Forget Google Ad Partner Badge, Get A Client Partners Badge Instead
This is fun – as you know, the SEM community is not super happy about the change in requirements around the Google partner badges. Google tried to clarify and dumb it down a little but in short, SEMs feel the requirements align too much with Google rev…
When John Mueller Of Google Is Frustrated A Site Not Ranking Well
I often give this fluffy advice that you should “build a site and content that Google is embarrassed doesn’t rank well for the queries they deserve to rank for.” Well, here is an example of that advice working. John Mueller of Google has watched a si…
Google: We Still Use PageRank Internally
Google’s John Mueller said that in 2020 does “use PageRank internally.” He added that it is one of among many other signals Google uses. But Google does not use domain authority, a metric from Moz, he had to say again.
Google: Changes To The Search Systems Take Time
Remember when Danny Sullivan of Google showed how he documented an issue in Google search to share internally for review by Google engineers? Well, he was then asked for an ETA on the fix. In which he said “There’s not going to be an immediate change….
Bing Search Algorithm Update In Early February? Bing Says Always Making Updates.
I was asked if there was a Bing Search algorithm and ranking update on February 1st. Truth is, I did not see any chatter about this in any of the channels I track. But some are saying they saw an update on February 1st and 7th. I asked Frédéric Dubut from Bing and he said Bing is always making changes.
Google Images To Drop Dimensions Label On Thumbnails & Show Other Labels
A change is coming to Google Image Search on desktop later this week. You know that little label you see in the bottom corner of an image when you mouse over the image thumbnail in the search results? It shows the dimensions of the image… Well, that…
Google My Business Products Added Suggested Categories
Colan Nielsen shared a new feature he spotted in the Google My Business dashboard. Under the products tab (not everyone will see this), Google is providing “suggested categories” for you to add based on how Google understands your business.
Google Search Console Improves Data Exports In A Big Way
Google just announced it has made some seriously big improvements to the data exports within Google Search Console. Google said that you will “now be able to download the complete information you see in almost all Search Console reports (instead of jus…
Google Update Chatter Earlier This Week But Sensors Not Triggered
This is a weird one because I have been seeing chatter within the SEO community around a Google update starting around Sunday or Monday of this week and continuing for the next few days. But the automated tracking sensors from Mozcast, SEMRush, RankRa…
Vlog #49: Marketers in a Car after JTank with Ari Zoldan
I was privileged to be asked to sit as a ‘mogul’ on JTank, the Jewish version of SharkTank and this was a video throughout the day. I was not allowed to share information about the pitches…
Google Patent Related To Medic Update? Website Representation Vector For Classifying Web Sites.
Bill Slawski posted about a new Google patent application filed in August of 2018 that was just revealed last week named Website Representation Vector to Generate Search Results and Classify Website. This patent can explain a lot around the August 201…
Google In Europe Now Shows Other Local Search Providers
This comes as no surprise, Google has been testing it for a while after the EU has required them to do something for anti-competitive reasons. Now Google is showing other search providers for local results. They did this for other verticals as well in …
Google Image Search Adds New Image License Metadata
Google announced that you can now use markup and metadata to tell Google about the image licensing rights and details. When you add this metadata and when Google decides to show the results in image search, Google may show a new Licensable badge for t…
Google: Quality Raters Help Us Understand If Our Signals Produce Good Results
Danny Sullivan at Google again explained what the role of the search quality raters are. Again, for those who do not know, Google search quality raters are not Google employees, they are third-party contractors. They grade search results and the sites …
Vlog #48: Dixon Jones – SEO Legend Mastering Links Tools & Now Semantic Tools
Dixon Jones has been doing SEO since 1998, you may know him mostly from his work at Majestic.com but he has been in the SEO industry since before there was an industry…
Google Penalties Can Reoccur – Your Site Is Not Immune
John Mueller from Google said just because a web site was once penalized, it does not mean it cannot be penalized again for the same issue. It is not like when you get a specific virus, that if you survive it, you become immune to getting that specific…
Google Will Slow Crawling For 429/503 HTTP Status Codes But…
Gary Illyes from Google came on to Twitter for a brief moment to share a PSA about 429/503 HTTP status codes. He said while you probably know 429/503 HTTP status codes will slow GoogleBot’s crawling activity, what you might not know is that if those …
Google Maps Removed 4 Million Fake Business & 75 Million Local Reviews
Google announced this week that what it has done in 2019 to combat Google Maps spam and violations. Google removed 4 million fake business profiles from Google My Business in 2019. It also removed 75 million policy-violating reviews from local profil…
Google’s John Mueller On Where To Start With Hreflang
John Mueller from Google posted a mindful and useful response on Reddit mostly around where to start with hreflang. He said “It’s easy to dig into endless pits of complexity with hreflang.” “My recommendation would be first to limit the number of pages you create to those that are absolutely critical & valuable,” he added.
Google Local & Map Ads Purple Ad Label Again
Back in 2016 we reported that Google Maps ads can and do show a purple ad label next to the local listings that are ads. But that has changed over the years and now Google is once again testing the purple ad label in the local ads, even on desktop.
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