Google’s John Mueller: Learning About Information Retrieval Will Be Useful
Google’s John Mueller said on Twitter that “learning how information retrieval algorithms work will be useful, even if it’s not used 1:1 in the same way.” This comes after he said that focusing on tf-idf algorithms and the metrics there may be short-si…
Google Search Console Change Of Address Tool Not Working
I am hearing reports of the change of address tool in Google Search Console is not working. I personally did not try it, it is one of those things that you don’t want to play around with, but Tom Brodbeck shared a screen shot of it not working.
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May 2019 Google Webmaster Report
The past month in terms of Google search, SEO and webmaster related topics can be summed up into two primary categories. First is the massive number of bugs and the second is about new features and tools…
Google Search Console Star Wars Mode For Star Wars Day
Everyone in our community is talking about how Google Search Console is doing a special theme within the toolset for Stars Wars Day, which is on May 4th (May the Force/Fourth be with you). If you toggle it on at the top right of the page you will find…
Google Launches Video Series On SEO Myth-Busting
Google has announced with a video on the Google Webmasters YouTube channel a new video series named SEO mythbusting. The trailer for the series looks awesome and fun – but let’s see what the actual videos include and if they include anything too reve…
Google Search Console Adds Three New Reports
Google announced three new reports to Google Search Console yesterday. They include uparsable structured data report and two enhancement reports (a) sitelinks searchbox and (b) logo enhancement reports.
5 Months Later Google Has Not Fixed A Googlebot Search Exploit
Tom Anthony after 5 months of informing Google about a way to manipulate Googlebot to execute Javascript on other people’s websites where Google can and will index those changes, including links, he decided to publish the details publicly, since Google…
Google: Mobile-First Indexing Is Still On Track & Making Good Progress
It has been a while since we talked about Google’s mobile-first indexing initiative and the last we know is that over 50% of Google’s index is built through mobile-first indexing. But since then, I haven’t seen many notifications from webmasters of a …
Search Buzz Video Recap: Google Update, Search Console Data Loss, Bing Ads Now Microsoft Advertising & Star Wars
This was a super busy week starting with a possible Google search algorithm update over the weekend. Google also admitted they lost 16-days worth of data within Google Search Console…
Google: If It’s Not Obvious Which Links Hurt You Then It’s Not Hurting Or Helping
Google’s John Mueller posted one of his classic tweets the other day around links. He said to an established SEO when he was asked which links should they disavow. John said “If it’s not obvious to someone like you, then those links are probably neith…
Google Ads & AdSense Confirmed Reporting Delays
Both Google Ads and Google AdSense are having reporting delays. Google has confirmed the delays with the Google Ads (formerly AdWords) platform saying “Reporting Issue – Google Ads reporting for April 30 and May 1 (Pacific Time) is incorrect. We will u…
Google Buggier Now More Than Usual? Google Responds.
I was asked by someone on Twitter last week if Google is more buggier than normal these days, with the indexing bugs, Search Console issues, cache date issues, mobile-friendly notices and the list goes on and on for April. So I flipped the question ov…
Google Search Console’s Lost Data Directly Related To Indexing Bug
I was confused as to why Google Search Console lost 16-days worth of data if the indexing bug lasted from April 5th to April 11th. Furthermore, if the indexing bug started on April 5th, why did Search Console have data loss from April 9th through Apri…
Google Search Console Manual Actions Now Back After Disappearing
Yesterday we reported that Google Search Console had yet another bug, this time with your manual actions disappearing without any good reason. Google fixed the issue within 24 hours and if you had any manual actions that were gone yesterday, they are …
Ruth Asawa Google Wire Sculpture Doodle
Today is Asian-American Pacific Islander month and to commemorate the kick off the month, Google has a Doodle featuring Ruth Asawa’s wire sculpture work. The Doodle is a wire sculpture of the Google logo. Ruth Asawa was an American sculptor whose paren…
Now Google Search Console Manual Actions Are Buggy
Just when you thought the bugs were over, we have a new batch of them within Google Search Console. This one is specific to the manual actions viewer. Google’s John Mueller confirmed this morning after numerous reports starting yesterday afternoon tha…
Eric Schmidt To Step Down As Google Board After 18 Years
Google/Alphabet announced last night that Eric Schmidt, former Google CEO and long time board member of 18-years, is stepping down from his role on the board. He will continue as a “technical advisor” to the company but it seems he is moving on to “he…
Google Search Console Lost Data From April 9 to April 25th
Remember those Google Search Console bugs that we thought was related to the indexing issue? Google said it was resolved mostly with the exception of the backlink report, which should be resolved soon. Well, resolved means that the data was completely…
Google: We Don’t Provide SEO Support Based On Business Relationships
One of the biggest complaints I see from newbies in SEO is that it is impossible to call someone at Google and get an answer on why their rankings are not doing well in search. You and I know, Google doesn’t do one on one support but it is hard for pe…
Google Search Snippets With Image Collage Carousel
We know Google has image carousels in some of their search results snippets, that isn’t new. But is showing a collage of images a new feature in this image carousel? Here is a screen shot from Mordy Oberstein as he posted it on Twitter.