Google: Site Moves With Redirects In Place Only For 3-Months Is Too Short
We know that Google for several years has been telling us we need to have redirects in place for a year or so for Google to have the site moves stick. But how many months is too few, too little? John Mueller of Google said that three-months for a redi…
Google: Machine Or AI Generated Content Still Not High Quality
For the past several years, Google has been saying that when machine generated or AI generated content becomes high quality, it might be something that Google allows within its search webmaster guidelines. Well, in 2022, that day is still not here – y…
Vlog #164: David Melamed On Search Spam’s Long Term Search Success & Can Others Compete With Google
In part one of my interview with David Melamed…
Spring 2022 Google Search Ranking Algorithm Update
Google may have started to release another Google search ranking algorithm update starting Friday, March 18th through today, March 20th. This is an unconfirmed update but unlike the last one we reported, we have both chatter from the SEO community and …
Daily Search Forum Recap: March 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 won’t be making Google Analytics 4 a search ranking boost…
Google Tests On These Lists In Local Listing
Google seems to be testing a feature in a local listing for a venue that says which lists, if any, these venues are on. Often you see websites that have lists of topics like, ten best places to take your kids in a specific location and things like tha…
SMS Messaging Support Returns To Google Business Profiles?
When Google first launched messaging within Google Business Profiles (formerly Google My Business), it was done through SMS, text messaging. Then Google removed the SMS portion and just added it to both the mobile app and the web interface. Now, Googl…
Quality: Site With Quality Issues Switched Domains, Saw Temporary Google Ranking Boost & Dropped Again
On last Friday’s hangout with Google’s John Mueller, Ankit Dalal, an SEO, asked about a site he is working on and what the issue it has with rankings. In short, the site was not ranking well, so they migrated the site to a new domain and the rankings c…
Google: Google Analytics 4 Won’t Be A Search Ranking Boost
Sometimes when Google wants to encourage site owners to take action, they might give us a ranking boost for implementing it. They did it for HTTPS, mobile friendly design, page experience and many more. But when it comes to encouraging folks to switc…
Google Search Movie Reviews Panel Goes Full Width
Rajan Patel, the VP of Engineering at Google, confirmed with me that Google has rolled out full width movie reviews. So when you search for a movie name and add on “review” to your query, Google will show a full width review panel in web search.
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Search News Buzz Video Recap: Google Algorithm Weirdness, Google Analytics 3 Going Away, Google Local Review Bugs & More
This week, I covered a possible Google update that ticked off a week ago, but it was weird, the tools didn’t pick up on it. Google announced it is sunsetting Google Analytics Universal Analytics in 2023 and you will need to start using Google Analytics…
Free Google Hotel Listings Expand To Search & Maps, Adds Reporting & Controls
Google announced that the free Google hotel listing is released a year ago is now expanding. Google will now show these free hotel listings in Google Search and Google Maps. Plus, Google added some more reporting and hotel controls for management.
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Poll: 80% Of SEOs Expect Some Traffic Loss After Site Migration
A Twitter poll by Natalie Mott showed that almost 80% of SEOs do expect to see some traffic lost when managing a site migration. There were over 1,300 votes on this poll, which is a lot for an SEO Twitter poll, and 78.3% said they do expect a traffic …
Google Search Local Business Listing Tests More About Button
Google seems to be testing a new button in the local business listings, the local panel, that has a “more about” button. The button drives someone from the web search version of the local listing to the more detailed overview tab section of this local …
Google Offers Carousel In Search Result Snippets
Google Search has a carousel, which may or may not be new, that shows categories of offers from a merchant as part of the overall snippet. The carousel is beneath the main snippet and sitelinks (if available) and shows a scrollable carousel of offer c…
Reaction Towards Google Killing Google Analytics 3 For Google Analytics 4
So Google is doing away with Google Analytics 3, aka Universal Analytics and you will all have to switch to Google Analytics 4, aka GA 4. Universal Analytics properties will stop processing new hits on July 1, 2023. That means you need to set up GA 4 …
Google Officially Announces Search Central Virtual Unconference – April 27th
I was a bit too eager in reporting the dates for the Google Search Central Virtual Unconference the other week. Google changed the tentative dates on the registration page to now show that the event takes place on April 27th from 11am to 2pm ET, with r…
Google Search Ranking Update Weirdness On March 11th
For the past few days I have been debating if I should cover what may have been a Google search ranking update that ticked off on Friday March 11th. There was super unusual update like chatter in the WebmasterWorld forums but the automated tracking to…
Google Image Search Lens Tests Search, Text & Translate Options
In 2018, Google added a lens button to the mobile search image results. That eventually came to desktop as Google more tightly integrated Lens into Image Search. Now we are seeing Google test options for search, text and translate using Google Lens in…
Google Adds Business Profiles Managers Controls In Web Search
Google continues to move more and more business editing features and controls to the web search results and outside of the Google Business Profile Manager (formerly Google My Business manager). Now you can also manage the managers and those who have a…