Google: Redirecting A Domain To A Brand New Site Is Not A Site Move
Over the weekend, John Mueller of Google had an interesting back and forth with an SEO about a redirect. In short, it seems someone took an old domain, redirected that domain to a new domain, with completely different content on the new domain. The SE…
A Google Search Algorithm Update Rolling Out?
There are some signs of a Google search ranking algorithm update rolling out since over the weekend. It is early and I cannot check on it this Monday and Tuesday because I am offline, but this Saturday night and Sunday looks like a possible update.
…
Programming Note: Offline For Simchat Torah
I will be offline completely for the holiday of Simchas Torah on October 21st and October 22nd, Monday and Tuesday. Any stories published here will be scheduled and written beforehand and not posted live…
Google Video Structured Data: Use interactionStatistic Instead Of interactionCount
Lizzi Harvey from Google posted an update to the video structured data page at Google. Now Google is recommending you use the interactionStatistic instead of interactionCount. Google will support both for some time, but if you are using interactionCou…
Bing Hiring A Core Ranking Program Manager
Want to work inside a search engine? Well, this might be your chance. Microsoft is hiring a Program Manager for Bing’s core ranking team. The job specifically AI Product Managers, who know a bit about machine learning.
Google Ads Now Adds Conversions By Time (Click Or Conversion)
Google announced it now lets you see conversion by time, that means you can not just see the date of the click that led to the conversion (even if it was a week later) but also the date of the actual conversion (not just the date of the click).
Google: Manual Actions Are Immediate But Take Time To Process In Search
Google’s John Mueller said on Twitter that when a manual action is removed, the site is immediately free of any manual actions. But, sometimes it can take time for search to process the manual action. He said however, the effects of that might take a b…
Search Buzz Video Recap: Google Indexing Bug, New Snippet Controls Live, Linking Out, Google Ads, Bing Hires & More
This week, Google had yet another indexing bug with fresh content, yes…
Google Maps Not Showing Reviews For Some Schools
There are reports from some schools that they cannot display reviews from its parent body or others on Google Maps and Google My Business. Joy Hawkins said in the Local Search Forums “Reviews left for schools in Canada were not showing up yesterday bu…
Google Fixed Another Indexing Issue With Fresh Content
Yesterday at Search Engine Land I reported Google was having indexing issues. Google then ultimately confirmed the issue as “slight delays in indexing fresh content.” I reported the issue around 2:30pm yesterday, this was after hours of there being a…
Google: Structured Data Can Help Generate Actions For Google Assistant
Google posted a reminder or PSA yesterday that adding structured data can sometimes help Google automatically generate Actions for the Google Assistant. Google posted this on Twitter and said “Google can use your structured data to automatically genera…
Google: Buying Used Domains Is Like Buying Used Cars
Google’s John Mueller had a fun analogy when it comes to buying used domains and the potential issues they may have. He said it is like buying a used car.
Google’s Danny Sullivan: Journalists Should Link To Sources
Most people who write anything on the web complain that others who write, do not give credit where credit is due. So if you write something and I take your content without citing you or linking to you, that is not a good thing. But it happens all the …
Google Webmaster Conference To Happen In Zurich
Google is bringing its Webmaster Conference to Zurich on December 11th. I definitely cannot make this one, although, if timing was better, I’d fly out for it. But it looks like a great line up of talks throughout the afternoon.
Google’s New Snippet Controls Rolling Out In A Few Days With Changes To Google France
Google has given us a heads up that the new snippet controls it announced a few weeks ago will begin rolling out “in a few days” and “be fully live worldwide by next week.” This coincides with the European press publications changes in France, where G…
Google Adding City Names To Some Snippet Titles
Some SEOs are noticing Google add to their title tags that are displayed in the Google search results snippet’s headline a city name. Lily Ray posted about this on Twitter and said “I’ve seen Google modify title tags many times, but this is the 1st ti…
Google My Business Q&As Disappearing?
Many local SEOs are noticing that the Google Local Q&A or Google My Business Questions and Answers feature is buggy. Some are saying the Q&As are going missing and disappearing.
Vlog #20: Dan Shure On Podcasting & Winning Google Core Ranking Updates
Dan Shure (@dan_shure) founded a company named Evolving SEO, but before that, he was a music teacher, he has a degree in classical piano. When he was approaching 30 and had a home and wife…
Purna Virji: US Search Search Personality of the Year Award 2019
Last week at the US Search Awards Purna Virji was awarded the US Search Search Personality of the Year Award for 2019. The award could not have gone to a nicer, more humble, more caring and giving individual.
Google: Ignore Link Spam Ransom Attempts
Google’s John Mueller is once again telling webmasters that they do not need to respond or lose sleep over ransom link spam attempts. These are when you get an email from someone saying if you don’t do X, i.e…