LinkedIn Says They Got Hit By A Google Algorithm Update In February 2017
It is incredibly rare for a public company to admit they got hit by an algorithmic update by Google search. But Eun-Ji Noh, the data scientist in LinkedIn’s SEO department shared at SMX London that they did indeed get hit by the update and how they re…
Google Really Honors Memorial Day For The First Time
After years and years of doing absolutely nothing on the Google home page for Memorial Day or maybe just placing a simple US flag and ribbon lower down on the home page, Google has gone all out for Memorial Day this year.
Google Fixed The Indexing Issue Again & Again
Google has confirmed yesterday that they fixed the indexing issue that started Thursday night with Google indexing new content. It is a similar issue from the day prior to that where Google stopped indexing new fresh content as well. Both are now supp…
Google To Produce More Q&A SEO Videos #AskGoogleWebmasters
John Mueller from Google posted on Twitter that he will be creating more Q&A videos around SEO and webmaster related questions with Google search. He said you can submit your not site-specific questions to him via Twitter using the hashtag #AskGoogleWebmasters. Submit those questions there and he will compile them and answer what he can in those short form Q&A videos.
SEOs Enjoying Google’s Favicon Mobile Search Results Interface
As you know, Google has started rolling out the new interface for the mobile search results that include the favicons at the top of the snippets. Most SEOs feel that this redesign once again makes the ads look more like the organic free results. So S…
Google AdSense Ads Not Displaying – Widespread Complaints
I am seeing widespread complaints over the past 24 hours or so from the Google AdSense community that their ads are not appearing on publisher web sites. There are many threads in the Google AdSense Help forums with this issue but one big one that sum…
Confirmed: New Google Indexing Issue Unrelated To Previous One
Last night at around 8pm ET while in a taxi back to my home from the airport, I wrote on Search Engine Land that Google’s indexing issue was back. Google then confirmed a new indexing issue on Twitter at around 2:20pm ET the following morning. But th…
The London SEO Community Is Special
I am sitting here in the London airport waiting for my flight out and I keep thinking how amazing the SEO and SEM industry and community is here in London. It was my first time at an event in London, SMX London and Rising Media flew me out here and pu…
Google May Have Fixed The Cache Page Delay
If you look at the Google cache on many sites that are updated regularly (daily or more often), you will see that the cache date is now within a couple days old. It looks like maybe Google fixed this prolonged outdated cache date bug that they told ev…
Google: Two Web Sites Out Of One Won’t Result In Twice As Much Visibility
Google’s John Mueller said on Twitter that if you think it is a good idea to take your web site and break it up into two different web sites, you might want to reconsider. He said “If you make 2 websites out of one, you’re not going to be twice as vis…
Google Map Pins With Your Company Logo
Google is testing using company logos in map pins. Darren Friel spotted an example of this with the Early Settler brand. Here is that screen shot.
Google Search Console Speed Report Will Be Slow To Come
Google announced a new speed report that they are beta testing while at Google I/O. They told us all to sign up for the beta if we want early access. Well, that speed report is not coming to us any time soon. There is no speedy delivery for that repo…
Search Buzz Video Recap: Google Algorithm Update, Two Indexing Bugs, New Mobile Search Design, Quality Raters Guidelines & More
It was a pretty busy week with a possible Google search algorithm update on Wednesday. In addition, we had two different indexing bugs, one on Wednesday, which was fixed and one last night, which is being worked on…
Google Shows Green Map Pins For Local Pack Ads
The folks in the Local Search Forums spotted Google showing green map pins in the local pack map for Google local pack ads. Can you see them?
Was There A Google Search Algorithm Update Around May 22nd?
Over the past couple of days there has been limited chatter around ranking fluctuations and changes to the Google search ranking algorithm. I am honestly not seeing a huge spike in chatter but the tracking tools are almost all lighting up over the pas…
Google Search Console Won’t Be Impacted By The Latest Indexing Bug
So now that the indexing bug from yesterday is fully resolved, I had to ask if we should expect any ripple effect in Google Search Console or other areas. Gary Illyes from Google said he does not expect data loss in Google Search Console as a result o…
Google SEO Myth Busting Video On GoogleBot
Yesterday Google posted the second video in the SEO Myth busting video series, this one was on GoogleBot. It wasn’t really a myth busting video, like the first, but it was very fun to watch. It covers what Googlebot does, how it acts like a mobile br…
Google Mobile Search Redesign Live: Favicons & Ad Label Blending
For years Google has been testing placing the URL at the top of the search result snippet. Google also has been testing favicons near the URL as well for years. Google has also been testing a black ad label. Now it is officially all live in the main …
Google Can Now Index The Web Again
Yesterday we were the first to report that Google was having an issue indexing the web. Google then confirmed the issue a couple of hours later. It seemed it was resolved around 1pm ET yesterday. Google has confirmed two hours ago that it was indeed…
Google Algorithm Updates & Data Refreshes Are Different Systems
All of you know there are ranking algorithms, data refreshes and infrastructure changes – those are the big three. There are other things in search, such as feature changes, user interface changes and more. But they are all separate systems and don’t…