Google Search Console Won’t Be Impacted By The Latest Indexing Bug
So now that the indexing bug from yesterday is fully resolved, I had to ask if we should expect any ripple effect in Google Search Console or other areas. Gary Illyes from Google said he does not expect data loss in Google Search Console as a result o…
Google SEO Myth Busting Video On GoogleBot
Yesterday Google posted the second video in the SEO Myth busting video series, this one was on GoogleBot. It wasn’t really a myth busting video, like the first, but it was very fun to watch. It covers what Googlebot does, how it acts like a mobile br…
Google Mobile Search Redesign Live: Favicons & Ad Label Blending
For years Google has been testing placing the URL at the top of the search result snippet. Google also has been testing favicons near the URL as well for years. Google has also been testing a black ad label. Now it is officially all live in the main …
Google Can Now Index The Web Again
Yesterday we were the first to report that Google was having an issue indexing the web. Google then confirmed the issue a couple of hours later. It seemed it was resolved around 1pm ET yesterday. Google has confirmed two hours ago that it was indeed…
Google Algorithm Updates & Data Refreshes Are Different Systems
All of you know there are ranking algorithms, data refreshes and infrastructure changes – those are the big three. There are other things in search, such as feature changes, user interface changes and more. But they are all separate systems and don’t…
Google Tests Renaming Posts To Updates
Mike Blumenthal spotted Google renaming the Google Posts section in the local knowledge panel from “Posts” to “Updates.”
Google Stopped Indexing The Web?
There may be a serious Google bug or it might just be a interface issue – I am not sure – but if you try to find recent content indexed by Google – Google won’t be able to help you out. If you try to search for content in the past hour or so from site…
Bing Explains How To Submit URLs Via API
Remember earlier this year Bing wanted to slow crawling the web and request webmasters to push them content via their URL submission tool. They expanded their rate limits and opened their API for it. Now, Bing posted an easy to understand how to blog…
GoogleBot May Be Injecting Unwanted Meta Data Into Your Page
Let me first start off with the title may sound more scary than it is, but I tried hard to come up with a short title for this post and I failed (traveling this week and I am tired). In short, with the new evergreen GoogleBot able to do more, some ad …
Brian White, A Lead Spam Fighter Leaves Google
Brian White worked at Google for over 16 years, joining the company before I started this blog back in November 2002. He worked with Matt Cutts I believe almost his whole time while at Google and fought spam side by side with him and the webspam team …
Google John Mueller: Voice Search Query Data Shouldn’t Be A Priority
For years and years now, Google has been suggesting that Google Search Console way add ways to see your query data filtered by voice search. So you can see how people search using voice versus other inputs. John Mueller from Google said he personally …
Yandex Webmaster Tools: SEOs Should Check It Out
Have you ever checked out the Yandex webmaster tools? Yandex is a huge Russian search engine but you don’t need to care so much about your rankings in Yandex to use the tools. It also has link reports and other nice chunks of data that may be useful to…
Google URL Inspection Tool Is Not For Images
Google’s URL Inspection tool within Google Search Console only works for web pages. It doesn’t work for images or other file types yet. John Mueller from Google had to confirm this on Twitter the other day.
Glass Enterprise Edition 2 – Google Glass 2 Again?
Yesterday Google announced version 2.0 of Google Glass again. I say again because 2.0 I thought came out in 2013 when they came out with an upgrade of the version 1 model. But this is Glass Enterprise Edition 2, which is an upgrade of the version used…
Google Testing New Beta Versions Of Chromium On GoogleBot
Google has been caught testing features that do not work in Chrome 74, but work in Chrome 75. Chrome 75 is not out yet in production for the public, it is being testing in beta right now. Valentin Pletzer caught Google testing Chrome 75 features yes…
Google Updates The Search Quality Raters Guidelines After 10 Months
The last time Google updated the search quality raters guidelines was in July 2018. On May 16, 2019 Google pushed out an updated version of the search quality raters guidelines used by humans hired as consultants to review both the live and test Googl…
Google: POST Requests Use More Crawl Budget Than GET Requests
Martin Splitt from Google said one thing you need to be aware of when it comes to Google handling POST requests it that since Google doesn’t cache them, they can use more of your crawl budget than GET requests.
Google URL Inspection Tool Labels 410 HTTP Status Codes As 404
Did you know that the URL Inspection Tool within Google Search Console will label a 410 HTTP server status code as a 404 HTTP server code, not the 410 it truly is?
Google: No Need To Block Pieces Of Content From GoogleBot
It is common, you visit a web site, click through the web pages on that web site and you see that a large chunk of the page has the same content and elements as the rest of the pages on that site. Blocking those pieces of duplicate content is not nece…
GoogleBot Supports Simple POST Requests
Martin Splitt from Google responded to a question from an SEO around if Googlebot support fetch (or XMLHttpRequest) POST-requests? Martin said he had to test it and he did and he said Google does indeed support simple POST requests based on his test.
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