Google: Search Console Backlink Report Only Report Not Fully Fixed Yet
I asked Google for an official update on the Search Console status, since we reported yesterday that it appears most of the reports are back to normal. Shortly after Google posted on Twitter saying that all the reports are back to normal minus the back…
Google Works To Fix How Many Legs Horses & Snakes Have
For the past few days or so, folks on social media are going a bit nuts about how Google doesn’t know how many legs a horse or snake have. If you try to Google it, Google will tell you horses have six legs and snakes have four legs – this is no joke.
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Give Google Feedback On The Future Of The Disavow Link Tool
Last week we reported that Google is still undecided on the future of the disavow link tool. This came up on Reddit and John Mueller from Google asked Reddit users for feedback on how they see the future version of the disavow link tool would look lik…
Google Earnings Show Paid Click Growth Declining With Cost Per Click
Most Google earnings report show how the cost-per-click, the amount an advertiser pays when someone clicks on their search ads, have been getting less expensive. But most of those earnings have shown growth in terms in the number of clicks ads in gener…
Google Search Console Reports Finally Up To Date
After Google pausing several of their reports within the Google Search Console due to the indexing bugs, Google now has updated them as of this morning. Previously it was stuck at data from April 7th or so, now you can see data as recent as a couple d…
Google My Business Explores Charging Fees?
Google is sending out a survey to some local businesses asking if they would be willing to pay a monthly fee in exchange for Google My Business listing services.
Google My Business POI Establishment Bug Now Point Of Interest
Last week we reported how many businesses in Google My Business were noticing Google adding a new category to their listing named “POI Establishment.” Google supposedly began fixing this Thursday evening but now many are noticing it read “Point of Int…
Goodbye Bing Ads & Hello Microsoft Advertising
I am getting a bit tired of all the rebranding – I mean, not just with Microsoft’s search engine services. Microsoft Search, Live Search, Bing Search. Microsoft adCenter to Bing Ads and now to Microsoft Advertising. Google went from AdWords after 18 …
Thanos Google Easter Egg Removes Search Results
Google has a new easter egg in their search results, just search for [thanos] and the search results will start to disappear. I created a video capture of this in action – of course.
Google Search Ranking Algorithm Update Around April 26th?
I am seeing both chatter and tracking tools reporting a possible Google search ranking algorithm update that touched down over the weekend, around April 26th. There is chatter the online forums and the tracking tools are mostly showing changes here as…
Google Search Bug Selecting Unrelated Canonical URLs & Indexing Issues
Google has announced a new bug yesterday, this time with Google possibly selecting unrelated canonical URLs. Google said this can impact breadcrumb trails on mobile which might reflect the unrelated URLs. Google also said “in rare cases, it might prev…
Google: Context Is Key For Some Keyword Searches
Google’s John Mueller said on Twitter the other day that “Some of these things really need context to make sense.” “I’ve seen some pretty neat associations work out in search,” he added. This was in response to how does Google know the difference betwe…
Q&A On Google Video Screenshots
We’ve covered the topic twice before but it still somewhat fascinating to me that Google is asking searchers to submit answers to questions (or ask questions) when Google doesn’t think they have content in their index with the answer. You won’t see thi…
Math Sans Bold Unicode Make Your Google Snippets Stand Out
We’ve seen emojis and all forms of unicode in the Google search results over the years. Most Google will prevent from working because it makes the search results page look awkward. But for some reason the Math sans bold unicode characters work fine i…
Google: No Plans Yet On Migrating Disavow Link Tool
Currently the disavow link tool is available in the old Google Search Console. It has not been migrated to the new version. John Mueller of Google was asked when it will be moved and he responded on Twitter “We don’t have any plans announced for that …
Search Buzz Video Recap: Google Search Console Delays, Increase In One Boxes & Search Is Hard
Just a note, I am offline, this video and post was pre-recorded and scheduled to be posted today. Google Search Console is still having delays – I hope it is fixed soon or by the time I wrote this. Google seems to be showing more image boxes…
Google Posts Reminder On How Structured Data Can Richen Search Results
Daniel Waisberg, who recently moved to the Google search team, posted his first blog post under his new position. In the blog post he posted a reminder on how structured data can help richen up the search results. There is nothing new in the blog post…
Google Really Wants You To Use Remote Job Markup For Job Schema
In February, Google sent out Search Console notifications that you can and should add job opportunities that are available to remote workers after launching markup around that a year prior. Okay, so Google is reminding people to use the markup – okay….
Google: You Cannot Isolate Specific Ranking Factor Successes
I am going to do it, I am going to read between the lines here on a John Mueller tweet. In short, he said that you really cannot say that one specific ranking factor is the reason why a site might be doing well or poorly in search, even if that site f…
Google: Sitemap Dates vs Web Page Dates
John Mueller from Google explained on Twitter the difference between the timestamp date in an XML Sitemaps lasmod date and the date on a web page. John said the sitemaps lastmod is when the page as a whole was last changed for crawling/indexing. The d…