Google Won’t Show Content Hidden Within Tabs In Search Snippets
We know Google has said numerous times that content hidden within tabs on mobile is something that Google will index and rank. But John Mueller of Google explained they will not show this content in the search results snippet because users won’t see t…
Searchers Now Seeing Google Ads In Discover Feed
We knew this was coming, Google said ads will be shown in the Google Discover feed and yes, it is something SEOs are not a huge fan of. But it is here and there are ads on the Google mobile home page.
Change Of Plan: Google Images Not Changing Referral URL
July 2018 Google told us they would be changing the referral source URL from Google Images from https://www.google.com to https://images.google.com but that isn’t going to happen anymore. Google updated their post last month I believe saying they will…
Bing Open Sources Their Vector Search Algorithm To Make Finding Results Fast
Bing announced they have made their Space Partition Tree And Graph (SPTAG) vector search algorithm open source to help others who want to make it possible to search through billions of pieces of information in milliseconds.
Search Buzz Video Recap: Google Says No Updates, GoogleBot Info, Google Discovery & Gallery Ads, Bing Algorithms & Much More
It was a busy week, Google told us there were no core updates or infrastructure updates recently despite rumors there were. Google said they rolled out the new GoogleBot over several months and the indexing bugs…
Google Trips: Hotels, Flights, Weather, Things To Do & More
Google announced Google Trips, a more consolidated view of using Google for trips, travel and vacations. Google will put hotels, flights, things to do, places to eat, weather, packages and more right in a central place.
Google: Top Three Things A Developer Can Do For Search Rankings Doesn’t Include Links
Google’s Martin Splitt posted the first SEO Mythbusting series and in there, a developer asked him what can to help his sites and apps do better in search. What are the “top three things I should consider” he asked. Martin answered in the form of bein…
Google’s First SEO Mythbusting Video Didn’t Have Mythbusting
Watching the comments about Google’s first mythbusting video reminds me of the comments around the final season of Game of Thrones. All this hype for this series and the first show did not live up to its expectations. To be fair, the Googlers who put…
CJR Audit Claims Google Shows Limited Number Of News Sources
The Columbia Journalism Review posted an audit that showed that just 20 news sources account for more than half of article impressions in the Top Stories section of Google. This was posted on Reddit and one person posted about a far right news source n…
New Performance Planner In Google Ads
Google Ads announced a new performance planner tool that identifies the best spend amounts for your campaigns to drive incremental conversions, they said. Performance Planner is a tool that lets you create plans for your advertising spend, and see how…
Google Says Cache Date Bug To Be Fixed Soon
After months and months of complaints from the SEO community, Danny Sullivan from Google said the cache bug should be fixed soon. He posted on Twitter saying “We’re aware of this and expect it will be corrected soon. “It has no impact on indexing. We h…
Danny Sullivan Presents Webmaster & SEO Complaints At Google Ranking Fair
Danny Sullivan who is now at Google told us about these ranking fairs, where Googlers can show off ideas and features around Google search. Danny did his own this week and shared in his station many of the ongoing SEO and webmaster complaints and conce…
Google Ads New Discovery Ads, Gallery Ads, Showcase Shopping Ads, App Deep Linking & More
Google had their big Marketing Live event where they announced a boat load of new ad features yesterday. These announcements are captured nicely by Greg Sterling and the Search Engine Land team over here. Here is a very brief recap of these announcem…
SEOs Not Happy With Google Ads Announcements
As I briefly covered, Google announced tons of new ad features yesterday – two of the more controversial ones within the SEO community are the discover ads that show up on the Google mobile home page and the gallery ads that make some of the search ads…
Google: No Changes With Search Algorithm Or Infrastructure
Last Friday I reported about potential Google search ranking updates and then SEJ reported that I was wrong and it was an infrastructure update. Well, we both were wrong according to Google – Google said there were no recent changes around algorithm c…
Google Rolled Out The New GoogleBot Over Several Months
Just an FYI, Google did not simply flip the switch last week and turn on the new GoogleBot, the evergreen GoogleBot, over night. Google said it was already indexing 10% of the web back in November. It scaled from less than 1%, to 1%, 10%, 20%, 30%, 40%…
Google: New GoogleBot & Indexing Bugs Unrelated
Google’s Martin Splitt said the new GoogleBot has zero impact or was completely unrelated to the indexing bugs we saw back in April. He said “Fair question, but no” when I asked if they were related at all.
Steven Levy: Google Search Results Overrates Freshness As A Ranking Signal
Steven Levy, the tech reporter that most tech reporters look up to. He has interviewed legends of tech, has access to companies like Google and Apple more than others. He is a legend and when he called out Google’s search algorithm for failing him an…
Google: Don’t Just Blindly Delete Old Pages
Google’s John Mueller said on Twitter that it doesn’t necessarily make sense to just go into your content management system and delete old pages after a certain date. John said “FWIW sometimes good, old stuff becomes interesting again over time, so you…
SEO Test Proves New GoogleBot Is Live
Valentin Pletzer didn’t want to just take Google’s word that the new evergreen GoogleBot is live, so he tested it. In short, Google’s word was the truth and the new GoogleBot is indeed live.