John Mueller Of Google Providing Webmaster Support on Christmas Again
Google’s John Mueller again, actually since 2007, year-after-year, has jumped into the Google support forums and on social media to answer webmaster questions on Google Search. It is a tradition for him…
Google Search Won’t Rank Sex Toy Companies For G-Rated Brand Names But Google Ads Will For The Money
If you do a search in Google or Bing for [adam and eve] or [jack and jill], both very G rated phrases that also have very X rated companies behind it, you will get mixed results. On the Google Search organic results, by default, the sex toy companies …
Vlog #152: Colt Sliva On Entities, Python For SEO & Winning Over Developers
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…
The John Mueller Meme Report 2021
Like last year, Google’s John Mueller put together a year end meme report of SEO for 2021. John said on Twitter “It’s time for the dreaded end-of-year reports. Here’s a compilation from the monthly internal reports that I put together. There’s more to…
Search News Buzz Video Recap: Google Product Reviews Update Done Before Christmas, Lots Of Ranking Tremors & SEOs Working On Holidays
Happy holidays and merry Christmas to all of you, hope you are not watching this video on your break but if you are – you clearly love search…
Google Ads Serving Issue For Ads On Desktop Gmail
Google has a new serving issue with Google Ads that is impacting ad serving on the desktop version of Gmail. So if you are serving Google Ads on Gmail, your ads may not show to a “significant subset of users,” according to Google.
Daily Search Forum Recap: December 23, 2021
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.
Most SEOs say they spend 25% or less of their time focused on link building…
Bing Shopping Buy Now Integration With Shopify & Ethical Shopping
Microsoft Bing announced it launched its Shopify integration by allowing a buy now from Bing Shopping and Bing Search to the Shopify site it is hosted on. Plus, a couple weeks ago, it launched a new Ethical Shopping hub in United Kingdom, which should …
Google Image Search Section For “Top Categorized Results” – Confused?
Google Image search on mobile has these labels for sections of the images it sometimes shows in the search results. A new label I have not seen before is showing “top categorized results.” I have no clue what that means – do you?
SEO Holiday Gift: Waking Up To $80,000 In New Traffic This Week
There is a Reddit thread I found via John Mueller that claims a site owner woke up to an additional $80,000 in monthly traffic. The person said that over the past several days his traffic skyrocketed 6,000 percent because his rankings for a very compe…
No, Google Doesn’t Use Google Analytics 4 For Ranking Purposes
Google’s John Mueller posted a very necessary clarification that Google does not use Google Analytics 4 for ranking purposes. Just like Google said countless times it does not use Google Analytics in its ranking algorithm, so to with the new Google Ana…
Survey Says: Most SEOs Spend Less Than 25% Of Their Time With Link Building
Yesterday, I posted a poll asking what percentage of your time as an SEO is spent doing link building. The Twitter poll has a ton of responses, over X, and it seems like the majority of SEOs spend less than 25% of their time focused directly on link b…
Podcast: Google Search Product Legal Counsel, David Price
For some reason, legal discussions always fascinate me – the nuance in how words are put together, definitions, and the technicality lawyers put into words is just interesting. And of course, you all know I am obsessed with Google and search. So this …
Confirmed Google Ads Conversions Bug Impacting Non-First/Last Click Attribution Models
Google has confirmed a bug with Google ads impacting conversion data. The issue is specific with Google Ads conversions that use non-First/Last Click attribution models, such as Data Driven Attribution (DDA).
It’s A Wrap: December 2021 Google Product Reviews Update Done Rolling Out
Google said on Tuesday, December 21, 2021 that the December 2021 Google product reviews update is now fully rolled out. Alan Kent from Google shared this news on Twitter after I asked him for an update – he said “the Google product review update is fu…
Google: No Need To Work On Algorithm & Ranking Issues Over Holidays
Google’s John Mueller said on Twitter that when it comes to Google Search ranking algorithm updates – there is no need to work on those SEO issues over weekends or the holidays. He said Google’s “algorithms tend to focus more on the long term.” “So it…
Google Kwanzaa Decorations With Special Pagination Bar Now Update For Holidays
Google has now posted its full Kwanzaa decorations in the Google Search results interface both on desktop and mobile search. Yesterday we saw the Google Christmas decorations, earlier this month the Chanukah decorations and now the Kwanzaa decorations…
Google: 100,000 URLs Usually Won’t Impact Crawl Budget
Google’s John Mueller said a site with 100,000 URLs usually won’t be enough to impact crawl budget. Your site and number of pages should be larger to where you might run into an issue with Google’s crawl budget.
Daily Search Forum Recap: December 21, 2021
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 said not all sites must be an authority to rank, well…
Google Winter Season Doodle
Today is the first day of Winter in the Northern Hemisphere and for it, Google has this hedgehog walking through the snow. But did you know the hedgehog’s sibling is also in the Southern Hemisphere walking through the beaches with a first day of Summer…