Category: Search Engine Roundtable

I do a ton of site command searches, I do this to find content on specific sites, and I’ve noticed over the years is that the results I get from Google before and after a core update can be impacted for those site commands. So I asked Google if I am c…

Google has added a new optional property type to the dataset structured data to document who the funders, if any, are for this data. You can define the person or organization that provides financial support for this dataset with this datatype.

Google announced on June 10th that it has deprecated support for critic review markup schema and structured data. Google said “we initially tested critic review markup with a group of site owners, and ultimately found that it wasn’t useful for the ecos…

Google has upgraded the Google PageSpeed Insights tool to show partial field data. Google said “previously, field data was only surfaced if all metrics for a page or origin met a threshold of data.” “Now, any metric that meets the data threshold will b…

A site that lets you do online HTML editing has supposedly received a manual action for unnatural links. So what the site owner did was post a notice to its user base in a big box saying “goodbye” that the site “has been penalized for unnatural link b…

Just another reminder that if you spam people asking to buy links or other link schemes, Google will potentially use that email and the sites listed in that email against you. John Mueller of Google said on Twitter the other day “Yes, we do use these kinds of lists to check our existing manual actions & algorithmic classifications, as well as to expand them.”

So while about half of you call Google Ads, Google AdWords, only 20% of you call Google Search Console, Webmaster Tools. I ran a poll for both to see if the new branding is sticking and clearly, it takes time but the new brand does for the most part s…