Web Stories Now On Google Discover
This should come as no surprise to anyone and many of us have seen this being tested – Web Stories on Google Discover. Google announced that Web Stories are now available on Google Discover. There is a new “Stories carousel” available in the United St…
Google Documents Web Stories Policies, Best Practices & Examples
Google has published in its search developer area, new documents around Web Stories. These new documents launched with the launch of Web Stories in Google Discover but they apply more broadly to all uses of Web Stories on Google.
Google Ads New Reporting For Insights, Trends, Growth Opportunities & More
Google Ads launched a boat load of new reports and features yesterday at Advertising Week. New features include new reporting and features around Google Ads.
House Judiciary Subcommittee Antitrust Findings On Google & Others
The big news yesterday was that the House Judiciary subcommittee on antitrust has released its findings and recommendations on how to reform laws to fit the digital age. This was a 16-month investigation into competitive practices at Google and Apple,…
Google Discover Traffic Bouncing Back For Some Publishers?
A few weeks ago, I reported about many publishers complaining their Google Discover traffic dropped off a cliff right around August 10th, right around the same time of the August 10th Google Search glitch. While I have seen some folks report recoverie…
Google Search Console To Potentially Annotate Reports To Show Indexing Bugs
Gary Illyes from Google said the Google Search Console team is “working hard on estimating the impact and potentially annotating the reports affected.” That means Google may add annotations and short footnotes to document the indexing bugs specificall…
Bing Now Microsoft Bing With Curved Logo
After a couple of months of testing, Microsoft made it official and rebranded Bing to Microsoft Bing. Bing also has this new curved logo it is sporting, which it began testing in April of this year.
Google My Business Preview Call History To See Recent Calls From Customers
It looks like Google is testing yet another, what would seem, powerful feature in Google My Business named Preview Call History. This feature seems to show you your recent calls made to you from Google Maps and Google Search via your Google local list…
Google Indexing Bug Progress Report – It’s Getting There
Just to keep you up-to-date on the status of Google’s efforts to fix the indexing bugs. Google said last night that it has restored 25% of the URLs impacted by the canonical issue and about 50% of those impacted by the mobile-indexing issue.
GoogleBot Does Not Use Nutch
Britney Muller spotted someone using Apache Nutch with a GoogleBot useragent name when crawling a site. Google has confirmed GoogleBot does not use Nutch in its useragent. Nutch is “highly extensible and scalable open source web crawler software proje…
Bing Intelligent Question Answers Supported In Over 100 Languages
Bing said its intelligent questions and answers search feature is now supported in over 100 different languages. It is all powered by Bing’s use of machine learning and artificial intelligence.
October 2020 Google Webmaster Report
It has been an interesting month with Google Search. We saw numerous bugs with Google Search around canonicalization, mobile-indexing, news indexing, top stories carousel, and many of those may have been associated with my reports of possible Google up…
Vlog #88: Drew Madore On User Experience Signals As Google Ranking Factors
In part one of my vlog with Drew Madroe we talked about how black hat SEO has changed…
Google My Business Video Upload Reduced From 100 To 75 MB
Google has changed the maximum file size for the videos you can upload to your Google My Business profile from 100 MB in size down to 75 MB in size. Joy Hawkins was the first to spot this and said on Twitter “If you’re having issues uploading videos t…
Google Shares Details On The Canonicalization & Mobile-Indexing Bugs
Google has shared some more details around the indexing issues around canonicalization and mobile-indexing. Google answered some of the questions I asked them when they confirmed the issue last week around when it happened and how large the issue was….
Search Buzz Video Recap: Google Indexing Issues With Canonicalization, Mobile-Indexing & News-indexing & Google Shopping Free Globally
Well, well, well, this week we had not one, not two, but three different indexing issues that Google confirmed. The first was Monday night with issues indexing news content. The second was around canonicalization issues that I believe started on Septem…
We Were Right: Google Had Indexing Bugs With Canonicalization & Mobile-Indexing
After noticing changes in Google since September 23rd and actually calling out canonical issues with Google a few days later, Google has now confirmed the indexing bugs where pages were dropping out of the index. The issue was two-fold Google said; on…
Google News Showcase: Timelines, Bullets & Related Articles
Google announced yesterday that it is launching Google News Showcase. It is a new experience for publishers to show news in Google. With the News Showcase publishers can curate content using timelines, bullets and related articles.
Google On Cookie Consent Banners Impacting Cumulative Layout Shift
One of the items in the core web vitals, which is part of the upcoming Google Page Experience Update, is Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS). There have been some reports that cookie consent banners have been impacting a site’s Cumulative Layout Shift score…
Google: Removing Links May Impact Your Rankings But Links Aren’t The Only Reason You Rank
Google’s John Mueller on Twitter stated something that is obvious but he said “ff links are the reason why a site is ranking higher, then if you remove them the site will rank lower.” But then he added that “links aren’t the only reason sites rank.”
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