Now Live: Google Featured Snippet Image Carousel?
Back in November, Google began testing an image carousel in the featured snippets section. Well, it seems like it might be live in Google search. I see it, as do tons of others of searchers.
I Get To Interview Danny Sullivan On Stage At SMX
When I first learned that Danny Sullivan joined Google, I wrote on October 9, 2017 “I do hope I get to interview Danny Sullivan one day on the stage at SMX, it should be a ton of fun.” Well, that is now going to become a reality at SMX Advanced in Sea…
Vlog #44: Chris Elwell – The Man Who Thought To Kick Off The SEM Event Space
At SMX East, yea, several months ago – catching up here on publishing these vlogs – I convinced Chris Elwell (@celwell), the CEO of Third Door Media, the company that owns and operates Search Engine Land, Search Marketing Expo and a bunch of other prop…
Big Google Search Ranking Algorithm Update – Currently Unconfirmed
Starting on Saturday the chatter within the SEO community as well as the signals from the automated rank checking tools began to explode. Based on what I am seeing right now, I decided to post on the weekend as opposed to holding the story for Monday …
Search Buzz Video Recap: Google Update, GoogleBot Name, Google Search Console & Bing Webmaster Tools
This week, I covered another unconfirmed Google search algorithm update. I posted the monthly Google webmaster report. Google said the new GoogleBot user agent name is live…
Google My Business Bug? Google Posts Being Rejected In Masses
Something is going on with Google My Business, specific with Google Posts. There has been a spike in the number of complaints from businesses owners using Google Posts about their posts being rejected. Literally tons of complaints in the Google My Bu…
Did Google Says It Will Offer Curriculum For Optimizing For BERT?
So Gary Illyes from Google was on stage at PubCon and yea, he may or may not have said some things that caused a bit of a stir in the SEO community. Some are quoting him as saying that Google will be providing “a curriculum for optimizing for BERT.”
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Google: Nofollow Hint Ranking Change Has Not Been Worked On Yet
Gary Illyes from Google said at PubCon yesterday that yes, Google may start to decide to use nofollow links for ranking but the work on that from the engineering team has not yet begun. Google originally said they would make this change after March 1,…
Bing Webmaster Tools Sitemap Diagnosis Tool Coming Soon
Nagu Rangan, a Product Management at Microsoft working on Bing, said on stage at PubCon that the Bing Webmaster Tools team is working on a sitemap diagnosis tool. This is according to Purna Virji, who was in the audience and works for Microsoft Adverti…
Google Maps Celebrates 15 Years: New Maps Icon & Map Features
Google launched Google Maps 15 years ago, well, technically on February 8, 2005 – so almost 15 years ago. And to celebrate, it announced today in numerous blog posts, a new map icon, new features and more.
Bing Was Offline For Several Hours In Windows 10 Search
Did you know that the other day Windows 10 Search powered by Bing was offline for several hours? The Verge reported “Microsoft’s built-in Windows search went down for many users for more than three hours today. Windows search is built into Microsoft’s…
Google Search Console Auto-Verifies Tag Manager Causing Security Confusion
As you remember, Google had a bug with Google Tag Manager verifications for Google Search Console. I guess sometime after that, Google decided to automatically reverify sites using Google Tag Manager for Google Search Console verification. That led to…
Google Clarifies GoogleBot’s New Useragent Name Usage
Yesterday we reported that Google said the new name for the GoogleBot useragent is now 100% live. Well, that was wrong, it technically was not 100% live. Martin Splitt from Google broke it down for us explaining that when the web rendering service rend…
New Google My Business Feature: Own This Business? Claim It Now.
Seems Google is testing or launched a new feature to help business owners reclaim and login to their Google My Business listing. Elizabeth Linder posted a screen shot of this feature that has the option for you to click on a button to “Own this busine…
Google Search Tests New Open Design? Maybe It’s A Bug?
I had two different people share with me screen shots and video grabs of Google possibly testing a new more open styled search results page design. The design seems so off to me that it seems like a bug, but now that two different people have seen it r…
Google: GoogleBot User Agent New Name Is Fully Live
Martin Splitt from Google said on Twitter that the new name for the user agent for GoogleBot should now be 100% live. The new user agent name is dynamic, meaning, it will show the latest version of Chrome that GoogleBot is using to crawl and render yo…
Google Pairing Knowledge Panels & People Also Search For
Yesterday we covered a feature that shows “see the connection” between two entities and/or people in Google’s knowledge panel. Google has been doing this for the past few weeks according to Mordy Oberstein and he shared more examples of this in action…
Live: Google Top Stories With Descriptions In Snippets
Back in December, Google announced an update to the top stories section and some of those screen shots showed descriptions, not just an image and title and site name, in the snippet section of the top stories. Well, now I see descriptions in some top …
Google: Use rel=sponsored For Affiliate Links If Possible
Google’s John Mueller said that if you can, it is best to use the rel=sponsored link attribute on your affiliate links. You can still use nofollow or combine them if you want, but it would make things clearer for Google if you uses rel=sponsored.
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Google: URL Length Is Not A Ranking Factor
Google’s John Mueller had to say on Twitter that “URL length is not a ranking fraction.” He was told that a CMS autogenerates URLs that are often longer than what is recommended for SEO. Now, what is recommended for SEO in terms of length?