Podcast: Google Search Product Legal Counsel, David Price
For some reason, legal discussions always fascinate me – the nuance in how words are put together, definitions, and the technicality lawyers put into words is just interesting. And of course, you all know I am obsessed with Google and search. So this …
Confirmed Google Ads Conversions Bug Impacting Non-First/Last Click Attribution Models
Google has confirmed a bug with Google ads impacting conversion data. The issue is specific with Google Ads conversions that use non-First/Last Click attribution models, such as Data Driven Attribution (DDA).
It’s A Wrap: December 2021 Google Product Reviews Update Done Rolling Out
Google said on Tuesday, December 21, 2021 that the December 2021 Google product reviews update is now fully rolled out. Alan Kent from Google shared this news on Twitter after I asked him for an update – he said “the Google product review update is fu…
Google: No Need To Work On Algorithm & Ranking Issues Over Holidays
Google’s John Mueller said on Twitter that when it comes to Google Search ranking algorithm updates – there is no need to work on those SEO issues over weekends or the holidays. He said Google’s “algorithms tend to focus more on the long term.” “So it…
Google Kwanzaa Decorations With Special Pagination Bar Now Update For Holidays
Google has now posted its full Kwanzaa decorations in the Google Search results interface both on desktop and mobile search. Yesterday we saw the Google Christmas decorations, earlier this month the Chanukah decorations and now the Kwanzaa decorations…
Google: 100,000 URLs Usually Won’t Impact Crawl Budget
Google’s John Mueller said a site with 100,000 URLs usually won’t be enough to impact crawl budget. Your site and number of pages should be larger to where you might run into an issue with Google’s crawl budget.
Daily Search Forum Recap: December 21, 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 not all sites must be an authority to rank, well…
Google Winter Season Doodle
Today is the first day of Winter in the Northern Hemisphere and for it, Google has this hedgehog walking through the snow. But did you know the hedgehog’s sibling is also in the Southern Hemisphere walking through the beaches with a first day of Summer…
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…