Vlog #78: Jennifer Slegg On Google Quality Raters Guidelines & Algorithm Updates
Jennifer Slegg (@jenstar) has a long history in the SEO space but right now is pretty well known for her editorial work on the Google Quality Raters Guidelines and algorithm write ups. When Google launched AdSense…
Search Buzz Video Recap: Bing Webmaster Tools Relaunched, Links Not Most Important Google Factor & Google Rankings With Negative Reviews
This week I covered a bunch of topics including an interesting topic on do negative reviews on the web hurt your chances or ranking well in Google. Google’s John Mueller also told us to forget everything we’ve read about link juice…
Google: Links Are Not The Most Important SEO Factor
Google’s John Mueller said on Twitter “links are definitely not the most important SEO factor.” This comes shortly after he said to forget everything you have read in the past about link juice.
Google Ads Tests Subtitle Or Headline Links
Google Ads is testing showing a hyperlinked subheadline or subtitle below the main headline or title of your Google Ads. PPC hubbub posted a screen shot of this on Twitter and Ginny Marvin at Search Engine Land was able to replicate it.
Google Search Console Down For Some Users – 429 Error
Google Search Console is currently not loading for many SEOs, webmasters, developers and site owners. It works fine for me in the New York, but some folks in India, Japan, Australia and some other locations it is not loading. Users are getting a 429 …
Google Search Console & Rich Results Test Tool Supports Image License Structured Data
Google has now added the still in BETA image license structured data markup to both Google Search Console’s enhancement reports and to the Rich Results test tool. So now if you use this image license markup, you can debug it in both of those toolsets….
Google My Business Adds Black-Owned Attribute For New Icon
Google My Business has added another attribute for businesses owners to use to enhance their business listings. The new attribute is named “black-owned business”, this goes on with the veteran-led and women-led attributes.
US Congress Investigation Suggests Google Uses Clicks & User Data In Search
Rand Fishkin went through a lot of the US Congress documents from the hearing on “Online Platforms and Market Power: Examining the Dominance of Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google” that happened two days ago. He saw this document that suggested Google u…
Google Updates Several Google Ads Policies
Google announced that it made updates to several of the Google Ads policies around clarification and information purposes. Specifically Google said this is done “to better inform advertisers as to the severity of violations of these policies and if th…
Google Again Says Analytics Not Used In Google Search
Again, again, again and again, Google’s John Mueller said Google does not use Google Analytics in Google Search. Google has been saying this for years and years and even though, many still do not believe Google or it is one of those myths that people a…
Google: Negative Review Sites Don’t Hurt Your Sites Search Ranking
Google’s John Mueller was asked in a recent Google webmaster hangout video if negative search results about a brand can hurt that brand’s web site from ranking in Google search. John said no – it shouldn’t. John also talked a bit about if there is a …
Google: Forget Everything You Read About Link Juice
John Mueller of Google said on Twitter “I’d forget everything you read about “link juice.” It’s very likely all obsolete, wrong, and/or misleading.” But I love when SEOs talk about “link juice” and when I get to use this graphic on this site.
New Bing Webmaster Tools Live With New URL Inspection Tool
In February Bing announced it was working on a new Bing Webmaster Tools, we saw some early screen shots of it then. Today is the day this new version goes completely live and within the next month the old tool will be gone.
Google Drops The Wear A Mask. Save Lives. Doodle
Today on Google’s home page was suppose to be a special Google Doodle, a special Google logo, to get people to wear masks. It showed the different letters in the Google logo, wearing different types of masks and then social distancing. Here is the GIF…
Google Sending Work From Home Telecommute Markup Notifications
Google is sending out some emails to those websites that have job listings and can support work from home job positions. As you know, back in February 2018, Google added markup support to its job schema for telecommute ad a job location. Now, with COV…
Google Tests New Interface For Local Q&A Box?
I think this is a new interface for the old Google Local Q&A box that launched sometime in 2017 or so. Here is the new look that Valentin Pletzer spotted and posted about on Twitter.
Bing URL Submission WordPress Plugin Outreach By Microsoft
Microsoft Bing is sending emails to some site owners after installing the new URL submission WordPress plugin. The email is to let these site owners know of a “large number of failures in submission of URLs” to the Bing index. This is leading to search…
Google Home Smart Displays How-To Tutorials, Like Recipes
Google has been showing recipes, like step by step on how to make certain dishes, on Google Home Hub or smart displays for years. But now it seems Google is showing tutorials on these smart displays if you have how-to markup.
Google Testing Tools Now Shows Web Story
Google announced this morning on Twitter that its testing tools can now recognize your Web Story and label it as such. Google said “starting today, our testing tools will recognize if your AMP document is a Web Story. In our testing tools and Performan…
Googlers Working From Home For Another Year – Through July 2021
Google announced it will allow its employees to work from home for another year, through July 2021. The company pushed its work from home policy out from March 2020 through July 2021. John Mueller from Google said on Twitter “It sucks. But also, the …