Sparse Looking Google Maps Local Pack With Just Directions Icon
Google’s local pack user interface and design tests have been a bit whacky over the past several days. Google is now showing a super sparse looking local pack for bus rental types of queries. Google is just showing the directions button, there is no …
Official Google Crawling Exam
Google has posted an exam to test your SEO knowledge on crawling. Google said this is to test your knowledge on how Google crawls and indexes websites. This is a true and false test, with explanations on why the answer is right or wrong.
Google Search Tests Discussions Carousel
Looks like Google is testing another design and layout for displaying forums in the search results. Now Google is labeling this “discussions” and showing it in this two column and multiple rows carousel interface.
User Queries Help Google Determine What To Show In Knowledge Panels
Ever wonder why some knowledge panels show the authors books, while others might show movies or TV shows and maybe less or more information. Google sometimes determines what to show in a knowledge panel based on how people search for that person or ent…
Safe Browsing No Longer A Google Ranking Signal
Google announced that it has removed the safe browsing signal as part of the page experience update. In fact, Google implied it was never used as a signal, saying the it is “clarifying that Safe Browsing isn’t used as a ranking signal.”
Daily Search Forum Recap: August 5, 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 has removed the “safe browsing” signal from the Google page experience update…
Data: Most Popular Google Search Features Are People Also Ask & Local Pack
Eric Enge along with SEO Clarity published a snippet of data showing which are the most popular search features you would find in the Google Search Results. In order of popularity comes people also ask, local listings, popular products, images, videos…
Google Ads Search Terms Report Stops Hiding All Searches
Back in September 2020, Google announced it would show less search term data in the Google Ads Search Terms report. As you can imagine, the advertising community was not happy. But something changed yesterday and all the search term data is now showi…
Daily Search Forum Recap: August 4, 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 now says core updates can impact local search and also image search…
August 2021 Google Webmaster Report
While last month was filled with algorithm updates this month wasn’t too much different. We had the July 2021 core update…
Google Analytics Now Tracks Google News Showcase Discover Traffic
It seems like Google Analytics is now showing some of Google Discover traffic, likely from the Google News Showcase. If you check your acquisition, source and medium traffic, you may see [newsshowcase / discover] in the list.
Microsoft Advertising Target Impression Share Bidding & More
Microsoft Advertising this week announced in its August roundup it launched Target impression share bidding, Integral Ad Science (IAS) protection, new automated extensions, labels for account organization and changes to unified accounts.
Google: Try To Use One Sitemap File For Google News
Google’s John Mueller recommended that when it comes to your Google News sitemap file, try to use one sitemap file. John said it will result in Google being able to “crawl it faster” and Google does not “have to consolidate signals” he added.
Google Core Updates Can Sometimes Impact Image Search & Local Search
Danny Sullivan of Google confirmed on Twitter that core updates can sometimes impact both image search and local search results. This comes after Danny said that local updates don’t impact local results. But now he is saying “it depends” and can impac…
Bing Did You Know Box In Search Results
Microsoft Bing has a box and section in its search results named “did you know.” It seems Bing shows more study help sections in this box. Frank Sandtmann, a German based SEO, sent this to me but I can replicate it myself.
Google: Coming Back In Search Is Faster Than Dropping Out In Search After Downtime
John Mueller of Google said on Reddit the other day that generally speaking he has seen that it is faster for sites to return to the Google search results after experiencing site downtime than it takes for the pages to drop out of the Google search res…
Poll: SEOs Split On How They Will Nofollow Sponsored Links
Aleyda Solis posted a Twitter poll last week after Google published its suggestions around the link spam update and nofollow vs rel sponsored attributes. The poll showed that SEOs are very split around how they will or will not handle sponsored links.
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Google: If You Remove A Part Of Your Site, The Site Will Rank Differently
Here is one of those classic John Mueller responses, where the Googler said “So, asked differently, if you remove a part of your website, will that website rank differently? Yes, of course it will. It’s a different website afterwards.” Classic.
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Why Is There No Discover Data In Google Search Console API? There Is No Query.
The Google Search Console Performance report API does not include Google Discover data. We’ve known that for a while. But the question is why? John Mueller of Google said the reason is “partially because there’s no notion of “query”.”
Google Removes The Rich Result Type From The Performance Reports
Google has removed the generic rich result type from the Google Search Console performance reports and API. Google told us this was going away back in May and today it is now officially gone.