New Microsoft Edge InPrivate Mode Sets Bing Searches Private
Microsoft announced the new Microsoft Edge, with a new logo and new features. One of those featured is InPrivate Mode that will not only set your browsing as private but also your searches in Bing.
Google To Go Big With Health Search For Medical Queries?
Over the past couple of days, Google has been making some noise around health – not just the Fitbit news but around building out a search tool that helps doctors around medical research. The interesting thing is this may expand into a more user focuse…
November 2019 Google Webmaster Report
Last month was a pretty busy month with Google announcing the launch of BERT, one of the most significant updates the company made to search ever – the company said. We have a lot on BERT below, including the possibility that the New York Times was hu…
Bing Inorganic Site Structure Spam Penalties
Bing announced last night a new set of search penalties for inorganic site structure.iInorganic site structure includes PBNs and link networks, doorways and duplicate content, subdomain or subfolder leasing and spammy web hosts and hacked sites.
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Google Tests Image Carousel In Local Pack
Google is testing showing images in the local pack that you can scroll through. It is an image carousel in the local pack itself. Here are screen shots from Valentin Pletzer that he shared with me on Twitter.
Google Said It Is Reviewing Recipe Rich Results Bug Reports
Danny Sullivan has confirmed that the reports submitted about the rich results for recipes not working properly are being reviewed. A couple of weeks ago we reported there was an issue but the issue is still not resolved but Google is looking into it.
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Evergreen GoogleBot Now On Chrome 78
GoogleBot is now running Chrome 78, this started as soon as this past Friday, on November 1st. The stable version of Chrome 78 was released on October 22nd…
New Google Search Console Speed Reports Rolling Out
Google is now rolling out the experimental and new “Speed” reports within Google Search Console. Google began testing this last May and we have seen more and more webmasters get this report since then but now Google announced it is rolling out as “expe…
Google: We Wont Use Fitbit Data For Search Ads
When Google announced it bought Fitbit last week, the company wrote in the blog post “Fitbit health and wellness data will not be used for Google ads.” But no real mention about organic search, so I joked Google can use steps a person does in a day as…
Google: Site Kit Now Available To All WordPress Sites
Google announced last night that those running WordPress site can now install Google’s Site Kit with ease. Site Kit gives you data from Search Console, Analytics, AdSense, PageSpeed Insights, Tag Manager and Optimize – assuming you use all of those fe…
Google Video Snippets Showing Different Web Sites?
Joost de Valk from Yoast SEO, who has a wealth of access to tons of SEO data, asked Google on Twitter “did Google roll out a change in video snippets? We’re seeing video card and snippets in the normal search results for loads of sites that didn’t have…
Google Talks About Building Too Many Links Too Fast
Google’s John Mueller in this morning’s video at the 22:47 mark said that building too many links in a short period of time is not an issue by itself but rather it is the types of links you are probably building in that time period. He said often it l…
Google: Mobile First Indexing Isn’t Aimed At Adjusting Rankings
When Hannah Poferl said the New York Times saw a decline in Google organic search traffic because of either the Google BERT update or the site being switched to mobile-first indexing, John Mueller from Google said it probably isn’t the mobile-first ind…
Google BERT, NY Times Hit, Flash Dies Again, Link Building & Much More
In this weeks video I get a bit more fancy with my editing, I hope you find it funny and I apologize about my congestion but I hope the video editing makes up for it…
Google: No Plans To Add Google Discover Referrer
Google’s John Mueller was asked if Google would add to Google Discover traffic a referrer that shows that click as coming from Google Discover versus Google search. John said no, Google has no plans on doing that. He said you can get to the data withi…
Google Maps Now Shows Business Short Names
Earlier this year Google added short names as an option for businesses in Google My Business. So if you wanted to give someone a quick way to see your business on Google Maps you would send them g.page/[yourcustomname]. Now this short name shows in the…
Google Ads New Lead Form Extensions Beta
Google announced, ten days after it launched, a new beta called lead form extensions. This gives customers who click on your ads a faster way to give you their information, so you can follow up with them later with more details.
Google: There Are No BERT Values Or Scores
Danny Sullivan from Google said on Twitter that BERT does not assign values or scores to specific pages or web sites. It doesn’t work that way. BERT is simply (well, not so simply) about Google understanding languages better. Danny wrote “BERT doesn’t…
Google Site Speed Video Starring John Mueller & Martin Splitt
Google posted another #AskGoogleWebmasters video, this one on site speed and this one is different. It is (1) much longer than the average #AskGoogleWebmasters video and (2) it has both John Mueller and Martin Splitt from Google in the video.
Google Is Investigating Broken Search Operators
Google is investigating possible issues with what appears to be broken search operators. Specifically issues with the related search command and also intitle and inurl commands. Danny from Google said he will investigate and try to find out what is go…