Fun: Google People Also Ask Sponsored Ads; Not Really
Here is something that someone shared with me that I found funny and thought might make you all smile. A people also ask snippet that looks like a Google Ad but really is not. It says “sponsored ad” but really, Google is just pulling from the content…
Google: We Do Not Prioritize Crawling For US Sites
Google’s John Mueller said that sites based in the United States do not get crawling priority from Google. It doesn’t matter where the site is located in terms of what priority Google will crawl the site. He said on Twitter “we don’t prioritize crawl…
Google: Schema Markup Won’t Get Any Easier; Will Get Harder
Google’s John Mueller said in a Google webmaster hangout video at the 34:30 mark that he believes implementing schema markup for rich results won’t be getting any easier. In fact, he said over the next few years he feels it will continue to get harder …
Search Buzz Video Recap: Google Algorithm Update May Have Hit Forbes, Favicons Reverted, Featured Snippet Questions & More
This was a pretty busy week, we may have had a Google search algorithm update this week and maybe, just maybe, Forbes got hit hard by it. Google is probably going to revert the favicon and black ad label user interface, lots of tests are going on now….
Google Ads Switches To Standard Delivery For All Campaign Types
Google announced it is switching all campaigns, not just Search campaigns, Shopping campaigns, and shared budgets but also Display, Video, App and Hotel campaigns to Standard delivery. This is happening starting in April 2020 and any campaign using Ac…
Google Considers Changes To Image Section In Featured Snippets
Danny Sullivan from Google said on Twitter that Google has “heard the feedback” around the “image issue” with featured snippets. He added “I especially push for improvement here.” Google seems like they are looking into how they can make changes ther…
Google May Give Use Featured Snippets Reports In Search Console; Maybe…
Danny Sullivan from Google said on Twitter “Maybe we’ll eventually break out that type of data” when it comes to showing click-through rates on featured snippets. Google almost gave it to us, it was a beta filter that went away back in 2017 for some r…
Google: Google Assistant Actions Does Not Help You Rank Higher In Search
Does having and creating Google Assistant Actions help you rank better in Google search for your web site in general? I never saw anyone ask this question until today and Danny Sullivan of Google said no, it does not help with your organic rankings or…
Everything You Need To Know About The Google Featured Snippet Deduplication Change
There has been an enormous amount of confusion around the Google featured snippet duplication change. In short, Google made the change, didn’t communicate the change was done until SEOs saw it live and Google, mostly Danny Sullivan, has been answering…
We Got Chatter: Google Search Ranking Algorithm Update & Fluctuations
Let me start off by saying that while there is a nice amount of chatter in the SEO community signaling some sort of Google update in the past few days, it is hard for me to be very confident because of all the changes Google made in the past week or so…
Google Right Side Featured Snippet No Longer Deduplicated – For Now…
Google has come through and has now stopped deduplicating the featured snippets that show up on the right side. That is until Google moves the right side featured snippets to the top left position. Google said they would do this temporarily until Goo…
Google Chrome In Google Search Tests Hiding URLs In URL Bar
So domains are the most important part of the URL, eh? Well, here is Google Chrome testing hiding the Google search URL from displaying and instead just showing the query you entered into Google.
Did Forbes Google Search Traffic Just Completely Die?
A senior writer at Forbes, shared some data on Twitter showing that Forbes.com has seen a huge and very concerning drop in traffic from Google organic search. He said traffic is “down circa 10x” starting January 27th at 11pm ET. He posted this on Twit…
Google: Mixed Languages In URLs Are Fine For Search
Google’s John Mueller said it doesn’t hurt you to used mixed languages in your URLs but it might confuse users who look at your URLs. John was asked on Twitter “Mixing language in url path” is it bad? John said “I don’t see a problem with that.”
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Vlog #41: Lisa Barone About Writing About SEO & Implementing Strategies To Help Clients Win
Lisa Barone (@lisabarone) invited me, well, I invited myself, to her office, Overit, up in Albany, New York. It was my first time in a Church, although her office is no longer a church. In any event, Lisa and I go way back…
Tons Of Google My Business Suspensions
Google My Business has performed more and more business suspensions recently according to local SEO experts. In fact, the appeal form seems to have a notice that says there is a high volume of questions around suspension notices.
Google: Do Not Translate Image File Names To Local Language
Let’s say you have a large multilingual site and all your pages are translated into the localized language. So page A in the US has the same content as page X in France, but the content is translated into French on page X. The image however is generic…
Google May Have Issues Correctly Indexing Ikea’s International Pages
It seems like Google may be having issues indexing and ranking Ikea’s international and localized web pages properly…
Google: Not Worth Signing Up For Dofollow Profile Links
Google’s John Mueller said “no” it is not worth signing up for dofollow profile links. He said that in a Reddit thread where the user asked “Are dofollow profile sign ups worth it?” John responded with “no” and then walked away.
Did Google Just Say Links In PDFs Treated As Nofollow Links?
Google’s John Mueller said at the 9:43 mark into a Google hangout that for SEO purposes, links in PDF files are treated like links that have the nofollow attribute on them. But the weird thing is, Gary Illyes from Google in 2011 documented on the Goog…