Google: The HTTPS Ranking Signal Measurably Affects Enough Queries
Google’s Gary Illyes said that you should not ignore the HTTPS ranking signal. He said “the signal affects enough queries measurably that I wouldn’t ignore it.”
Bing Recommends You Disavow Links
At SMX Advanced yesterday, Frédéric Dubut from the Bing spam team said that he still recommends that you use the disavow link tool for making sure you don’t have bad links hurting your web site. Google says you don’t need to use the disavow tool as much these days, but Bing is more for using the tool.
Can Expandable Content Show In Google Features Snippets
The other day we reported that John Mueller of Google said they won’t show content hidden within expandable divs or accordions as snippets in search. Yes, they will index and rank that content but not show it as snippets. But can this type of content …
Google Refine By Tests Additional Refinement Layers
Google has been doing the refine by feature since 2017, or at least testing it since then. But now Google is testing a more detailed and layered version of refine by in their search results.
DailyMail: 50% Drop In Traffic After Google June 2019 Core Update
Jesus Mendez, the SEO Director at MailOnline, which operators DailyMail.co.uk, has admitted publicly that the site took a massive hit by the June 2019 Google core update. He said the site “lost 50% of daily traffic” because of this Google update.
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Bing Pride Month Search Box Rainbow
We often highlight some of the cool easter eggs Google implants within their search results page but what about Bing? Well, if you start searching for pride related phrases, Bing will drop down their auto-complete and use a rainbow for the background …
DOJ May Investigate Google Again Over Antitrust Issues
The Wall Street Journal reported (WP link) that the Department of Justice may open up an antitrust probe against Google again. Let me directly upfront that I know very little about legal issues, little about the DOJ and government politics and law. I…
Google Immediately Processes Disavow Files But Links Get Disavowed Over Time
Google’s John Mueller said that while Google will process your disavow link file immediately, it will take some time for Google to disavow the links within it. John said on Twitter “The files are processed immediately. The links are disavowed over tim…
Google: Removing Alt Attributes From Images Sorta Okay If…
Gary Illyes from Google said that it is “sorta ok” to remove alt attributes from images only when if there is relevant text around the image that helps describe the image. But I wouldn’t remove the alt attribute because Gary then added doing so “might…
Big & Still Going: The Google June 2019 Core Search Algorithm Update
It is probably a bit too early to make any definitive statements but so far what I am seeing from the community is that this June 2019 core update – a Google search algorithm update – that was pre-announced and rolled out on June 3rd – it is a big one….
Google: View My Manual Actions History
Google sometime in September 2018 added to the manual actions report help document a section named “View my manual actions history.” It talks about how Google will retain the old manual actions for up to a year for a specific property even if it chang…
Google Logo Celebrating Pride : 50 Years
Today on Google’s home page is a video Google Doodle from Google for Celebrating 50 Years Of Pride within the LGBTQ+ community.
Google Rich Results Test Adds Mobile vs Desktop Feature To Compare Page Parity
Google announced on Twitter yesterday that they added a new feature to the Rich Results testing tool to allow you to pick if you want to see how Googlebot mobile or Googlebot desktop sees the structured markup on the page.
Google June 2019 Core Search Algorithm Update Now Rolling Out
As expected, Google told us yesterday afternoon that the June 2019 core update has started to roll out. It may take several days to roll out to all of Google’s data centers but the process has started yesterday afternoon.
June 2019 Google Webmaster Report
It is always nice to look back at the month and see how much has changed over the last 30 days, that is why I like doing these monthly Google webmaster reports. This month was super busy as well with a confirmed core update with many unconfirmed updat…
Google Tests More Results Button On Desktop Search Results Page
April 2018 Google changed the mobile search results page from having the option to go to the next page of results and instead show a “more results” button. Well, now Google is testing this same user experience on desktop search.
Google Tests Local Pack Carousels Again
Google is once again testing using a carousel design for the local pack again. They tested an alternative form of this back in March 2017 and they are testing it again now. Here is what the new test looks like:
Google Use Archive.org For Checking Past Domain Spam
Google’s John Mueller said he would recommend you look at Archive.org’s WayBack Machine to see if a domain name or URL had a previous sketchy or spammy history. He said this on Reddit, “archive.org is pretty useful — it doesn’t cover everything, but …
Google: The Indexing API Is Only For Job Posting & Live Stream Structured Data
Google’s John Mueller said on Twitter that the Indexing API is not for use on all types of content. He said it only should be used for job posting & live stream structured data. Anything else you want to push to Google, use XML Sitemaps he said.
Google Rolling Out June 2019 Core Search Ranking Update Tomorrow
Google, in a rare move, pre-announced that they are going to be rolling out a core update tomorrow. They are calling this Google search algorithm ranking update the June 2019 Core Update and sometime tomorrow, Google will be rolling this update out.
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