Google Holiday Season From Happy Holidays 2019 Doodles
Yesterday we posted two Google Doodles for the happy holidays season but something changed. The query when you clicked on the Doodle was for [happy holidays 2019!] that changed yesterday afternoon to [holiday season] for some reason. Also, Google adde…
Google Ads Social Media Support Ends January 1, 2020
Google Ads announced on Twitter and Facebook that it is ending its social media support on January 1, 2020. Google wrote “Direct messages and comments will not be actioned starting January 1, 2020.”
Google’s John Mueller Answers Seven Common SEO Questions Including The Secret To Ranking
Google’s John Mueller posted a single #AskGoogleWebmasters video answering seven SEO questions. All the questions are pretty basic and you probably heard John answer them before. He even answered the question “What is the secret to ranking better?” Th…
Google Publisher Center Add Section Crawl Option Broken?
Google upgraded the publisher center over the past couple weeks but not everything in the new publisher center seems to be working properly. A Google Publisher Center help thread says that when you try to add a new section using the web crawl option, i…
Interviewing Five Google Webmaster Trends Analysts In One Room
Aleyda Solis interviewed not one, but five Google Webmaster Trends Analysts at the same time while at the Google Webmaster Conference in Zurich. It was pretty fun and interesting to see how they interact with each other while answering questions. How…
Google Posts Happy Holidays 2019! Doodles For The Week
Google has started posting the Doodles for “Happy Holidays 2019!” Today you get a happy holidays Doodle that has three colored candles, in a bow, illuminating. Tomorrow, Tuesday, you get a snow globe with Santa and his sled, with a Christmas tree.
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Google Local Pack With Blue Star Icon For Top Rated?
Sergey Alakov posted a screen shot on Twitter of a new icon he spotted in the local pack listings. The icon is a blue comment style image with a blue star in the center. He asked me if this is an ad icon, but I believe this is a top rated icon, an ico…
Google Shows Cameos In Google Discover
Glenn Gabe was scrolling through his Google Discover feed over the weekend and Google knew that Glenn didn’t get enough of his Barry fix and decided to show him one of my recent Cameos by Google posts. Yes, Google can show video answer cameos in the Go…
Google Local Tests Browse By Photo
We keep seeing signs both via Google messaging and Google action that photos and media are becoming more and more important. A few months ago, Google started using photos for local search more often. Now, Sergey Alakov noticed Google has a local pack f…
Vlog #32: Matt Cutts On His Google Years & How SEO/SEMs Can Make A Difference At The USDS
Note: The first 5:45 of the video is my trip there, you can skip to the interview at the 5:45 mark. I made sure this video was completely unedited outside of the b-roll stuff before and after. Matt Cutts loves doing “one-takes” and actually, so do I…..
Google: Using Google Domains Does Not Help You Rank Better
John Mueller from Google said that using Google’s own domain name service, Google Domains, will not help you rank better in Google search or with your SEO. Well, most of that statement is true. If you want me to nitpick, it does help you slightly veri…
The Web Hating On SEOs – Sad
John Mueller from Google retweeted a post from a person named Holly who posted a very anti-SEO statement. John asked “Curious to hear your thoughts on this.” Holly wrote “Every worthwhile question you could think to ask has been anticipated and occupie…
Google Adds Checkmarks In Boxes For Search Console Reports
This is a small but useful change Google made in Google Search Console. So the report overview pages for the performance reports, the coverage report, etc, now have small checkboxes in the boxes so you know when a specific category is selected. I alwa…
Google: We Try To Understand Comment Sections But It Is Primary Content
Google’s John Mueller said at the 3:16 mark into a webmaster hangout from December 13, 2019 that Google does try to understand the blog comments section of a page but at the same time would still categorize that section as primary content. We have cov…
Funny Google Local Listing Problem – Closed Down Business Name
I saw a funny and somewhat ironic problem posted in the Local Search Forums that I had to share with you all. A business owner wants to know how to removed a “closed down” label in the business name in the business’s local knowledge panel in Google se…
Search Buzz Video Recap: Google Search Algorithm Tremors, Analytics Bugs, News Issues, Search Console Changes, Bing User Agent & Much More
This was a busy week kicking off with a big Google Analytics bug coinciding with an unconfirmed Google search ranking algorithm update and tremors. Was there an update…
Google Search Console’s Coverage Report Shows More Indexed Pages
Google posted in the data anomalies page and on Twitter that it has updated the coverage report within Google Search Console and as a result, you may see more indexed pages being reported as of December 15, 2019. In short, some pages that were “Crawle…
Google Search Console Speed Report Changes
As you know, Google launched a speed report in experimental mode in Google Search Console. Since it launched I’ve seen numerous complaints that Google is all of a sudden reporting the site as slow when it was moderate or OK. Well, now I am seeing the…
85% Of SEOs Do Not Report Bing & Yahoo Rankings To Clients
Russ Jones from Moz did a Twitter poll asking if you report rankings related to Bing and Yahoo to your clients and stakeholders. With almost 900 responses, 86% said they do not, while only 14% said they do.
Google May Treat Some 404s As 301s & Canonicalize To A New URL
Google’s John Mueller was asked by Mihai Aperghis in a webmaster hangout at the 58 minute mark about a page Mihai 404ed but Google is showing as a 301 to a new URL, like Google canonicalized the 404 URL to the new URL.