Google: AMP No Longer Required For COVID-19 News In Top Stories Carousel
Google announced yesterday that news sites no longer need to publish using AMP to be seen in the top stories carousel, specifically for COVID-19 related news. Google said for other news topics you need AMP, but there is now an exception made for COVID-…
Google Now Displays More Local News In Top Stories Carousel
Google also announced yesterday that a month ago it began to show more news stories in the top stories carousel from more local news sources. Google said on Twitter “last month, we made a change to help local content surface better within our Top Stor…
John Mueller: Emojis In Google Search Result Snippets Are Unprofessional
Google’s John Mueller is not a fan of emojis in the Google search results – at least for the most part. He said, in some cases, he finds them to be unprofessional. This is his personal opinion, not the opinion of Google as a company, but he said it nev…
Google Search Console Adds Reports & Tools For SpecialAnnouncement
Google announced this morning that it added support for the new SpecialAnnouncement structured data to Google Search Console. This means that the enhancement report, the Performance report and the rich results test now all support SpecialAnnouncement s…
Google May 2020 Core Update Is Live – What We See So Far
Yesterday at around 3:50pm ET Google said the new Google May 2020 Core Update is now rolling out. Google said on Twitter “we are releasing a broad core algorithm update, as we do several times per year.” “It is called the May 2020 Core Update,” Google…
Teacher Appreciation Week Google Logo
While Bing has a background to celebrate Star Wars Day, i.e. May 4th, Google has a Doodle to kick off Teacher appreciation week. The Doodle highlights not just typical teacher work but also doing it while at home over video conferencing.
Google: There Is More To Rankings Than Just Quality
Gary Illyes from Google said on Twitter “there’s more to ranking than just quality.” He added a fact, that Google uses “hundreds of signals to offer users the most relevant piece of content for their query.” Sometimes other ranking signals can push a …
Google: No, We Have Not Slowed Crawling Because Of COVID-19
I am not sure where this is coming from but this is the second time I am covering a topic about Google slowing crawling and indexing because of COVID-19 and the coronavirus. I covered it a few weeks ago and now John Mueller of Google had to say again,…
Google Ads: We Blocked Over 5,000 Ads Per Minute
Google posted some of their Google Ads preventative measures from 2019 saying they blocked over 5,000 bad ads per minute last year. Google blocked and removed 2.7 billion bad ads, suspended nearly 1 million advertiser accounts, terminated over 1.2 mil…
More Google Question Hub Screen Shots
We’ve been reporting on the Google Question Hub a lot recently, because it is not being tested in the US. But yea, it is not new, it launched in 2018 as a test and went fully live in India and some other regions in 2019. So we have some screen shots …
Vlog #65: Aaron Friedman On Content Ideas & Small Things In SEO
Aaron Friedman (LinkedIn) went from being an agency SEO to working at a data software company. I’ve known Aaron for many years – since 2009…
Google Tests Underlining Searches Related To
Google has been testing a lot of variations to the look of the “searches related to” feature. Now Google is testing underlining the results, and the other day, Google was testing three columns instead of two.
Google: We Do Not Use Google Analytics For Indexing
Google has said this many times, in many different ways, Google does not use Google Analytics for web search. John Mueller of Google said the other day that Google does not use Google Analytics for indexing purposes.
Tidbits: Interview With Nathan Chalmers, Bing Search Relevance Team
Jason Barnard does these awesome interviews on his YouTube channel and one he just recently released was with Nathan Chalmers, the Program Manager, Bing Search Relevance Team at Microsoft. Here is the video interview and the tidbits summarized by Glen…
Google Merchant Center Features To Come To Search Console? Unlikely.
With Google Shopping becoming free, will we see the Google Merchant Center features be introduced into Google Search Console? John Mueller of Google was asked this, where he implied that this would be unlikely.
Google: We Exists Because Of Users, Not Advertisers
Google’s Danny Sullivan shot down a statement where it was said that Google exists for advertisers and thus should provide basic support to those paying advertisers for issues they may have. Danny Sullivan said “no, that’s fundamentally not how we ope…
Google: Have Lots Of Soft 404s In Search Console? Check Your Internal Links.
Do you have many soft 404 errors in your Google Search Console reports? Well, that might mean that you are linking to these pages internally within your site and you should check your internal links to see if this is something you can fix.
Site Go Down? Google May Start Deindexing URLs In Two-Days
Google’s John Mueller said that in some cases, if your site goes down, Google may start to remove URLs from its index within two-days. This is on a URL by URL basis, so Google needs to see if the URL is not active and then try a couple more times, and…
Google Question Hub’s “What Is Your Question” Is Wider Than COVID-19 Searches
A couple weeks ago I reported that Google said they are expanding, as a pilot, the Google Question Hub from India and similar regions (where it launched in 2019), to the US for COVID-19 related searches. But truth is, as I even said in my first report…
Search Buzz Video Recap: Google Algorithm Update, Mobile-First Indexing Postponed, Site Speed Tiny Factor & More SEO
This week, we possibly had another Google search ranking algorithm update on April 28th and 29th, Google did not confirm it. Google said they may delay the September deadline to switch fully over to mobile-first indexing…