The Google Search Console Complaint Department

Google Search ConsoleHey it’s a free tool (thanks guys!) and certainly better than nothing, but #IHaveADream… THE NAME The name, while arguably more descriptive, cannot escape its history as “Google Webmaster Tools”. Maybe in a few years we will all stop trying to say “Google Search Console” while actually saying “Webmaster Tools”. Maybe. HTML IMPROVEMENTS How about […]

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Don’t trust Google to structure your local data

As Google increasingly incorporates direct answers and other types of featured snippets into search results pages, columnist Andrew Shotland points out that businesses may want to get smarter about marking up their pages.

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Searchmetrics now shows where your app appears in App Packs

Also new: rankings for app ads, unique keywords on a page, and the release of the Visibility Guard to protect against errors affecting ranking

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When is a search engine not a search engine? When it’s Google, says the EU

Does the new definition actually mean anything for the search engine industry? I highly doubt it. The current players in the search engine market have spent years refining their methods, and aren’t going to suddenly change tack because of an already fairly unpopular EU directive.

How Google Works

A transcription of Google engineer Paul Haahr’s session at SMX entitled “How Google Works”. It’s very rare that we get to hear from a Google Search Engineer at a Search Industry conference. There are always lots of helpful Google Webmaster Analysts present but since Matt Cutts became a little less visible on the conference circuit […]

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How to enhance your Google Knowledge Graph result (case study)

So your company finally has a Knowledge Graph panel appearing on branded searches, but the information is incomplete or incorrect — what can you do? Tony Edward explains a few ways to edit this information and shows how one method worked for him.

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The rise of personal assistants and the death of the search box

Columnist Eric Enge recaps the SMX West 2016 keynote by Googler Behshad Behzadi, who envisions a not-too-distant future in which voice search becomes more ubiquitous — and may even replace the search box.

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First-page minimum bids continue to rise in wake of Google desktop SERP changes

Columnist Andy Taylor discusses AdWords bidding trends following Google’s move to eliminate right-rail ads and show four top-of-page ads for some queries.

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