New: Google Search Console Removals Tool
Google has just launched a new tool within the new Google Search Console named the removals tool. This tool lets you temporarily block search results from your site, it shows reported via other Google public removal tools (i.e. Outdated content) and yo…
New GoogleBot Username Crawling But Chrome 41 Still Visible For Requesting Resources
Bastian Grimm said he is now seeing the new GoogleBot useragent name being used for almost all crawling now. But some are still seeing Google use Chrome 41, not the latest version of Chrome as the useragent. John Mueller from Google said as of now, “t…
Google Search Console Report Colors Updated
Google has updated some of the colors used in the Google Search Console reports, such as the performance report. The colors are now a blue, purple, green and orange. The old colors were a blue, light blue, green and purple.
Work For Google As An SEO
Google is hiring an SEO or multiple SEOs again. Former Google SEO, Sean O’Keefe, posted that his old job at Google as an SEO is now open. Sean is now working with the Google AI team – so his role needs to be filled. So if you are an SEO and looking f…
Google Moving Right Side Featured Snippet To Top Position
Google should be moving, if they didn’t do it already, any right side of the Google search results page feature snippets from that position to the top position. This should have happened by now, but might still be rolling out. This comes to remove co…
Vlog #40: Thom Craver At CBS Interactive On News Bias In Google & Is Schema A Win-Win
Thom Craver (@thomcraver) invited me to his NYC office at CBS Interactive, so this was special, doing a vlog at a real TV network. Thom is the Lead SEO Analyst at CBS Interactive…
Microsoft Advertising Ads Label In Bing Search Blend With Organic Also
I am always beating up on Google, so let’s give Bing a hard time as well. As Scott Jackson pointed out to me on Twitter this morning, the Microsoft Advertising labels in the Bing search results are incredibly hard to notice as well. Those ads use to …
Google May Revert Favicons & Black Ad Label On The Desktop Search Results
A couple weeks ago, Google launched the mobile search interface design it had since May 2019 on desktop. It brought the favicons to the snippets and the black ad label for the desktop search ads. This design release, like the mobile released caused a …
Google Tests Desktop Results Without Favicons; The Old Design
Some folks are seeing Google test the old Google desktop search interface. Remember the one before Google launched those (what I feel are horrible) favicons and black ad labels for the snippets? Yea, Google is testing showing the old interface to some…
Search Buzz Video Recap: Google Featured Snippet Deduplication, Data-Vocabulary Deprecation, Google Datasets Search & More
This week in search Google deduplicated, as they are calling it, the featured snippets URLs, so if you have a featured snippet…
Google Rolls Out Profile Icon To Local Knowledge Panel
Google announced this a while back but now it seems to be rolling out. Profile icons for your local knowledge panel is now showing up on many local knowledge panels. Google has been testing this for about a year but it should be live for most business…
Google Dataset Search Is Now Out Of Beta With New Features
Google announced that Google Dataset Search which launched in beta in 2018 is now out of beta. With that launch, it added several new features. This can probably be used for awesome research when developing rich content and might also send traffic to…
Google Search Console Performance Reports Not Impacted By Featured Snippet Change
Just to be clear, and honestly, I am surprised so many people do not know this, but the featured snippet change from the other day has no impact on the Google Search Console performance reports. That report only counts the top-most result anyway, so th…
A Google Search Algorithm Ranking Update On January 23rd?
This is going to be a hard one to judge because I see chatter within the SEO community and also many of the tracking tools are lighting up. These are all signs that there was a Google search ranking algorithm update. But truth is, this can be directl…
Google’s Gary Illyes Not Surprised When SEOs Complain When Low Quality Content Is Not Indexed
Gary Illyes from Google posted on Twitter a sarcastic GIF of what he said “Everyone’s reaction when low quality and spammy content is not indexed anymore.” I posted that GIF above, so you can see it, but here is the tweet:
Google Now Drops A Site’s Normal Snippet When Featured Snippet Is Displayed
In November 2019 we saw Google testing removing the normal snippet from the Google search results when Google shows a featured snippet for that site/URL. Well after numerous tests, Google has launched this yesterday and is no longer showing a featured…
Google: Reciprocal Links Aren’t Necessarily Bad But…
John Mueller from Google said on Twitter that “Reciprocal links aren’t necessarily bad.” But he did warn that Google is good at finding “link schemes & similar games that are sometimes played in that space.” Here is the tweet:
John Mueller Once Messed With A Web Site Hacker
John Mueller from Google said that he once messed with web site hacker who hacked content onto one of his sites. He said the content started to rank, so he locked out the hacker and replaced the hacker’s affiliate links with his own.
Google Sending data-vocabulary.org Schema Deprecation Notices
Google announced yesterday that starting on April 6, 2020 it will no longer support data-vocabulary.org schema. Hours later, Google began sending notifications via Google Search Console about this happening. Here is an example from Peter Nikolow.
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Google Still Does Support Microformats; At Least For Now
With Google saying yesterday that they are deprecating support for data-vocabulary markup because of the “popularity of schema.org” – some would assume microformats is next. But John Mueller from Google said microformats are still supported and there…