Google: Just Link Naturally
Google just wants you to link naturally and not worry about linking out. If you want to link to a site because it is something your readers would find useful, then link away. John Mueller from Google said on Twitter “Just link naturally, no need to d…
Google Local Panel Adds See Other Locations Link
Google has added a link in some of the local knowledge panels, including the hotel ones, that say “see other locations.” So when you are viewing a specific location, it lets you click a link to see other locations from the same or similar brand.
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Google News Publishers Complaining About Indexing Issues
In the past few days there has been an uptick in complaints from Google News publishers around Google not indexing their new news content. Gary Illyes from Google did a rare appearance on Twitter to say he passed along the feedback to the Google News …
Google My Business Insights Has No Plans To Give Longer Periods Of Data
Google My Business said on Twitter that while they are reviewing the feedback around expanding the data in the Insights tab, there are no current plans to give more than a quarter worth of data in that analytics section. It doesn’t mean it won’t happe…
Google Opens web.dev To Measure Your Site
Google has launched on web.dev a beta of various web site reporting tools that show you how well you are keeping up with best practices around your web site. Google said “With actionable guidance and analysis, web.dev helps developers like you learn a…
Veterans Day Logos From Google & Bing In 2018
Yesterday was Veterans Day but it is also being observed today, Monday, in America. Google and Bing have special home pages and logos for the day. The interesting thing is that former Googler, Matt Cutts, said on Twitter “After some not-great logos i…
Google Tests Moving Magnifying Glass In Related Searches
Hold on to your hats, Google is testing moving the magnifying glass from the right side of the related searches box to the left side of that related searches box. I know, it might be too much for you all to handle – but Google is indeed testing it.
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Google Hotel Highlight Icons Tests Triggering Overlays
Sergey Alakov spotted a new Google hotel search results test, this one with the hotel highlight icons triggering overlays on top of the listing. This way when you click on a highlight icon, it shows you more details and you can swap to see more highli…
Google PageSpeed Insights Report Revamped With Lighthouse Data
Google seems to have just rolled out a redesign for their Google PageSpeed Insights tool. The new design shows a lot more graphical reporting, the speed score uses lab data analyzed by Lighthouse and Google is showing a lot more detail. In addition, sc…
Google To Review Some Poor Quality Search Health Results After Medic Update
Google’s Danny Sullivan responded to one of the complaints about the quality of the search results after the Google Medic Update (not an official name given by Google) around drugs and supplemental drug searches yielding spammy and broken search result…
Google Doodle For Amanda Crowe
Today on the Google home page in the United States is a Doodle to remember and honor the life of Amanda Crowe, the artist. Amanda was a woodcarver and educator from Cherokee, North Carolina who was an Eastern Band Cherokee. She was most well known for…
Google Team Meets Regarding SEO Feedback On Display Of Snippets & Search Results
A couple weeks ago Danny Sullivan from Google asked SEOs about providing feedback on how Google shows the search results, the snippets, links, structured data, etc. Now he shared a photo of a large meeting with that team reviewing all that feedback. …
Google Tests Multifaceted Featured Snippets In Desktop Results Again
Google confirmed with Search Engine Land the other day that they are experimenting with showing multifaceted featured snippets on desktop search, it was rolled out for mobile search some time ago. A couple weeks ago we saw some people seeing it and no…
Google Tests Bold URLs & Breadcrumbs In Search Result Snippets
Fresh out of the snippets team meeting, Google is testing bolding the URL and/or breadcrumbs in the search result snippets. I doubt the meeting is related to the test, but heck. Either way, Google is constantly testing this type of stuff, I just find i…
Search Buzz Video Recap: Google Spooky Search Updates, Search Console Domain Property, Lazy Loading SEO & Google Ad Placements
This week, we had another, maybe larger Google algorithm update on November 7th or so that may have shifted the Halloween update. I posted the monthly Google webmaster report…
Google Search Console Tests New Domain Property
Google hinted they were working on a new concept for property sets within the new Google Search Console. Well, here is a screen shot of one person gaining access to what Google is calling the “new Domain Property.”
Google: Disavow File Spaces Does Not Cause Sites To Drop In Ranking
It has been a while since I saw John Mueller from Google outright call someone’s SEO theory “completely incorrect.” There is an article where an SEO said that a space in his disavow file results in his site tanking on November 1st. John said that is …
Google Ad Grants Deactivations Spike; Reactivation Requests Necessary
Michelle from the Google Ad Grants team confirmed in a Google Ads Help thread that Google has recently deactivated a nice number of Google Ad Grant accounts before the big charity season because of compliance issues. There is now a backlog for Google …
Google Doesn’t Care If You Copy Legal Disclaimers & Privacy Policies
Google’s John Mueller responded that it’s no problem for Google if you copy a legal disclaimer or privacy policy you used on one of your web sites and gave it to another web site. I mean, think about it, do you want your legal disclaimers to rank well…
Google Ads Has New Ad Metrics To Help Clarify Ad Positions
Google is rolling out four new ad metrics to help clarify the position of the ads displayed in Google search. The new ad metrics are Impression (Absolute Top) % and Impression (Top) % and Search (Abs Top) IS and Search (Top) IS.