Vlog #52: Fili Wiese – Former Google Search Quality Analyst Turned SEO
After years and years of knowing Fili Wiese, the two of us sat down one-on-one to discuss SEO. Fili Wiese is most well known for his work at a Googler…
Google Ads Attribution Reports Get Revamped
Google has updated the attribution reports within Google Ads. Google said on Twitter “Attribution reports in Google Ads have a new look. The new experience will help you quickly understand how your customers interact with your marketing throughout the …
Google 3D & AR Images: More Technical Details & How To Request Inclusion
So I have been looking for more documentation and details on how to implement and request inclusion for the 3d and AR based images in Google search. Well, thanks to the AMA I did yesterday, someone shared a link I should have seen with more details.
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Google My Business Management Box For Profiles You Manage In Search Results
Google can show you a list of business profiles you manage in Google My Business directly in the web search results. It depends on your query and the number of listings you manage, but you might be able to trigger it. I should note, I don’t think this…
Google To Switch All Sites Mobile-First Indexing By September 2020
Big news yesterday, but we saw it coming, was that Google announced all sites are going to be moved over to mobile-first indexing by September 2020. Google is sending out notices about this, Google started doing that last week. But Google also said t…
Search Buzz Video Recap: Google Mobile-First Indexing, Nofollow No Change, Bing Indexing Issues & More Algorithm Updates
Earlier this week we saw more Google search ranking fluctuations and chatter. Google said by September 2020, all sites will be moved to mobile-first indexing…
Google My Business Now Will Manually Review All Photos & Videos Before Publication
Google said yesterday that now before it publishes any of your photos or videos you post in a Google My Business or Google Maps listing, it will manually review it before it can be published. Google said “We’ve made changes to our photo and video cont…
Google: Hreflang Annotations Not Processed Until All Pages In The Set Are Crawled & Indexed
Gary Illyes from Google wrote in a Reddit thread that “generally” your hreflang annotations are not processed or picked up until all the pages in the set that you are linking to are crawled and re-indexed. He wrote “Generally the hreflang annotations a…
Google Local Service Ads For Personal Injury Lawyers
Ben Fisher shared an email he received from Google about Google expanding the local service ads to personal injury lawyers and personal injury law firms. Local service ads are typically found for plumbers, electricians and the like – but soon, personal…
Google My Business: Car Dealerships Now Can Have Multiple Listings
Google has updated its help documents to allow car dealerships to have multiple Google My Business listings within Google Local and Google Maps. Google said a single car dealership can have a listing for each brand it sells, plus a listing for each br…
Google: Keep Security Certificate On Your Redirected URLs On Site Merges
So you have myolddomain.com and you are moving to mynewdomain.com, do you need to renew the security certificate for the domain myolddomain.com if you are just going to be redirecting it to mynewdomain.com. The answer is probably yes, not necessarily …
Google: We’re Not Going To Index All Your Pages
John Mueller of Google had to tell one SEO that it is not going to happen, Google is not going to index all of the pages on his web site. The site has over 800,000 pages and Google has only indexed 3,000 of those pages. John told this webmaster “They’…
Google Ads Mobile App Gets Dark Mode & Optimization Score Details
Google announced that the Google Ads app has added two new features. The first being dark mode, so you can sit up all night working on your ad campaign without disturbing your partner. The second is new optimization score features to help you make Go…
Google I/O Cancelled Over Coronavirus Caution
Google announced they are cancelling the physical/in-person version of their massive developer conference, Google I/O, over concerns with the Coronavirus. This was no surprise, as Facebook, Amazon, and other big tech companies have done the same.
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Google: It’s Fine To Link To HTTP URLS For SEO
Google’s John Mueller confirmed that from an SEO point of view, linking to an HTTP URL, instead of an HTTPS URL is fine. Google won’t penalize or downgrade your site if you link externally to a non-secure page. Of course, from a user point of view li…
Vlog #51: Ginny Marvin On Periodic Table of PPC & Natural Language in PPC
Ginny Marvin (@ginnymarvin) is the Editor-in-Chief of Search Engine Land and the other Third Door Media properties and is someone I have worked incredibly closely with for the past several years. As you can tell from watching the interview…
Google: Nofollow Change Was A Policy Change; No Action Was Necessarily Taken By Googlers Yet
We are all still trying to figure out if Google took any action with the nofollow link attribute change on March 1, 2020 or not. It seems the answer is not. John Mueller said in a Google webmaster hangout at the 17:22 mark that this is a policy chang…
Some Google & Bing Employees Can Work From Home Due To The Coronavirus
The Coronavirus is now spreading in the United States and there is the beginning of an outbreak not too far from the Microsoft office in Seattle. Two Google offices, one in Zurich and one in Dublin, have had cases of employees being confirmed with the…
Bing Blocked Some Pages By Accident; Another Reason To Check Bing Webmaster Tools
Jarno van Driel said he reached out to Bing via Bing Webmaster Tools support contact form and it turned out that Bing was blocking some of his “money pages” for some reason. He did nothing technically wrong and Bing fixed it on their end and now the pa…
Google: There Are A Variety Of Things We Do To Watch For Wikipedia Vandalism
Danny Sullivan of Google said on Twitter “There are a variety of things we do to watch for Wikipedia vandalism. That’s about as specific as I can really get into. It’s not perfect, as nothing is, but there are protections in place.” This was in respons…