Google: Here Is Some Of What SEOs Do…
John Mueller of Google was asked “I’d like to become the greatest SEO ever, what would you advise him to study?” John responded “There are so many interesting facets of what SEOs do, I’d recommend trying out different areas to find one those you’re pa…
Google To Drop Data-Vocabulary On April 6th, All In On Schema.org
Google announced this morning that after April 6, 2020 it will no longer support the data-vocabulary markup for rich results. Google is going all in with Schema.org. Google said “with the increasing usage and popularity of schema.org we decided to focu…
Vlog #38: Josef Sperzel On Using Python For SEO Gains & Technical SEO
Josef Sperzel (@josefsperzel) when I interviewed him he was the VP Director of SEO at Mediahub…
Martin Luther King Jr. Day Google Doodle
Today is Martin Luther King Jr. Day in the United States. Like every year, Google has a Doodle, a special Google logo, for the day. Today’s Doodle was illustrated by Atlanta-based guest artist Dr. Fahamu Pecou. Dr. Pecou has an ongoing series of iconi…
Google Hiding Like Reviews With More Link – A Bug or Test?
Google may be testing or it may be a bug hiding reviews by collapsing them in a “more” links. This was spotted by Jason Brown and posted on Twitter but others said they have seen this recently as well.
Tweets In Google Featured Snippets & People Also Ask
Shay Harel, the founder of RankRanger, spotted Google showing a tweet, yes, a post from Twitter, in the Google featured snippet section and people also ask section. Here is his screen shots via Mordy on Twitter.
Did Google Change How To Schema In November 2019 Update?
Jeff Hawley shared on Twitter that he thinks Google not only is showing how-to schema more randomly and less often but also changed how they function a bit. This, he said, coincided with the November update.
Google: Domains Are The Most Important Part Of URLs
Over the past several years, espesially with the changes to Google’s Chrome browser, SEOs have been worried that the domain names would be removed from the search result snippets. Danny Sullivan from Google kind of squashed that rumor on Twitter the o…
Google Search Showing Wrong URL In Snippets
Google is now showing the incorrect URL in the snippets. It isn’t a massive problem because when you click on the result, it takes you to the correct place. But Google is placing a www on the URL when it is not there. For example, a search for [harw…
Google: Good Spam Reports Can Lead To Broad Spam Action
Danny Sullivan from Google responded to complaints about spam in Google search asking the user to report the spam using the form. The user complained and Danny responded that good spam reports often lead to “a deep dive to understand networks and take…
Google Once Again Says Structured Data Does Not Impact Ranking
Google, once again, had to say structured data does not impact ranking in web search. But this time Google had to say it because their structured data warnings in Google Search Console were confusing to understand and came off like bad structured data …
Google: January 2020 Core Update Mostly Done Rolling Out But Is It?
Google has said that the January 2020 core update is “mostly done” when I and others asked if it was done rolling out. Google said “the update is mostly done, though as with any core update, it may take to two weeks to fully complete.” But is it?
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SEOs Share Impact Of The Google January 2020 Core Update
Yesterday, I asked on Twitter for SEOs to share charts and data on how the Google January 2020 core update had an impact on their web sites or client sites. Here are some of the responses I have received.
Search Buzz Video Recap: Google January 2020 Core Update News, Favicons & Black Ad Icons Take Over Google Search, Froogle Returns & Much More
This week Google released two big things; first was a new and big broad core update and the second was the favicons and black ad label design in the desktop search results. The Google January 2020 core update was big, launched on Monday, it was a globa…
Bug Alert: Google Search Console Unparsable Structured Data
Google has confirmed that some may see a spike in unparsable structured data errors within Google Search Console. This spike should be ignored if it happened between January 13 and 16th of this year. Google said “This was due to an internal misconfig…
Google: Cookie Banners Are Fine For Search
Google’s John Mueller was asked if adding cookie acceptance banners are going to cause an SEO problem for Google search. John said “Cookie banners are fine.” He added that you want to avoid “replacing your page’s content with an interstitial.”
Microsoft Advertising To Also Sunset Average Position
Microsoft announced it will be deprecating the average position metric from Microsoft Advertising reporting starting in April. Google did the same thing last year and now Microsoft is following suit.
Froogle Is Back – Well, Kind Of, With Free Google Popular Product Listings
Remember Froogle, Google’s free product search engines from the early 2000s? Well, Google eventually turned all of product search into a Google Ads paid search product. But now, Google is bringing back free product search in the form of “popular prod…
The Google January 2020 Core Update Is Global
Danny Sullivan from Google has confirmed that this January 2020 Core Update is global and pretty much all core updates are global – as we knew already. But it is good to have another confirmation that this past update is a global release.
Fun: Google My Business Support Tries To Help Danny Sullivan.
You know how when someone asks one Googler a question and that Google doesn’t know the answer, so they CC another to help. Well, sometimes Googlers don’t know Googlers and the get confused. Here is Danny Sullivan, a Googler, CCing Google My Business …