Bing Advice On Optimizing For Intelligent Answers & Questions?
I will be honest, the blog post Bing posted yesterday confused me. The title is “How to Optimize Your Content for Search Questions using Deep Learning.” The author of the blog post, which is unknown, said “I think one approach to do this is to evaluat…
Regular Expression Filter Coming To Google Search Console Performance Report
People either love or hate regular expressions, so if you love them – you are going to love what is coming to Google Search Console’s Performance report. Google is adding the ability to use regular expressions in that report according to an updated hel…
Google Tests Boxed In Related Searches User Interface
Google is yet again testing another user interface for the related searches. We saw magnifying glass icons, we saw too many related searches and much more. Now we are seeing these boxed in as a test.
Google: Spam Reports Not Used For Manual Actions
Gary Illyes from Google posted on the Google blog that spam reports are not used for manual actions. That spam reports are used for improving Google’s spam detection algorithms. Was it ever used for manual actions? Gary would not say.
Gary Illyes From Google Quizzes SEOs
Google’s Gary Illyes posted a pop quiz for SEOs the other day on Twitter. The responses of the poll showed that SEOs are split on the answer of how Google would handle a contradictory robots.txt file directive.
Vlog #74: Christi Olson On Audience Targeting & Digital Commerce Strategy
Christi Olson (@ChristiJOlson), is the head of Evangelism for Search and Advertising at Microsoft. She speaks around the world and is super smart and an amazing communicator…
Google Testing People Also Search For & Top Trends On Right Panel
Stephen Watts is in a Google test where Google is testing placing the people also search for and top trends feature on the right hand panel. Normally this is in the main search results on the left but here Google is testing it on the right.
Google Search Console Video Structured Data Reporting Tweak
Google announced on Twitter that it made a change to how Google Search Console reports on your video structured data. Specifically, Google wrote “if you use video structured data, our reporting is now aligned with the docs and will warn if neither embe…
Google Maps Tests Local Listing Carousel In Footer
Andy Simpson spotted this interesting Google Maps interface test. It shows a local listing or local pack carousel in the footer section on the Google Maps view. I don’t believe I’ve seen this before, but it is kind of nice.
Google Tests Local Panel Ads Again, But With No Opt Out
Over the past few days Tim Capper has been noticing ads back in the local knowledge panels again. I personally was unable to replicate, but now I can here and there. Greg Sterling confirmed with Google that this is a new “pilot program” they are runnin…
Search Buzz Video Recap: Bing Webmaster Guidelines & Ranking Factors, Google Shopping is Free & Search Console Insights
I pre-recorded this one, not using my normal camera, hope it came out okay and hope I am back to the normal routine next week. In any event, I published the monthly Google webmaster recap, you can catch up there…
Google: CLS Is Measured Through The Entire Lifecycle Of The Page
Google’s new ranking algorithm that launches next year, the Page Experience Update, has metric named CLS, Cumulative Layout Shift. It checks to see if things on the page jump around as it loads. Philip Walton, a Senior Developer Programs Engineer at G…
Are Link Attributes All About SEO? Check This Data From Google.
John Mueller of Google said on Twitter “people make all kinds of links, and we ignore a lot of links, but at their core, links are not about SEO anyway.” He then shared a spreadsheet of the results of the link attributes from
the HTTP Archive that he…
Google AdSense Third Party Ad Technology Vendors
Google announced that AdSense now allows ads from additional third party ad technology vendors to show through your account. Google said that this can “potentially lead to higher earnings.” But you can control these with new settings under the blockin…
GoogleBot Is Able To Add Products To Your Shopping Cart
As I covered at Search Engine Land last night, according to a Wall Street Journal article, Google confirmed that it has systems that automatically will add products to your e-commerce site’s shopping cart. It does this to verify the price merchants giv…
July 2020 Google Webmaster Report
It is time for the monthly Google Webmaster Report where I sum up the more important organic Google topics for SEOs and webmasters. The big news is that Google had some unconfirmed algorithm updates and one was big that had a larger impact on governm…
Google Local Panels Tests Images In Story View
Google is testing a new way of displaying the images in a Google local business knowledge panel listing. Google is using the stories view, where it plays the image like a slideshow story book.
Video: Google & Bing Talking About The SEO Community
Google released the first video in part two of the SEO Mythbusting series. It starts with Martin Splitt of Google sitting down and talking with Sandhya Guntreddy of Bing. In short, they talk mostly about SEO community related topics.
Google Promoted Governmental Web Sites In Its Latest Algorithm Update? The Federal Update.
On June 23rd we reported about a big Google algorithm update. It seemed pretty big based on the chatter and the tracking tools. But it was not as big as a core update. After about a week, we are now seeing reports from folks in the SEO community that…
Bing Webmaster Guidelines Are Updated; A Must Read
Bing has spent the past year working on revising the Bing Webmaster Guidelines and now it is live. The prior version was from the original 2012 version but now, it has been almost completely revamped.