Google Ads Keyword Planner Adds Features
Google Ads is adding a bunch of new features to their keyword planner tool. Ginny Marvin dug into the features in detail at Search Engine Land, but here is a summary from the announcement screen provided to me by Ross Barefoot on Twitter.
Bing Search Makes Improvements To Their Intelligent Answers, Text-To-Speech & Visual Search
Bing published some upgrades they made to Bing search the other day. In short, they upgraded their intelligent answers system, their text-to-speech capabilities and their visual search engine.
Google: Premier Partners Get No Special Treatment To Core Search
This may or may not be obvious but Google Partners have no special access to organic search in Google. They don’t get special treatment, they don’t simply rank better because they are a Google partner. In fact, there is no Google Partner status for org…
Google Search Ranking Update On March 26th?
There is some early chatter of a possible Google search algorithm update touching down last night and this morning, March 26th and March 27th. It might be too early for some people to notice or it might just be a blip. It also might be tweaks and tremo…
Google AMP & Mobile Friendly Tests Adds Code Editing
Yesterday Google added the ability to edit code inline within both the AMP test and the mobile-friendly test. So you can run the tools on your URLs and then make code changes in the tool’s code editor, rerun the test and see the outcome.
Google: Schema Still Not Required For Featured Snippets
Google’s John Mueller said once again that schema is not required for having featured snippets. Back in 2015 he said schema may help get you featured snippets but then shortly after Gary Illyes said Google does not use schema or structured data for fea…
Having Both Mobile URLs & Responsive Design Can Confuse Google
Google’s John Mueller said that if you have a web site that deploys both a separate mobile URL and also has a responsive design, it can lead to confusing Google. He said on Twitter “We’d probably get confused – which one should we show when? It’s uncl…
Google: Accents In URLs Work Fine For Google
Google’s John Mueller said on Twitter that having URLs with accents are perfectly fine for Google. John said “Accents in URLs are no problem — feel free to use them.”
Revealing The Google March 2019 Core Update Survey Results
About ten days ago we began collecting data from you all around the Google March 2019 core update that touched down on March 12th. We collected over 500 responses and I wanted to share the results with you all.
Google Image Search Tests Article Slide In Feature
Here is a new test spotted by Jose Varghese on Twitter where Google Image search is letting you drag up the article an image is sourced from. As you can see from the GIF or video below, Google lets you drag up the Verge article from the bottom of the …
Gary Illyes The Googler Who Discovered rel=prev/next Was Not Being Honored
Want to know which Googler found out that Google was no longer honoring the rel=prev/next? It seems it was Gary Illyes, a Google webmaster trends analyst who we often cover over here, was the individual who noticed this and escalated it to the public….
An Active XML Sitemap That Errors Out Won’t Slow Google’s Crawl
Martin MacDonald asked Google’s John Mueller if Google’s crawl behavior might change if an active XML sitemap begins to error out. John said it shouldn’t.
Google Search Algorithm Update Fluctuations From March 20th to 22nd
As you know, we had a pretty big Google update that Google confirmed as a core update on March 12th. Around March 20th, 21st and 22nd, I saw the forum chatter spike back up a bit and the tools light up – but it wasn’t as huge as that last update and w…
Google’s rel=prev/next Messaging: Nothing Has Changed
Google keeps saying the same thing over and over again regarding their communication around the rel=prev/next blunder. Simply that nothing has changed, to do pagination just like you always have been doing and that is it.
Google: There Is No Google Organic Traffic Budget
Google’s John Mueller said on Twitter that Google doesn’t have an organic traffic budget that will stop sending a site traffic once it reaches a certain number. He said “we try to show pages in search when our algorithms think they’re relevant, not ba…
Google’s Latest Advice On Pagination & Page Series Post rel=next and rel=prev
As you know, Google told us they just realized that rel=next and rel=prev is no longer supported for the past year or so. Yea, I know. So now what? How do you ensure Google can find your paginated content? How do you communicate to Google a series of…
Bing Uses rel=next and rel=prev For Discovery But Not Merging Pages
With all the controversy around Google just noticing they haven’t supported the rel=next/prev and now trying to dig themselves out of a hole – folks are curious how Bing supports it. Frédéric Dubut from Bing said on Twitter that Bing uses them for discovery and understanding site structure but they do not use it to merge pages into a set.
Google Web Spam Report: Google Sent 33% Less Manual Actions Last Year
Google has released their annual web spam report and I just love comparing the previous year report to this one. Here are some of the highlights from the report, including Google sent 4 million manual actions in 2018, where sent 6 million in 2017.
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Google On Neural Matching vs RankBrain
After I wrote up the what is neural matching, I got to thinking and decided to email Google a bunch of questions, which I published at Search Engine Land as Danny Sullivan posted the answers on Twitter via the @searchliaison account.
Search Buzz Video Recap: More On Google March 2019 Core Update, Google Drops Rel Next & Prev & Neural Matching vs RankBrain
What a fun week in the SEO space – we had Google do some explaining or myth busting around the March 2019 core algorithm update, no – it wasn’t a reversal. Google just noticed that they have not supported the rel=next/prev markup for years now…
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