t Have Advice On When To Use Subdomains For YMYL Content
Google’s John Mueller was asked Myriam Jessier if it makes sense to use subdomains for the YMYL content on a larger site. She asked “if a subdomain talks about a YMYL topic, can it impact the rest of the site?” John Mueller didn’t really give an answer…
New Google Electric Bikes Guidelines
Google has posted new guidelines to the Google Merchant Center for electric or motorized bikes. You must now list the max speed of the electric bike, if you do not, Google will disapprove the listing and it won’t show in Google Shopping. Plus, Google d…
Google Video On Why Search Console Graphs Fluctuate
Google’s John Mueller posted one of those short question and answer videos the other day, this one was on why do the Google Search Console graphs sometimes fluctuation. The answer is maybe something Google changed on their end or something you changed…
Daily Search Forum Recap: May 27, 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 is now showing fewer sitelinks for each snippet…
Do No-Indexed Pages With Canonical To New Page Pass Google Signals?
Kenichi Suzuki asked Google’s John Mueller an SEO question that got an interesting response. The question was “I’m curious about this thread. If page A has noindex and rel=canonical pointing to Page B, are the signals of A transferred to B?” John repl…
Google Displaying Less Sitelinks For The Past Couple Months
The other day, I reported on Search Engine Land that Google seems to be showing fewer sitelinks in the search snippets. Not that Google is showing sitelinks less often in general, but rather that I cannot find any sitelinks that are made up of 6 links …
Google Maps Mobile Showing Justifications On The Map
Google is now showing justifications directly in the Google Maps mobile interface and app for businesses that you might be interested in. Justifications are basically reviews or comments about the business that Google might think you want to see overl…
Search News Buzz Video Recap: Google May Core Update, Google Ranking Tremors Galore, Google Marketing Live Ad News & More
After over six months of waiting, we finally got a new Google broad core update, the May 2022 core update, I discuss some of what we are seeing early on…
Google Ads To Prohibit Some Skin Lightening Products
Google Ads will prohibit some skin lightening products starting in June 2020. Any skin lightening product that imply the superiority of one skin tone over another will not be allowed to advertise on Google Ads.
Google Tests Search Bar Menu Links In Box Button Like Interface
Google Search is testing a new design for the search bar menu items, where Google shows images, videos, news, etc under the search bar. Instead of the normal links with icons, Google is testing shading them in blue and grayish background button like c…
Google AdSense Updates Search Style Ad Extensions
Google AdSense announced it is changing how some ad extension settings work for search styles for AdSense for Search. This change is happening on June 23, 2022.
Alexa Rank Still Alive Despite Shutting Down
Despite Alexa.com formerly shutting down on May 1st and the web site saying it was retired, the backend APIs and tools seems to still work. Not that any of that matters for SEO but I found it interesting, nevertheless.
Google Ads Adds New Audience Targeting & Reporting Features
Google Ads emailed some advertisers earlier this week about three new audience targeting and reporting features. Here is what is new: