Google Search Console Adds Auto-DNS Verification With Some DNS Providers
Google announced it has added Auto-DNS verification with various domain name registrars to automate part of the verification flow. This is similar to what they did with GoDaddy and Google Domains, as well as similar to Bing’s announcement with Domain C…
Google Tests Capitalizing URLs Of Snippets In Search Results
Google looks to be testing, or maybe it is a bug, capitalizing the URL or breadcrumb part of the snippets in the search results. I see a number of folks on Twitter chatting about it and I have numerous screen shots of this in action.
Is Google Investigating Consolidation Issues With Google Search Console Performance Report?
There may (or may not) be an issue with the changes Google made back in February around consolidating around the canonical URL, which means the AMP, mobile, etc will all be counted towards the main URL’s data in the performance report. This may not b…
Google Shows Competitors Local Listings Above The Branded Local Knowledge Panel
This isn’t a good thing – Google can show a carousel feature of competitive businesses in the area when someone specifically searches for your company name in Google. So for a branded search that brings up a local knowledge panel for that business, Goo…
September 2019 Google Webmaster Report
This month we had two unconfirmed Google search ranking algorithm updates, one around August 17th and the other around August 29th. Google began penalizing domain leasing portions of sites, and also slammed a popular SEO with a link penalty.
The ev…
Labor Day – 2019 Logos From Google, Yahoo & Bing
Today is Labor Day in the United States and now for the fourth year in a row, Google has a Labor Day logo. Google use to not do Labor Day logos but now has consistently done them for the past four years. Yahoo and Bing also have special logos or desi…
Google Ads Now With Seasonality Adjustments For Smart Bidding
Google Ads has launched the a new feature for Smart Bidding that gives you more control over seasonality adjustments. To provide more control in these rare situations, you can now apply seasonality adjustments for Search and Display campaigns, Google …
Google AMP Stories For Live Major League Baseball Games
Mordy Oberstein noticed and posted on Twitter that Google is showing AMP Stories for live baseball games for Major League Baseball. This is literally during the airing of the live game.
Bing Places Also Lets You Import Your Google My Business Listings
Yesterday we reported that Bing Webmaster Tools lets you import your Google Search Console listings. Well now it also seems you can import your Google My Business listings into Bing Places.
Google My Business Insights Now On Google Maps Profiles
Google is now showing your Google My Business insights, or a snap shot of it, directly on your Google Maps profile – if you are the business owner or manager.
Google Image Search Removes Exact Size & Larger Than Tools
Google has removed the exact size and larger than search tools for image search. There are numerous complaints about this in the Google Web Search Forums and Google has yet to chime in about this feature going away but it is now getting some coverage …
Signs Of A Google Search Ranking Algorithm Update On August 29th
There are signs of a Google search ranking update touching down late August 28th through August 29th. There is both forum chatter within the SEO industry and the rank checking tools also. It is hard to say if this is a big update at this point, it st…
Google Algorithm Update, Penalizing Domain Leasing, Bing Integrates With Google & Much More
I did this video outside a hotel in St. Louis right by a highway, so I apologize for the quality – I also exported it lower resolution so I can upload it on my slow internet speed. Google seems to be doing a search ranking algorithm update…
Bing Webmaster Tools Lets You Verify Your Site Using Google Search Console
This seems weird at first site but Bing Webmaster Tools has a beta option to import your sites from Google Search Console. Yes, it seems the two search engines are working together to get more webmasters to verify their web sites in Bing Webmaster Too…
Google Reacts To DuckDuckGo On Why Not To Use Google Search
Danny Sullivan of Google responded to the claims and allegations from DuckDuckGo around Google’s biased search results.
Google Ads Tests Green “Advt.” Label
Google is possibly testing a new ad label, this one goes back from the black “Ad” text, to a green outlined “Advt.” label. This was shared to me by JaiKishan Raturi on Twitter, here is the screen shot.
Google Begins Penalizing Domain Leasing
Google issued a warning about sites that lease out its own subdomains and subfolders so that other companies can rank their content better on leased domains. Well, now it seems Google is taking action by penalizing those sections of sites that have th…
Google AdSense Adds More Methods To Improve Ad Quality
Google announced new “safeguards” to “protect the quality of our ad network, and the benefits to our publishers and the advertising ecosystem,” they said. This includes the site verification process and Google is enhancing its defenses even more by i…
Invalid Markup Does Not Cause Google Manual Actions
John Mueller from Google was asked if having invalid markup for structured data would lead to having a manual action. The answer is no, John said “Just having invalid markup wouldn’t be a cause for a manual action there.”
Google: Noindex Robots.txt Directive Won’t Work After September 1st
September 1st is just a few days away now and Google wants to remind us that those who depend on using the noindex direct in a robots.txt will be in trouble. Google is stopping supporting that starting September 1, 2019.