Signs Some Googlers Care When Sites Get Hurt In Google Rankings
One of the things I see a lot from the SEO community is that they think Google employees, Googlers, do not care when a site has to cut staff or go out of business because of a Google update. While that may be true for some Googlers, most Googlers I’ve…
Google: Using Tag Manager For SEO Is Fine?
In December 2017, Google told us to avoid using Google Tag Manager for SEO experiments or SEO solutions. In fact…
Search Engine Roundtable Vlog – Searching The Roundtable Files – Need Your Help
I am attempting to start a new vlog series on the topic of SEO and SEM where I interview you – the SEO/SEM community about topics on SEO/SEM. I think I am going to call it Searching The Roundtable Files Vlog or something like that (if you like it or di…
Google To Pre-Announce Future Core Search Algorithm Updates
Danny Sullivan from Google said Google “probably will” pre-announce future Google core updates. He said this on Twitter when asked if Google will “be pre-announcing broad core updates again?”
Google: Links & Title Tags Matter To Ranking
Guess what – in 2019 – it turns out that links and title tags still matter to doing well in Google’s search results. We had John Mueller from Google said links matter for PageRank and thus building trust. Gary Illyes from Google say that HTML title t…
The Google Search Algorithm Is A Lot Of Trial & Error Coding?
A post from a former Google search engineer, Kevin Lacker, from 2006 recounts a conversation this engineer had with the former head of Google search Amit Singhal. It discusses how sometimes these engineers just tried trial and error to see what works,…
Google Proposes Building XML Sitemaps Into WordPress Core
Google’s Pascal Birchler, who has been with Google since this past January, but worked at WordPress since 2014 prior to that, published a new project where Google and WordPress want to integrate basic XML Sitemaps in WordPress Core and introduce an XML…
Programming Note: Offline Monday For Shavous 5779
This is a programming note: I am currently offline today for the Jewish holiday of Shavout. Anything posted today, June 10, 2019, Monday, was scheduled and pre-written last week.
Google Webmaster Conference Officially Launches
We knew this was coming and now Google officially launched the Google Webmaster Conference. The goal of this conference series is to bring top level webmaster related content, i.e. SEO, development, and other ways to make your site perform better in se…
Google June 2019 Core Update Finished Rolling Out Saturday, June 8th
Danny Sullivan from Google informed me on Twitter that the June 2019 core update that started to roll out on Monday afternoon, June 3rd, has finished rolling out on Saturday, June 8th. So the process took about five-days to fully roll out, which seem…
Google Search Console Discover & Search Overview Expands To 90-Days
Google updates the Search Console performance overview report to show a full 90-days of data for the search results and discover bars. Previously Google showed 28-days of data and now Google is showing 90-days of data for this overview dashboard.
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Google Search Console API Doesn’t Return Sitemaps Indexed Counts
As part of Google deprecating the old Google Search Console APIs, Google won’t be supporting showing the indexed count within the sitemaps commands. Google’s John Mueller confirmed this on Twitter.
Google Local Pack Finder Tests Choose Area Feature
Google is testing an option to let the searcher select which area they want the local pack finder results to zone into. Valentin Pletzer shared screen shots on Twitter of Google asking him to “Choose Area” at the top right, which brings up a numerous …
Did Crawling Changes Come Before The Google’s Core Update?
Google has actually said numerous times that spikes in crawl rates do not mean an algorithm update is coming. But before this Google June 2019 core update, I’ve seen some chatter of crawl declines and spikes of an update. So we asked John Mueller of …
Google Search Snippets Showing Tags Section
Back in 2017, Google use to show “tags” for some types of search results snippets. They really didn’t do anything outside of add content to the snippet but you couldn’t click on them or interact with them in any other way. Well, they are now back and …
Google: Don’t Let Your Dynamic Rendering Timeout
Google has been talking about dynamic rendering as an option for Google to index the content on some of your JavaScript pages for over a year now. Some have been trying it and one person said he is having issues because it tends to take too long for t…
Google: Keep Your Site Up To Date; No One Drinks Sarsaparilla
Google updated one of their documents on how to help people find your site on Google. In that document, they added a line that reads “Keep your site up to date: If your restaurant website hasn’t updated its menu since 1925, then update it; there aren’…
Google: Mobile-First Indexing Goes By Root Domain; Your Subdomains Move Over With Root
Google’s John Mueller said on Twitter that when your root domain is moved over to mobile-first indexing, that means all your subdomains move with it. I suspect that this is the case for (a) sub-domains that are not like hosted WordPress sites that use…
Google Women’s World Cup 2019 Logos
Google has launched its Women’s World Cup 2019 Doodles, home page logos, with a series of Doodles designed locally by many different artists.
Google Posts JavaScript SEO Myth Busting Video
Google’s Martin Splitt posted another SEO mythbusting video, this one on JavaScript and SEO. He did it with well-respected technical SEO Jamie Alberico. The video basically says JavaScript is not the devil ð.