Google Short Videos Now Include Facebook Videos
When Google first launched “short videos” in Google Search it seemed to just show videos from YouTube. Shortly after we spotted both TikTok and Instagram videos in this short video carousel. Now we are notified Google can also show videos from Faceboo…
Many SEOs Will Prioritize Core Web Vitals Google Page Experience Efforts
Despite all the new messaging that the Google Page Experience update won’t result in massive changes and the impact won’t be huge after it rolls out, many SEOs will still prioritize their Core Web Vitals / Google Page Experience optimization efforts.
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Google Ads Mobile App Gains Custom Notifications & Performance Insights
Google has added to the Google Ads mobile app custom notifications and review performance insights notifications. Google says this will “help you monitor and improve performance in real time.”
New Google Ads Evasive Ad Content Policy
Google is starting a new Google Ads content policy called “Evasive Ad Content.” Evasive Ad Content will extend the prohibited manipulations of trademark terms in ad text to domains, subdomains, and logos; prohibit usage of invisible UNICODE characters…
Search Buzz Video Recap: Two Google Ranking Updates, Core Web Vitals, Google Ads Notifications, Semrush IPO & Ginny Marvin Goes To Google
It was a busy week in our search industry on so many levels but I kick off this recap with the monthly Google webmaster report. Then I go into not just one but two different unconfirmed Google algorithm updates that were spotted this week…
Rich Results Disappear? Google Says It Might Be A Site Wide Quality Issue.
Google’s John Mueller listed a few reasons why your site may not show rich results in the Google Search Results. One of the three reasons is that sometimes Google does not trust the site enough, on the site level, for Google to warrant that the site s…
Video: Google On Crawl Budget & Search Console Crawl Stats Report
Daniel Waisberg of Google released a really nice explanatory video on how crawl budget works with crawl demand and crawl rates. He also spent most of the video doing a deep dive into the new crawl stats report in Search Console.
Google My Business New Available Performance Metrics Help Doc
Google has updated the Google My Business “available performance metrics” help document to talk more about the new performance reports. Google added a section for “users who viewed your profile” and added more details to the other section.
Google FAQ Rich Results Issue With Yoast Resolved
Yesterday reports came in that there was a spike in errors around Google FAQ schema powered through Yoast. The issue is being resolved and should be fixed today but supposedly Google changed how it parses FAQ schema and it caused FAQ rich result to dr…
Google March 2021 Search Ranking Algorithm Update
I have yet another unconfirmed Google search ranking update to report on. This was started around March 2nd towards the evening and continues through March 3rd. There was a nice amount of chatter over a 24-hour period and then it seems to have died d…
Google On Pagination: Would It Be Okay If The Page Was Only Accessible Via Your Site
Most SEOs I know are still grumbling a little about the rel=next and rel=prev is no longer supported, as of two years ago. Google did give us pagination SEO advice in an unstructured format a while ago but really has not put together a document SEOs c…
March 2021 Google Webmaster Report
Here is the monthly Google Webmaster Report where I sum up the more important topics webmasters and SEOs care about when it comes to Google organic search. This past month was super busy with numerous unconfirmed updates, passage ranking rolling out, …
Google Recommends Pyramid Navigation Structure For Large Sites
A couple of months ago John Mueller of Google was asked a question about a site with a mega menu of about 1,000 links in it but those links would dynamically change based on user action. John responded that it might be an issue for Google to understan…
Poll: Is There A Shortage Of SEO Talent?
Abby Reimer posted a Twitter poll that asks is there a shortage of SEO talent available on the market. The poll is open for the next several hours, so please take it. It does seem like there are a lot of jobs on the market currently hiring SEOs but t…
Google Chrome To Support Scroll To Text Links With Images & Videos
So we’ve seen Google do the scroll to text fragment links for a while now, with featured snippets and some product listings in search. Soon it might also come to images and videos.
Are Google Search Console DMCA Takedown Notifications Broken?
Last week, Max Prin from Merkle, notified me that one of his awesome free tools on technicalseo.com was removed over a false DMCA takedown request. There are a couple of issues here (1) the DMCA takedown was false and successfully removed his free tool…
Google Tests Bell Icon To Follow Updates On Medical Knowledge Panels
Since 2014 Google had a method to follow news and updates related to social profiles and other knowledge panels by clicking “get notified” or more recently “follow” button. Now Google is testing showing a bell icon and testing this on medical knowledg…
Ginny Marvin Joins Google As New Ads Product Liaison
Ginny Marvin has announced on Twitter she has joined Google as the new Google Ads Product Liaison. She left Search Engine Land in December after being with the company since 2013 and now is going into a similar role that Danny Sullivan took after he l…
Google Sites Stopped Generating XML Sitemap Files
Google Sites over a decade, almost 15 years, has automatically generated XML sitemap files to be used for Google Search Console. Well, that is no longer the case. Google has removed the Google Sites sitemaps details from the documentation yesterday.
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Semrush (SEMR) To Go Public With $144M Revenue & 67K Customers
The beloved SEO toolset provider announced it will be going public. The stock will be listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker SEMR. It shared its performance numbers including revenues of $144 million, gross profit of $95 million with …