Google Search Console Changes Event Structured Data Reporting
Google said that starting on May 10, 2021 it has changed how it reports in some event structured data. Specifically, Google will now begin detecting Event entities at all hierarchy levels, not just at the root level, and errors in recommended properti…
Google My Business Call History Feature Now Showing Call Data
After months of Google teasing us with the preview call history section and showing us no data, now Google is showing call history data to some local businesses in the Google My Business console. John Smith shared a screen shot showing that he sees a…
John Mueller Relaunches His Old Blog
Back in 2004 John Mueller started his personal blog while he was the owner of a small marketing and development company – like many of you. In 2007 he joined Google and has been with the company since. But also, his blogging slowed and the blog kind o…
More On How Google Uses Machine Learning In Google Search
This past Friday, I asked John Mueller of Google a bit more on if and how Google may use machine learning for adjusting the weights of various ranking signals. The short answer is, Google may or may not do this, depending on the specific ranking signa…
Google Tends To Not Watch For Scroll Events Or Click To Load More Buttons
What is the latest in terms of how Google / GoogleBot sees the content on your full page. Now when it comes to lazy loaded content, John Mueller said GoogleBot tends not to watch out for a scroll event or a click to load more button. With this set up…
Google Search Console Bug: Insufficient HTTPS Coverage On Your Site
For the past couple of weeks or so, well, really since page experience report launched in late April in Google Search Console, there has been a bug with some sites over HTTPs. The error is “Insufficient HTTPS coverage on your site” and it is a known b…
Google Search Ranking Algorithm Tremors On May 7th & May 9th
I am seeing an increase in chatter amongst the SEO industry around a possible Google search ranking algorithm update around Friday, May 7th and then again on Sunday, May 9th. Even some of the tools are showing the changes as well. But it doesn’t seem …
Vlog #119: Justin Abrams On Human Experience Marketing & Adaptation of Technology
In part one with Justin Abrams, the Senior SEO Consultant at BrightEdge and also the co-founder of Cause of a Kind…
Google Search Tests Super Wide Image Results Box
Google is testing a incredibly wide image results box in its web search results interface. So instead of the image results box fitting tightly underneath the search box, it expands out to the extent of your browser window.
Google: Internationalized Sites Even With Same English Content Not Duplicate Content
Let’s say you have multiple international sites, ccTLDs, with your business registered with a .com for the US, .fr for France, .de for Germany and so on. But you have not translated all of those sites into its local language, and some or many of those…
Google Search Jumplinks / Sitelinks With Emojis
Google is now showing emojis in the search result snippets jumplinks (sometimes sitelinks although these are not sitelinks) section of the search result snippet. This was spotted by Brian Freiesleben and posted on Twitter and I can replicate it both o…
Google Artificially Creating Author Names For Some Search Snippets
Lily Ray shared on Twitter some examples of Google making up artificial author names to attach to some of its search results snippets. She showed some named such as ALP Dull, R Wine, W Wine, and other names that are being pulled from the content somew…
Bing Content Submission API Beta Is Now Available
Microsoft announced last night that the Bing Content Submission API is now in beta and open to be used by site owners, publishers, webmasters or whatever you cool kids are calling yourselves these days. Microsoft announced this over two years ago and …
Search News Buzz Video Recap: Google Algorithm Tweaks, Evil Featured Snippets, Bing Content Submission API & More
To kick things off, I discussed my monthly Google webmaster report is out and that you can catch up on all the important Google news there. Also, Google seemed to have another unconfirmed update last weekend…
Google My Business Wheelchair Accessibility Attributes
A week or so ago, Google added to Google My Business the ability to add attributes to your business listing that specify if your business is wheelchair accessible. This includes wheelchair accessible entrance, parking lot, restroom, seating and maybe …
Google Talks Hypothetically About Speed As A Ranking Factor – It’s Small
Google’s John Mueller, Gary Illyes and Martin Splitt released their latests “search off the record” podcast where they pretend to create a search engine named Steve and discuss how they would build it out. One topic they spent a lot of time on is the t…
Google Confirms Your Content Be Indexed But Not On All Data Centers
Google’s John Mueller confirmed something most of us know, that your site and/or pages can be indexed by Google Search but that not all data centers may have that URL in that specific index at the same time. John said it is rare to see but it can happe…
Changing A Bit Of Content Based On IP Address; Google Likely Won’t Penalize You
Technically, if you change your content based on the IPs or user agents visiting that piece of content, specifically giving GoogleBot different content than your users, that would be against Google’s cloaking policy and warrant a Google penalty. But b…
Google My Business Contact Us Form Select Business Drop Down
Google added a business selection drop down feature to the Google My Business contact us form. So now when you go to the contact us form in the Google My Business help section, it will ask you to select which business you need help with.
Google Local Services Ads Bug May Have Changed Your Bid Mode
Google has a bug with its Local Service Ads program where it may change your bid mode from “Maximize Leads” to “Max Per Lead.” Ginny Marvin from Google confirmed the issue yesterday afternoon and said “this is a bug that we are working on fixing.”
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