Vlog #63: Ari Nahmani On Hyperlocal SEO & Organic Search In E-Commerce
Now I am off to Israel, specifically Jerusalem, and I met with Ari Nahmani, the CEO of Kahena Digital Marketing. He lives in Tel Aviv but his office is in Jerusalem, his company has about 20 people. SEO in the old days is a different world now he sai…
New Google Government Benefits Schema For COVID-19 Announcements
Google now supports new schema markup for COVID-19 announcements around government benefits. This is in the realm on GovernmentService schema where you can add schema that documents a service provided by a government organization, e.g. food stamps, ve…
Coming Soon: Google Webmaster Conference Lightning Talks
Google announced a new YouTube series, Google Webmaster Conference Lightning Talks. This is to provide Google Webmaster Conference event-like content, in shorter form, since we cannot go to events in the near term.
Will The Next Google Broad Core Algorithm Update Be Delayed?
Some webmasters and SEOs are asking if Google will be delaying the next broad core algorithm update. Google generally pushes out one of these core updates every quarter or so, and it has been a few months since the last core update – January 13, 2020 t…
Google: It Is Good Practice To Specify A Canonical
Google’s John Mueller said it is good practice to specify a rel=canonical. John said this is regardless of framework and is espesially true when “you have preferences regarding the URL shown.”
Search Buzz Video Recap: Bing New Snippet Controls, Google EAT, COVID Searches & Core Updates
Catching up on two weeks with this video, I start with the news that Bing added support for snippet control meta tags…
Google Again: EAT Not In Algorithm But Hope It Aligns With Ranking Factors
In February, Danny Sullivan said that that Google’s “systems aren’t looking for EAT.” “There are many different signals that, if we get it right, align with what a good human EAT assessment would be,” he added. In March, nice find Marie Haynes, Google…
Google May One Day Drop Support For NoScript Tag For Images
Martin Splitt from Google said Google may decide to one day drop support reading the content within the noscript tag for images. He said Google currently does not support it for anything but images, but it may decide to stop supporting it as well for …
Are Your Google Sitelinks Missing? You Might Have A Flat Site Architecture.
Now, if I understand John Mueller’s tweet correctly, I think he is saying that one visible sign that Google thinks you have a purely flat site architecture is when your site does not show Sitelinks for his name.
No; Google Is Not Throttling Crawling Of Sites During The Coronavirus Outbreak
Google’s John Mueller was asked if Google is perhaps throttling, holding back on, crawling sites fully during the coronavirus outbreak. In short, John said no – but he said if your server cannot handle the Google load, Google will slow down crawling -…
Google Can Send Manual Actions Without Sample URLs
Have you ever received a manual action for a client that did not contain sample URLs? This can happen and Google’s John Mueller said “It can happen, it depends a bit on the kind of issue & the site.”
Programming Note: Offline For Last Days Of Passover 5780 – Wednesday & Thursday
This is a programming note that I will be 100% offline the next two days, Wednesday April 15th and Thursday April 16th, for the Passover holiday. This year I decided not to schedule any stories or videos. I won’t be back online until Friday and I wil…
Bing Adds Snippet Controls Tags; Like Google
Last September, Google added methods for controlling elements of your search results snippets. Last week, Bing also announced similar controls that it will begin supporting later this Spring. Bing said “Now, with these new features, webmasters will ha…
Google Ads Editor Version 1.3 Now Live
Google has upgraded the Google Ads Editor to version 1.3 last week. This version adds a number of additions and improvements including supporting shared budgets, optimization score and much more.
Google Postpones New Partners Program Requirements To 2021
Last week Google announced it is postponing the new Google Partners Program requirements for a year. Google said “As the circumstances around COVID-19 continue to evolve, we understand this is a difficult time for you, your families, and your business…
Google My Business Reply to Reviews Returns
Google My Business had the ability for owners to reply to reviews within the console directly. Heck, it even tested automating some of those replies. But at some point, that feature went away. It is now back and working.
Bing Drops Twitter From Connected Pages
Bing has quietly dropped the Twitter option from the Bing Webmaster Tools Contacted Pages option. Bing said “by adding the various web presences as “connected pages” in Bing Webmaster Tools, you can get an overview of how many impressions and clicks y…
Vlog #62: Dan Leibson – On Google Local Neural Matching & Multi-location Brand Issues in Google My Business
Dan Leibson (@DanLeibson) is the VP of Search at Local SEO Guide. He started in SEO in around 2007 with e-commerce and did some ‘review manipulation’ before it was a cool thing to do. In 2012 he got into local search and he has a pretty good name in …
Google Search Console Training Video On Removals
A few months ago, Google launched a new feature in Google Search Console named removals. Since it is pretty new, I figured I’d share a video from Daniel Waisberg of Google showing off this feature.
Google My Business Adds Telemedicine Links For Doctor Offices
Google has added the ability to add a “telehealth info link” to a Google My Business listing, if the listing is a medical/doctor related office. Erica Paige shared a screen shot of this on Twitter.