New In Google My Business: Messaging Insights, Site Manager Sign-Up & Status Changes
Google launched three new features or changes to Google My Business including messaging insights, a site manager sign-up link on a business profile and changes to status names.
Google Search Console Sending Monthly Performance Reports
Google is now sending some Google Search Console profiles a monthly performance report via email. The email shares the clicks, impressions and pages with first impressions for your site. It also dives into more details like your best content pages, an…
Google Drops Magnifying Glass In Search Bar For Text Search Button
Google has dropped the magnifying glass in the search bar and substituted it for a text based search button. We saw Google testing this out a couple months ago and it now seems to be almost fully live.
Google Search Algorithm Tweaked To Show Less Porn For Lesbian, Teen & Other Queries
Google has apparently updated its search algorithm to show less pornographic content and search results for queries around lesbian, teen, school girl, and other related queries. Pandu Nayak from Google told The Next Web “We have taken measures in cas…
Google Launches New Image Search Preview Box, Upsetting Some Searchers
As expected, Google has launched a redesign to the Google Image Search preview image box. Google has gone with the sticky interface, where the image preview box sticks to the right side and you can independently scroll through other images or the imag…
Take The New Search Ranking Factors Survey
As some of you may have heard in my interview with Rand Fishkin, he was planning on relaunching the search ranking factors survey. Well, he did it and you can participate in the survey over here.
Vlog #8: Mary Bowling Ignitor Digital On Local SEO & Google My Business Data
In episode #8 of the vlog series at the Search Engine Roundtable I interviewed Mary Bowling (@marybowling) of Ignitor Digital Marketing. Mary and I and I started off talking about her work…
Google Local Pack Tests Image Carousel For Each Local Listing
Google is crazed about carousels and here is another format of the Google local pack. This local pack shows not one image, but an image carousel per local listing in the local pack.
Google Still Working On Evergreen GoogleBot Support For Tools
Back in May, three months ago, Google released the evergreen GoogleBot. Basically GoogleBot is on the same version as your version of Chrome, which gives Google more capabilities to crawl and access your web pages. But the tools, tools within Google …
Google Search Team Stricter With Google’s Internal SEO Team
John Mueller from Google said that the Google search team is very strict with Google’s internal SEO team. He said on Reddit “I imagine the SEO team at Google has a pretty hard time comparatively, given how strictly we separate the rest of search from t…
Tell Google What You Want On The Google Search Developer Portal
Martin Splitt from Google asked the SEO community what they want to see on the Google Search Developer docs that is not currently there. Martin wrote “if you could ask me to explain something about Google Search that isn’t on developers.google.com/sea…
Are Google Mobile Searches Now 65% Of All Searches
Greg Sterling was at the Engage conference last week and tweeted that a Google representative said that 65% of all searches are mobile. He didn’t say which Googler said this, it doesn’t seem to have been confirmed to have been said and I have not seen…
Danny Sullivan Says He Is The Same Danny Sullivan After Joining Google
This is a topic I’d likely be very biased about but I decided to cover it because if it was another Googler talking about the same thing, I’d probably cover that as well. In short, Danny Sullivan who is now at Google, is defending his reputation to th…
Test: Google Local Pack Carousel With Ad At The Top
Mike Blumenthal spotted this last week, where Google was testing showing not just the local pack carousel, but an ad slot in that local pack carousel. We’ve seen lots of variations of the local pack carousel – a scrollable carousel of local results. …
Google: Word Count Is Not A Ranking Factor
Google’s John Mueller said in a Reddit thread that Google does not use word count as a ranking factor. He wrote “Word count is not a ranking factor.” I mean, this is literally short and to the point and I am not sure how many ways you can look at thi…
Video: Voice Search In The Google Search Console Not Recording Google Assistant Results?
We’ve been hearing for a while that Google may be adding voice search filters to the Google Search Console reports. This would enable you to see how people discover your site using voice and Google Assistant, differently than they would by typing in se…
August 2019 Google Webmaster Report
We had a busy month in terms of Google SEO and webmaster related topics; probably the biggest were the numerous unconfirmed updates – one being nicknamed the Maverick update. Google confirmed launching….
Vlog #7: Paul Shapiro of Catalyst On Technical SEO Beyond Crawling & Indexing
In episode #7 of the vlog series at the Search Engine Roundtable I interviewed Paul Shapiro (@fighto) Senior Partner, Head of SEO at Catalyst…
Google Does Not Confirm Smaller Core Updates
So we are sitting here wondering if we had an update yesterday and a few in July, Google was radio silence about those unconfirmed updates. Now, Google posts some more tips around core updates and at the end of that blog post wrote “we’re constantly …
Search Buzz Video Recap: Google Algorithm Update, Core Update Advice, Fresher Featured Snippets, Google Ads, Bing Guidelines & Negative SEO
This turned out to be a pretty busy week in the search space. We had a possible, unconfirmed, but yet really heating up…