Google Has Fully Deprecated AJAX Crawling Scheme
Google has been deprecating, killing off support for, their old AJAX crawling scheme since 2015. It has been dying a slow death but now Google’s John Mueller has said on Twitter is has been fully deprecated.
Google People Also Search For Changing Things Up
Over the past week or so, Google has been testing different ways to show the people also search for feature in search and mobile search. We covered them showing up in the local results but look at these screen shots shared by Brodie Clark and Valentin…
Google Local Panel Shows Products & Services Section
Andy Simpson posted on Twitter and in the Local Search Forums a screen shot of Google showing a products and services section in the local panel result for a business. In Google My Business you have the option to fill in your products and services but…
October 16, 2018 Google Search Algorithm Update
Trust me, I am even getting tired of reporting on Google search algorithm updates – we’ve had so many but there are numerous signs of another update. One that touched down yesterday late morning, October 16th. Most, not all, but most of the automated…
Google My Business Insights Queries Report One Quarter Date Range Available
Google My Business Insights which gives you analytics around how well your Google local listings are doing, added a quarter filter date range to the new queries report. Google added a queries report back a few months ago, it only offered a week and mo…
GoogleBot Favicon: Google Has A New Favicon Crawler
Google may have a new web crawler that specifically looks for Favicons, the little icons you see in your browser bar next to the URL. Favicons are associated with a particular website or web page and can be customized by the site owner.
Google Search Algorithm Updates Impact Sites That Didn’t Have Ranking Changes
Google’s John Mueller said that most Google Search algorithm updates will have an impact on every site, even if the site did not see any ranking changes. John said on Twitter “our algorithms generally affect all sites in the search results, though not…
Google My Business Dashboard Adds Map To Address
The Google My Business dashboard typically by default only shows the address without a map on the info tab when you are looking to edit your address. But it seems Google is changing that to show a visual map even before you edit your location.
Google Again Tests Favicons In Search Results Snippets
Google is once again testing favicons in the search results snippets near the title of the result. We’ve seen Google test this last year, in 2013, in 2009 and other times. Here is a more recent screen shot from this year from Ric Rodriguez on Twitter…
Google: Huge Opportunity In Knowing JavaScript For Technical SEO
Google’s John Mueller believes that there is a lot of opportunity for a technical SEO to learn JavaScript. He said that there is going to be a lot more JavaScript development over the next couple years than in the previous two decades and having that …
Google People Also Search In Local Search Results
It looks like Google also has the “people also search for” feature in the local search finder results as well. If you go to the local results and click on a result and then click back to the results, Google will show you the “people also search for” ca…
New Google My Business Clear Option For Attributes
Google My Business lets you add attributes to your local business listing but there is no quick way to remove or clear these attributes. That is until today, Google just added a new feature clear out some of the attributes on your business.
Google: If It Is Not Documented, It Can Change Over Time
Here is some advice from Google’s John Mueller on Reddit. He said, “my go to answer for these kind of questions is if it’s not documented it could change over time.” The question was on how Google treats 301 versus 308 redirects.
Roberto Clemente Google Doodle Honors Puerto Rican Major League Baseball Player
On Google’s home page in the United States is a special Google Doodle for Roberto Clemente. Roberto Clemente was a Major League baseball player who played with the Pittsburgh Pirates. He died at the young age of 38 when he took a humanitarian trip on …
Google Top Contributors Are Now Google Product Experts
Google announced they have rebranded the Google Top Contributors program into what they are calling the Google Product Experts program. Google is updating the various badges and marketing around this program, but the people and what they do as volunte…
Google Tests Clipboard In Search Autocomplete For Recipes
As I reported at Search Engine Land yesterday, Google is testing a clipboard or notepad icon in the search autocomplete drop down suggestions. I am not sure what it does exactly, Google wouldn’t tell us, but it is different from the trending icons sho…
Search Buzz Video Recap: Google Search Updates, Google+ Shutting, Bing Not Listening & Moz Buys STAT
This week, I rushed a bit because I had a power outage this morning that set me back. Google may have done yet another Google algorithm update October 8th or so.
Google Ignores Browser Location Requests (Allow & Block)
You know those browser requests you get where it says this website wants to know your location and makes you click block or allow? Well, GoogleBot, Google’s crawler ignores them.
Google Updates Us On Search Updates Communication
I guess Google is sick of me asking them about their search algorithm updates because they posted a long Twitter rant/stream on how they communicate updates. Danny Sullivan on the @searchliaison account posted when and why they communicate about updat…
Moz Acquires STAT Search Analytics
Here is some good news out of Moz, they announced they are acquiring STAT Search Analytics. The overall feeling from the industry around this news is happiness. It seems this makes Moz look better after the downsizing and restructuring and people are…