Google Tests New How To Schema Results On Desktop
There are a nice number of people seeing a new format for how to schema on the desktop Google search results. This format is more of a scaled down user interface for the other formats we’ve seen on mobile.
Google Ads New Retail Category Reporting Tool
Google announced a new Google Ads report to help you understand and see your performance for pre-defined product categories across your Google Search and Google Shopping campaigns in one report.
Google: Font Choice Does Not Matter For SEO
John Mueller of Google said that “the choice of font doesn’t matter for SEO.” He said just “use one that works for your site.” There is no such thing as an SEO friendly font. Use something you like and your web site visitors will like.
Google: Cloaking Your Hreflang Markup Won’t Lead To A Google Penalty
Google’s John Mueller said in a Reddit thread that if you end up showing your hreflang markup just to search engine crawlers and not humans, i.e. cloaking, that it would still be considered cloaking but you probably won’t be penalized for doing so. He …
Google Tests People Also Search For Ads Carousel
Believe it or not, Google has tested ads in the people also search for format. Google also tested ads in the people also consider and people also view formats. But Mordy Oberstein found the people also search for in a carousel format and I wanted to …
Google Tests Larger Font Title For Grouped Snippets
We’ve seen Google group snippets but now Google is testing that the first snippet in the group has a larger font size for the title. This was spotted by both Brodie Clark and Brian Freiesleben and posted on Twitter.
Indexing Issues In Google May Be Related To May 2020 Core Update
The number of complaints I am seeing from SEOs over the past couple of weeks around indexing is large. Basically I am seeing Google have to respond about there being no issues with how fast or deep Google is indexing sites. Googlers are saying, it mi…
Google To SEOs: How Has COVID-19 Has Changed SEO Work?
Gary Illyes from Google posted four Twitter polls asking SEOs how has their work changed since the COVID-19 outbreak. The results seems super interesting to me, because it seems for some SEOs, nothing much changed but for others, it changed a lot.
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Google’s May 2020 Core Update Mess Up Google’s Search Results?
I have been reluctant to cover the negativity around the Google May 2020 core update because I don’t want it to come across as me complaining because I was hit. But there has been a lot of complaints not just from the SEO community but from normal sear…
Memorial Day Day Logos From Google, Yahoo & Bing
Today is Memorial Day in the United States and the search engines; including Google, Yahoo and Bing have dressed up for the day. Google has historically done nothing for the day, but last year they went with a grayed out logo and flag theme. They did …
Vlog #68: Hillel Fuld On Helping Others Win In Business
Hillel Fuld (@HilzFuld) is someone I’ve known for a long time. He isn’t an SEO but he is super well connected with everyone I know in Israel and has a speciality in helping Israel start ups succeed. He also has helped me with SMX Israel in terms of f…
Google Webmaster Podcast: “Search Off The Record” Sounds Fun
It sounds like the Google Search Relations team, aka John Mueller, Gary Illyes, Martin Splitt and others have started a podcast, in addition to the YouTube channel. The podcast was probably Gary’s idea, since he is camera shy.
Matt Cutts Predicts How Search Works In 2020 Ten Years Ago
April 2010, Matt Cutts who was working at Google on search, was asked how does he see search working in a decade from now. It is always fun to look at predictions from the past and see how they came out.
How To Remove “Uploaded By” From The Google Search Result Snippet
In February we covered some complaints about Google showing “uploaded by” in some of the search result snippets. Often, the upload by will cite the person who uploaded the video and not the person who wrote the content on the page where the snippet is…
Poll: Does Position One In Google Matter More Now Than 10 Years Ago
Kevin Indig posted a poll on Twitter, which I retweeted, asking how much does position number one on Google matter today vs 10 years ago? I am a bit surprised to see the responses to this question. In short, it seems SEOs are super split on this.
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Google Ranking Algorithm Update Tremors
I am seeing signs from both the SEO chatter in the community and the tracking tools that the past day or so there may have been a Google search ranking and algorithm update. It might be just tremors or small tweaks to the Google May 2020 core update o…
Search Buzz Video Recap: Google Core Update Done, Bing Answers Yes Or No, Google’s Nofollow Change & Much More
This week, Google confirmed that the May 2020 core update is completely rolled out. We may be seeing some ranking
Google Knowledge Panels: What They Show, Where They Come From & How To Fix Them
Danny Sullivan of Google did another one of his explanatory blog posts on the Google blog. This one is on explaining how knowledge panels work in Google Search. In this post he explains what knowledge panels are, what information these panels can show…
Google My Business Business Reinstatement Request Adds File Uploads For Proof
Ben Fisher noticed that the Google My Business local business reinstatement request form added a new field. You can now upload a file that shows proof that your business should be reinstated in Google My Business. The form added the ability to upload …
Is Google Digging Out Of Reconsideration Request Backlog?
Marie Haynes, who does a lot of Google SEO penalty recovery work, said just yesterday she received two reconsideration request approvals from ones submitted back in February and March. In January, we asked if there were longer wait times for these reco…