Happy Fourth Of July From Google, Bing & The Search Community
Today is the Fourth of July, Independence Day in the United States and to celebrate some of the search engines have special logos and themes. We saw Google’s baseball Doodle yesterday, that one is still up today. Bing has a fireworks theme from Lake …
Bing: We Never Supported Noindex In Robots.txt
Frédéric Dubut from Bing said that its search engine never supported the noindex in a robots.txt file before. So nothing is going to be changing with Bing on that front. While we heard Google did unofficially support it and will stop supporting it on September 1st.
Google Featured Snippets More Images Section
Google seems to be testing or launching (or maybe it is a bug) showing a more images section within the featured snippets. I had a couple of reports of people seeing this over the past 24-hours, I personally cannot replicate it.
Something New Is Coming From Google…Gary Has A New Idea…
John Mueller from Google posted on Twitter just a couple of minutes ago “Uh oh, Gary has a new idea…” So maybe something new is coming from Google that SEOs might not like or maybe John is just messing with the SEO community or maybe it is both?
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Google Ads API Goes Back Into Beta
Back in March, Google launched the Google Ads API into a production environment. But yesterday, Google decided to pull it back and move it back into a beta state. Why? Google said because of the performance issues.
Google Image Search Tests Sticky Image Preview Box
Google is testing, I believe, another image search design, this time with making the image preview box a sticky box on the right side panel. Google has been testing many variations of these image preview boxes in search for some time but this one is b…
Google To Drop Any Support For crawl-delay, nofollow, and noindex in robots.txt
Google posted this morning that they are going to stop unofficially supporting the noindex, nofollow and crawl-delay directives within robots.txt files. Google has been saying this for years actually and hinted this was coming really soon and now it i…
Daily Search Forum Recap: July 2, 2019
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web.
Search Engine Roundtable Stories:
Google To Drop Any Support For crawl-delay, nofollow…
Search Google For Fireworks & Get A Fireworks Show
Go to Google.com and search for [fireworks] on desktop or mobile and you will see Google light up the search results page with a fireworks display.
Google Shares Its Robots.txt Parser Code With Open Source World
Google announced yesterday as part of its efforts to standardizing the robots exclusion protocol that it is open sourcing its robots.txt parser. That means how GoogleBot reads and listens to robots.txt files will be available for any crawler or coder t…
List Of All The GoogleBot Robots.txt Specifications Changes
With Google aiming to make the robots.txt exclusion protocol a standard, they proposed some changes and submitted them the other day. Now, Google updated their own developer docs around the robots.txt specification to match. Here is a list of what has…
Google Works To Make Robots Exclusion Protocol A Real Standard
Google’s webmaster channel is on a series of posts every hour around the Robots Exclusion Protocol – in short, an hour ago, Google announced that after 25 years of being a de-facto standard, Google has worked with Martijn Koster, webmasters, and other …
Google Says Sometimes Old Posts Are Still Relevant, But Not In That Example
Google’s John Mueller said something very true on Twitter, he said “Sometimes even posts from 2014 are relevant.” “The date is not the only ranking factor,” he added. But the issue is, the example given is really not the case and that article is really…
Will Google Crack Down On Sites Leasing Out Its Subdomains
Google’s John Mueller addressed the topic of sites leasing or renting out subdomains off of their main domain and letting third-parties put their content on those subdomains in an effort to rank better in Google and sell more. John didn’t call it spam…
Google: It May Be Worth Looking Into Compressing HTML & CSS
Google’s John Mueller confirmed on Twitter that it may be worth looking into compressing your HTML and CSS. He said “Sometimes minifying HTML & CSS can reduce the size of the files, so it can certainly be worth looking into that,” when he was asked if it can help with SEO or rankings.
Google Images Makes It Easier To Share GIFs
You all know I love GIFs and now Google is making it easier than ever to share GIFs that you find in Google Image search. I personally cannot replicate the feature on my iPhone on any browser but Google said it was here.
Vlog # 1: Ryan Clutter of Horizon Media on Google Core Updates & More SEO
In our first ever vlog as part of the Search Engine Roundtable vlog series, I interviewed Ryan Clutter (@RyanClutt). Ryan is the Senior SEO Analyst at Horizon Media and full service marketing agency with an estimated billings of $8 billion and over 2,0…
Google SEO Mythbusting Video On SEO Challenges With Web Frameworks
Google’s Martin Splitt and Jason Miller, a Senior Web Developer Programs Engineer at Google, got together to create a video on the challenges around using web frameworks and how that may impact your SEO efforts.
Google Confirms GoogleBot Does Not Support HTTP Pipelining
Gary Illyes from Google confirmed yesterday that GoogleBot does not support HTTP pipelining. The truth is, most modern browsers don’t support it either by default. HTTP pipelining is a technique in which multiple HTTP requests are sent on a single TC…
Google: Site Migrations Can Take About A Day If Done Correctly
John Mueller of Google was asked about doing site migrations and if it can impact your SEO. The short answer is that it can impact your SEO but if you do everything correctly it can be a matter of days until everything is back to where it was prior to…