Google Confirms Intrusive Interstitials Ding Will Apply To Desktop Sites
With the Google page experience update coming to desktop sites in February 2022, that means that intrusive interstitials as a signal will also apply to desktop sites. John Mueller of Google confirmed this on Twitter saying “Yes, that’s my understandin…
Google Local Inventory Design, Ship To Store & Offline Sales Feed Ads
Google is doing some interesting things in local search, not just with renaming Google My Business but with new user interface features and Google Ads offline sale sales integrations.
Google: We Will Have More Algorithm Updates, Core Updates, Spam Updates & Other Updates
Google’s Danny Sullivan has confirmed that Google will be releasing more search algorithm updates. This includes more core updates, more spam update and other search related algorithm updates. He said this on Twitter adding “we have updates all the ti…
Google On Embedding Videos On Your Pages: Speed Vs Video Ranking
Embedding videos on your pages can slow the page down and cause your core web vital scores not to perform well. But using lazy loading methods or other tricks to get the videos to score well with core web vitals can cause the videos to not be ranked in…
Google: Machine Written Content May Be Okay For Ranking Soon One Day
Google has talked about how machine written content is currently against Google’s guidelines but some day might not be. We heard Google talk about this change in 2017, yes over four years ago, but still today, machine generated content is against Goog…
Vlog #145: Bryan Cush On Create Content Using Medical Databases & Local Search For Health
In part one, Bryan Cush, the co-founder of Tidal Health Group, and I spoke about how to use health data for content and search marketing and here we dig into using medical databases…
Goodbye Google My Business & Hello Google Business Profile
Google has changed the name of its local business management product once again. I think that might be sixth time, or maybe more, Google has changed the name of this product. It is now known as Google Business Profile, no longer will it be called Googl…
Official: Google Desktop Page Experience Update Coming In February 2022
We now have an official date for when Google will be bringing the page experience update factors/signals to desktop. Google said it will start the rollout in February 2022 and complete that rollout by the end of March 2022. The same factors, outside …
Google Hiring A Spam Fighter For Search
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: If CTR Drove Search Rankings, The Results Would All Be Clickbait
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…
Google’s Reaction To Using significantLink Schema
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…
Search News Buzz Video Recap: Google November Spam Update, Desktop Page Experience, Penguin Algorithm, Google Business Profiles, Google Ads & More
It turned out to be a busy week because we have a confirmed Google search algorithm update – the November spam update that is rolling out. I posted my monthly Google webmaster report as well…
Google Policy Center Updated With New Design & Features
Google has relaunched the Google policy center for Ad Manager, AdMob and AdSense. This update has a new look, plus an updated account health summary, more filtering options and a more detailed issues table.
Google Search Console Notice: Google Chrome To Help Users Automate Changing Passwords Using The Assistant
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 Merchant Center New Ways To Calculate Shipping Speeds
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 Search Has No Objective Metric For Adultness
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…
Google November 2021 Spam Update Rolling Out
Google announced last night that is has begun rolling out a new algorithm update targeting search spam. The new update is named the November spam update and should take about a week to rollout fully.
Google Search Console Overcounted Mobile Page Experience Data For Four Months
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 Ads Glitch – An Ad Isn’t Showing Now Over Location Match Targeting Issue
Google Ads had a wide spread bug or glitch where ads were not showing due to a bug with some sort of location targeting setting. There are dozens of complaints about the ad preview tool showing a notice for ads saying “an ad isn’t showing now” due to …
Google Search Console Tests Contact Form For Domain Verification & User Management Issues
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.