Google: Not All Websites Need To Be An Authority
Google’s John Mueller said in a video hangout the other day that not all websites need to be an authority. He said there are tons of small websites that just try to sell something, something small, not in a competitive niche and you don’t always need …
Google Confirms Links To 404 Pages Are Not Counted
If you have a lot of links to your site, but some of those links are pointing to pages that no longer exist and serve a 404 not found status code – those links technically are not helping or hurting your site in Google Search. John Mueller of Google sa…
New Microsoft Bing Travel Search Features
Microsoft Bing announced new travel search features including suggested itineraries and inspiration, 360 immersive views, drink and dining information and coupons and deals. This currently is live in the United States.
Google Christmas Decorations With Special Pagination Bar Now Update For Holidays
Google has put up its Christmas decorations for the holidays. It includes a few little touches including the family by the tree at the top right corner, the easter egg when you click on the present that takes you to the Santa Tracker and the pagination…
Google Top Stories Won’t Show AMP Logos In Dark Mode
Danny Sullivan of Google confirmed that Google won’t show the AMP specific logo for your news articles in the top stories carousel when the searcher is in the beta version of dark mode. Kenichi Suzuki spotted this and posted the examples below.
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Daily Search Forum Recap: December 20, 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.
The Google search fluctuations have not slowed down…
SEO Hired To Gain Links Hacked The Client’s Related Site To Acquire Those Links
Image you hire an SEO company for SEO services and they email you the links they acquired for you and in that report it shows a link from a site you own. But you didn’t sell any links on your sites, so you then realize the SEO company hacked your othe…
Google: We Look At Language On A Per Page Basis, Not Site Wide Basis
This is just a reminder, that Google says it does not look at the language of your site overall but rather the language of each of your individual pages on your site. So you can have some pages in English, some in Spanish, some in Hebrew, etc. Just do…
Google: Ghost Directories Don’t Impact SEO Or Rankings
Google’s John Mueller said on Reddit that Ghost directories do not impact SEO or have an effect on your Google rankings. John replied to a thread about this saying “no effect.”
Google Search Interactive Quizzes Test?
Saijo George spotted a possible Google Search testing related to more quizzes in the search results. He spotted these for vocabulary, geography, entertainment, and others and posted about it on Twitter.
Google Ads Adds New Icons & Workspace Filter
Google Ads is rolling out new icons and a workspace filter to some accounts and eagle eyes advertisers are noticing it. Menachem Ani and Brett Bodofsky both tweeted about it the other day.
Vlog #151: Colt Sliva On Becoming A SEO Engineer & Visualizing Search Graphs
Colt Sliva came out to my outside office spot to chat SEO with me. I asked him a bunch of personal questions to start, to make him tense up – just kidding. We spoke about his career, he is the SEO engineer at iPullRank…
Daily Search Forum Recap: December 17, 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’s search results are fluctuating like mad still…
Google Maps Dock To Bottom Feature
Google Maps seems to be rolling out or testing a new feature to dock locations and businesses to the bottom of the map page. You may see a “dock to bottom” button in blue that lets you quickly reopen a place your docked later. When you click it, it pla…
Confirmed: Google November 2021 Google Local Search Update
As we reported a week ago, we saw a possible Google local search ranking update starting around a week prior to that – well, Google has now confirmed it. Google said on Twitter “Our November 2021 local search update has concluded. It began Nov 30 and r…
Google Business Profile Video Verification Now When You Add A New Profile
Ben Fisher notified me that now when you add a new business to Google Business Profiles (formerly Google My Business), Google now by default asks you as part of the verification workflow if you want to do the video verification.
Google Search Ranking Algorithm Tremors Continue & It’s Big
Are you dizzy yet? The Google search results are still super volatile and we are seeing high levels of chatter spike back up over the past 24 to 48 hours and the tracking tools are also running incredibly hot. There is just so much going on right now…
Google: The Number Of Links Is Not A Useful Metric
Google’s John Mueller said on Twitter that the number of links, for SEO purposes, is not a useful metric. He also said by the time you calculate all your links, that number has probably already changed – so it is not a good use of your time.
Search News Buzz Video Recap: Google Indexing Issues, Pre-Christmas Ranking Volatility & Local Update, Full Width Interfaces, Log4j & More
This week we had some fun bugs with both Google Search having some massive indexing issues and Google Ads going offline for a couple of hours. Google has confirmed that they ran a November 2021 local search ranking update between November 30 and Decemb…
Google Search Console Still Down For Many SEOs
Starting at about 1:30pm ET, five hours ago, Google Search Console is still down for many SEOs. It might work for you but for many, Google Search Console is not loading. Google is aware of the issue and is working on addressing it but there is not ETA…