Google My Business Launches Short Names, Cover Photo, Logo & More
Google My Business announced a number of updates to the platform yesterday to help small businesses do more with their Google Maps and local listing on Google. In short you can personalize your business profile by adding a cover photo, logo, and claimi…
Google Ads Carousel “People Also Considered”
The folks at SEMRush spotted a new test format for Google Ads in the mobile search results. This one is in a carousel format where you can swipe left to right between ads and this carousel is named “people also considered.”
Google Allows Emojis, Links & Unicode In FAQ Rich Results – For Now…
Google launched FAQ schema at Google I/O and we have learned that implementing can result in a drop in traffic. So what can you do to increase clicks? Maybe drop links, emojis and unicode in your schema so that they show up in the FAQ rich results in …
Google Maps Fake Business Problem Gets Big Media Coverage
You and I and the whole local SEO community know how bad the Google Maps business listing spam issues are. We’ve been covering it forever. We know Google is trying to make efforts to improve things but the spammers are always one or two steps ahead of…
Search Buzz Video Recap: Google Algorithm Shift, Google vs Genius Lyrics, Google Search Console, Maps, YouTube & More
This week in search I covered a possible Google algorithm and ranking update on June 19th. Google said the core update and Panda update are not the same thing…
Google Webmaster YouTube Channel Breaks 300k Subscribers
Did you know that the folks who work in the Google webmaster team are also YouTube celebrities? Yesterday the Google Webmaster YouTube channel surpassed 300,000 YouTube subscribers – that is a big deal in YouTube subscriber world.
Google Mobile Friendly Testing Tool Tests New Evergreen GoogleBot
44 days ago, Google announced the new evergreen GoogleBot, a GoogleBot that will be on the latest version of Chromium going forward and that has all the latest features of a modern browser for indexing. But with that, Google said not all the testing t…
Google Adds Link To Lyrics Provider & Former Googler Blames Ranking Team For Confused Lyric Result
Yesterday, as expected, Google added a link to the footer of the lyrics box to show who they licensed the lyrics from. So now Google can fully say who they got this content from. But what I found even more interesting was how former Google search qua…
Google Asks: Want A Nofollow Filter On The Internal Link Report In Search Console
Google’s Gary Illyes posted a Twitter poll yesterday asking if you would like the Google Search Console team to add a toggle or filter to the internal link report to show which links are nofollowed and not nofollowed.
Moz: Google Diversity Update Was A Tiny Improvement & Maybe A PR Maneuver
Moz published data showing how based on their 10,000 keyword data set that the Google diversity update where Google would infrequently show more than two results from the same domain was a tiny change and possibly done as a PR maneuver to appease the r…
Google: Pages Can Rank For Image Alt Text Content In Web Search
John Mueller from Google stated on Twitter that your web pages can rank in Google web search for content that you put within image alternative text. He also added this is easy to test, and SEOs have over the years, by putting a unique string of text i…
Google To Genius: From Now On, We Will Show You Who Is Stealing Your Lyrics
Got to love this exchange – you have Genius coming out saying we caught Google red handed stealing/scraping our lyrics from our web site. Google then yesterday says, we didn’t do it, we paid for LyricFind to give us these lyrics they may have stolen f…
SEO Poll: Many SEOs Still Focusing On Desktop Page Analysis
Alyeda Solis posted a Twitter poll that received almost 1,000 votes that showed that many SEOs are still pretty focused on the desktop analysis of their web pages. So while Google is taking a mobile-first approach, SEOs still seem to spend a considera…
Complaints Over Google My Business Reinstatement Delays
There are many local SEOs who are complaining about the delay with Google My Business in reinstating businesses that were suspended. I am seeing numerous complaints in the forums and on Twitter about this.
Google Does Show Hidden Content In Accordions & Tabs As Featured Snippets
The other week we asked if Google shows content within tabs or accordions or other forms of hidden areas in the featured snippets section. We asked this because Google said for the normal search results snippet, Google said they don’t show this type of…
Google Removes Preferred Domain Setting From Search Console
Google announced it has removed the preferred domain setting from the old Google Search Console interface. It is gone – I don’t see it anymore and you can no longer set this in Google Search Console.
Possible Google Search Algorithm & Ranking Update June 19th
I have been watching the chatter this morning from the SEO community on WebmasterWorld and social media and I am seeing an increase in signals that there may be a Google algorithm and ranking update rolling out this morning.
Google Falafel Doodle
Today on Google’s home page is an animated falafel. I’ll be honest, I am not a huge falafel fan and yes, I’ve had my share since I visit the middle east (Israel) every now and then. But for some reason, today, June 18th, Google decided to celebrate t…
Google Doesn’t Have A Fixed Time To Snapshot Rendered Content But…
The folks at Screaming Frog said on Twitter that their tests indicate GoogleBot is willing to wait about five seconds for its snapshot of rendered content. John Mueller of Google said that time sounds reasonable but they do not have a specific time b…
Google Search Console Missing Image Search Traffic Between June 5th & 7th
Google posted on the data anomalies page that due to an internal issue Search Console did not capture some image search statistics from June 5th through June 7th.