Google Tests New Visual Stories Designs
It looks like Google is testing new layouts and formats for the visual stories, formerly AMP stories. Brodie Clark shared some screen shots of the new designs on Twitter.
Google Discover Tests New Look For Trending Searches
Google is testing a new look and design for the trending searches you see on the Google home page on mobile and in Google Discover. Here is a screenshot of the slick search phrase in a bubble with the trending icon next to it that Jason Mandragona sh…
Google: Stock Levels Should Not Impact Search Rankings
Google’s John Mueller was asked if stock levels can impact the ranking of products on an e-commerce site. John implied that the answer is no, he said “that seems unrelated, at least for normal search. It might impact product search but he is not sure …
Google: Rel Sponsored Not Needed For Internal Links To Affiliate Product Reviews
You do not need to nofollow or use a rel sponsored attribute on your internal links, even if those internal links lead to sponsored reviews content with affiliate links to those products. Lily Ray asked Google’s John Mueller about this and John said wh…
Google May Be Showing More Web Stories In Top Stories
John Shehata shared a chart from his Newzdash service that showed how Google is showing more web stories in the top positions of the top stories carousel in the mobile search results. John said on Twitter “I am starting to see more and more web stories…
Google Search Console Users and Permissions Issue Fixed
A few months ago we reported about a Google Search Console users permissions issue. Well, that issue is now resolved according to Caio Barros from Google. The issue seemed more like an issue with communicating the true access than a bug with access.
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January 2022 Google Webmaster Report
Normally the month of December is not that busy because people take off for the holidays and such. But the past month was really not that calm at all. We had huge Google ranking volatility most of the past month, we had a confirmed three-week rollout o…
Daily Search Forum Recap: January 4, 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’s international targeting setting can take weeks to kick in…
Google Local Results Displays Bike & Car Charging Icons In Local Results
Google is now showing bike icons for the bikeshare data it shows in the local search results, including the local pack and local listing for a bike share location. Google also shows the quantity of bikes that are available at that location. And Google …
Advice: Don’t Migrate Domains & Drop Google AMP The Same Time
It might not be the best idea to migrate to a new domain name and at the same time also drop your AMP pages. A Google SEO hangout with John Mueller has one case where a site migrated to a new domain back in September and at the same time dropped AMP an…
Google Search Tests Blue Header
Ric Rodriguez has spotted Google testing a blue colored header for the mobile search results. He shared a number of screenshots on Twitter -here is a side by side of a normal white header for the Google Search bar compared to the blue header for the Go…
Google Search Console International Targeting Setting Can Take Weeks
Google’s John Mueller said that it can take from a week to a couple of months for Google Search to pick up on the international targeting setting you selected in Google Search Console. He said it would likely go faster for news sites but other sites ca…
Google: Pages That Look Like Error Pages Can Be Considered Soft 404s
Several months ago Google told us that returning a “results not found” type of page can result in Google Search considering that page a soft 404 and thus removing it from the search results. The same is true for “Sorry we don’t deliver to this location…
Google: The Coverage Report Won’t Get unavailable_after Meta Tag
John Mueller of Google was asked if the Google Search Console coverage report can show the unavailable_after meta tag in that report. John said he doubts it because it is “too niche.”
Google Search Console Products Rich Result Report Updated
On December 28, 2021, Google updated the rich results report for product structured data in Google Search Console. The reporting update may result in a change in the number of issues, errors and warnings that you get on and after December 28th in that…
John Mueller Of Google Helping Webmasters On New Years 2022
As expected, John Mueller of Google was at it again on New Years eve and New Years day – helping SEOs and site owners with their Google Search and SEO issues. Like on Christmas Eve 2021, John also did a video hangout on New Years eve, plus he was on s…
Google: Site Duplicated With IP Address Won’t Lead To Your Site Being Removed From Search
Generally Google will list a site in its search results with the domain name, not the IP address associated with the domain name. But if you see both and if your site is crawlable via the IP, it is not going to lead to your site being deindexed by Goo…
Google: Quality Of Your Languages On Your Multilingual Site Can Impact Each Other
Google’s John Mueller confirmed on the December 31st SEO hangout that if you have multiple versions of your site, and one version is deemed high quality by Google and the other version is deemed low quality by Google – the low quality version can negat…
Vlog #153: Colt Sliva On Going Beyond Frequency Statistics In SEO
In part one, we spoke about how Colt Sliva became an SEO engineer and some topics around visualizing search graphs. In part two we spoke more about entities, python for SEO and winning over developers…
Top Contributors To The Search Engine Roundtable In 2021
As you all know, I source a lot of forums and Twitter threads here for the stories that I write. Without the amazing individuals that make up the search industry, this site would not exist. In fact, when I started this site over 18 years ago, its purp…