Survey Says: Links The Most Challenging Area Of SEO
A Twitter poll by Brodie Clark has SEOs voting that link acquisition is the most challenging area of SEO. The poll had over 750 votes, and almost 60% of those who voted said link acquisition is the “most challenging” area of SEO. Links were followed …
Google Removes Some HowTo, QAPage & SpecialAnnouncement From Help Documents
Google has removed the following structured data fields from its Google Search help documentation. Google said these were removed “since they are unused by Google Search and Rich Result Test doesn’t flag warnings for them.”
Google: We Don’t Care About The Image For Web Search
Google’s John Mueller said that when it comes to web search, Google does not “look at the specific images on the page” for web search or ranking purposes. For image search, Google does but for web search, John said no.
Daily Search Forum Recap: October 28, 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 when it comes to web search…
Google Merchant Center Unique Product Identifier Limited Enforcement
In September we said Google Merchant Center would enforce that all products would have unique product identifiers (UPI) within the product feed. If there was not UPI, Google would immediately disapproved and no longer showed in free listings. That is n…
Brave Search Uses Click Data In Search Ranking Algorithm
Brave made some big news the other week when it announced it is replacing Google Search as the default in its Brave browser with its own search engine. The thing is, Brave documented how it does ranking and it actually said it uses click data for rank…
Poll: SEOs Split On Doing Black Hat SEO
Marie Haynes ran a poll that asked SEOs “do you do any SEO you’d consider Blackhat?” The results were pretty 50/50, about half said they do not do any black hat SEO and 28% said they do, and 23% said they do “maybe a little” black hat SEO.
Google Lets You Remove Images Of Minors From Search With New Tool & Policy
Google announced a new policy and tool to allow you to remove images of minors, kids and teens under the age of 18, from Google Search results, both images and web search. This is likely a welcomed feature for many parents, many teens and reputation m…
Google: We Do Not Keep Track Of Order Of Links On A Page
Google’s John Mueller said on Twitter “I don’t think we keep track of order of links on a page.” I found that interesting in that Google does treat links to the same destination with different anchor text differently. Although, it is hard to know exa…
Google Ads Earnings & Microsoft Bing Ads Earnings Both Up Over 40%
Google and Microsoft both released earnings statements last night and both were impressive. Alphabet reports Q3 revenue of $65.1B, up 41% year over year with net income of $18.9B, which was up from $11.2B year over year. Microsoft reports Q1 revenue o…
Respected American Journalists Ask If Google Search Is Now Significantly Worse
A few respected American Journalists the other day asked on Twitter if you are noticing Google Search get “significantly worse” than it was previous years. Journalists such as Jesse Eisinger, Chris Hayes and Herb Greenberg all chimed in about this top…
Google Search Ranking Algorithm Update On October 26th
There may have been a Google search ranking algorithm update on the smaller side on or around October 26th. There was both some limited chatter on that day, limited in that is was more than the norm but less than a huge update. And many of the tools s…
Google Continuous Scroll Does Has No Impact Search Console Reports
As you know, Google is rolling out continuous scroll on mobile search. To be honest, in my original reporting on this topic, I covered both the image of Search Console and Google Ads reporting – saying there is no direct impact outside of how user beh…
Google: We Won’t Confuse Titles In SVG Images With Page Titles
The other day I asked John Mueller on Twitter to confirm that Google can handle and not confuse the titles in the SVG images with the page title. Turns out, John answered this question back in May saying that titles in SVG images are not something to …
Google Ads App Campaigns Don’t Require Deep Linking
Google has announced that your app campaigns within Google Ads no longer require manual deep linking. You can now select the option to direct users to the app homepage even if your app does not have deep links implemented.
Google: Using Admin Or Author For Author Name On Articles
Google’s John Mueller was asked if using “admin” or “author” for the author name on articles would be okay for some web sites. The answer was not 100% clear, but he suggested for YMYL categories of sites, it’s best to stay away from generic author nam…
Google Says Non-AMP Page Throttling & Other AG Paxton’s Claims Baseless
First, please go read Google throttled non-AMP page speeds, created format to hamper header bidding, antitrust complaint claims story on Search Engine Land. In short, the claims from Attorney General Paxton said that Google throttled non-AMP pages and…
Google Search Console API Gains Discover & Google News Data With Regex Support
Google added to the Search Console Search Analytics API Discover and Google News data that it added to the web interface earlier this year. Google also added support for Regex with the query and page dimensions.
Daily Search Forum Recap: October 25, 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 when it comes to trust…
Vlog #143: Miriam Schwab On The Startup World
In part two (part one over here) with Miriam Schwab is the co-founder and CEO of Strattic, a static hosting and publishing platform for WordPress…