Google: Our Newer Search Algorithms Have Been Promoting Original Reporting In Search
Yesterday Google announced an algorithmic update it made to the search results a few months ago have been doing a better job at promoting original reporting. Not only promoting it in terms of ranking but keeping that original reporting up in the top s…
Friday The 13th Google Search Ranking Algorithm Update Chatter
I am seeing some early chatter of a Google search ranking algorithm update today on Friday the 13th, September 13, 2019. The chatter is super early but I am seeing it not just across WebmasterWorld, but also Black Hat World and social media. Some of …
Search Buzz Video Recap: Google Algorithm Updates, Promoting Original Reporting, Search Quality Raters, Nofollow Link Attribute Changes & More
I hope you like the new introduction style, it gives you a quick preview of the topics I am going to cover before I get into it, let me know in the comments and subscribe and smash that like button. :) I covered chatter and signs around a Google searc…
Google: No Need To Disavow Nofollowed Links
Google’s John Mueller confirmed that although the nofollow link attribute is just a hint now, there is still no need to use the disavow link tool for links that are nofollowed. He said on Twitter “You definitely don’t need to disavow nofollow links –…
Google Now Penalizing Subdomains Leasing, Not Just Subfolder Leasing
As you know, Google warned publishers about leasing out portion of their sites so that third-parties can piggy-back off the site’s authority and trust and rank their content better. Google then began penalizing some of those sections on the web sites …
WordPress To Adopt Google’s New rel=ugc in Next Release
Joost de Valk, from Yoast but a person who is super tight with WordPress, said WordPress will adopt the new link attributes announced by Google the other day. He said it will be introduced in the next release because “it’s a one line change” to the cod…
Google Ads Extends Removal Of Accelerated Delivery By 20 More Days
Google Ads has announced they are delaying the removal of the accelerated delivery option from September 17, 2019 to October 7, 2019. This gives you an additional 20-days to prepare your campaigns and stop using this accelerated delivery option.
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Google: Meta Robots Nofollow Is A Hint Also
Gary Illyes from Google clarified last night that if you place a nofollow in your robots meta tags, it will also follow the new rules as the nofollow link attribute. Hence, as Gary said “Meta robots nofollow is a hint now, like rel-nofollow.” Although …
Everything Google Has Said On The Nofollow Link Attribute Change
Google announced a change to the nofollow link attribute yesterday and with that announcement, Googlers spent the next day responding to questions about it on Twitter. I will go through what changed according to the announcement and then cover almost …
Bing Treats Nofollow Link Attribute As A Hint, Always Has
With all this discussion around the changes to how Google treats the nofollow link attribute, Bing chimed in about how they treat it. Fabrice Canel from the Bing search team said on Twitter “we always treated the nofollow link attribute as a ‘hint’, m…
Google Tests Vertical Line Next To Search Results Snippet On Hover
Google is testing a vertical bar or vertical line next to the search results snippets when you hover your mouse over the snippet. Mordy Oberstein said this was spotted by Shay Harel, the Founder/CEO of RankRanger.
Vlog #15: Mel Carson On Early Days Of Search, Working At Microsoft Ads To Starting His Own Firm
In episode #15 of the vlog series at the Search Engine Roundtable I interviewed Mel Carson (@melcarson) of Delightful Communications…
Pagination Back For The Google Local Maps Search Results
Last week we reported that the pagination feature for the Google Maps local results went away. Well, now it appears to be back. Some are seeing the old user interface for pagination, but I am seeing a new more slim version.
Bing Tests Scrollable Tabs Search Result Snippets
Bing seems to be testing a new design and layout for the search results snippets. The new layout looks like a carousel of tabs that you can horizontally scroll through when looking at a specific search result. Here is a screen shot from @Philcomputi…
Old Google Search Console Is No Longer Available
Google after two years of launching the beta version of the new Google Search Console and opening that beta up a year ago, Google has finally removed access to the old Google Search Console. There are still ways to get to some of the legacy reports bu…
Google: Our Systems Cannot Determine Accuracy Of Content
Danny Sullivan from Google said on Twitter “Machines can’t tell the “accuracy” of content. Our systems rely instead on signals we find align with relevancy of topic and authority.” So Google cannot determine the accuracy of content, I guess.
Google Shows Way Too Many � White Heavy Check Marks
If you do a search for [cars on ebay] you may see the Google search results polluted with those green white heavy check marks unicode. It is actually pretty annoying to even look at. Gabs shared this screen shot on Twitter, but what I see is not that…
Google Discover Feed Now Showing Restaurants
Recently, I guess the past couple of weeks or so, the Google Discover feed started showing restaurants you might be interested in. This is obviously important if you help local restaurants with their Google My Business listings.
Google Ads Bans Speculative & Experimental Medical Treatments
Google Ads is no longer allowing ads in its search network and other ad networks for products or services that promote speculative and/or experimental medical treatments. This includes Stem cell therapy, cellular (non-stem) therapy, gene therapy, and …
Google Updates The Search Quality Raters Guidelines On September 5th
Google has updated the Google search quality raters guidelines handbook on September 5, 2019. That is 16-weeks after it last updated the guidelines, which was on May 16, 2019 and before that, it was about 10-months since Google updated that document.
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