Vlog #35: William Alvarez On Google Structured Data & SEO Mentoring
William Alvarez (@williamalvarez) is the Director of Organic Search at Catalyst invited me to his office at 3 World Trade Center. The last time i was in the World Trade Center building was before 9/11 for a meeting with an options trading company about…
Did Google Drops Table Schema Support In Search?
Google may have dropped table schema for datasets that it launched in beta in 2018. If you try to find examples of these types of rich results showing up in search, you probably won’t be able to find it.
Google: Evergreen Content Doesn’t Need To Change, Keep The Date
Google’s John Mueller was asked how can one communicate to Google that a page with evergreen content is as value as it was when it was first published several years ago. John responded that “If it’s evergreen, then by definition you don’t need to chang…
Google Says Move Full Domain, Not Pieces, If You Want A Fast Site Migration
When it comes to site moves, if you pick some URLs and not all, it can cause issues for Google. In short, moving all your URLs from one place to another will result in a much faster site migration than taking portions of your site to migrate at a time….
Search Buzz Video Recap: Google January 2020 Algorithm Update, Intent vs Keyword Search, Medium Hit & Much More
This week, we may have had a big, but unconfirmed, Google update on January 7th. I posted the monthly Google webmaster report…
Google Ads Still Displaying Emojis In Display URL
Again, Google is still showing emojis in some Google Ads display URLs. We saw it in 2019 and in 2016 and here is another example from Brian Freiesleben in 2020. A search for [avocado recipes] brought up a Google Ad with ð…ð¥’ð in the URL.
Google Search Console Crawl Stats Report Data Fixed
Google seems to have fixed the stalled data in the crawl stats report within Google Search Console. A couple of days ago we reported that it was stuck at December 30th, but as of this morning, it has now been updated to show data as recent as a few day…
Bing Pages Launches To Promote Your Public Persona
Bing has quietly launched Bing Pages, a beta program that lets users manage their presence on Microsoft products such as Bing and Outlook.com. You can access it over at https://www.bing.com/bp/gettingstarted
Google Local/Maps With “In Between” Links To Other Businesses
Google Maps and Local can show in a business listing profile the address but near the address it sometimes shows other businesses nearby. Well, now it can also show where that business is sandwiched in between other businesses.
Google: As Search Engines Get Better At Intent, Keyword Research Won’t Go Away
Earlier this week, Frédéric Dubut, the PM of overall Bing’s core search team, said that 2020 will be the year where keyword research becomes obsolete, you can read exactly what he said there. Well…
Google: FAQ Schema Must Be On Page, Not In External PDF
Google’s John Mueller said you really cannot use FAQ schema for PDF documents. John said on Twitter “It needs to be visible on the page, and reflect the primary object on the page” when he was asked if a PDF can be used.
Google On Reconsideration Requests Backlogs Or Timing
Yesterday I reported that it seems there is a backlog or longer wait times to hear back on reconsideration requests related to manual actions. So I asked John Mueller from Google about that in yesterday’s hangout and he didn’t seem to confirm there was…
Google People Also Ask: Summarized From Table With Link To Source
Google’s featured snippets and people also ask (PAA) is a place many SEOs look to for optimization techniques. Brian Freiesleben noticed that Google is showing in some PAAs Google is showing a note that the answer give is “summarized from table” and l…
Google User Comments In Search Tests Expanding To TV Shows
Technically user comments in search is a feature from 2018 specifically for live sporting events and games. But now, as I reported at Search Engine Land, Google is testing it for live TV shows as well. Niki Mosier spotted it and posted this screen sh…
Google: Crawling At Large Scale Is Complicated; Don’t Oversimplify It
Google’s John Mueller responded to a question related to crawl budget around large scale web sites saying “crawling at a large scale is much more complicated.” This was when he proposed two ideas for improving crawl budget but John “both of those are t…
Vlog #35: Brian Dean On How To Grow YouTube Subscribers & The Nofollow Attribute Change
Brian Dean came all the way to my office in New York to sit down and talk about search, YouTube and more. If you don’t know, Brian’s YouTube channel has over 250…
Google Search Console URL Parameter Data Issues
John Mueller from Google has confirmed an issue with the data being displayed in the URL parameter tool within the old Google Search Console. In short, the tool is showing sometimes zero and often less than it should, URL parameter settings for the si…
Google Ads Outsourced Partner Teleperformance Trying To Poach Your Clients
We know that Google has a history of calling companies and selling them to use Google Ads. Sometimes that means they may call your clients that are already using Google Ads to convince them to do things differently, which might result in you losing a c…
Google Search Console Crawl Stats Report Stuck
We have another Google Search Console bug to report, this one is with the crawl stats report. Yes, another legacy tool and report. The crawl stats report is a bit out of date, only having data as fresh as December 30, 2019. That is over a week old, an…
Google Reconsideration Requests Responses With Longer Wait Times?
There have been numerous reports within the SEO community that Google has been really slow recently to respond to some reconsideration requests. Some are taking months but most are taking many weeks. I believe at some point, responses use to take day…