Google Knows When Its New Web Rendering Engine Will Be Released But Won’t Say
For a long time now, Google has been teasing that they are working on closing the gap between how Chrome renders pages and how GoogleBot renders pages. The web rendering engine Google uses for crawling the web is going to get a lot more advanced but G…
Google To Close Old Search Console By Years End?
Google’s John Mueller hosted a 100 or so person pre-SMX Munich talk with SEOs and developers the other day. Valentin Pletzer was there and he shared on Twitter that John Mueller said they do plan on closing down the old Search Console, it might be by …
Google’s Ranking Algorithm Allows SEOs To Be Unique
Google’s John Mueller responded to a Reddit thread where the webmaster didn’t understand why a competitor of his was outranking his site when the competitor had a page speed score of F. John Mueller responded saying “The nice part about using so many …
Why Moz Didn’t Publish On The March 2019 Google Core Update
Most of the data toolsets published some analysis around the March 2019 Google core update that took place on March 12th but not Moz. Want to know why? Well both Dr. Pete Meyers and Russ Jones from Moz shared why on Twitter after being called out for…
Google Webmaster Team Ends The Google+ Community
As you know, Google+ is closing down tomorrow, April 2nd – this is no April Fools joke. And one of the more active communities on Google+ for SEOs was the Google Webmasters community. The other day they posted a goodbye to Google+ and asked you follo…
Is Google Showing Knowledge Panel In Featured Snippet?
Dan Shure noticed Google showing a knowledge panel on the left side, where it looks like it is in the featured snippet box area. It almost seems like a bug or photoshopped but I can personally replicate this myself for the query – [radio history].
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You Got Work To Do If Robotted Out Pages Is Out Ranking Your Content In Google
Google’s John Mueller said on Twitter that if your content on your site is being outranked by robotted out pages, then you got work to do. In short, if you have a page on your site that you used the robots.txt file to tell Google not to crawl and it s…
Google: Links Not Shown In Search Console Are Generally Irrelevant
Google’s John Mueller was answering questions around an old topic of Google showing only a sample of links in the link report in Google Search Console. He said that generally if the links are not shown in the tool then they are “pretty irrelevant over…
Google Ranking Update Fluctuations Continue (3/29-4/1)
These fluctuations won’t die down, it seems like we’ve been reporting these tremors and fluctuations a lot since the beginning of the year and even more so since the release of the March 12th core update. We are seeing more chatter around these fluctu…
Matt Cutts, Still Leaves Honeypot Traps For SEOs
Matt Cutts, the former Google spam fighting lead, now the Administrator of the United States Digital Service, said on Twitter that he still has a “few honeypot traps” to catch SEOs and then will report them for fun.
Google Help Video On Angular SEO
Here is the next video in the series of JavaScript SEO videos from Google. This one is on Make your Angular web apps discoverable in search and SEO friendly. Martin Splitt from Google digs into the tech behind how this works and how you can help Goog…
Google Info Command Is Now Dead
As expected, Google’s info command no longer works. It stopped working yesterday afternoon. So now if you try to do the special search operator, you will just get search results from that site and nothing special.
Google: It Is Okay To Redirect Lower Quality Content Pages To Better Pages
Google’s John Mueller said in a video hangout the other day at the 50 minute mark that redirecting a low quality page to a higher quality page won’t hurt the higher quality page. Google will evaluate the content on the final page, the ultimate page, an…
Very Few Features Left In The Old Google Search Console
The old Google Search Console seems to be holding on for dear life right now. There are only a handful of features left in the tool that remain, including Data Highlighter, International Targeting, Remove URLs, Crawl Stats, robots.txt Tester and URL P…
Google: Long Term Plan You Should Switch To Domain Properties & Drop Other Forms
Google’s John Mueller said on Twitter a good long term plan for those who have verified properties in Google Search Console is to drop the individual property verification methods and just go with the domain properties method, where everything is combi…
Google Launches Google Ads Editor v.1 Replacing AdWords Editor
Google has launched the new Google Ads Editor to replace the AdWords Editor. This comes well after Google rebranded AdWords to Google Ads. With that, Google rebranded the AdWords Editor to Google Ads Editor and also added features.
Google Tests Adding Icons Back To The Search Bar Filters
Google is testing showing icons in the search bar filters next to the all, news, maps, images, shopping and other buttons. This takes them back to a user interface they had in 2011, which they shortly dropped a year or so later.
Search Buzz Video Recap: Google Algorithm Updates, Info Command Gone, Bing Updates, Google Ads, New UIs & More
This week in search, we saw a few more algorithm shifts with the Google search results, one around March 26th and one around March 20th…
Ahrefs To Compete With Google Search & Share The Wealth With Publishers
Yesterday, Dmitry Gerasimenko the CEO of Ahrefs – a beloved SEO toolset provider, announced on Twitter his company will be building a search engine to compete with Google. He knows it sounds crazy, he said that, but he said he wants to do it for two r…
Google Drops Info: Command But Has Added Canonical Info To URL Inspection Tool
Google has announced they are dropping the info: command, primarily used to tell webmasters which URL Google considers the canonical URL in their index. At least that is what Google has been telling webmasters to use for this purpose for years. Now, …