Google Search Console Video Structured Data Reporting Tweak
Google announced on Twitter that it made a change to how Google Search Console reports on your video structured data. Specifically, Google wrote “if you use video structured data, our reporting is now aligned with the docs and will warn if neither embe…
Google Maps Tests Local Listing Carousel In Footer
Andy Simpson spotted this interesting Google Maps interface test. It shows a local listing or local pack carousel in the footer section on the Google Maps view. I don’t believe I’ve seen this before, but it is kind of nice.
Google Tests Local Panel Ads Again, But With No Opt Out
Over the past few days Tim Capper has been noticing ads back in the local knowledge panels again. I personally was unable to replicate, but now I can here and there. Greg Sterling confirmed with Google that this is a new “pilot program” they are runnin…
Search Buzz Video Recap: Bing Webmaster Guidelines & Ranking Factors, Google Shopping is Free & Search Console Insights
I pre-recorded this one, not using my normal camera, hope it came out okay and hope I am back to the normal routine next week. In any event, I published the monthly Google webmaster recap, you can catch up there…
Google: CLS Is Measured Through The Entire Lifecycle Of The Page
Google’s new ranking algorithm that launches next year, the Page Experience Update, has metric named CLS, Cumulative Layout Shift. It checks to see if things on the page jump around as it loads. Philip Walton, a Senior Developer Programs Engineer at G…
Are Link Attributes All About SEO? Check This Data From Google.
John Mueller of Google said on Twitter “people make all kinds of links, and we ignore a lot of links, but at their core, links are not about SEO anyway.” He then shared a spreadsheet of the results of the link attributes from
the HTTP Archive that he…
Google AdSense Third Party Ad Technology Vendors
Google announced that AdSense now allows ads from additional third party ad technology vendors to show through your account. Google said that this can “potentially lead to higher earnings.” But you can control these with new settings under the blockin…
GoogleBot Is Able To Add Products To Your Shopping Cart
As I covered at Search Engine Land last night, according to a Wall Street Journal article, Google confirmed that it has systems that automatically will add products to your e-commerce site’s shopping cart. It does this to verify the price merchants giv…
July 2020 Google Webmaster Report
It is time for the monthly Google Webmaster Report where I sum up the more important organic Google topics for SEOs and webmasters. The big news is that Google had some unconfirmed algorithm updates and one was big that had a larger impact on governm…
Google Local Panels Tests Images In Story View
Google is testing a new way of displaying the images in a Google local business knowledge panel listing. Google is using the stories view, where it plays the image like a slideshow story book.
Video: Google & Bing Talking About The SEO Community
Google released the first video in part two of the SEO Mythbusting series. It starts with Martin Splitt of Google sitting down and talking with Sandhya Guntreddy of Bing. In short, they talk mostly about SEO community related topics.
Google Promoted Governmental Web Sites In Its Latest Algorithm Update? The Federal Update.
On June 23rd we reported about a big Google algorithm update. It seemed pretty big based on the chatter and the tracking tools. But it was not as big as a core update. After about a week, we are now seeing reports from folks in the SEO community that…
Bing Webmaster Guidelines Are Updated; A Must Read
Bing has spent the past year working on revising the Bing Webmaster Guidelines and now it is live. The prior version was from the original 2012 version but now, it has been almost completely revamped.
Bing On How It Ranks Web Pages & Content
In the newly updated Bing Webmaster Guidelines, Bing disclosed how it ranks content in the Bing search results. Well, it doesn’t disclose the exact ranking formula, but it does describe that it uses these areas for ranking; relevance, quality & credibility, user engagement, freshness, location and page load time.
Google Replaced The Sponsored Label With The Ads Label
Yesterday Google has removed the “Sponsored” label on the Google Shopping Ads and replaced it with the “Ads” label you see on normal Google Search Ads. Ginny Marvin said this is “streamlining” the ads label.
Google Shopping Free On Google.com, Not Just Google Shopping Tab
Google announced yesterday that it is expanding its free Google Shopping service to not just Google Shopping but to the main Google.com Google search results. Bill Ready, the President of Commerce at Google, said “we’re now bringing free retail listin…
Top Ranking Sites In Google Use SEO Plugins?
John Mueller of Google posted on Twitter “I imagine the top-ranking sites don’t use any SEO plugin.” This was after someone posted a poll asking “which SEO Plugin is perfect for SEO?”
Disqus Comments May Not Get Indexed Even After Google’s Fix
It seems that even after Google said it fixed the indexing issues with Disqus that has been lingering on for a while, that Google still may not be able to index all Disqus comments. Glenn Gabe said he noticed issues after the fix was rolled out. He s…
Google Tests Trending Icon In Search Suggestions On Desktop
Four years ago, Google began testing trending icons and results in the Google search suggestions on mobile. Some searchers really disliked it and Google enabled an opt out method for it. But it seems recently Google now began testing the same thing o…
Google: Stock Photography For Google Search Does Not Matter
Google’s John Mueller was asked if using stock photography on your pages would hurt the page’s chances of ranking well in Google search. Do you need a unique image per page? John Mueller responded that “it doesn’t matter for web-search directly.”
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