Google Search Ranking Factors Include “Pornyness”
I know Gary Illyes from Google is going to roll his eyes when he sees this post, but I find it funny and I want to share what he wrote on this Reddit AMA regarding Google’s ranking factors. He was asked to share some more search ranking factors, and o…
Google Hints The Page Google Shows For The Duplicate Content Cluster Gains Signals
Gary Illyes from Google dropped a hint around if signals from other pages in a duplicate content cluster gets passed to the one Google shows in their search results. It is not clear in his response, which is by design but he said “generally the page in…
Google Shows Video Grid Format In Mobile Search Results With Up To 8 Videos
Google is showing videos in a grid format in the mobile Google search results between 2 and 8 videos for a single search results page. I was notified by multiple SEOs this morning of the user interface, I believe it is fairly new.
Google Doodle For Friedlieb Ferdinand Runge
On Google’s home page today is a cool looking Doodle, special Google logo, for Friedlieb Ferdinand Runge. Friedlieb Ferdinand Runge was a German analytical chemist who identified caffeine. Caffeine is a big deal for most of us, so we have Friedlieb F…
Google Tests Image Carousel With Refinement Bubbles
Google loves their refinement bubbles so much that they are also testing it on the image search box in web search. They have it for featured snippets, for image search and many other cases and now they are testing it in the image search box directly i…
Google Gary Illyes: RankBrain Is PR-Sexy Machine Learning
I love when Gary Illyes talks about Google. He was asked about what is RankBrain and goes off to explain that “RankBrain is a PR-sexy machine learning ranking component.” I would love to see how Google’s sexy PR team talks to Gary about this comment.
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Google: CTR, Dwell Time & Other UX Signals Are Made Up Myths
In that Reddit AMA with Gary Illyes, Gary said out right and clear that the theories around Google using UX and behavioral signals such as CTR and dwell time are “generally made up crap.” He added “Search is much more simple than people think.”
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Bing Strongly Recommends Publishers Use The Submit URL Tool
Last week we reported that Bing expanded their submit URL tool from 10 URLs per day to 10,000 URLs per day, removing essentially all the quotas. The shocking part in that announcement was that they seemed to want to do away with crawling as a strategy …
Search Buzz Video Recap: Google Algorithm Update, Search Console Analytics Consolidation & Bing To Slow Crawling
This week I published the monthly Google webmaster report summarizing the past month of changes in search with Google. Google may have done a search ranking algorithm update yesterday…
Google Search Console Is Down Right Now (Update: It Is Back Now)
Right now, if you try to access Google Search Console you will get a 404 page not found error.
This is not intentional, something is wrong and Google is working on the fix…
Google Search Console Performance Report Now Shows Consolidation Data
Google announced pretty big news for most of the readers here related to the performance report in Google Search Console. Starting the end of next month, the data in the performance report will be based on the canonical URL, which means the AMP, mobile…
Google Search Ranking Algorithm Update Happening Today?
I am seeing some early signs that there is a Google search ranking algorithm update happening today. Most of the signs are coming out of the UK, because maybe they have had time to process the changes. Are you noticing changes as of this morning with…
Google Updates Content Guidelines For QA Pages
Google has one again made updates to the QA page content guidelines, this time providing dos and don’ts with more detail. Previously Google added these guidelines in December of last year for the new QA page schema.
Bing Looking To Hire Project Manager To Work On Search Rankings
Bing’s Frédéric Dubut posted on Twitter that his company, Microsoft, is looking to hire a new project manager to work on the “secrets of the Bing ranking algorithm.” Specifically they are hiring a PM to work on the 10 blue links that show up in the Bing search results. He calls them Bing’s crown jewels.
Yoast To Add Live Indexing With Bing & Google
Joost de Valk announced at YoastCon that the popular WordPress plugin, Yoast SEO, will provide live indexing with both Google and Bing starting next month. I’ll be honest, I am a bit confused on how this will work with Google but I assume with Bing – t…
Google Denies Negative People Or Organizational Associations Can Downgrade Rankings
Google’s John Mueller was asked if Google’s algorithm can associate negative factors with people or organizations that would lead the unrelated site to be downgraded in their search results. John said he doesn’t believe Google has such an algorithm bu…
PSA: Old Google Search Console Not Closing In March, But Some Features Are
Google’s John Mueller issued a “PSA” this morning clarifying that the old Google Search Console is not closing in March. What is closing are some of the old features noted that are going away in March. But the old Search Console will remain active for …
Poll: Is Moz Domain Authority Helpful Or Hurtful To SEOs?
Moz announced massive improvements to how they calculate their Domain Authority, DA, scores. I wrote about the “controversy” around the score at Search Engine Land yesterday. I included a lot of your reaction to the announcement and now I want to pol…
Google: We Are Good At Ignoring Link Cruft
Google’s John Mueller said on yesterday’s Google hangout at around the 8:17 mark that Google is pretty good at ignoring link cruft. Basically old, spammy and irrelevant links accrued by the site over the years. This is similar messaging from before b…
Google Maps Adds Hotel Check-In & Check-Out Times
Google announced that hotels can now add their check-in and check-out times to their Google Local, Google Maps and Google Hotel listings. Brad Brewer shared a screen shot of one listing that already has theirs listed.