Bing: Never Seen A Case Where Negative SEO Was Attributed To Ranking Decline
Bing’s spam fighter, Frédéric Dubut, said on Twitter “I haven’t seen any case where a change in rankings would be provably attributable to negative SEO only.” We know Google has mostly said that negative SEO doesn’t really work with Google, although they have been a bit wishy-washy on that. Here is Bing kind of saying the same thing.
Google Core Updates Impact Your Google Discover Feed Rankings
This probably does not come as a surprise to most of you who read this site, but Google confirmed yesterday that your inclusion in the Google Discover feed can be impacted by Google’s core ranking updates updates. Google said in yesterday’s core update…
Google Launched A Freshness Algorithm For Featured Snippets In Late February
Yesterday, Google also confirmed that in late February, it launched a new algorithm aimed at making sure the featured snippets show the most accurate and timely or fresh answers for the query. Pandu Nayak from Google said “a new algorithm update impro…
Beware: Google Ads Expands Broad & Phrase Match To Include Keyword Close Variants
Yesterday, Google announced that in the coming weeks broad match modifier and phrase match keywords will also begin matching to words within the search query that share the same meaning as the keyword. The SEM/PPC community is not surprised but still …
Google Suggested Clips Play In Search, No Longer Take You To YouTube
Google has recently changed it so the suggested clip, where Google search jumps you to a portion of the video with the answer you are looking for, no longer takes you into YouTube.com. Instead, it overlays a window, a modal, that plays the video in a b…
Interesting Google Search Ranking Tidbits From A Private Dinner In 2017 With Gary Illyes
Dan Shure posted on his podcast his audio notes from after a private dinner with Gary Illyes of Google from April 4th 2017. Basically, they had a dinner, after the dinner when Dan got into his car, he took audio notes of what he remembered from that d…
Google My Business Has People Also Search For Feature?
Keyser Holiday shared screen shots in the Local Search Forums showing how a local knowledge panel had the people also search for / people also ask feature in the local knowledge panel for a business listing. What is even more confusing is that you can…
Signs Of Another Google Search Ranking Algorithm Update
I am seeing signs both in terms of early chatter within the SEO community and industry and the automated tracking tools of an update brewing. The update may have started some time last night, but let’s say this is currently an unconfirmed August 1st u…
Google Posts Help Advice For Sites Impacted By Core Updates
Finally, we knew this was coming, and now it is here, Google posted advice on what you can do it help your site perform better in the Google search rankings in the days of Google’s core algorithm updates. This is despite Google saying there is no fix,…
Google Redirects Some Quality Raters Guidelines To New URL
Yesterday we reported that the Google quality raters guidelines URL was not returning the PDF document, it was 404ing. Well, Google said it moved and as of this morning, some of the URLs hosting that PDF have been redirected to the new destination.
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Google: There Is No Such Thing As LSI Keywords
You’ve got to love John Mueller from Google, he posted on Twitter the line “There’s no such thing as LSI keywords — anyone who’s telling you otherwise is mistaken, sorry.” Here is that tweet:
Bing: We’re Updating Our Webmaster Guidelines; What Is Not Penalized Enough?
Bing is going to be updating the Bing Webmaster Guidelines and as part of that process, Frédéric Dubut from the Bing spam team asked what “shady tactics you think are not penalized enough?” In general, he is taking feedback on the current document before he begins.
Google Hotel Reviews Asks For More Details; Is TrustYou In Trouble?
Currently, when you view hotel reviews in Google, you get Google reviews but you also get this neat filters to show you if you’d like the hotel based on the type of trip you are going on (i.e. pleasure, family, business, etc). This data is provided by…
RankRanger Adds Google FAQ/How-To Markup Tracking In Search Results
The folks at RankRanger, an SEO toolset, added a new feature they are tracking in Google. Specifically they are tracking to see the changes in search results that Google shows that contain FAQ and/or how-to markup (or display the rich results as such)….
Vlog #6: Tanu Javeri Of IBM on Using Internal Links & Video For Big Enterprise SEO
In episode #6 of the vlog series at the Search Engine Roundtable I interviewed Tanu Javeri (@tanujaveri) of IBM…
Google Ads Editor v1.1 & Keyword Planner Adds Most Relevant Keywords
The Google Ads team released upgrades to both the Google Ads Editor and Keyword Planner tool. Google Ads Editor is now at version 1.1 and added a bunch of new features. The Keyword Planner tool now can show the most relevant keyword ideas right in th…
Google Tests Removing (Or A Bug) Breadcrumb From Mobile Search Results Snippet
Google may be testing – or it may be a bug – removing the breadcrumb from the mobile search results snippet. Sergey Alakov posted a screen shot of the snippet just showing the domain and favicon, without the breadcrumb trail of the page.
Search Rep: Removing Search Spam â� Suppressing Free Speech
I wanted to highlight a tweet from Bing search spam fighter, Frédéric Dubut, who basically said removing spam from the search results is not the same thing as suppressing free speech. He said if you do not remove spam “the entire product becomes completely unusable.”
Google Removes References To PageRank & 200 Signals In Disavow Help Doc
Several months ago, the disavow backlinks help document in Google’s help center mentioned a section about PageRank and how PageRank is one of 200 signals Google uses for rankings. That help document was updated sometime in the past several months and r…
Google Quality Raters Guidelines Goes Missing – 404s
If you try to access the Google Quality Raters Guidelines PDF document, you will be out of luck. The PDF seems to have been removed from Google’s servers. This happened before and when that happened it was a mistake, Google fixed it. This time, I su…