Google: It Is Impossible To Index The Whole Web
Google’s John Mueller said a word I kind of dislike, “impossible.” But technically it is true. He said, it would be impossible for Google to index the whole web. This was in response to why Google has not indexed all the pages in a sitemap for a spec…
A Google Local Bedlam Update Theory: Position One Stable, The Others Shuffle?
There is a new theory out about that Google Local update from earlier in this month, nicknamed the Bedlam update. The theory is that most of the time, position one in the local pack is stable but positions two and three are the ones being shuffled out…
Google Offering Searching Tips When It Can’t Find Search Results
The folks at SEMRush spotted Google offering searches tips and tricks for searching when Google has no results to offer the searcher. We spotted Google doing something similar but not without giving that searcher any tips, instead just saying “Hmm… t…
Google November Core Algorithm Updates Probably Not Just Links
The past couple of weeks have been pretty volatile in terms of Google organic search results rankings and now we are running into Thanksgiving – where we generally see a lot of of changes – even though Google has said in the past they won’t make change…
Vlog #28: Andrea Cruz Lopez On Google Ads Match Types & Tips
Andrea Cruz Lopez (@andreacruz92) works at KoMarketing as a digital marketing manager. KoMarketing was her first job in the SEM space, which she started back in 2015. Andrea is multilingual and speaks three different languages, Spanish…
Google Tests Arrows By Titles In Search Result Snippets
Google is testing a small search results experiment where it is showing an arrow by the title of the snippets in the search results. Sergey Alakov spotted this and shared a screen shot of it on Twitter. Here is that screen shot:
Most SEOs Say Awareness Of The Science Information Retrieval Is Important
Dawn Anderson, an SEO who likes to listen to professors and PhDs give lectures about how search works, posted a poll asking if the SEO community thinks awareness of IR (information retrieval) is important or not for SEOs. Most SEOs said it is importan…
Google: We Don’t Generally Make Up URLs On Your Web Site
Google’s John Mueller said on Twitter that generally Google will not make up URLs to index on your web site. So if you find weird parameters at the end of the URLs showing up in the Google index for your web site, Google probably found someone linking …
Google: We Thought About Engineers Competing To Rank Web Sites In Search But…
Would it be valuable for Google’s own engineers, the ones that work on search, compete to rank their own test web sites in Google search? Probably not but it might be good for them to have real world experience with building their own web sites, John …
Google Search Recipe Bug Continues Into Thanksgiving Cooking Season
Earlier this month, we reported that Google has been investigating a bug with its recipe rich results where the images would disappear from the recipe results. This can obviously be devastating in terms of click through rates and traffic to those site…
Black Friday Backlink Sales – 20% Off Isn’t Enough, You Need 100% Off Says Google
There are tons of these Black Friday deals in the SEO industry floating around now. Here is one that Google’s John Mueller responded to in a funny way. The deal was 20% off backlinks on Black Friday. John Mueller said “20% off of a site’s blackhat ba…
Do Republish Your Content Elsewhere? Google May Rank That Content Above Yours.
This is probably common sense and a topic we’ve covered numerous times here before. But if you take something you’ve published and then distribute that content to be republished on other sites or another site, those other sites may rank above you for t…
Google Tests More Graphical Weather Knowledge Panel
Here are some screen shots form Andrew Nechiporuk on Twitter of new looks for how Google shows weather results in Google search. You can see this one has a large graphic showing it is cold outside and then shows the weather by hour below. Both look d…
Fixed: Google Ads Overreported Conversion Bug
Google has fixed a bug where Google Ads were overreporting conversions between November 11 at 12:01 AM PST through November 20 at 11:59 PM PST. This specifically impacted advertisers using non-last click attribution models and impacted reports in all G…
New Google Hotel Features & Filters With Hover Overlays
I do not follow the Google Hotel user interfaces too closely and it is a space where Google is constantly testing new interfaces. But over the past week or so, I am getting a lot of reports of new features, from map overlay hovers to a massive number o…
Google Negative SEO Attack Response: These Links Have No Effect
Google has been saying negative SEO is really not a thing and has been saying that for years and years. But it is rare to see a Googler respond to a specific concern raised by an SEO. But that is what John Mueller of Google did the other day.
New Google Meta Tag Resulted In Pages Not Being Indexed: Now Fixed
One of the new Google snippet controls, the new meta tags, recently launched, had a bug where it can trigger Google to deindex the specific page. If you used max-image-preview tag and set the value to none, it would result in Google removing the page…
Google Ads Bid Strategy Report With New Top Bidding Signals
Google Ads announced new data available in the bid strategy report that shows you the top bidding signals. These signals can include device type, location, day of week, time of day, keywords and more.
Google: There Is No Indexing Limit For Number Of Pages Indexed Per Site
I’ve been covering search for a while and sometimes you see questions you really haven’t seen before, this is one of those times. Someone asked Google’s John Mueller if Google still has an indexing limit of 250 static pages per web site. The answer is…
Google Search Result Rankings Had A Very Volatile Week: Tremors All Week?
I have to say that this week, starting from last Friday, has been pretty volatile with the organic search results. All week long, people have been asking me if there is a Google update today. Truth is, it feels like tremors all week long. The chatter…