Google Has No Plans To Separate Out Control Of Indexing For Discover or Top Stories
Google’s John Mueller said on Twitter that the search company has no plans to separate out indexing and visibility controls specifically between Google News, Search, Discover or Top Stories. If you are in Search, you can be in the top stories carousel…
Cross-language Results Google Search Console Performance Filter
Google has a new (I think new) filter in the Google Search Console Performance report named Cross-language Results. I have never seen this filter, but I suspect this is related to if Google Search will take other languages, translate them for you, and …
Poll: How Many SEO Projects Lead To Successful Outcomes For Clients
Aleyda Solis ran a super interesting poll on Twitter asking SEOs about their SEO project success rate. She asked “what percentage of the SEO Processes/Projects/Initiative that you work at end up having the “agreed/expected outcome” & are seen as a “success” by the client/stakeholders?”
Google Search Tests Suggested Channels Box
Google seems to be testing a new feature in the Google search results named “suggested channel.” I personally cannot replicate this but he is a screen shot from Jonas Sickler on Twitter who spotted this last week.
Google: Personalization In Search Is Extremely Light & Rare For Ranking
Google’s Danny Sullivan confirmed, again, that personalization in Google Search is an “extremely light” ranking signal. In fact, he said personalization is “fairly rare” to be used for ranking purposes.
Search News Buzz Video Recap: Google Ranking Update, Pages Dropping In & Out, Big Publishers Benefit & Author URLs and Rankings
This week, we had not just one, but two different unconfirmed Google search ranking algorithm updates – one on Saturday and one on Wednesday. Google said the link spam update that was suppose to be done rolling out about two weeks ago…
Daily Search Forum Recap: August 19, 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.
On Wednesday, as I hinted to yesterday…
Google: The Header To Title Tag Snippet Change Is Not Related To Passage Ranking
A couple of days ago, we broke the news, that many are noticing a change where Google is using the header tag over the title tag more often these days for the Google search result snippet link. Some are suggesting that this change (which is not that h…
Google Spells Curbside As Kerbside In Some Regions
I can sometimes be naive when it comes to some differences between the USA and the rest of the world. One example is spelling curbside and kerbside. Honestly, I think spelling it kerbside is way cooler and so does other countries like Australia.
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SEO Concerns If Agency Threatens To Delete Your Site
We have seen lots of SEO threats in the past, mostly around negative SEO but I have not seen one threaten to delete a whole website. Someone went to Twitter asking for advice from Google on how to deal with such a threat.
Google Replaces Knowledge Panels Feedback Link With Report Link
Google has replaced the “feedback” link we’ve seen on knowledge panels in Google Search with a “report” link. It is a small, subtle change but I guess Google felt “report” means a lot more to someone trying to change a knowledge panel in Google Search…
Google Search Ranking Algorithm Update Wednesday
As I mentioned yesterday in my story on the slow rollout for the Google link spam update – there seems to be a Google update going on. It started – maybe Tuesday but spiked in a big way on Wednesday, August 18th. It is not clear if this is related to …
Google Local Result With Reviews From The Web & Independent Sites
Google seems to be testing a new way of showing reviews in the local listing for some businesses. Brandon Schmidt spotted Google showing not just the number of reviews with the review summary in stars, but where Google labels if the reviews are “from…
Google: Cover All Your Bases With Searcher Intent & Your Content
Lily Ray shared an interesting chart from Ahrefs, the SEO toolset, showing how for a single keyword phrase, there were multiple intents from searchers spike over a different time period. In which, John Mueller of Google responded that it makes sense t…
Google Ads “Paid For By Label” On Political Ads
Google is now placing a label (I think it is new) named “paid for by” on some political ads. This label lets searchers click on it to learn more who is sponsoring the ad and even lets you dive into more details on the advertiser and their spend.
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Google Link Spam Update Still Rolling Out Over 3 Weeks Later
Google announced on July 26, 2021, three-weeks and two days ago, that it started to roll the link spam update and that update would take about two-weeks to roll out. Well, like I said, it is three-weeks and two days and it is still not done rolling ou…
Top Stories Images In Google Search Blank
Google’s top stories carousel is not loading all the images for those articles. It seems like a bug is causing some of the images to not show up as of early this morning.
Google: We Will Retry Old Redirect URLs For Years
Google’s John Mueller once again confirmed that Google will continue to retry old, redirected URLs for years and years even if the redirect remains in place for a long time. John said on Twitter “I suspect we’ll keep retrying these for years, on and o…
Google Displaying Header Tags Instead Of Titles For Search Snippets?
I am seeing numerous complaints this morning that Google is showing header tags, H1s and H2s, instead of the meta title tags, for its search result snippets. I am seeing some public complaints on Twitter, but also in some of the private forums and ema…
Google Opens Indexing Bugs Reporting Tool To Search Console Users
Google announced that all signed-in Google Search Console users who go to the English help form can now submit indexing bug notifications to Google. This ran as a pilot to a limited number of users back in April but is now open to a lot more Search Con…