Google Search Console Adds Guided Recipes Support & Reports
Google Search Console has added support for guided recipes. Guided recipes are step by step instructions on how to complete a recipe in Google Search and on Google Assistant. There is a new enhancement report for guided recipes in Google Search Consol…
Bing Webmaster Tools Adds More Features To New Version
In February, Bing announced the new version of Bing Webmaster Tools. Yesterday at SMX London, Fabrice Canel of Microsoft announced three new features that migrated over to the tool. The three features that were migrated from the old to the new version…
Google Is Working On Something Related To Nofollow Link Change
We know that Google made a change to the nofollow link policy, that starting on March 1, 2020, Google can look at a nofollow link attribute as a hint and not as a directive. But since then, it seems Google did not make any real change to search since…
Bing Yes Or No Questions & Expands Intelligent Answers Globally
Bing can now answer some yes or no questions – which is incredibly cool. Bing announced that it deployed large neural network models that allows it to answer yes or no questions, expand its intelligent answers globally and better understand complex an…
When Will Google Try Your 410 Page? It Depends.
John Mueller of Google said there is no fixed timeframe or duration for when Google will try to crawl and index a page that was returning a 410 status code. He said on Twitter “there’s no fixed duration” for that.
Google May 2020 Core Update 100% Rolled Out
Google has finished rolling out the Google May 2020 core update yesterday. Google posted about this yesterday, May 18, 2020 at 12:37pm ET. That makes for a full-two week roll out, which began on May 4, 2020 in the afternoon.
Google Search Console API Stops Supporting Batch HTTP & JSON-RPC Requests
Google announced on Friday that if you are using batch HTTP and JSON-RPC requests with the Google Search Console API, you will want to change that ASAP. In 2018, Google announced it will discontinue support for such methods – well, two years later, Go…
Facebook Acquired GIPHY & Google Does Not Rank GIPHY Well Since 2017
I am sure you heard the news, GIPHY was acquired by Facebook for $400 million last week. You may remember, in 2017, GIPHY drastically dropped in Google’s search results and since then, GIPHY’s Google traffic really has not returned.
Google AdSense Not Doing Some Site Reviews Due To COVID-19
Google AdSense is “temporarily experiencing delays during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic,” which means that Google is unable to review some sites at this time. Google is posting this message in the site review section of the AdSense console for s…
Google: Core Updates Are A Collection Of Algorithms That Are Part Of The Scorer
Gary Illyes from Google took a shot at explaining how he sees Google’s core updates. He said on Twitter “when i say “core algorithm” publicly, i mean the collective of algorithms that are part of the scorer (IR score in information retrieval) & generally unnamed externally.”
Vlog #67: Gilad Sasson On The Old Days Of Spamming In SEO, The Future Of Search & Medical Cannabis SEO
Gilad Sasson, also known under the alias @algoholic, runs Nekuda.co.il and has been doing SEO for about 20 years now. He worked for the Israeli Yellow pages and has…
Google Joke: How Many SEOs Does It Take To Screw In A Light Bulb?
It has been a rough few months for a lot of us, so here is a corny SEO and Google joke I found on Twitter. Rob Delory asked John Mueller of Google “how many SEO’s does it take to screw in a light bulb?” John responded, “it depends.”
Google Deindexing Your Site? It Might Be Related To Quality Issues.
Google’s John Mueller said in a video hangout from May 1st, that often when he looks into SEOs or publishers complaining about Google de-indexing issues, often the issue is with Google not finding enough quality on the pages it has deindexed. John sai…
Google Developer Docs Take About Two Weeks To Be Translated
Lizzi Harvey, a tech writer at Google who works on a lot of the search related developer documents, said on Twitter that it normally takes about two weeks for the developer documents to be translated. So if the document is published in English on May …
Google: Core Updates Do Not Impact Google My Business Data
Google’s John Mueller was asked if the Google May 2020 core update or any core update can have an impact on the Google My Business reports. He said no, core updates in Google Search are unrelated to Google My Business. But yes, we did see many local …
Search Buzz Video Recap: Google Local Update, Hit But Core Update, Losing Relevance & Google Local Changes
This week in search, Google confirmed that there was no major local search ranking update recently. I believe my site, the Search Engine Roundtable…
Google Tests Boxes With Shadows For Search Result Snippets
Google seems to be heavily testing a new search results interface. Outlined search result snippets with a shadow effect. So the snippets that are boxes in, look a bit raised off the web page.
WordPress Google Sitemaps Integration Getting Closer
Last June we reported that Google was looking to build directly into WordPress the automatic generation and submission of XML Sitemaps. This way when you publish content, and you didn’t set up an XML Sitemap, the XML Sitemap file will be done automati…
Google My Business Reviews Backfilling Now After Reviews Halted For COVID-19
Google suspended displaying new business reviews in Google Local/Google My Business in March. Well, now, Google seems to be showing new reviews and backfilling old reviews that were submitted between now and then.
How Google Searches Spell Britney Spears – There Are Almost 600 Different Ways
John Mueller from Google shared a document from Google published in 2011 that showed how many different ways and how many different users spelled Britney Spears in Google search back then. There were 593 different spellings according to Google’s spelli…