Google Search Console Sends Notifications For Discover Optimization Tips
Yesterday, Google sent out a bunch of notifications via Google Search Console to let some publishers know that they are missing out on Google Discover traffic. Google has sent out notifications from Search Console for Google Discover before but this t…
DOJ Sues Google Over Monopolistic Actions In Search & Search Advertising
The big business news in our industry yesterday was that the DOJ, US Department of Justice, sued Google alleging that Google acted anticompetitively to preserve monopolies in search and search advertising. Google shouted back that this is a “deeply fla…
Google Squashes Myths Around Passage Indexing
Let me start off by saying, I do not blame the SEO community for being confused over Google’s announcement of passage indexing. Heck, Google called it “indexing” but then told me it is not indexing, it is a ranking thing. Why they called it that? I ha…
Google Search Augmented Reality For Car Manufacturers
Google has had 3D images, augmented and VR based images in search for over a year now. But now Google has added support for it for car manufacturers and it is live. Do a search on mobile for [volvo xc40 recharge] and you will see the “view in 3D” butt…
Myth: Google Needs 30-60 Days To Index New Backlinks
Here is a new myth, that says Google requires 30-60 days for it to discover, index and then use new backlinks it finds for your web site. That is not true, Google can do all of that within minutes and hours.
SEOs Waiting For The Next Google Core Update
It has been five and a half months since the last Google broad core update. To give you context, generally this updates happen every few months or so. But it is now almost 3 months longer than the average span between Google core updates. SEOs are w…
Google Still Supports Data-Vocabulary Four Months After It Was Deprecated
Back in January, Google told us it would sunset support for the data-vocabulary markup for rich results on April 6, 2020. Google then postponed that deadline to June due to the pandemic. But now it is well after June and technically, Google is still p…
Google: First Indexed Does Not Mean That Content Is Yours
Some feel that you need to ensure your piece of content is published first on your site and then syndicated later on third-party sites to ensure Google knows the original source of that content is from your site. That is not always the case said Google…
Google: Indexing Issues Resolved, No More Status Updates
Google said last night that the indexing issues are essentially fully resolved outside of some edge cases. Google said 99% of the indexing issues were resolved as of Wednesday, October 14, 2020. There are some edge cases that will be resolved within …
Google Passage Ranking, It Is Not Passage Indexing
In the slew of Google Search announcements from last week, one of the more interesting bits was a section on “passage indexing.” As I wrote in my coverage, I asked Google for more information on that and I wrote it up in detail on Search Engine Land. …
Vlog #90: Mike Blumenthal On Some Of The Issues With Google Maps & His History In The Space (Part One)
Mike Blumenthal and I met up in Owego, New York, the midway point between his home base and my home base. We spoke for a pretty long time…
Google: Slow URLs Can Potentially Impact Ranking Of Other Faster URLs On Your Site
Google’s John Mueller said that when it comes to Google measuring speed with the upcoming Google Page Experience and Core Web Vitals metrics, that sometimes individual slow URLs can potentially impact other faster URLs if Google cannot determine the sp…
Google More Comfortable Discussing E-A-T & Its Importance With Health Queries
You may have been noticing a patterns from Google more recently. Where Googlers seem more comfortable talking about YMYL, E-A-T, and health related queries. We have even reported it at the highest level of Google executives.
Will The Request Indexing Feature In Google Search Console Return?
A lot of SEOs are skeptical and concerned that the request indexing feature, which was temporarily suspended last week, will not return ever. Google said “we expect it will return in the coming weeks.” But that does not mean this week or the next – it…
Google About This Result: Site Age, Security, Paid Listing Details & More
We’ve seen Google test three dots that can trigger an “about this result” overlay in Google search. But now I was sent how this about this result box can show the first time a site was indexed, if that site is secure, the URL and if the result is an ad…
Google Will Disapprove Out Of Stock Products From Data Feed When In Stock On Site
Google announced that it will begin to preemptively disapprove free standard listings for products that are marked as out of stock in the product data in Merchant Center, but are in stock on their landing pages. I do not think this applied to paid lis…
Google Tests Ads In Google Maps Autocomplete Predictions
Google seems to be testing a new ad unit, this one is in the Google Maps search feature. So as you type, Google Maps gives you autocomplete search predictions. Google is also showing ads now for those autocomplete suggestions.
Google Tests How To Rich Results Results On Desktop Again
Google is once again testing how-to schema rich results on the desktop search results again. Brian Freiesleben first noticed this a couple of days ago. Google first tested this for a couple weeks back in late May and then discontinued the test.
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Bing Site Explorer: Old But New
Bing has relaunched Site Explorer in Bing Webmaster Tools. Bing said this is not a simple migration from the old Bing Webmaster Tools but building it up from the ground up, new. So it is old but it really is something new.
Google Local Wait Times For Restaurants Inaccurate
Remember the days where you use to look at Google Maps to see how busy a place was before you went there? Oh you still do that, to make sure it is not busy at all because of the plaque? Well, it seems to be broken. Google wait times for restaurants …