Google My Business Stay Verified Emails Are Legit
Google My Business does send out emails asking those who have not logged into their Google My Business account in a while, to log back in to stay verified. The email does not appear to be a phishing scam, but rather something Google has done for a whi…
Google Search Console Adds New Reviews Snippet Reporting, Tools & Notifications
Google has launched new tools and reports within Google Search Console for review snippets in Google Search and Google Discover. If you have reviews on your snippets or local panels, these reports can help you debug issues, see how well those snippets…
Google Search App Gets Apple Siri Shortcut To Search With Google
Google has added a new Siri shortcut for the Google Search app that speeds up you using Google search. All you need to do is say “Search with Google” to Siri and it will launch the Google Search App.
Google: We Index A Lot Of Pages That Rarely Show In The Search Results
Google’s John Mueller has a fun one liner again, he said on Twitter “We index a lot of pages that rarely show up in search results.” This was after an individual asked if Google indexes his pages, is that a Google sign that Google might rank the pages…
Google Local Search Algorithm Update On January 31st?
There is some question around if Google did a local search ranking algorithm update this past January 31st. Some local SEOs said they saw some drops or changes for their clients and even the BrightLocal tool showed some fluctuations for that day.
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Google: Site Merges Take Longer To Remove Old Domain Than Site Moves From Google Search
Google’s John Mueller said that when you merge two sites together, the domain you are getting rid of and not using anymore will take time to go away in Google’s search results. When you do a site move, like moving to a new domain but it’s the same con…
Google Increases AMP Custom CSS Limit By 50%
The Google AMP team has increased the AMP custom CSS limit from 50KB to 75KB, that is a 50% increase. This should be fully live by the end of February said Weston Ruter, a Developer Programs Engineer at Google.
Now Live: Google Featured Snippet Image Carousel?
Back in November, Google began testing an image carousel in the featured snippets section. Well, it seems like it might be live in Google search. I see it, as do tons of others of searchers.
I Get To Interview Danny Sullivan On Stage At SMX
When I first learned that Danny Sullivan joined Google, I wrote on October 9, 2017 “I do hope I get to interview Danny Sullivan one day on the stage at SMX, it should be a ton of fun.” Well, that is now going to become a reality at SMX Advanced in Sea…
Vlog #44: Chris Elwell – The Man Who Thought To Kick Off The SEM Event Space
At SMX East, yea, several months ago – catching up here on publishing these vlogs – I convinced Chris Elwell (@celwell), the CEO of Third Door Media, the company that owns and operates Search Engine Land, Search Marketing Expo and a bunch of other prop…
Big Google Search Ranking Algorithm Update – Currently Unconfirmed
Starting on Saturday the chatter within the SEO community as well as the signals from the automated rank checking tools began to explode. Based on what I am seeing right now, I decided to post on the weekend as opposed to holding the story for Monday …
Search Buzz Video Recap: Google Update, GoogleBot Name, Google Search Console & Bing Webmaster Tools
This week, I covered another unconfirmed Google search algorithm update. I posted the monthly Google webmaster report. Google said the new GoogleBot user agent name is live…
Google My Business Bug? Google Posts Being Rejected In Masses
Something is going on with Google My Business, specific with Google Posts. There has been a spike in the number of complaints from businesses owners using Google Posts about their posts being rejected. Literally tons of complaints in the Google My Bu…
Did Google Says It Will Offer Curriculum For Optimizing For BERT?
So Gary Illyes from Google was on stage at PubCon and yea, he may or may not have said some things that caused a bit of a stir in the SEO community. Some are quoting him as saying that Google will be providing “a curriculum for optimizing for BERT.”
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Google: Nofollow Hint Ranking Change Has Not Been Worked On Yet
Gary Illyes from Google said at PubCon yesterday that yes, Google may start to decide to use nofollow links for ranking but the work on that from the engineering team has not yet begun. Google originally said they would make this change after March 1,…
Bing Webmaster Tools Sitemap Diagnosis Tool Coming Soon
Nagu Rangan, a Product Management at Microsoft working on Bing, said on stage at PubCon that the Bing Webmaster Tools team is working on a sitemap diagnosis tool. This is according to Purna Virji, who was in the audience and works for Microsoft Adverti…
Google Maps Celebrates 15 Years: New Maps Icon & Map Features
Google launched Google Maps 15 years ago, well, technically on February 8, 2005 – so almost 15 years ago. And to celebrate, it announced today in numerous blog posts, a new map icon, new features and more.
Bing Was Offline For Several Hours In Windows 10 Search
Did you know that the other day Windows 10 Search powered by Bing was offline for several hours? The Verge reported “Microsoft’s built-in Windows search went down for many users for more than three hours today. Windows search is built into Microsoft’s…
Google Search Console Auto-Verifies Tag Manager Causing Security Confusion
As you remember, Google had a bug with Google Tag Manager verifications for Google Search Console. I guess sometime after that, Google decided to automatically reverify sites using Google Tag Manager for Google Search Console verification. That led to…
Google Clarifies GoogleBot’s New Useragent Name Usage
Yesterday we reported that Google said the new name for the GoogleBot useragent is now 100% live. Well, that was wrong, it technically was not 100% live. Martin Splitt from Google broke it down for us explaining that when the web rendering service rend…