Google To Webmaster: Start Over & Make A New Web Site
Every now and then you hear advice from Google to a webmaster where they simply give them the hard news that they need to start over. Google’s John Mueller did that on Sunday when he told one webmaster that he needs to start over.
Google My Business Team Backlog & Experiencing Delays Of 2-3 Weeks
Google My Business has told one local SEO via Twitter direct message that the team is delayed 2-3 weeks. They wrote “please be aware that the team is currently experiencing a backlog and responses may be delayed for up to 2-3 weeks.”
Images In Featured Snippets & Google Search Console Rankings Can Confuse You
Do you ever notice that your rankings in Google Search Console shows you rank for a particular keyword phrase in position one but you can’t figure out why. Sometimes it is related to regional rankings and you need to use the filters to narrow it down,…
Summer Season Logos From Google, Bing, Yahoo & More
Today on Google’s home page, Bing’s home page, Yahoo’s home page and even our home page are logos and themes welcoming the first day of summer. Google has a globe with a beach chair out in the sun, Bing has the sun voyager, Yahoo has a sunny logo and …
Google: Disallowed URLs Through Robots.txt Does Not Affect Crawl Budget
Gary Illyes from Google added to the big crawl budget article he published on the webmaster blog in January 2017 a new question and answer. It basically says that if you disallow a URL in your robots.txt file, then those URLs do not affect your crawl …
Google My Business Launches Short Names, Cover Photo, Logo & More
Google My Business announced a number of updates to the platform yesterday to help small businesses do more with their Google Maps and local listing on Google. In short you can personalize your business profile by adding a cover photo, logo, and claimi…
Google Ads Carousel “People Also Considered”
The folks at SEMRush spotted a new test format for Google Ads in the mobile search results. This one is in a carousel format where you can swipe left to right between ads and this carousel is named “people also considered.”
Google Allows Emojis, Links & Unicode In FAQ Rich Results – For Now…
Google launched FAQ schema at Google I/O and we have learned that implementing can result in a drop in traffic. So what can you do to increase clicks? Maybe drop links, emojis and unicode in your schema so that they show up in the FAQ rich results in …
Google Maps Fake Business Problem Gets Big Media Coverage
You and I and the whole local SEO community know how bad the Google Maps business listing spam issues are. We’ve been covering it forever. We know Google is trying to make efforts to improve things but the spammers are always one or two steps ahead of…
Search Buzz Video Recap: Google Algorithm Shift, Google vs Genius Lyrics, Google Search Console, Maps, YouTube & More
This week in search I covered a possible Google algorithm and ranking update on June 19th. Google said the core update and Panda update are not the same thing…
Google Webmaster YouTube Channel Breaks 300k Subscribers
Did you know that the folks who work in the Google webmaster team are also YouTube celebrities? Yesterday the Google Webmaster YouTube channel surpassed 300,000 YouTube subscribers – that is a big deal in YouTube subscriber world.
Google Mobile Friendly Testing Tool Tests New Evergreen GoogleBot
44 days ago, Google announced the new evergreen GoogleBot, a GoogleBot that will be on the latest version of Chromium going forward and that has all the latest features of a modern browser for indexing. But with that, Google said not all the testing t…
Google Adds Link To Lyrics Provider & Former Googler Blames Ranking Team For Confused Lyric Result
Yesterday, as expected, Google added a link to the footer of the lyrics box to show who they licensed the lyrics from. So now Google can fully say who they got this content from. But what I found even more interesting was how former Google search qua…
Google Asks: Want A Nofollow Filter On The Internal Link Report In Search Console
Google’s Gary Illyes posted a Twitter poll yesterday asking if you would like the Google Search Console team to add a toggle or filter to the internal link report to show which links are nofollowed and not nofollowed.
Moz: Google Diversity Update Was A Tiny Improvement & Maybe A PR Maneuver
Moz published data showing how based on their 10,000 keyword data set that the Google diversity update where Google would infrequently show more than two results from the same domain was a tiny change and possibly done as a PR maneuver to appease the r…
Google: Pages Can Rank For Image Alt Text Content In Web Search
John Mueller from Google stated on Twitter that your web pages can rank in Google web search for content that you put within image alternative text. He also added this is easy to test, and SEOs have over the years, by putting a unique string of text i…
Google To Genius: From Now On, We Will Show You Who Is Stealing Your Lyrics
Got to love this exchange – you have Genius coming out saying we caught Google red handed stealing/scraping our lyrics from our web site. Google then yesterday says, we didn’t do it, we paid for LyricFind to give us these lyrics they may have stolen f…
SEO Poll: Many SEOs Still Focusing On Desktop Page Analysis
Alyeda Solis posted a Twitter poll that received almost 1,000 votes that showed that many SEOs are still pretty focused on the desktop analysis of their web pages. So while Google is taking a mobile-first approach, SEOs still seem to spend a considera…
Complaints Over Google My Business Reinstatement Delays
There are many local SEOs who are complaining about the delay with Google My Business in reinstating businesses that were suspended. I am seeing numerous complaints in the forums and on Twitter about this.
Google Does Show Hidden Content In Accordions & Tabs As Featured Snippets
The other week we asked if Google shows content within tabs or accordions or other forms of hidden areas in the featured snippets section. We asked this because Google said for the normal search results snippet, Google said they don’t show this type of…