SEOs Share Impact Of The Google January 2020 Core Update
Yesterday, I asked on Twitter for SEOs to share charts and data on how the Google January 2020 core update had an impact on their web sites or client sites. Here are some of the responses I have received.
Search Buzz Video Recap: Google January 2020 Core Update News, Favicons & Black Ad Icons Take Over Google Search, Froogle Returns & Much More
This week Google released two big things; first was a new and big broad core update and the second was the favicons and black ad label design in the desktop search results. The Google January 2020 core update was big, launched on Monday, it was a globa…
Bug Alert: Google Search Console Unparsable Structured Data
Google has confirmed that some may see a spike in unparsable structured data errors within Google Search Console. This spike should be ignored if it happened between January 13 and 16th of this year. Google said “This was due to an internal misconfig…
Google: Cookie Banners Are Fine For Search
Google’s John Mueller was asked if adding cookie acceptance banners are going to cause an SEO problem for Google search. John said “Cookie banners are fine.” He added that you want to avoid “replacing your page’s content with an interstitial.”
Microsoft Advertising To Also Sunset Average Position
Microsoft announced it will be deprecating the average position metric from Microsoft Advertising reporting starting in April. Google did the same thing last year and now Microsoft is following suit.
Froogle Is Back – Well, Kind Of, With Free Google Popular Product Listings
Remember Froogle, Google’s free product search engines from the early 2000s? Well, Google eventually turned all of product search into a Google Ads paid search product. But now, Google is bringing back free product search in the form of “popular prod…
The Google January 2020 Core Update Is Global
Danny Sullivan from Google has confirmed that this January 2020 Core Update is global and pretty much all core updates are global – as we knew already. But it is good to have another confirmation that this past update is a global release.
Fun: Google My Business Support Tries To Help Danny Sullivan.
You know how when someone asks one Googler a question and that Google doesn’t know the answer, so they CC another to help. Well, sometimes Googlers don’t know Googlers and the get confused. Here is Danny Sullivan, a Googler, CCing Google My Business …
Google Search Console Notifications Of Chrome Warnings For Old TLS
Google is sending out notifications to webmasters if they are running TLS 1.1 or lower. The notification isn’t that Google search will rank the site lower or delist the site but rather Chrome, Google’s browser will show a “not secure” warning to user…
New: Google My Business Provider
Google has launched a new local Google My Business initiative named My Business Provider. This essentially lets other companies or organizations help verify businesses and organizations they work with in Google My Business. In short, it is a way to a…
Google: We Do Core Search Updates 2-4 Times Per Year; With Many Smaller Updates
Danny Sullivan from Google again said that while Google makes changes in search “each day” the broad core algorithm updates only happen two to four times per year. He said on Twitter “we do make small changes each day to search. It’s a continual proce…
Google Favicons & Black Ad Label Now Live On Desktop Search
We knew it was coming and now it is live, well, almost fully live. Google is now officially rolling out the favicons and black ad label search interface on desktop. Google has been testing it for months and months on desktop after it launched in mobil…
Google Rich Results Test Now Can Show Embedded Resources
Google has upgraded the rich results test to show embedded resources. It is beta but it can show external elements included by a page. Here is an example of a page here but you can run it on any page.
Google January 2020 Core Update Is Live & It’s Big
Yesterday, Google announced that it is releasing a core broad update named the January 2020 Core Update. It started to roll out around noon New York time yesterday. Google just echoed its previous advice around core updates. But this one does seem su…
New: Google Ads Target ROAS Bid Simulator
Google Ads has introduced a new bid simulator, the Target ROAS bid simulator. The target ROAS bid simulator shows the relationship between a ROAS target and your key metrics. The key metric it shows is your conversion value.
The New GoogleBot Dynamic User Agent Names Are Live
Google seems to have recently made the new GoogleBot user agent name that is dynamic for the evergreen GoogleBot live. Bastian Grimm said he started noticing the new name on January 12, 2020.
Google Indexing Its Own Cache Now Fixed
Gary Illyes from Google said it has fixed an issue with the search engine indexing its own cache pages. It took a few weeks after it was reported but Gary said it should be fixed. I checked just now and it was not fixed but maybe the fix takes time t…
Google Screened Ads Tests Photos
Google Screened Ads – like Google guaranteed ads – is testing showing photos of the professional. Like a head shot of who you are looking to hire to do your job or your work. Joy Hawkins posted a screen shot of this in action.
Google: We Treat Links On HTTP & HTTPS Pages Equally
Google’s John Mueller said a link on an HTTP page is just as valuable to Google as a link on an HTTPS page and visa versa. He said on Twitter “we treat links on http the same as links on https sites.”
Google: It Would Be Rare For A Ranking Improvement After Removing Tag/Search Pages From Index
Google’s John Mueller said on Twitter that “that would be pretty rare” if you removed your tag and/or search pages from Google’s index and preventing Google from crawling them, that it would it would result in a ranking boost for your site. He said you…