The Google Search Algorithm Is A Lot Of Trial & Error Coding?
A post from a former Google search engineer, Kevin Lacker, from 2006 recounts a conversation this engineer had with the former head of Google search Amit Singhal. It discusses how sometimes these engineers just tried trial and error to see what works,…
Google Proposes Building XML Sitemaps Into WordPress Core
Google’s Pascal Birchler, who has been with Google since this past January, but worked at WordPress since 2014 prior to that, published a new project where Google and WordPress want to integrate basic XML Sitemaps in WordPress Core and introduce an XML…
Programming Note: Offline Monday For Shavous 5779
This is a programming note: I am currently offline today for the Jewish holiday of Shavout. Anything posted today, June 10, 2019, Monday, was scheduled and pre-written last week.
Google Webmaster Conference Officially Launches
We knew this was coming and now Google officially launched the Google Webmaster Conference. The goal of this conference series is to bring top level webmaster related content, i.e. SEO, development, and other ways to make your site perform better in se…
Google June 2019 Core Update Finished Rolling Out Saturday, June 8th
Danny Sullivan from Google informed me on Twitter that the June 2019 core update that started to roll out on Monday afternoon, June 3rd, has finished rolling out on Saturday, June 8th. So the process took about five-days to fully roll out, which seem…
Google Search Console Discover & Search Overview Expands To 90-Days
Google updates the Search Console performance overview report to show a full 90-days of data for the search results and discover bars. Previously Google showed 28-days of data and now Google is showing 90-days of data for this overview dashboard.
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Google Search Console API Doesn’t Return Sitemaps Indexed Counts
As part of Google deprecating the old Google Search Console APIs, Google won’t be supporting showing the indexed count within the sitemaps commands. Google’s John Mueller confirmed this on Twitter.
Google Local Pack Finder Tests Choose Area Feature
Google is testing an option to let the searcher select which area they want the local pack finder results to zone into. Valentin Pletzer shared screen shots on Twitter of Google asking him to “Choose Area” at the top right, which brings up a numerous …
Did Crawling Changes Come Before The Google’s Core Update?
Google has actually said numerous times that spikes in crawl rates do not mean an algorithm update is coming. But before this Google June 2019 core update, I’ve seen some chatter of crawl declines and spikes of an update. So we asked John Mueller of …
Google Search Snippets Showing Tags Section
Back in 2017, Google use to show “tags” for some types of search results snippets. They really didn’t do anything outside of add content to the snippet but you couldn’t click on them or interact with them in any other way. Well, they are now back and …
Google: Don’t Let Your Dynamic Rendering Timeout
Google has been talking about dynamic rendering as an option for Google to index the content on some of your JavaScript pages for over a year now. Some have been trying it and one person said he is having issues because it tends to take too long for t…
Google: Keep Your Site Up To Date; No One Drinks Sarsaparilla
Google updated one of their documents on how to help people find your site on Google. In that document, they added a line that reads “Keep your site up to date: If your restaurant website hasn’t updated its menu since 1925, then update it; there aren’…
Google: Mobile-First Indexing Goes By Root Domain; Your Subdomains Move Over With Root
Google’s John Mueller said on Twitter that when your root domain is moved over to mobile-first indexing, that means all your subdomains move with it. I suspect that this is the case for (a) sub-domains that are not like hosted WordPress sites that use…
Google Women’s World Cup 2019 Logos
Google has launched its Women’s World Cup 2019 Doodles, home page logos, with a series of Doodles designed locally by many different artists.
Google Posts JavaScript SEO Myth Busting Video
Google’s Martin Splitt posted another SEO mythbusting video, this one on JavaScript and SEO. He did it with well-respected technical SEO Jamie Alberico. The video basically says JavaScript is not the devil ð.
Google Organic Results Merging Local Knowledge Panel For Branded Queries?
The folks in the Local Search Forums are noticing that Google is now blending or morphing the organic search results interface with the local knowledge panel interface for branded queries – so when you search for that specific brand.
Google Change Restricts Two Listings From Same Domain For Most Search Results
Google announced last night, as I covered in detail at Search Engine Land, that they released another update earlier this week that finished rolling out yesterday. This update restricts how many times a search results listing can show in the Google sea…
Bing: Our Organic Results Not Influenced By Microsoft Advertising
Just like the Google speak around how what you spend with Google Ads has no influence on your Google organic results – Bing is the same. Bing’s Frédéric Dubut said they to do not allow what you spend with Microsoft Advertising (former Bing Ads) to influence your organic rankings in Bing.
Search Buzz Video Recap: Google June 2019 Core Update, Domain Diversity Update, DailyMail Slammed, Rich Results, Bing Bribes & DOJ
What an insane week, we first recapped the changes over the last month with Google for webmasters. We then talked about the big Google June 2019 core update that began rolling out on Monday…
Google Tests Weird Rotating People Also Ask Feature
Google is testing another method to show the people also ask feature in desktop search. Spotted by Mordy Oberstein, he took a video of his screen where he showed how the people also ask is in this drop down selection tool, and the image rotates when y…