Changing Your Logo Hurt Your SEO Or Google Rankings? Probably Not.
Google’s John Mueller was asked if swapping out your logo on your site for the site’s birthday with a special birthday logo can hurt your SEO. John said on Twitter “I’ve never seen issues around that.” In fact, Google does it all the time on its home…
Google Local Service Ads Reviews Requirements From One To Five Reviews
Google has updated the local service ads requirements to require you to have five reviews. This is up from the previous requirement of having to have only one review.
DuckDuckGo On The Decline In 2022
Looks like DuckDuckGo, the privacy focused search engine, is on the decline. In January 2021 it broke the 100 million searches per day mark but since April 2022 of this year, it has dipped below that mark each month.
Google: Good Web Sites Are Good For SEO
Google’s John Mueller stated somewhat of an obvious statement, saying basically that building a good website is often good for SEO. He said on Twitter “A lot of good accessibility best practices are also good SEO best practices, and just generally, mak…
Vlog #178: Alcides Aguasvivas On Proper Infrastructure For Sites To Perform Well In Search
In part one, Alcides Aguasvivas is a co-founder of Pix-l Graphx spoke to me about how he started him firm 18 years ago while in college. In part two we spoke about local SEO for small businesses. In part three we talk about site development and the imp…
Google Juneteenth Doodle Replaced Father’s Day Logo
Today is both Father’s Day and Juneteenth and Google had both logos on its home page for the day. Google first placed the Father’s Day logo up on Google.com early this morning and for some yesterday. Then Google later on today, June 19th, replaced th…
Daily Search Forum Recap: June 17, 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.
Microsoft Advertising is now instituting an advertiser verification program…
RSVP For The Google SEO Meetup In New York City
Google is holding an SEO meetup, a NYC Search Central meetup, on June 27th at 4:30pm, at the Google New York office. I believe this is a 3 hour event, one of the first in-person SEO events Google has held in a while, and it will take place in my neck …
Google Does Not Use Bing’s Index When It Has No Results
I found a super interesting question on Twitter the other day where someone asked, would it be possible for Google Search to use Microsoft Bing’s index when Google has no results for a query. Like Bing would be Google’s supplemental index. The answer i…
Google Tests Full “Advertisement” Label In Local Pack & Promoted Ad Label
We have seen Google tests various labels for its Google Ads in search, including “Ads,” “Sponsored,” and of course “Advertisement.” But now we are seeing the full written out “Advertisement” label in the local pack ads as well. And we are seeing a “pro…
Microsoft Advertising Now Requires Advertiser Identity Verification
Microsoft Advertising now requires advertiser identity verification to ensure that customers see ads from trusted sources, which improves customer experiences, the company said. “As part of this program, advertisers will be required to undergo a verifi…
Search News Buzz Video Recap: Google Core Update Tremors, Product Reviews English, Search Console Updates, Twitter Do-Follows, UI Changes & More
Just when you thought the Google core update was done, we have been seeing big tremors this week that make us question if it was really done. Google product reviews update is still only rolled out for English content…
Google: Don’t Publish Empty Or Blank Pages
An SEO asked Google’s John Mueller if it is okay or even a good idea to publish blank or empty pages so Google can find those URLs? John Mueller said no, don’t publish empty pages to the web.
Google Featured Snippet Cards Layout
Google seems to be testing a new format for featured snippets in the search results. This new layout has multiple answers, from multiple sites/sources in a card view at the top of the search results page.
Google News Tests Frequently Asked Questions Based On Trending Searches
Google is testing a frequently asked questions section in the Google News tab in Google Search that is built out trending searches related to this story. I am not sure if this is new, but both Brian Freiesleben and Saijo George believe it is, so I wil…
Bing Tests Coupons In Search Results
If you search for some brands like Nike, Adidas, etc, you may see Microsoft Bing show a coupon element in the search result snippet. This seems to be an organic feature, at least it is not on on an ad in the Bing search results…
Google Business Profile “Profile Strength” Widget In Search Results
Google is testing a new local widget for businesses owners to help them maintain their Google Business Profile. The widget is named “profile strength” and it shows up in the Google Search results when you search for a company you manage in Google Busin…
Google Tests Local Pack Within An Expandable Menu
Google is testing hiding the local pack within a locations tab that expands when you tap on it or the arrow down. When it expands, it shows you the full local pack listings.
Daily Search Forum Recap: June 15, 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 Search Console updated its reports to just show valid or invalid errors…
Google Search Console Reports Now Show Invalid Or Valid Classifications
Google has just announced that it updated its reports in Search Console to show if an error is invalid or valid in terms of it being an issue for Google to process for indexing and ranking. This is being done to better communicate if an error is causin…