New Google My Business Custom Hours By Category
Google released a new feature within Google My Business to let you set “more hours.” More hours are by categories of types of hours; like if you are a supermarket and you have special hours for seniors, or you have special pickup hours for a hardware s…
John Mueller: Often I Don’t Report Spam To Webspam Team
John Mueller of Google said on Twitter that when he is asked for input publicly around web spam issues, like on Twitter, he often would not report that directly to the Google webspam team. He said “in most cases I run across here, where people ask us …
SEMrush Selling Links That Are Against Google’s Guidelines
SEMRush launched the SEMRush Marketplace about a year ago and at some point, within that marketplace, began selling guest posts that drive “natural links to your site.” Now, we all love SEMRush, but John Mueller of Google said this is “an unnatural li…
Google: The Search Indexing Issues Are Now Resolved
Yesterday morning we reported that Google was having issues surfacing fresh content; possibly indexing issues. Then at around 3:30pm ET yesterday, Google confirmed the issue. This morning at 6:09am ET, Google has confirmed the issue has been resolved….
Googlebot Desktop Crawling Your Site Still? Make Sure Your Site Is Ready For Mobile.
Google’s John Mueller said if you still see that Googlebot Desktop is still the main crawler for your web site in Search Console settings, then you can try to “double-check the usual things to make sure your site is as strong on mobile as it is on desktop, for search & your users.”
Google: We Didn’t Make Old Domains Rank Better
There has been a lot of speculation around some recent unconfirmed Google search ranking updates. But one of those theories was shot down by John Mueller of Google around old domains getting some sort of ranking boost or change.
Google Discovery Ads Now Available Worldwide
Last week, while I was offline, Google announced that Google Discover Ads is now available globally. That means you can now use Google Discover ads to show ads to anyone going to Google’s home page on mobile or in the app. These ads are also on YouTu…
June 2020 Google Webmaster Report
Well, it was a pretty jammed packed month for Google webmaster and SEO related news. Google announced an upcoming ranking change named the Google Page Experience Update, where core web vital metrics and page experience metrics will become a ranking fac…
Bing Webmaster Tools Link Tool Lets You Compare Link Profiles
Bing relaunched its link tool within the new Bing Webmaster Tools and with it added a new sub-report named “similar sites.” Bing lets you compare your site’s link profile to any other site you want.
Google Tests Sitelinks With Borders
Over the past several days, in addition to Google testing outlined snippets, Google is also testing outlining sitelinks within the search results with borders. I had numerous people share screen shots with me on Twitter. Here are some of those screen s…
Google & Bing Black Lives Matter Statements
You have to be living under a rock to not know what has occurred in the United States over the past week and actually years. We have many many protests going on in the United States now in support of Black and African American communities. Google and…
Google: Robots.txt Can Be In Any Content Type
John Mueller of Google said that your robots.txt content-type can be anything really. He said “any content type is fine,” adding “the important part is the content itself.”
Early Signs: June Google Search Ranking Update & Fluctuations
I am seeing some early signs of a possible Google search ranking algorithm update touching down in the past several hours. Google has not announced anything, and the last core update was last month, the May 2020 core update. So we are not due an update…
Is Google Not Showing Fresh Content In Search Results Again?
Something is off with Google search this morning. It seems Google is not showing some fresh content in the search results. Site commands for this site and Wall Street Journal, as well as many other sites show little to zero new content in Google’s sea…
Google Tests Blue Snippet Headers
It looks like Google is testing blue snippet headers in the mobile results. I believe this is an ongoing limited test but I figured I’d share it. Here are screen shots from Valentin Pletzer on Twitter of this in action.
Bing Won’t Rule Out Meta Keywords Tag Forever
In 2011, Bing said they do use the meta keywords tag. In 2014, Bing said the meta keywords tag was “dead in terms of SEO value.” Now, Bing won’t say if it is being used or not being used now or in the future.
Google Can Use Historic Data For Ranking Your Site In Search
John Mueller of Google confirmed on Friday’s webmaster hangout video that Google does and can use historic or legacy data about your web site for ranking purposes. He gave a few examples of how Google uses it; your links over time, the adult SafeSearc…
Google: URL Parameters Tool Is Not A Replacement For Robots.txt
Google’s John Mueller said on Twitter that using the URL parameter tool is no replacement for using a robots.txt file for blocking content. John was asked “how reliable is it” when setting “crawl no urls” of a certain type of URL pattern. John said “…
Google Featured Snippet Local One Pack
Andy Simpson shared a screen shot on Twitter of a featured snippet on Google but is also mixed as a local one pack. The search query was [med mal lawyer washington dc] and this is what this featured snippet local one pack looks like.
Vlog #69: Sarah Teach – Heartfelt SEO & Conscious Capitalism in SEO
Sarah Teach is an SEO at The Motley Fool, she specifically works on the evergreen content at the publication. She has an interesting story…