Google My Business Guidelines For Practitioners Clarified
Google has made a small change to the Google My Business Guidelines explaining and clarifying the roles of practitioners. Joy Hawkins posted in the Local Search Forums that the line that was added was “Sales associates or lead generation agents for cor…
Google Finally Responds To Paid Links Allegations On Apache.org
For years we have known Apache.org, the Apache Foundation, has been giving thanks to its big sponsors and donors with a thank you page with links that do not have the nofollow link attribute on it. Google’s John Mueller, three years after I wrote abou…
Google: Headings Won’t Make Or Break Your Sites Rankings
Google’s John Mueller said in a Reddit thread that while “headings on a page are great for SEO & accessibility, but they’re not going to make or break your sites rankings.”
My First YouTube Subscriber Giveaway – Win Awesome SEM Stuff & Help Charities
I am doing a YouTube giveaway, where I give away free stuff for free based on if people subscribe to my YouTube channel. What am I giving away? Well, two main buckets; (A) up to $25,000 to charity and…
Google Local Maps Search Results Drops Pagination – A Bug?
If you go to Google Maps, search for a service in a locale, Google will not let you go to page two of those results. Instead, Google will just stop showing you results and ask you to “see web results” for more. Previously, Google would let you click t…
Google Has New Movie & TV Search Experience & New Developer Docs For Movie Schema
Google yesterday announced two movie and TV related things yesterday and they were not directly related. First Google launched a new mobile experience for searching for movies or shows. Second Google has new developer documents for movie structured da…
Google Hotel Results Now Displays Distance To Attractions
A lot of local SEOs are talking about how Google’s hotel search results now are showing searchers how far away a specific hotel is from an attraction you are looking to visit. Gus Pelogia posted a screen shot on Twitter of this and I think it is new.
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Google Search Showing Orgies For Things To Do In Dallas
Joe Youngblood shared a screen shot of Google showing orgy parties as an option for a query on [what to do in dallas tonight?] This worked yesterday and I am not sure I blame Google for showing it, it was a data feed from EventBright, and someone pla…
Search Buzz Video Recap: Google Search Algorithm Update, Crawl Spikes, Mobile Indexing, Movie Listings, Maps & More
This week in search I covered a possible Google search ranking update that touched down on September 4th or 5th. Before that we saw a spike in crawling activity from GoogleBot. I also posted the monthly Google Webmaster Report…
Majestic Goes Deeper Into Link Analysis
Majestic made a product announcement yesterday around how the tool can now show you more context around the links the tool analyzes. Dixon Jones, who hasn’t worked at the company in a year or so summed it up as “Majestic launched a new release that ch…
Google My Business Dropping Distance-Based Service Areas
Google announced it is removing the remaining distance-based service area businesses. It will be converting them to the closest named area. Google said “Service-area businesses currently based on a distance will be automatically converted to the clos…
Google: Some M-Dot Sites In Google Desktop Search May Be Unstable
Google’s John Mueller explained in this weeks Google webmaster hangout video that if you have a separate M-DOT site it’s more likely that Google might show your M-DOT version in the normal desktop search results. This can be corrected by redirecting…
Google On How It Picks The URL It Shows In Search
For most of the readers here, this is very old news but I loved how John Mueller broke it down in such a simple and clear way. This is how Google picks the canonical URL, the URL it shows in its search results, to searchers.
Google Search Ranking Algorithm Update On September 4th & 5th?
I am seeing new signs of yet another Google search ranking update starting late yesterday, September 4th, through today, September 5th. There is some early chatter in both the WebmasterWorld and Black Hat World forums. There are also some tools that ar…
Google Crawling Spikes: Large Increases In GoogleBot Crawl Activity
Google may be crawling sites more and harder over the past several days. The WebmasterWorld forums has several SEOs saying they are seeing significant spikes in crawl rates by GoogleBot. Also, I checked dozens of sites in the old Google Search Console…
New Google Ranking Factors 2019 Survey Results Now Available
About a month ago we asked you to fill out the SparkToro Google search ranking survey lead by Rand Fishkin. Well, now the results are out and Rand Fishkin published what 1,584 SEOs think about Google’s rankings.
Basecamp Google Ad: We Don’t Want To Run This Ad But Forced To.
Founder & CEO at Basecamp, Jason Fried, posted a screen shot on Twitter of a Google Ad the company bought that reads “Basecamp.com – We don’t want to run this ad.”
Switched To Mobile-First Indexing? Google Still Crawls Some Pages As Desktop
Even if your site was switched to mobile-first indexing, it doesn’t mean that Google will only crawl and render your pages using the GoogleBot mobile useragent. Google says they still send out the desktop GoogleBot to those pages to check on things.
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Google My Business: Business Profiles You Manage In Search Results
Cordell Crowley posted in the Local Search Forums a screen shot of Google showing him the business locations you have access to in Google My Business but directly in the search results. This is similar to Google Search Console showing your stats in th…
Vlog #14: Marie Haynes On Google Algorithm Updates, EAT & Penalties
In episode #14 of the vlog series at the Search Engine Roundtable I interviewed Marie Haynes (@Marie_Haynes). Before Marie got into helping site feel better in Google search, she worked with animals as a veterinarian helping animals feel better…
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