Google: YMYL Sites Should Have An Expert To Write The Content
Google’s John Mueller talked about YMYL, specific to the health space, and mentioned that it is if you are writing about a topic on health that you are not an expert on then you are starting off already on a “shaky foundation.”
Google Local Knowledge Panel Adds Get A Quote Button
Google has now added to some business local knowledge panel a call to action to “get a quote” or “request a quote.” So when you search for the company name, in the right panel or at the top of the mobile results, you get that call to action button.
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Google Says It Has Restored Broken Reviews
Google has told Joy Hawkins that it has fixed all the reviews that disappeared over a technical issue. The statement she was given and she posted in the Local Search Forums was “All the reviews that have been removed for technical reasons have been re…
Google Scholar Or Author Knowledge Panels
I doubt these are new but hey, here is a person knowledge panel that uses Google Scholar as the profile link and also lists the citations and h-indexes. It also lists the publications and books this author produced.
Google Says Keep The Same URLs For The Long Run
If you ask any SEO, changing URLs is a scary thing. If you can avoid it, most SEOs say try to avoid it. John Mueller of Google said on Twitter the other day “I’d really recommend keeping the same URLs for the long run.”
Google Webmaster Hangouts Tests Moving Off YouTube To Hangouts Meet
Once again the Google webmaster hangouts hosted by John Mueller and other Googlers has to move to another platform. This time it is moving from YouTube Live Hangouts on Air to GSuite Hangouts Meet. I suspect that means it will be more of a manual proc…
The Google Maverick Update Slowing Down
What a wild several days with Google updates – we had fluctuations on July 11, 12 and 16th and then some massive chatter and Google search result fluctuations on July 18th or so. Google would not confirm or deny these updates, so it was named by the c…
Google Green Ad Label May Display To Limited Number Of Searchers
A few weeks ago we reported that maybe the green ad label is coming back to Google after it went live with the black ad label that the industry was not too happy with. Well, as of now, I am wrong. Danny Sullivan from Google said those seeing the old g…
Google Test Maps, Top Stories, Video, Images & More Icons In Search Results
Google is once again testing using icons for the universal search results sections. Specifically to label in web search the images box, video box, top stories box, maps box, and so on. Google tested this back in April but launched the the new icon bar …
Google Maps iOS App Now Lets Owners Edit Business Profiles
Google My Business posted on Twitter that businesses owners can use now the Google Maps iOS app to edit their business profiles. This is without using the Google My Business app or web site.
Google Maps Has Fixed Q&A Bug & Is Investigating Reviews Bug
Google seems to have fixed one of the many Google Maps bugs and has acknowledge they are working on a fix for the other. The Google Maps Q&A feature didn’t let owners properly respond to questions left about their businesses – that supposedly has been fixed. The reviews going missing is something Google is working on fixing still.
Vlog #4:: Rand Fishkin Of SparkToro On Early Days At Moz, SEO Community, VC Funds & More (Part One)
In our fourth vlog episode I was in Seattle for Mozcon and I asked Rand Fishkin (@randfish) if I can interview him for my new vlog series. He invited me to his home/office, aka ShedToro, and despite some angry bees…
Google Moon Landing Logo For 50th Anniversary
Today on Google’s home page is a special Doodle, Google logo, for the 50th anniversary of the moon landing. When you click on the Doodle it plays a video of NASA’s Apollo 11 mission with Michael Collins, one of the astronauts on Apollo 11 giving the n…
Easy Google Knowledge Panel Identity Theft?
Ari Roth from Five Blocks showed us how he was able to claim the knowledge graph profile of the American theatrical producer Ari Roth. In short, this is an issue with whomever at Google is manually reviewing this verification request of not doing thei…
Google Live Streamed The Google Webmaster Conference In Kolkata
Google live streamed the almost 5 hours of their new Webmaster Conferences. Below is a recording of the Google Webmaster Conferences in Kolkata, India.
Is Google News Violating Google’s Webmaster Guidelines By Not Blocking Stories?
It looks like Google is not just indexing but also ranking Google News search results pages and landing pages in Google search. This comes shortly after Google reportedly dropped Bing Discover search results pages from its index allegedly because it v…
Google Search Ranking Algorithm Update Again, Bigger Now?
What is going on? Again, three times in about a week, we are seeing increase chatter and the tools are lighting up around a Google search ranking algorithm update. Yesterday morning the chatter once again spiked up and also many of the tools are showi…
Fixed Now: Google My Business Removes Reinstatement Request Form
I get it Google, you can’t handle all the Google Maps issues. You are seriously delayed with getting back to businesses. You are suspending businesses that should not be suspended. You are claiming those suspensions were fixed but they weren’t. Now …
Search Buzz Video Recap: Google Makes Changes, Massive Algorithm Updates, Google Local Bus, AdSense Apps & Much More
This week I covered that Google updated their numbers on how much Google has changed in search over the years, that is over 3,200 changes in just a year. Google made about three algorithmic updates this week in search, something is going on but Google …
Google Shows Product Labels On Images Within Web Search Results
Google in 2018 launched the product label for e-commerce sites using product schema in their image search results. But now, some are seeing these product tags in the web search results where Google includes an image carousel.