Google: We Use The Most Restrictive Crawling Command On The Page
Google’s John Mueller said in a Reddit thread that Google will typically use the most restrictive crawling command or signals they find on the page. “Google will use the most restrictive setting you have on the page,” John Mueller said. It doesn’t mat…
Google: Searchers Can Tell The Difference Between Search Ads & Organic Listings
There have been many claims and studies that say searchers have a hard time telling the difference between the paid search ads and the free organic listings. Google’s Paul Haahr said on Twitter that those claims are “not true from everything I’ve seen…
Google Poll Searches Asking “Satisfied With These News Results?”
We’ve seen Google ask searchers if they are satisfied with the search results before. Using smily faces or other forms of voting. Here is a screen shot asking searchers if they are satisfied with the news results in the top stories within search.
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Google Begins Their Happy Holidays Logos
This Sunday, Google has begun posting their annual happy holidays Doodles, special Google logos. Some are animated, some are not, some are for the northern hemisphere and some are for the southern hemisphere. I’ll keep updating this story with the n…
Google Winter Solstice Doodle For First Day Of Winter
On the Google home page is an animated Google Doodle, logo, for the first day of Winter – the Winter Solstice. This Doodle is specific to those searchers in the Northern Hemisphere. We also have a cool animated theme here, so check it out on desktop….
Google Link Schemes Now Includes Contractually Requiring Follow Links
Over the past few months, Google added to their link schemes guideliens page a line that basically says you cannot require someone to link to you without the nofollow attribute. If you require such a follow link in your terms of service, a contract or…
Google Recognizes Web Mentions But Says They Are Not Links
In this mornings Google webmaster hangout, John Mueller from Google briefly touched on the concept of web site mentions without links. He said that Google would recognize a mention as a mention but he said it is not the same thing as a link. That wa…
Google Search Console Manual Action Reviews May Give You More Details
Generally, I always thought you only submit a review request for a manual action when you fixed the problem. But John Mueller of Google said you can submit the request to receive more details on where the specific issues are.
Search Buzz Video Recap: Google Algorithm Update, Mobile First Indexing Update, Medic Update, Link Schemes & More
This week in search, Google probably did a search algorithm update last weekend – but they did not confirm it. Google’s mobile first indexing is now on over 50% of…
Google My Business Products Beta Gets Update Design
Kara from Google said in the Google My Business Help thread that they have done a user interface refresh of the relatively new Product Editor interface. This can be found on some Google My Business consoles under the Product beta link.
Google Mobile First Indexing Notices Are Delayed Within Search Console
Google’s John Mueller said on Twitter that there is a delay currently with the notices that go out after a site has switched over the Google Mobile First Indexing. John said “We’re a bit behind with messaging of the mobile-first indexing because we’re…
Google How To Schema In The Search Results For Slack
It looks like Slack was able to leverage the new how to schema to get some of their API help documentation pages to show richer results in the Google search results.
Google Search Pronounce Feature
A Reddit thread shared a screen shot from I believe Google India where they have a search result that helps searchers pronounce words. It reminds me of the Word Coach feature also only available in India that helps searchers learn new words.
Still Having Google News Indexing & Ranking Issues? Start A New Thread
So you know, Google has been working on addressing issues around Google News publishers with being seen in the Google News and web search results. It seems most of the issues are resolved but if you are still having issues, Google wants you to post th…
Poll: Most SEOs Don’t Offer Guaranteed Success
You hire an SEO to typically improve how much qualified traffic your web site gets. With the aim of driving more conversions and revenue for your business. But do SEOs give guarantees on such performance? The answer is typically no.
Google: We Can Detect Automated Link Dropping
With all the chatter around links, negative SEO, the tools, etc – Google’s John Mueller said that the tools used to do automated link drops are “old school” and thus, Google has probably seen this behavior before. He basically said, Google is good at …
Poll: SEOs Like The Old Over The New Google Search Console
Most people, by nature, do not like change. I love new tools and playing with new things, but I like consistency and big changes I try to avoid. But also, change can bring really big opportunities. So when I saw the results around most SEOs liking the…
Google Mobile-First Indexing Now Used For Over Half Of Google’s Search Results
Just about two years after Google announced their mobile-first indexing initiative, to crawl the web as a mobile device first versus crawling the web as a desktop device, Google hit a major mile stone. Over 50% of the search results Google returns glo…
Google “Red Bridge” Logo For Paul Klee 139th Birthday
Today on Google’s home page is a special logo for the 139th birthday of Paul Klee. Paul Klee is a Swiss German artist who was known for his painting, drawing, watercolor, and printmaking. He was born on December 18, 1879 in Switzerland and passed on …
Google: Linking To Your Media Mentions Is Fine
There is so much paranoia around linking in the SEO community that some questions seems a bit overboard to me. For example, someone asked if it is okay to create a page showing the company’s media mentions and link to them or will Google frown on that…