Google News Publishers Continue To Have Indexing/Ranking Issues
Since before October we have been covering issues uncovered by news publishers that their content is not being properly indexed and ranked in both Google News and Google web search. Well, after Google said they fixed it numerous times, there are still…
Bing: Machine Learning Leads To More Human Like Ranking In Search
Bing’s Frédéric Dubut said on Twitter and in a quote at Search Engine Journal that machine learning helps with scaling generalizing, which is how humans would manually rank search results. So using machine learning to rank search results is a good way to get Bing’s search results to look more human tailored and thus better.
Google: We Don’t Need To Notify You Of Bad Links Because We Just Ignore Them
Since the Penguin 4.0 update Google devalues bad links versus demoting the pages they link to. So when John was asked why Google Search Console doesn’t have a way to notify webmasters of bad links pointing to their site, John said “If we recognize the…
Google Expedites Closing Google+ After Another Security Bug
We knew Google+ was shutting down but Google announced they are now expediting this process since a new security bug was discovered with the Google+ API. 52.5 million users in connection with a Google+ API potentially had their name, email address, oc…
Google For You Tab Expands To iOS Devices & 130 Countries
Google announced they are expanding the “For You tab” in the Google search app to iOS devices and over 130 countries. Specifically adding For You to over 40 countries on iOS and 130+ new countries on Android. I am not sure why iOS has fewer than Andr…
Google Lens Finally On iOS Devices
Google Lens, the tool to have your camera look at objects and detect what they are, is now available on iOS devices. Bing’s search app had many of these features for iOS but now Google does as well.
Google: Moving Hosting Companies Doesn’t Cause Ranking Declines
Google’s John Mueller said that moving to a new hosting company doesn’t cause ranking declines. Of course he means if the new hosting company doesn’t prevent GoogleBot from crawling your site. But in general, moving hosts doesn’t have a negative impact…
Google Search Console Performance Reports & Search Analytics One Day Off Still
Back in January, we reported that when you look at the new Google Search Console Performance report and compare it to the old Search Analytics report, they do have the same data but the day they plot the data is a day off from each other. With Google s…
Nelly Sachs, Jewish German-Swedish Poet, Gets A Google Logo
Today on Google’s home page is a special typewriter looking Doodle, special Google logo, for the Jewish German-Swedish poet and playwright Nelly Sachs’ 127th birthday. She was born on December 10, 1891 in Berlin, Germany.
Google Renamed Communications Manager To Site Manager In GMB
Google has renamed the communication manager to site manager in Google My Business. With that site managers can create posts to promote events, share news, and more, update business hours, address, and phone number and manage information about amenitie…
Google Search Console AMP Errors Gets More General, Less Specific
Google posted on the data anomalies page that Google Search Console AMP error reporting starting today, December 10th, will become more generic in nature. Specifically Google said “AMP enhancement report will now combine some over-specific issue types …
Google URLs In Search Results Snippets Now Clickable
After much testing, it appears that the URLs in the Google search results are now clickable. I noticed it last week, I assumed it was a continuation of the test but I still see it today as do others like Ari Roth.
Google: Scrapers Are Not A Google Quality Or Ranking Signal
Google’s John Mueller had to say on Twitter that people scraping your content is not a signal that Google will rank your content better. John Mueller said “Scrapers copy all kinds of content without judging the quality, so I don’t think that would be …
Search Buzz Video Recap: Google Algorithm Changes, Sticky Search Bar, Filter Bubbles, Livestreams & Holidays
This week I covered the big monthly Google webmaster report for December. Google may have done a big search algorithm update last Friday. Google launched their sticky rounded search bar last Friday night. Google said they do not have a filter bubble…..
Google To Shut Down Many Old Search Console Reports December 13th
Google has posted the date of December 13, 2018 as the date they will be removing some of the old Google Search Console reports. The reports are already replaced by similar reports in the new Google Search Console.
Join Google’s John Mueller In Zurich For A Webmaster Hangout
Google’s John Mueller rarely invites people to join him for his webmaster hangouts but when he does, it is a good opportunity to have some fun at a Google office. If you are in Zurich this December 21st, you can go to the next hangout at the Google Zur…
Google Again: Do Not Worry About Words Or Keywords In URLs
Google’s John Mueller said it again, do not worry about words or keywords in the URLs. John responded to a recent question on Twitter saying “I wouldn’t worry about keywords or words in a URL. In many cases, URLs aren’t seen by users anyway.”
Google Assistant Testing Audio News
Google announced audio news for the Google Assistant. This is not speakable markup or YouTube videos playing on the Google Home Hub, this is real audio news, like broadcaster, podcaster, etc that produce audio form content.
Google: Canonical Tags May Not Work With Other Inconsistent Signals, Like Redirects
Aaseesh from Google responded to a complaint about Google not picking up on a web site’s canonical tags. He said that “even if you setup the canonical tags properly, other signals like inconsistent redirects can make Google not select your preferred U…
Google Images Best Practices Guide Updated, But What Changed?
Google announced yesterday on Twitter that they updated their Google Images best practices guide. I did a compare of the old and new pages, and for the most part, it seems like there is no new specific advice. They cleaned up some of the text and page …