Vlog #43: Jim Boykin – The Ultimate Link Building Guru Shares Sage Advice
Jim Boykin from Internet Marketing Ninjas invited me to his office to sit down and chat about links. The funny thing is, he came to my office like 15 years ago to build links, no joke…
Google Fixes Search Console Verification Via Tag Manager Bug
Google had a bug with the method of verifying your web site or property within Google Search Console through Google Tag Manager. This has now been fixed according to Google and those who had issues might need to now reverify their properties now.
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Google Knowledge Panel “See The Connection”
Google is showing “see the connection” on some knowledge panels for famous people. This reminds me of the Google bacon number feature from years ago but different. Here you can see Google showing a box to see the connection between the person you sea…
Google: If You Need To Manually Submit Pages To Index Then You Need To Improve Site Quality
With the Google Search Console manual submission issues with getting pages into the index, John Mueller from Google said on Twitter “If your site relies on manual index submission for normal content, you need to significantly improve your site.”
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Google My Business Warning: Unpublished Business Profile Will Be Deleted
Google has been sending out email notices to Google My Business users that their unpublished business profiles will be deleted within 30 days. Most of the time this is fine, but if you do not want your unpublished listing to be deleted, then you must …
February 2020 Google Webmaster Report
The past 30-days or so in the Google webmaster universe was pretty intense. The bigger items were the confirmed and super big January 2020 core update, the favicon and black ad label release on desktop and then a step back on that, and Google deduplic…
Complaints Of Indexing Issues Via Google Search Console
Over the weekend there has been numerous complaints about using Google Search Console to get content indexed faster – in short, SEOs are saying it doesn’t work. I guess this is through the “request indexing” feature in Google Search Console. To be cl…
Google My Business Local Listings Showing Massive Photos
Mordy Oberstein posted on Twitter a GIF of a Google local panel for a business showing a new interface for displaying photos of the business. The photos are really large and show in a grid-like format. This is not the normal interface, so it seems Go…
Google: Most Sites Do Not Have Toxic Links
Google’s John Mueller said on Twitter “Most sites don’t have “toxic” links, or at least, created them on their own.” He then added his line that there are “more important things to focus on, by our engineers, and definitely by site owners.”
Google Analytics Conversion Data Now Exporting To Google Ads By Default
If you have conversion data for your web site or app in your Google Analytics profiles and you are running Google Ads, Google by default will export the data from Google Analytics and bring it into Google Ads. Google announced this in Google Ads and o…
Google Search Algorithm Ranking Update Signals In Early February 2020
I am seeing renewed signs from mid-last week of yet another Google search ranking algorithm update from over the weekend. There is significant chatter from over the weekend with many of the tools spiking over the past couple of days.
Vlog #42: Jennifer Van Iderstyne On Better Content & Multimedia For SEO
When I was scheming to give Lisa Barone a hard time before our interview, Lisa recommended I sit down with Jennifer Van Iderstyne (@vanetcetera) to discuss SEO with her…
Google: No Need To Preemptively Disavow Links Before Sites Link To You
Google’s John Mueller said there is “no need to spend your time” on preemptively disavowing links. That means spending time on disavowing links before that site links to you. He said there is no need to do that and I doubt he recommends doing so.
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Fun: Google People Also Ask Sponsored Ads; Not Really
Here is something that someone shared with me that I found funny and thought might make you all smile. A people also ask snippet that looks like a Google Ad but really is not. It says “sponsored ad” but really, Google is just pulling from the content…
Google: We Do Not Prioritize Crawling For US Sites
Google’s John Mueller said that sites based in the United States do not get crawling priority from Google. It doesn’t matter where the site is located in terms of what priority Google will crawl the site. He said on Twitter “we don’t prioritize crawl…
Google: Schema Markup Won’t Get Any Easier; Will Get Harder
Google’s John Mueller said in a Google webmaster hangout video at the 34:30 mark that he believes implementing schema markup for rich results won’t be getting any easier. In fact, he said over the next few years he feels it will continue to get harder …
Search Buzz Video Recap: Google Algorithm Update May Have Hit Forbes, Favicons Reverted, Featured Snippet Questions & More
This was a pretty busy week, we may have had a Google search algorithm update this week and maybe, just maybe, Forbes got hit hard by it. Google is probably going to revert the favicon and black ad label user interface, lots of tests are going on now….
Google Ads Switches To Standard Delivery For All Campaign Types
Google announced it is switching all campaigns, not just Search campaigns, Shopping campaigns, and shared budgets but also Display, Video, App and Hotel campaigns to Standard delivery. This is happening starting in April 2020 and any campaign using Ac…
Google Considers Changes To Image Section In Featured Snippets
Danny Sullivan from Google said on Twitter that Google has “heard the feedback” around the “image issue” with featured snippets. He added “I especially push for improvement here.” Google seems like they are looking into how they can make changes ther…
Google May Give Use Featured Snippets Reports In Search Console; Maybe…
Danny Sullivan from Google said on Twitter “Maybe we’ll eventually break out that type of data” when it comes to showing click-through rates on featured snippets. Google almost gave it to us, it was a beta filter that went away back in 2017 for some r…