Search Buzz Video Recap: Google Bugs, Navigation Removal, AMP Updates, OMG I Don�t Know & More
This week, we covered the ongoing Google bugs, this time with Google News indexing, Search Console issues, and other issues with Google. Google also is unaware of a…
Google AdSense Notification: Your payment amount is higher than your chosen form of payment
Yesterday, tons of Google AdSense publishers noticed alerts and notifications in the AdSense console that read “Your payment amount is higher than your chosen form of payment.” They didn’t know what to do and I saw tons and tons of complaints from pub…
Google Uploads Last JavaScript SEO Video: Dynamic Rendering For JavaScript Sites
Google’s Martin Splitt has uploaded his last video in the series of videos around JavaScript and SEO yesterday, this one was on the topic of dynamic rendering. It goes over how and when to use dynamic rendering on your JavaScript sites.
Google’s Paul Haahr: Search Engines Consider Spam Fighting A Competitive Advantage
Google’s Paul Haahr, a ranking lead in the search department, said on Twitter that he believes that “web search engines have considered spam-fighting a core competency (and competitive advantage) since the early days.”
Poll: Do Google Posts Help Your Google Local Rankings?
A thread at the Local Search Forums has different local SEOs saying different things about how Google Posts helps their local rankings in Google Maps and local. Some say it helps, some say it doesn’t help and some don’t know either way.
Navigation Removal Trick Impacting Google Rankings Algorithm?
An SEO, I believe his name is Alexander, asked John Mueller of Google in this morning’s video hangout if Google is aware of a trick some sites are using to combat any negative impact from the August 1st medic update. John was unaware and confused by t…
Google: Use Site Command For Checking Individual URLs
Google’s John Mueller said on Twitter that you can use the site command to check individual pages and see if they are indexed. Generally Google tells SEOs not to depend on the site command but with the URL inspection tool and other Search Console issue…
Google Search Algorithms Are Designed To Be Granular But Older Updates Were More Broad
Google’s John Mueller said on Twitter that when it comes to Google’s search algorithms they try to go as granular as possible. But in the older days, the older Google updates may have been broader, he said.
OMG: Google’s Internal Alert System
At the BirghtonSEO conference last Friday, John Mueller was interviewed by Hannah Smith – and one thing she brought up that was new was that Google has an internal system to deal with big issues called OMG. The way the Q&A went with that question was kind of funny.
Google: It Is Hard To Measure If Publishers & Content Producers Are Happy
Again, at the BirghtonSEO conference, John Mueller was asked about how do they know if they are doing a good job with making publishers happy. Do they have metrics to determine if they are doing a good job. John Mueller said they do look to make publ…
Google My Business Rolling Out Short Names & URLs
Google My Business is rolling out a new feature to let businesses define their short name and URLs within Google My Business. This way you can when you share your short name, customers can enter the short name URL in the browser’s address bar, like “g….
Google AMP Now Can Support Real Publisher URLs
We knew this was coming and at the AMP Conference in Tokyo, Google announced support for publishers to use their own URLs when serving AMP pages in Google search. This is powered through signed exchanges and supported with more modern browsers.
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Google Fixing Another Indexing Bug With Google News
Google said yesterday they are aware of an indexing bug impacting a limited number of publishers and they are working to fix it. It seems like the fix has been rolling out, although Google has yet to confirm this issue has been resolved yet.
Google: No, You Can’t Force Someone To Link To You Legally
Back in December we reported that Google updated their link schemes guidelines to disallow “requiring a link as part of a Terms of Service, contract, or similar arrangement” to link to you with a do-follow. The topic came back up when SEO personality …
Google: Some Other Google Bugs May Be Related To The De-Indexing Bug
It seems like the past month or so has been a tough one for the Google engineers. We have seen bug after bug, many we haven’t even covered yet over here. The question is, are they related and when will most of them be resolved. Of course, one thing …
When Google Says I Don’t Know, They Might Know.
Google’s John Mueller said on stage at BrightonSEO last Friday that sometimes when Google says “I don’t know” they actually do know but they don’t know the proper PR way to answer the question yet.
Daily Search Forum Recap: April 16, 2019
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web.
Search Engine Roundtable Stories:
When Google Says I Don’t Know…
Google’s Indexing Bug Spreads Like A Virus To Coverage Report, URL Inspection Tool & More
The Google de-indexing bug, which took about 6 days to resolve and is supposedly resolved as of last Thursday is now causing issues within Google Search Console. The coverage and enhancement reports, as well as the URL Inspection tool are all impacted…
Google Showing Previously Fetched Results – Update Button
Google is testing an option for some searchers to refresh the search results, like we saw back in June of last year, but they reworded the messaging to read “showing previously fetched results” and then an update button. Here is a screen shot from Tej…
You Want Google To Stay Stagnant & Not Improve?
As you know, Google is making efforts to update their GoogleBot to crawl the more modern web. We reported it about it last week. But that bothered at least one SEO who complained that they worked on all these workarounds and now Google is going to di…