Google: Amazon Alexa Rank Does Not Impact Google Search
This is probably super obvious to most of you but this may be the first time I’ve heard Google comment about this. Amazon has this Alexa rank feature, they had it since like 1996, a super long time. Google’s John Mueller was asked if Google uses it fo…
Google Tests Infinite Scroll Search Results Interface Again
We’ve seen Google testing showing page two results and more on the first page of Google’s search results. More recently with the “more results” button on desktop (it is live on mobile). But also just plain old-fashion infinite scroll. Here Kiran post…
Google My Business Edit Hotel Services & Amenities
Hotels can now edit its services and amenities in the “Hotel attributes” section of their Google My Business account. Google My Business was having issues with hotel edits earlier last week and it might have been related to this upgrade? In any event, …
Google Will Share More Details About Indexing Issues
Danny Sullivan from Google told me on Twitter that Google will share more details about the indexing issues, where Google was not able to index new content for about an 24-hour period. He said Google will post time frames and post notes about the impac…
Google Warns: Embedding Instagram Images Can Cause SEO Issues
Google’s John Mueller was asked about why a site saw a major dropping in image search traffic after embedding Instagram images on his site. John decided to test it and noticed that Instagram on the embeds use a no index robots meta tag, that tells Goo…
Vlog #9: Casie Gillette On The Search Community & Memorable Content
In episode #9 of the vlog series at the Search Engine Roundtable I interviewed Casie Gillette (@Casieg), the Senior Director, Digital Marketing at KoMarketing…
Google: We Try Recognize Author Details, Reviewer Details & Overall Site Quality Details
Google’s John Mueller said in that video hangout at the 39:51 mark that Google does try to recognize “additional details about information about the author, information about the reviewers, about the website overall, through through a number of ways.”
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Google Not Indexing New Content Again
Google, as of a few hours ago, is having issues again indexing new content. If you want to find the latest news from the NY Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post or your other favorite magazines – you may be out of luck. Google has confirmed the…
Google: Evergreen GoogleBot To Get Chrome 76 Soon
As you know, Google pushed out Chrome 76 Tuesday, July 30, 2019 – or 9 days ago. The evergreen GoogleBot is still running Chrome 75. But Martin Splitt from Google said GoogleBot will be on 76 “very soon” and with that, also the tools will support Chr…
Google Indexing Bug Is Resolved (Updated)
Yesterday, Google was not indexing new content from many sites – including this one, the New York Times, Wall Street Journal and many others. Google confirmed the issue but has not yet confirmed the indexing issues were resolved yet. It does seem to …
Google Adds Playable Podcasts To Search That Indexes Spoken Words Within Podcasts
Google announced yesterday that they have launched playable podcasts in the desktop and mobile search results that actually surface podcast episodes for words spoken within the podcast. So Google will not just show podcasts that match the title or met…
Google My Business Missing Store Codes Widespread Bug
Tons of local SEOs are reporting seeing a notice in Google My Business for “missing store code” for listings. Justin Mosebach posted in the Local Search Forums “Just checked the dashboard in Google My Business this morning and noticed that all of the…
Google Maps Adds AR & Travel Features & Will Guarantee Flight Prices
Google announced new Google Maps travel features and also promised to show you the best prices for that travel or your money back – this is no joke.
Google: When Linking Images, Make Sure There Is Alt Text On Images
Google’s John Mueller said in a video hangout this morning at the 1 hour, 5 minute mark, that when you link using images, make sure those images at least have some alt text on them. He said this would “to kind of give us the anchor text” for that link….
Search Buzz Video Recap: Google Indexing Bug, Google Search Podcasts, Evergreen GoogleBot, SEO, Google Ads, Maps & More
This week I mentioned the monthly Google webmaster report I posted. Google also had another indexing bug where it was not able to index new content for a 24 hour period, it does seem to be resolved now. Google updated its algorithm to show less…
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Tisk Tisk Google Ads: Stop Calling Our Clients & Denying Our Requests
Gil Gildner from Discosloth, an SEM agency, posted a screen shot of Google emailing his client directly, denying the request to remove ad automation that his agency thought was hurting his clients budget and campaign goals. Kirk Williams posted on Twi…
Google Ads Account Map Helps You To See Your Google Ads Account Structure
Google Ads launched a new feature the other day named account maps. It basically gives you a way to quickly visualize your account structure, view each account’s performance and navigate to those accounts.
Google Question Hub: Asking Questions In Search & Publishers Answering
For over a year now, we have seen Google testing letting searchers ask questions directly in the search results. But we had no idea what was going on exactly – that is until now. Google posted on the Google India blog about Google Question Hub, a tool…
Google: We Do Not Index Parts Of A Page Independently
Some may speculate that Google doesn’t just index a URL and the content on that URL as a whole, but may index parts of a page independently. That is not true, Google’s John Mueller said on Twitter “We don’t index parts of a page independently, we index…
New Evergreen GoogleBot Support For Google Testing Tools
We knew it was coming soon and now it is here, Google just announced that most of the testing tools now support the new evergreen GoogleBot. We have been waiting for this for a couple months since Google launched the evergreen GoogleBot for crawling a…