Google Search Interesting Finds List Adds Related Tags
Google has been adding “interesting finds” to the search results since 2018. But now, if you click to show more results for interesting finds, Google will let you expand those results by related tags or topics. Glenn Gabe spotted this and posted an e…
Carolyn Lyden Joins The Search Engine Land & SMX: Reaction
As you all know, I have been with Search Engine Land and SMX since the company was founded and the company has been through many changes over the past 14+ years. And one of those changes happened this week with the hire of the new “director of search …
Google Data Studio Can Pull Search Console News Queries
The folks at the Google Analytics posted on Twitter yesterday that if you are using Google Data Studio and using the connection feature to Search Console, you can now bring in query data filtered by Google News sources. Google said “the Data Studio Se…
Google Working On Improving Robots.txt Tester Tool
Gary Illyes from Google confirmed he is slowly working on improving the robots.txt tester tool, which is currently available on the old version of Google Search Console. He said on Twitter “we’re currently in the process(*) of integrating the tester wi…
Google Maps Calling Out Square Ad Pins As Ads
In June Google launched new square map pins to take the shape of advertisements in Google Maps. Well, now Google is making it clear to some Google Maps users that these square pins are ads. Aaron Grote shared a screenshot of Google overlaying a dialog…
Beware: Yocale May Be Added To Your Google Local Listing
We have seen restaurants have to deal with food ordering services being automatically added to their Google Maps and Google Local business listings. Now it seems professional service businesses, like law firms, need to worry about this happening as we…
Reminder: Google Search Console Coverage Report Silently Follows Redirects
Google Search Console Coverage report and URL inspection tool silently follow redirects, as John Mueller of Google put it a while back. Glenn Gabe posted a useful reminder on Twitter yesterday that Search Console reports on destination urls and “if yo…
Google Search Team Launched Changes That Negatively Impacted Revenue Substantially
Ryan Moulton, a software engineer who has worked at Google for almost 15 years now, said in a HackerNews thread that the Google Search team and he personally have purposefully launched “ranking changes [in Google Search] that negatively impacted revenu…
No, A Google My Business Profile Not Required To Show In Google Web Search
Google’s John Mueller had to confirm that you do not need to have a Google My Business verified business listing to show up in Google Web Search. You do need a Google My Business listing to show up well in Google Maps and in the local pack results or …
January 2021 Google Webmaster Report
Well, 2020 is over – phew, right? December was a wild wild month in terms of what SEOs and webmasters need to be concerned with around Google Search. We had the December 2020 core update and some unconfirmed updates. We learned more about the page ex…
Google Product Result Size Slide Visualization
The other week we reported on Google testing a new UI that shows products with a review slider. Now it seems Google is testing this to show how large a product is in terms of volume in ML. Here is a search for bourbon that shows this bottle is “large…
Google My Business Insights Missing Year-End Data
It looks like Google My Business insights, the area you go to see how much traffic, calls, messages, etc you get from Google Maps and Local, is missing data. The analytics data is missing from December 27th and 28th. Joy Hawkins posted a sample charg…
The Mueller Meme Report 2020
Google’s John Mueller shared a stream of tweets of memes of some of his favorite memes for 2020. He said on Twitter “putting together an important report over 2020 and one part I look forward to is taking all the memes / tweets I’ve collected over the …
Google Employees Start A Union: The Alphabet Workers Union
A couple hundred Googlers got together to start a rare union in the tech industry. It is called the Alphabet Workers Union and the union said “our company’s motto used to be “Don’t be evil.” An organized work force will help us live up to it.”
Google Search Showing Fewer FAQ Rich Results
It seems like Google has once again pruned which sites are eligible to show FAQ/How To rich results in Google Search. This started around December 21st and RankRanger’s tracking tools shows the change but the Mozcast tool does not. Koen Knol noticed fo…
Spotted: Google Note From Your Reviewer For Reconsideration Requests
No, this is not new, Google has been sending out these “note from your reviewer” notifications since 2014. But they are rare and maybe, just maybe, Google will be doing more of these in the future. Kristine Schachinger recently received one before th…
Google Tests Dynamic Customized Tabs In Local Panel
Amy Toman spotted yet another local panel user interface change in the Google search results. This one shows a custom/dynamic tab or menu in the local panel. So in this example, Google is showing a tab for “boarding.”
Vlog #101: Anthony Church On Conversion Tracking & SEO Strategy
Anthony Church is the VP of client services at Interact Marketing and he and his boss came out to be on the vlog, I interviewed them individually. We also both went to the same university, Baruch College…
John Mueller Of Google Helping Webmasters On New Years 2021
New Years Day is not over yet and John Mueller of Google has been out helping webmasters both in public forums and privately (I think). Here are some of the public responses John made during New Years Eve 2020 and New Years Day 2021.
Search Buzz Video Recap: Christmas Google Update, Passage Indexing Interface & Search Interfaces
It has been a slow week or so in the search news space because of the holidays but hey – things are never sitting idle in our industry. There has been some speculation that Google did some sort of algorithm update over the Christmas weekend but it seem…