WordPress To Adopt Google’s New rel=ugc in Next Release
Joost de Valk, from Yoast but a person who is super tight with WordPress, said WordPress will adopt the new link attributes announced by Google the other day. He said it will be introduced in the next release because “it’s a one line change” to the cod…
Google Ads Extends Removal Of Accelerated Delivery By 20 More Days
Google Ads has announced they are delaying the removal of the accelerated delivery option from September 17, 2019 to October 7, 2019. This gives you an additional 20-days to prepare your campaigns and stop using this accelerated delivery option.
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Google: Meta Robots Nofollow Is A Hint Also
Gary Illyes from Google clarified last night that if you place a nofollow in your robots meta tags, it will also follow the new rules as the nofollow link attribute. Hence, as Gary said “Meta robots nofollow is a hint now, like rel-nofollow.” Although …
Everything Google Has Said On The Nofollow Link Attribute Change
Google announced a change to the nofollow link attribute yesterday and with that announcement, Googlers spent the next day responding to questions about it on Twitter. I will go through what changed according to the announcement and then cover almost …
Bing Treats Nofollow Link Attribute As A Hint, Always Has
With all this discussion around the changes to how Google treats the nofollow link attribute, Bing chimed in about how they treat it. Fabrice Canel from the Bing search team said on Twitter “we always treated the nofollow link attribute as a ‘hint’, m…
Google Tests Vertical Line Next To Search Results Snippet On Hover
Google is testing a vertical bar or vertical line next to the search results snippets when you hover your mouse over the snippet. Mordy Oberstein said this was spotted by Shay Harel, the Founder/CEO of RankRanger.
Vlog #15: Mel Carson On Early Days Of Search, Working At Microsoft Ads To Starting His Own Firm
In episode #15 of the vlog series at the Search Engine Roundtable I interviewed Mel Carson (@melcarson) of Delightful Communications…
Pagination Back For The Google Local Maps Search Results
Last week we reported that the pagination feature for the Google Maps local results went away. Well, now it appears to be back. Some are seeing the old user interface for pagination, but I am seeing a new more slim version.
Bing Tests Scrollable Tabs Search Result Snippets
Bing seems to be testing a new design and layout for the search results snippets. The new layout looks like a carousel of tabs that you can horizontally scroll through when looking at a specific search result. Here is a screen shot from @Philcomputi…
Old Google Search Console Is No Longer Available
Google after two years of launching the beta version of the new Google Search Console and opening that beta up a year ago, Google has finally removed access to the old Google Search Console. There are still ways to get to some of the legacy reports bu…
Google: Our Systems Cannot Determine Accuracy Of Content
Danny Sullivan from Google said on Twitter “Machines can’t tell the “accuracy” of content. Our systems rely instead on signals we find align with relevancy of topic and authority.” So Google cannot determine the accuracy of content, I guess.
Google Shows Way Too Many � White Heavy Check Marks
If you do a search for [cars on ebay] you may see the Google search results polluted with those green white heavy check marks unicode. It is actually pretty annoying to even look at. Gabs shared this screen shot on Twitter, but what I see is not that…
Google Discover Feed Now Showing Restaurants
Recently, I guess the past couple of weeks or so, the Google Discover feed started showing restaurants you might be interested in. This is obviously important if you help local restaurants with their Google My Business listings.
Google Ads Bans Speculative & Experimental Medical Treatments
Google Ads is no longer allowing ads in its search network and other ad networks for products or services that promote speculative and/or experimental medical treatments. This includes Stem cell therapy, cellular (non-stem) therapy, gene therapy, and …
Google Updates The Search Quality Raters Guidelines On September 5th
Google has updated the Google search quality raters guidelines handbook on September 5, 2019. That is 16-weeks after it last updated the guidelines, which was on May 16, 2019 and before that, it was about 10-months since Google updated that document.
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Google My Business Guidelines For Practitioners Clarified
Google has made a small change to the Google My Business Guidelines explaining and clarifying the roles of practitioners. Joy Hawkins posted in the Local Search Forums that the line that was added was “Sales associates or lead generation agents for cor…
Google Finally Responds To Paid Links Allegations On Apache.org
For years we have known Apache.org, the Apache Foundation, has been giving thanks to its big sponsors and donors with a thank you page with links that do not have the nofollow link attribute on it. Google’s John Mueller, three years after I wrote abou…
Google: Headings Won’t Make Or Break Your Sites Rankings
Google’s John Mueller said in a Reddit thread that while “headings on a page are great for SEO & accessibility, but they’re not going to make or break your sites rankings.”
My First YouTube Subscriber Giveaway – Win Awesome SEM Stuff & Help Charities
I am doing a YouTube giveaway, where I give away free stuff for free based on if people subscribe to my YouTube channel. What am I giving away? Well, two main buckets; (A) up to $25,000 to charity and…
Google Local Maps Search Results Drops Pagination – A Bug?
If you go to Google Maps, search for a service in a locale, Google will not let you go to page two of those results. Instead, Google will just stop showing you results and ask you to “see web results” for more. Previously, Google would let you click t…