Google Halloween Doodle: Momo The Cat Adventures
Halloween this year should be interesting, I suspect – not that I ever celebrated or did anything for Halloween (no joke). But I always enjoy the logos and themes from the search engines including the Google Doodles. The Google Doodle this year for Ha…
Google Ads Report Editor Data Selection Panel Update & More
Google Ads has updated the Report Editor to make it easier build reports and analyze your data within the this tool. Here is the list of changes made to the Google Ads Report Editor.
Search Revenues: Google 14% Increase & Microsoft Bing 10% Decrease
Microsoft (Bing) reported earnings on October 27th and Alphabet (Google) reported earnings on on October 29th. Microsoft said that its earnings on search, i.e. Bing, saw a 10% decrease year-over-year. Alphabet (Google) said its revenue was up 14% ye…
Search Buzz Video Recap: Apple Search Rumors Again, Microsoft Bing Indexing Issues & Google Search Update
This week was less about Google and more about Microsoft Bing and even Apple. The Financial Times wrote an article that says what we have been covering for a while, Apple is working on a search engine – but maybe now it is almost ready to go live…
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Can Google Search Differentiate B2B vs B2C Web Sites?
John Mueller of Google was asked if Google Search understand the difference between B2B and B2C web sites? John responded that no, not really, he said “we don’t have a direct understanding of the difference. They’re essentially webpages, if they can r…
Google Search Algorithm Update On October 28th?
There is some chatter and some signs that there may have been a disturbance to the Google search ranking algorithm on October 28th. The chatter is not as high as a core update or a large update but both the chatter is higher than normal and there are s…
Google Ignores Capitalization In HTML
When you hand type HTML code, which I do in all these blog posts – yes, I am using something really old school but I like the control – sometimes you have typos in your HTML code. The most common typo I have is doing an a href tag but the A I capitalization because I need to press shift to trigger a
Google Tests Always Open Search Tools Options
Google Search has a “tools” feature that when you do a search and you want to filter the search results by more options, like time or type of result, you can just click on “tools” to show the filter options. Well, Google is testing removing the require…
Google My Business Progress Status Of Reinstatement Request
Ben Fisher spotted that Google is now testing in Google My Business a status indicator of where your reinstatement request is. So if contact Google My Business for something, if you go back to the form, it might show the status of that request.
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Will Apple Search Take Market Share Away From Google?
Since 2014 we have seen signs that Apple is testing the waters of building its own web crawler and search engine. Yes, this has been going on for more than six years. But now, Apple might be launching something in search, beyond Siri on iOS and Spotl…
Google: E-Commerce Sites Should Use Unavailable Request Indexing Tool Prior To Black Friday
On Monday, Google lists a bunch of SEO tips for e-commerce sites to get ready for the upcoming Black Friday sales day. One of those tips is to use the request indexing tool, but that tool was temporarily suspended and we do not know when it will come …
Google Search Console Coverage Report Delayed Again
The coverage report within Google Search Console is delayed again. It is currently now delayed by 10-days, as opposed to the normal two-day delay in reporting. It was also recently backed up in early September, prior to all those indexing bugs.
Microsoft Bing Team Working Harder & Longer While Working At Home
So it looks like the employees at Microsoft are going to be working from home through July 2021, like Google and many other companies. So I asked if that impacted the Microsoft Bing team and Frederic Dubut of Microsoft said if anything, he and his tea…
Google Political Ads Policy To Restrict Ads After Election Day & Claim That Claim Results
Google posted that it will change its political ad policy to restrict ads throughout after election day and ads that claim outcomes of the elections. This is being done because of how many mail-in ballots are expected and that the final election resul…
Google Search Fireworks For Dodgers World Series Win
If you search for the [dodgers] in Google Search, Google will bring out the fireworks to celebrate the team’s World Series win. Google has had fireworks for years, mostly around New Years and more recently around sporting events like this.
Google Ads Activates Real Time Alerts Feature & More
Google Ads added a few new features yesterday including real-time alerts, improvements to draft campaigns and easier access to make new campaigns and view disapprovals. The most exciting new feature is the real-time alerts.
Do SEOs Trust SEO Sources – Good Polls
Cyrus Shepard posted a series of excellent pools on Twitter with a nice number of responses. The polls asked various questions around if you trust various sources of information on SEO.
Google Yogurt Doodle Honors Stamen Grigorov
Today’s Google Doodle honors Stamen Grigorov, the man who discovered Lactobacillus bulgaricus bacillus, which is why we have yogurt today. Stamen Grigorov is a Bulgarian physician and microbiologist who was born 142 years ago today on October 27, 1878 …
Google Tests Green Bubble Header Display In Search
You know when Google shows you a colored header background in search for some queries? Well, Google is now testing a different interface for that where the header is a white background but instead Google uses buttons in bubble format that are colored.
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Google Local Product Carousel Display Bugs
It seems Google has another bug, this one is with how Google displays some products on the Google local panel. Claire Carlile posted some examples of the product carousel showing a product carousel that looks like it is missing information. Others are…