Petition Over Google Ads Hiding Search Term Data
Greg Finn posted a petition on Change.org hoping the SEM community can sign it and influence Google to change its mind around hiding data in the Google Ads search term report. He wants it to be advertiser choice and advertisers can opt out of Google h…
John Mueller: The Global Search Personality Of The Year
It was such a nice surprise to see John Mueller win the Global Search Personality Of The Year last night at the Global Search Awards. There isn’t a single individual in the space who has helped more people with their Google SEO issues than John. And w…
Bing Webmaster Tools Removes Geo-Targeting Feature
Bing has removed the geo-targeting feature in the new version of Bing Webmaster Tools. It was in the old version but it has not been migrated to the new version. Fabrice Canal from Bing confirmed it is not coming to the new version and told SEOs instea…
Google Speakable Markup Is Not Obsolete
It has been a long time since we heard Google speak anything on the topic of speakable markup. I’ve implemented it here and have not seen it in action in Google in a long time either. Plus it seems like Google is not accepting news publishers into th…
Microsoft Advertising Adds Multi-Image Extensions
Microsoft Advertising added a new feature for its ad platform for supporting multiple images for its search ads. This uses a new feature named multi-image extensions and is available currently only in the US.
Google Asks You To Verify These Facts
Google is asking some searchers with some queries to “verify the facts to help others.” Brian Freiesleben shared an example of this on Twitter this morning and Mordy Oberstein shared on Twitter a couple months ago. It seems to be on some knowledge pan…
Google: No A Way To Limit Visibility Of A URL By Country In Search
Google’s John Mueller said that within Google Search there is no way to limit the visibility of a URL in the search results by country. So if you do not want a specific URL to show in Google UK but you do want it to show in Google Ireland, there is rea…
Google image:loc URLs Are Not Counted Towards 50k XML Sitemap Limit
The same question was asked both on Twitter and on Reddit, asking do URLs in the image:loc tag also count towards the 50K XML sitemap limit? The answer is no, it does not count to the 50,000 URL limit in the XML Sitemap files.
SEO Companies Can Sabotage Your Web Site & Maps Listings
Sadly there can be pretty immoral people in the world, including a lack of business ethics. It seems an SEO company and their client got in a disagreement about a work contract and the client wanted to part ways. The SEO company allegedly decided to …
Google Search Console Coverage Report Delay & Stuck
Google Search Console seems to be having another data issue. This time with the coverage report. The last it was updated was around August 31st or September 1st, from the reports I am seeing. Normally it is about 2-3 days delayed but not over a week de…
Google URL Parameter Tool Upgrade Will Be ‘Really Cool’ When Migrated To New Search Console
Google’s John Mueller said on Friday’s webmaster hangout that while the current URL parameter tool has been missing data for a while, it is not a sign that Google will deprecate it. In fact, he said when the tool does migrate to the new Search Console,…
Official: Bing Launches New Robots.txt Tester Tool
Back in July we reported that Bing launched, or re-launched, its robots.txt tester tool. But on Friday, September 4th, Bing posted the official announcement on its blog. I am not sure what is new since when we posted outside of the download button bu…
Microsoft’s Christi Olson: Google Ads Removing Search Terms Is Ludicrous
Christi Olson, Head of Evangelism for Search and Advertising at Microsoft, and someone the industry highly respects did something rare. She commented in a negative way about the competitor, Google Ads. She called the fact that Google Ads is hiding sear…
Vlog #83: Kevin Lee On Nofollow Links, 302 Redirects & If SEO Is Harder Than PPC
In part one of my interview with Kevin Lee is the CEO is the Executive Chairman and Founder of DidIt, we spoke about his rich history in the search marketing space and digital PR and why it works so well for SEO. In part two, we get into the weeds a bi…
Google Uploads Labor Day Doodle Five Years In A Row
After never showing a special Google Doodle for Labor Day in the US, Google for the fifth year in a row has posted a Labor Day logo. This year’s Labor Day Doodle, Google said “highlights just a few of the countless professions that each play a vital r…
Google: It’s Unlikely Core Web Vitals Will Become A Primary Ranking Factor
Gary Illyes from Google said on Reddit he thinks it is unlikely that core web vitals “would ever become the primary factor for organic traffic.” He said you shouldn’t ignore it but Google and other search engines rank primarily based on “highest qual…
Google’s Googlebot Crawling As Chrome v85
On August 25th, Google updated its web browser Chrome on desktop and mobile to version 85 and then by as early as September 1st, GoogleBot was already crawling and rendering pages using version 85. It is really an evergreen Googlebot.
Google Search Quirks, Licensable Image Badge, Google My Business & Google Ads Hiding Keywords
This week was interesting, it seemed Google has some indexing or ranking issues outside of the US, but I was not able to replicate. I did post the monthly Google webmaster report. Google said it does not index links…
Google Search Tests New Product Carousels
Google is testing new user interfaces, designs and layouts for the product one box and product boxes. Valentin Pletzer shared a couple of these designs on Twitter and I am able to replicate one of these.
Most SEOs Believe Google Can Penalize A Site Without A Notification
Back in the old days, when you received a manual action Google did not notify you in Google Search Console with a message. But can that still happen today? Can you get a manual action without a notification from Google? Most SEOs believe that can and …