Category: Search Engine Roundtable

Google posted a new job opening to become a spam fighter at the company. The job title is a Search Quality Analyst and it seems to be an in-person job at the GooglePlex in Mountain View, California.

Google is constantly, for years and years, saying it does not use click through rate (CTR) for search ranking purposes. John Mueller of Google was asked this again and he said “if CTR were what drove search rankings, the results would be all click-bait…

There is a schema property named significantLink which is a way to communicate in your markup “one of the more significant URLs on the page.” Ryan Jones asked John Mueller of Google how Google may take any hints from that schema property. Here is how J…

Google is emailing through Google Search Console about a new Google Assistant feature that will offer users the ability to automatically change their passwords to login to your website in Google Chrome. The Chrome feature, I think is several months ol…

Google has announced two new ways to allow calculate shipping speeds with Google Merchant Center. You can (1) specify your shipping carrier, shipping service, and ship-from location and (2) you can link to your partner to authorize them to share your h…

Google’s John Mueller said that the search company does not have “objective metric for adultness.” He said if you need to have some sort of direction on what Google Search would consider adult content that might be filtered by SafeSearch, use the conte…

For the past four months, Google has been overcounting mobile Page Experience data, the company said. This happened between June 29th and November 1st. Google said that starting on November 1st, you should see the page experience report and performanc…

Google is piloting a new method to reach out to a person for help related to Google Search Console domain verification and user management issues. This is an extension of the reporting tool for indexing issues that Google said worked well.

Google has updated its video best practices search help documentation to add a section about creating a dedicated page for each video. Google said “to give your videos maximum exposure, create a dedicated page for each video.”

It is that time of the month again where I post the monthly Google webmaster report. This past month was filled with several unconfirmed Google updates – no I am not crazy. Google told us Penguin not only ignores spammy links but also can distrust the …

Google posted a new blog post that they “uncovered an opportunity to improve your job posting pages.” I just find this to be a weird way for Google to write about this topic. In short, Google wants you to put more details in the description section o…

Marie Haynes posted another Twitter poll asking has your site ever been negatively affected by a Google core update? With 266 votes in, which is not a huge number, it shows that most SEOs have been negatively affected by a Google core update.