Google Ads Hacked Political Materials Policy Announced
So starting this September, Google Ads will no longer allow hacked political materials. Google wrote “in September 2020, the Google Ads Hacked political materials policy will be launched. The policy is specifically related to the distribution of hacke…
Google On When Comments Can Hurt Your Blog & When You Should Block Them
In the next episode of the Search Off The Record podcast from John Mueller, Gary Illyes and Martin Splitt of Google – they spoke about comments and how they may impact your blog. They also spoke about CMS platforms, how they got hired at Google and Ja…
Microsoft Bing – The New Name Of Bing Search?
Over the weekend a lot of people who use Bing saw a new logo and new name for the Bing search engine. Now it says Microsoft Bing instead of just Bing and the logo is the Microsoft logo, not the Bing logo.
Web Stories Also Get More Exposure In Google Image Search
SEOs have been loving playing with Web Stories in Google Search for the extra exposure those get and potentially the higher click through rate. But did you know that these are also highlighted in Google’s Image search results?
Google Tests Categorized Sections For Search Results Again
We’ve seen this numerous times where Google would test sections by category of some sort of its search results. Well, over the past several days Google started those tests back up. Here are some screen shots shared with me on Twitter. Note, I may have…
Google Tests “Also In The News” Box Under Top Stories
Last week Google was testing “for context” sections within the top stories carousel. This week, Google is testing “also in the news” carousel boxes under the Top stories section in Google search.
Google Ranking Update & Fluctuations July 31st & August 1st
Seems like since Friday and throughout the weekend there may have been some update pushed out by Google to its search ranking algorithm. There is chatter and there are third-party tracking tools that seem to suggest there was some sort of update. Goog…
Vlog #78: Jennifer Slegg On Google Quality Raters Guidelines & Algorithm Updates
Jennifer Slegg (@jenstar) has a long history in the SEO space but right now is pretty well known for her editorial work on the Google Quality Raters Guidelines and algorithm write ups. When Google launched AdSense…
Search Buzz Video Recap: Bing Webmaster Tools Relaunched, Links Not Most Important Google Factor & Google Rankings With Negative Reviews
This week I covered a bunch of topics including an interesting topic on do negative reviews on the web hurt your chances or ranking well in Google. Google’s John Mueller also told us to forget everything we’ve read about link juice…
Google: Links Are Not The Most Important SEO Factor
Google’s John Mueller said on Twitter “links are definitely not the most important SEO factor.” This comes shortly after he said to forget everything you have read in the past about link juice.
Google Ads Tests Subtitle Or Headline Links
Google Ads is testing showing a hyperlinked subheadline or subtitle below the main headline or title of your Google Ads. PPC hubbub posted a screen shot of this on Twitter and Ginny Marvin at Search Engine Land was able to replicate it.
Google Search Console Down For Some Users – 429 Error
Google Search Console is currently not loading for many SEOs, webmasters, developers and site owners. It works fine for me in the New York, but some folks in India, Japan, Australia and some other locations it is not loading. Users are getting a 429 …
Google Search Console & Rich Results Test Tool Supports Image License Structured Data
Google has now added the still in BETA image license structured data markup to both Google Search Console’s enhancement reports and to the Rich Results test tool. So now if you use this image license markup, you can debug it in both of those toolsets….
Google My Business Adds Black-Owned Attribute For New Icon
Google My Business has added another attribute for businesses owners to use to enhance their business listings. The new attribute is named “black-owned business”, this goes on with the veteran-led and women-led attributes.
US Congress Investigation Suggests Google Uses Clicks & User Data In Search
Rand Fishkin went through a lot of the US Congress documents from the hearing on “Online Platforms and Market Power: Examining the Dominance of Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google” that happened two days ago. He saw this document that suggested Google u…
Google Updates Several Google Ads Policies
Google announced that it made updates to several of the Google Ads policies around clarification and information purposes. Specifically Google said this is done “to better inform advertisers as to the severity of violations of these policies and if th…
Google Again Says Analytics Not Used In Google Search
Again, again, again and again, Google’s John Mueller said Google does not use Google Analytics in Google Search. Google has been saying this for years and years and even though, many still do not believe Google or it is one of those myths that people a…
Google: Negative Review Sites Don’t Hurt Your Sites Search Ranking
Google’s John Mueller was asked in a recent Google webmaster hangout video if negative search results about a brand can hurt that brand’s web site from ranking in Google search. John said no – it shouldn’t. John also talked a bit about if there is a …
Google: Forget Everything You Read About Link Juice
John Mueller of Google said on Twitter “I’d forget everything you read about “link juice.” It’s very likely all obsolete, wrong, and/or misleading.” But I love when SEOs talk about “link juice” and when I get to use this graphic on this site.
New Bing Webmaster Tools Live With New URL Inspection Tool
In February Bing announced it was working on a new Bing Webmaster Tools, we saw some early screen shots of it then. Today is the day this new version goes completely live and within the next month the old tool will be gone.