Google Seems To Be Not Indexing Or Serving New Content This Morning (Update Confirmed)
It seems like Google is having a major indexing or crawling issue this morning – again. Google seems to have not picked up on new content in the past hour or two. You can see sites like the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, and niche publishers li…
Daily Search Forum Recap: December 16, 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.
It was a busy day today, we had a massive Google some big indexing or serving issue today…
Google Ads Console Was Offline For A Couple Of Hours This Morning
Not only did we have a two hour Google Search indexing outage this morning, but between around 3am ET and 5am ET the Google Ads interface and advertising console was offline as well. We saw numerous reports from advertisers about the outage this morni…
Google AdSense Support Team Going Offline For 18 Days For Holidays
The Google AdSense support team will be offline from December 17, 2021 to January 4, 2022 – a full 18-days. Google said the team is going offline for the holidays and that you should use the help forums and self help during that 18-day period.
Google: You Can’t Tell Which SEO Efforts Led To Ranking Success
John Mueller from Google shared something both funny and mostly true about SEO tasks. He basically said that it is often hard or even sometimes impossible to know which SEO tasks led to ranking success, even after it is all set and done. John said on …
Google December 2021 Products Reviews Update Will Roll Out Until Right Before Christmas
Google started to roll out the December 2021 product reviews update on Wednesday, December 1, 2021. Google said then it would take about three weeks to fully roll out, which means probably around December 22nd, a couple days before Christmas eve.
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New: Google Analytics 4 Supports Google Search Console Data
Google announced that now Google Analytics 4 supports data from Google Search Console. This was something Google has supported with the original Google Analytics since 2011 and now has brought over support for with the new GA4.
Google SEO Tips On Taking A Site Offline To Fix Log4j Security Vulnerability
I previous wrote about how Google Ads is not impacted by the Log4j security vulnerability but many sites and servers are. So if you have a website that needs to have updates because of the Log4j security issue, do you have to worry if you need to take …
Google: Special Characters Do Not Affect Google Search
Google’s John Mueller said that special characters on your page “doesn’t affect Google” Search rankings. This is in regards to like checkmarks such as ‘” or other special characters.
SEO Who “Learned A Few Tricks” Landed Large SEO Publisher Job Now Asks How To Do SEO On Reddit
This is somewhat both sad and funny and I thought I should share it here. Via Joe Youngblood, an SEO who has said he “learned a few tricks” was able to sign a contract for SEO work with a big publishing company. But the sad part is, it seems he has “no…
Google: We Won’t Penalize Your Site For Not Nofollowing Affiliate Links
Google’s John Mueller confirmed again that Google won’t likely penalize or give your site a manual action if you do not add a nofollow or rel sponsored attribute to your affiliate links. He said this at the 31:58 mark in this past Friday’s video.
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Google Local Maps Spam Big Cleanup Or Big Mess?
There has been a lot of local SEOs talking about the big shake up in the local results over the past week. It might be related to a local search algorithm update (Google has not confirmed it yet) or might be some spam fighting efforts. But I am seeing…
Google: Links Are Not Mandatory For Ranking In Google Search
Google’s John Mueller said again that having links to your site is not a requirement and not mandatory for ranking in Google Search. He said this back in 2015 as well, but said again in 2021 that links are not a requirement to rank.
Daily Search Forum Recap: December 14, 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 its ads platform is not impacted or affected by the Log4j 2 vulnerability, but if you use API…
Google Maps Busy Area Now Live
A few weeks ago, Google announced a new feature named busy area – well, that feature now seems to be rolling out. Several folks started to notice this roll out over the past few days. When you are looking at the Google Maps app, Google will show you i…
Google Search Console Review Snippets Report May Show Fewer Objects
Google said that as of December 14th and onwards that the reviews snippet rich results report in Google Search Console may show fewer review objects. This is because Google is no longer showing top-level rating objects in this report.
Bing Tests Translating Your Query
Microsoft Bing seems to be testing a feature to translate your query. Frank Sandtmann sent me a screenshot of Bing in Germany where it offers the option to translate his English query to German.
Google Ads Not Affected By Log4j 2 Vulnerability
Over the past few days you may have heard about Log4j and a major vulnerability that allowed hackers to attack unpatched Apache servers – if not, click here to learn more. Google has posted that Google Ads and Google Marketing Platform are not using v…
Google Search Testing Empty Design Search Box
It looks like Google is testing a more empty style for its search bar. The search bar has no apparent box to enter your query after your query is in the box (that you don’t exactly see). It also changes some of the icons to gray without color.
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Google May Finish Mobile-First Indexing Switch Over By July 2022
As you know, Google has dropped its deadline to switch all sites to mobile-first indexing after missing its self-directed deadlines multiple times in the past. But John Mueller of Google said in a video on Friday that he is guessing that Google will f…