Google To Drop Crawl Anomaly Data For Something More Useful
Google’s John Mueller said in a webmaster hangout at the 10:02 mark that Google Search Console will be dropping the crawl anomaly data from the reports. Google said it will be doing something better with it, “reclassifying it as something more useful,…
Google Ads Created A New Ad Destination Report
Google Ads has launched a new report named the ad destination report. Google said this new report will help you understand “how your customers convert” on your web site.
Google Tests Knowledge Panel In The Middle Of The Search Results
Looks like Google may be testing (I think again) the knowledge panel box in the middle of the search results. Saijo George posted a video screencast of this in action, but here is a screen shot:
Google Search Console Coverage Report Delayed 14-Days
Last week we reported that Google is aware that Google Search Console’s coverage report was delayed and stuck at August 31st or September 1st for many and a fix would be out this weekend. Well, the fix did not happen and it is still delayed and we are …
Google Search Top Stories Indexing Bug Lasted Four Hours
Google has confirmed an indexing issue or bug specifically with the Top Stories section in Google Search. The issue started around 6pm ET on Friday, September 11th and lasted through around 10pm ET on Friday, September 11th.
Google Wants Feedback On Wildly Inaccurate Site Command Counts
Gary Illyes from Google seems to have a new interest, making the site command more reliable for some sites. He posted on Twitter the other day that he is looking for examples of when the site command count returns “wildly off” numbers compared to what …
Google Local Review Attributes With Emojis
If you open up the Google Maps app and click into the area to see the reviews you have submitted, Google may show you emojis. The emojis are in the review attributes, the categorization Google uses to group your reviews into categories.
Google Featured Snippets With How-To Schema
Brodie Clark noticed that Google is now showing some featured snippets also have how-to schema show up in Google Search. Brodie said he “thinks this might be the first time I’ve seen Structured Data influence a Featured Snippet.”
Google Broad Core Updates Recoveries & How Google Reprocesses Core Update Scores
Last week at Search Engine Land I wrote Google says you can recover from core updates without a new core update. Part of the video conversation where I spoke to John Mueller of Google on this topic is now publicly available. In this video John discusse…
Vlog #84: Tamar Weinberg’s Past & Scented Future (Part One)
I drove out to Tamar Weinberg’s home in New Rochelle, New York, which was ground zero in New York for COVID-19. We sat socially distant from each other, with two wireless mics and two different cameras, to get this interview…
Bing: Hreflang A Weak Signal For Us
Fabrice Canal from the Microsoft Bing team said that “hreflang is indeed a far weaker signal than content-language at Bing,” on Twitter. Bing I believe does not really pay much attention to your hreflang markup, as Google does.
Google My Business Bug When Changing Addresses For Service Area Businesses (SAB)
Google seems to have a bug when changing the addresses of some server area businesses (SABs) according to local SEO Ben Fisher. He said on Twitter that “ff you are trying to change an address for a (SAB) Service Area business, adding an address and cl…
The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air Google Easter Egg
Google has a new easter egg for Google Search, this one is for a search on [fresh prince of bel air]. The logo changes to the logo above, a Google graffiti logo. And then the whole interface changes to old school, 1990s…
Yesterday’s Google Search Announcement Was Not About A Core Update
Yesterday, Google posted two blog posts around how it delivers reliable information in its search engine. Some believe this is a pre-announcement to a core update but it is not. It does not mean a core update is not happening very soon, we are due one…
Search Buzz Video Recap: Google Gets Ahead Of The Elections, Local Ranking Bugs, Bing Search Updates & More
Yesterday afternoon, Google posted information about some of the changes it has been making to improve the reliability of its search results. This announcement was mostly about Google getting ahead of the elections but we heard a few new things and con…
Google My Business Adds Health & Safety Attributes
Now you can label if your business requires appointments, masks for both employees and customers and if your staff and customers get temperature checks. In Google My Business, if you go to your info tab and click on the “attributes” there is a new sec…
GoogleBot Extension On John Mueller’s Browser?
John Mueller presented at SEO Day virtually and someone noticed that on his Chrome browser was this little robot extension and shared a screen shot of it on Twitter. I am not sure what it does but I would guess it does some internal debugging related t…
Google Ads Performance Planner Supports Shopping Campaigns
The performance planner tool in Google Ads now has been upgraded to support Shopping campaigns. Performance Planner now supports Shopping campaigns and Smart Shopping campaigns in Google Ads.
Google Local Algorithm & Ranking Weirdness Last Week
Last week, Tuesday and Wednesday, September 2nd and September 3rd, the Local RankFlux tool showed significant changes to the local rankings in Google Search. But I didn’t see much chatter in the local communities. So I asked about it in the Local Searc…
SEO & Content Explored In Google’s Latests SEO Mythbusting Video
Martin Splitt and Lily Ray in the latest SEO mythbusting video has just been released and it is chockfull of information around content. If you write content on your web sites, which I hope you do, you will want to watch this video.