Alert: Google To Release September 2019 Core Update Later Today
Google just announced that it is releasing a new core update later today. Google wrote on Twitter “Later today, we are releasing a broad core algorithm update, as we do several times per year. It is called the September 2019 Core Update. Our guidance …
Google May Ignore Nofollow Link From Publishers That Default It
Gary Illyes from Google said it is possible that Google may start counting links from publications that blanket nofollow all outbound links. He said Google isn’t sure yet, he has nothing to announce on this yet, but anything is possible.
Google Search Console Performance Report Data Now Less Than A Day Old
Google announced this morning that Performance Reports within Google Search Console is now going to have fresher data. Specifically it is going from a few days of lag, i.e. seeing Monday data as early as Wednesday or Thursday, to less than a day, i.e. …
Fall Season Google Doodle & Bing Home Page
Today is the first day of Fall in the Northern Hemisphere and the first day of Spring in the Southern Hemisphere. So if you live near me, you see the Fall Google logo, if you live lower down, you see the Spring Google logo.
Google Sends Mass Fix Breadcrumbs Markup Warnings
Last week, when Google added the breadcrumb report to the Google Search Console enhancements section, Google also sent out email notices to those with issues. The subject of the email read Fix Breadcrumbs markup for domain.com.
Google: Dates In URLs Are Fine
John Mueller and the Google webmaster account (probably also John Mueller) said that having the date in your URL is fine. In fact, many publishers do just that because having a unique ID in the URL use to be a requirement for Google News.
Google Lets You Pin Live Scores To Search Results
Google now lets you pin the live scores to the search results. When a Rugby game is going on, you can click on the “pin live score” button and then drag that overlay anywhere you want on the Google search results screen.
2019 Rugby World Cup Google Logo
On Google’s home page is an awesome Doodle for the 2019 Rugby World Cup. It is live in many countries, not all. The logo shows Rugby players playing on a green field with the Google logo in it.
Google Adds Breadcrumb Structured Data To Search Console Enhancement Report
Google added another report this week to Google Search Console’s enhancement report section. The new report shows you about structured data errors, warnings and success specifically with breadcrumb structured data.
Your Syndication Partners Should Canonical To You Or They May Outrank You On Google
Danny Sullivan from Google spent the past couple days defending Google on why a syndication partner, like Yahoo News, outranks the original place Yahoo got that content from. In short, Yahoo is not using a canonical tag to tell Google the content is f…
Google “Friends” Easter Eggs
If you search for some of the character names from the show Friends on Google you may see some easter eggs. The list of queries include Chandler Bing, Phoebe Buffay, Rachel Green, Ross Geller, Monica Geller, Joey Tribbiani, and Friends glossary.
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Google: Old Content On New Domains Is Okay
John Mueller from Google was asked if it is okay for a site to have content that pre-dates when the domain name was registered or when the site first launched. John Mueller responded that it is okay, he said “It’s fine to host older content on a new do…
Search Buzz Video Recap: Google Algorithm Updates, Reviews Rich Results Update, Key Moments In Videos & New Search Console Reports
This week I covered the Google search ranking update fluctuations we saw all week long, no Google did not confirm it. Google launched the Sept…
Google Search Ad With An Emoji In The Display URL
Yesterday I covered how Google was showing emojis in the auto-complete search suggestions. Now, Google is also showing emojis in the display URLs of some Google Ads in the search results.
Google: The Reviews Rich Results Algorithm Still Rolling Out
Danny Sullivan from Google said yesterday that the new algorithm to be more restrictive on when to show reviews rich results in the search results is still rolling out. He said if you see reviews showing up in the snippets that don’t comply, they shoul…
Google Starmageddon vs Sept. 2019 Review Rich Results Update
The SEO community is thinking up names for the Google Reviews rich results algorithm update and what seems to be catching on is Starmageddon. But Danny Sullivan from Google chimed in and said Google internally calls this the “Sept. 2019 Review Rich Re…
Google Tests 3.5 Listings In The Top Stories Carousel
Google is testing showing 3 and a half stories in the top stories carousel in search. We’ve seen tons of top stories user interfaces over the years and I believe I’ve seen this as well, but I can’t find if I covered it before. So here it is.
Google Launches Video Key Moments For YouTube Videos In Search
The other day we reported that we spotted Google testing a cool feature in search that shows you a timeline that shows you what is in a video. Well, Google announced this as video key moments and it works for English videos posted to YouTube and Googl…
Data Shows A 4-5 Point Drop In Review Rich Results In Google
Google just announced this week a new algorithmic update to not show review markup, review rich results, in the Google search results for specific cases. You can learn more about those new rules over here. And it looks like Google is acting on it. Ac…
Weird: Google Auto-Complete Suggestions Showing Emojis
Go to Google.com and just type into the search box “what” and you will see Google suggest the search phrase what does the antsð¡ð mean. This is no joke, here is a screen shot I took of it myself.