Google Tests Dine In, Take Out & Delivery Attributes For Local Results
Google is testing displaying new attributes for local results that show if there is dine in, delivery or takeout services. Brian Freiesleben and Mike Blumenthal shared screen shots with me over the past few days. Here they are:
Google Search Volatility & Fluctuations Super Unusual
Over the past few days, the fluctuations and volatility seen in the Google organic search results seem very unusual. Searcher behavior is probably changing and maybe with that, the search results are changing for many categories. So maybe this is the…
Vlog #58: Kevin Doory on Local SEO vs Traditional SEO & Google My Business
Kevin Doory is the Director of SEO at AutoRevo. In fact, I know Kevin through two of my RustyBrick employees. He worked together with one of my employees back in Maryland. He actually started in SEO doing automotive SEO and did other things in SEO…
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Google On How To Technically Pause Your Online Business
As promised, Google has put together both a blog post and a detailed developer document on how to pause your online business. This document helps you manage and retain your search rankings while not accepting business online.
Google Ads Report Editor Now Supports Up To 200 Accounts
Google announced the Google Ads Report Editor can manage up to 200 accounts. That means if you manage a ton of accounts, you can see all of them, well, up to 200, in a single report.
Google My Business Offers Tips For Clinics & Medical Offices
Google My Business created a new help document giving guidance to how healthcare providers like clinics and medical offices should keep its patients informed during COVID-19.
Google: No Such Thing As Two Waves Of Indexing Or Crawling
We have heard Google talk about two waves of indexing or crawling, espesially when it comes to processing JavaScript. But now Martin Splitt from Google says there is no such thing. He did hint a while back that it is going away but now says there was …
Google Featured Snippets Showing YouTube Timestamp Links
We know Google has this neat feature to show “key moments” in the Google search results that show timestamps of sections of videos. But here is an example of a featured snippet showing this in text, with hyperlinks to those timestamps.
Search Buzz Video Recap: Google Algorithm Update, COVID-19 Search Changes & Google SEO Topics
This week we had another possible but still unconfirmed Google search ranking update. Google said they do not penalize for weird brand or site names. Google said it is a myth that it prioritizes AMP pages in search. Google is sending out Search Conso…
Google Advice On E-Commerce Sites Closed Due To COVID-19
Gary Illyes from Google said the company is working on putting together “some more thorough do’s and don’t’s” around what e-commerce and other site owners should do with their web sites if the business is temporarily closed due to the coronavirus. But…
Can Google Detect Sarcasm?
Someone asked Google’s John Mueller if Google’s search algorithms can detect and then filter out sarcasm on the internet. It is an interesting question if Google can detect sarcasm or not, in fact, I see a ton of papers on the concept. But I’ve never…
Google My Business Not Functioning Properly During COVID-19 Crisis
There are many many complaints about Google My Business working properly now. We know the support hours have been limited due to the outbreak. We know features and functions have been removed or stalled. But it seems that there are tons of issues wit…
Automate Google Search Console Detected Issues Via Email
Google’s John Mueller said that right now there are no webhooks or APIs for tracking issues reported within Google Search Console. So what he recommends to do now is set up an email box that you can program a script to read those emails and feed them …
Google Ads Advice Through COVID-19
Google posted some tips on how to navigate your Google Ads search ads campaigns through the COVID-19 outbreak. Google wrote “as communities respond to COVID-19, we know that this time presents unique challenges for businesses. Below are some considera…
SEOs Claiming Organic Search Traffic Declines Due To COVID-19
Marie Haynes is posting a weekly poll on Twitter asking SEOs if they are seeing organic search traffic declines for their customers sites during the COVID-19 period. Most are reporting declines in the past week, abut 60%. While about 16% are saying th…
Google: There Is No Need To Include Every Link In Your Disavow File
Google’s John Mueller said on Twitter “Some tools find all sorts of irrelevant links — there’s absolutely no need to place every such link in your disavow file.” He said, instead you should “focus your time on useful things instead.”
Google: We Don’t Make Sites With Manual Actions Wait Longer For Reviews
Google’s John Mueller said it is a myth that the web spam team would make a site that has sufficiently fixed a manual action wait a longer period of time. Google doesn’t simply say that this site did something bad, so you have to wait. Once it is fix…
Google My Business Adds Mark As Temporarily Closed Option
If you login to your Google My Business account and click on edit your information, you will be given a new option to “mark as temporarily closed.” Previously you were unable to do this from Google My Business.
Google Search Ranking Algorithm Volatility
Many of the tracking tools that follow the changes and volatility in the Google search results have been spiking over the past couple of days. The chatter within the SEO industry is not super strong but the SEO community is a bit busy at the moment.
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Vlog #57: Hamlet Batista On Scaling SEO Through Technology & How To Automate Your SEO
Hamlet Batista originally is from the Dominican Republic and is now based in New Jersey, less than an hour from my office actually. I did offer him a ride but he turned me down and instead flew in from Newark Airport. He is the CEO of RankSense…
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