Google My Business Listings Disappear – It’s A Bug
If you login to your Google My Business listing area and look at the manage locations tab (which is the default page most go to when they login) – you won’t see any listings. There is a bug hiding them, they are invisible, but Google is aware of it and…
Another Google Webmaster YouTube Series: Search Console Training
Yesterday at SMX, Daniel Waisberg, Search Advocate at Google who works with the Search Console team, announced a new YouTube series on the Google Webmaster channel named Search Console Training. Yep, this series will train folks on how to use Google S…
Google: Median Time For GoogleBot To Render Is 5 Seconds
Martin Splitt from Google announced at the Chrome Dev Summit 2019 that the median time for GoogleBot to render is 5 seconds. But even the 90th percentile is done “in minutes” he said. He said “you don’t have to worry about week long delays” for rende…
Report: Google Local Q&A Display Bugs Confirmed
Mike Blumenthal, a local SEO expect, is at the Google PE Summit and he was told by the Google local team that there are bugs with the local Q&A feature where the Q&As are erratically showing and not showing.
Google: Malware Reviews Go Faster Than Hacked Content Reviews
John Mueller from Google said that generally Google is quicker at processing malware reviews than hacked content reviews. Malware is when you have some some of malware installed on your web site, removing it and submitting a reconsideration request wil…
John Mueller: Google Does Not Use A Spam Score
Google’s John Mueller said on Twitter “Google doesn’t use the spam score.” This was in response to someone saying they have an 11% spam score (I guess on some third-party tool). Yes, your site can have either one or more algorithmic penalties or manua…
Bing Fixes Cache Bug That Showed Third Party Content
Last week, Bing had an unusual bug, a bug with its cache page results. The Bing cache was showing not just the cache page they had of your site, but also showed content from non-related sites below or above your page. Bing fixed the issue about 24-ho…
Google: We Only Rewrite A Low Number Of Page Titles But If We Are…
Gary Illyes from Google was quoted as saying “We rewrite page titles in a low number of cases.” Jennifer Slegg also loosely quoted him as saying “if Google is rewriting your titles, that is a sign you should work on rewriting those titles.” This is f…
Google Confirmed Search Algorithm Update Rolled Out; Here Is What We Know
As you know, we saw a huge amount of chatter around a big Google search ranking algorithm update starting November 7th and 8th through the weekend. There were mixed signals in that the chatter in the industry was very heavy but (a) Google did not pre-…
Frederic Dubut Now PM Of Bing’s Core Ranking Team
Frederic Dubut, who lead up search quality and search spam at Bing has received a promotion. He is now the PM of overall Bing’s core search team. He announced this on Twitter, although I think it happened a few weeks earlier. He said ” I am super exci…
Vlog #25: Danny Sullivan On Working At Google & What He Sees Differently Now
In part two of my interview with Danny Sullivan (@dannysullivan), Google Public Liaison of Search…
Google Search Tests Grouping Results From Same Domain In Single Box
Google is testing displaying results from the same domain name in a box that groups them all together. It doesn’t save that much screen real estate by putting them in the same box, but it does subtly show to the searcher that these results are similar…
Google: Setting A Geographic Target Doesn’t Prevent Your Site From Showing In Other Locations
John Mueller of Google reminds us that when you use the geographic target setting in Google Search Console it will not stop you from getting traffic to your site from users outside of that target region. All it does is help Google understand your site …
Google Tests Removing A Site’s Normal Snippet When Featured Snippet Is Displayed
Kieron Hughes posted on Twitter that he is seeing a test where Google is not displaying a site’s normal snippet in the search results when Google displays that URL for the featured snippet. Generally when Google shows a URL as a featured snippet, it wi…
YouTube Subscriber Giveaway Is Now Done
I’ll be honest, when I launched my YouTube subscriber giveaway I really anticipated that I would get well over 10,000 subscribers, I thought maybe a total of 100,000 subscribers. I guess this shows that I know very little about the YouTube world…
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Google Drops Calling In To Google My Business Support
Google announced it has removed the toll free customer support numbers from the Google My Business homepage. Now if you do try to call one of the existing numbers, you will be directed to the Google My Business Help Center. You can still request someo…
Veterans Day At Google, Bing, Yahoo & The Search Industry
Today is Veterans Day in the United States and the search engines have special logos and themes up for the day. Google historically did not do a special logo for Veterans Day but started doing it recently just a year or so ago.
Google Warns: Don’t Build Your Business Around Google Discover Traffic
Gary Illyes from Google commented on how some publishers are getting insane traffic from Google Discover, the feature where Google shows articles from publishers on its Google.com home page. Gary said on Twitter “I just hope people realize that this m…
Google’s Gary Illyes: I’ve Talked To SEO Spam Email Senders
We all get it and get it a lot, email spam selling links, DA, PR, and metrics around trying to improve your rankings in Google by manipulating Google’s algorithm. Some of this spam comes from places like India (not all) and Gary Illyes from Google sai…
Google Tests Removing Reviews From Local Knowledge Panels Again
Google may be testing (or it might be a bug) removing reviews from the local knowledge panel in the search results. It seems so weird that I am thinking this is a weird bug, but who knows. Darcy Burk posted this on Twitter with screen shots showing t…