Google Displays Search Console Stats In Search Results
Google is now showing Google Search Console statistics and a brief dashboard directly in the search results when you are the verified owner of the site and your site comes up in the search results. The dashboard shows you clicks, impression and averag…
Google Tests Clustering Featured Snippet Refinement Bubbles
Google began showing refinement filter bubbles under the featured snippets back in April. Now, according to STAT, Google is testing grouping or clustering these refinement filters into pairs. Here is a screen shot from Dan Nutter that captured this i…
Google: With Mobile-First Indexing, App Interstitials Can Be Problematic
Google’s John Mueller posted a PSA yesterday on Twitter saying that with the mobile first indexing rolling out, that if you have app interstitials and if those are taking up all your content, then that is what Google will see. He said you are are robo…
Google Tests Explore Carousel For Local Results
Google is expanding their test of the explore carousel for local results. This was first spotted back in May by Sergey Alakov and respotted by Dan Leibson the other day. The explore carousel looks to show similar local venues or places to your Google…
October 2018 Google Webmaster Report
The month of September was an insane month for Google, specifically for SEOs and webmaster. We have several unconfirmed algorithm updates with a couple confirmed ones. Google updates their image search design and algorithms as well. Google had their …
Google: Making Quality Links Is Against Google’s Webmaster Guidelines
Google’s John Mueller said in a Google Webmaster Help thread that making quality links is against their Google webmaster guidelines. He said “if *you’re* making quality links to your site, then that would be considered against our webmaster guidelines,…
Google Tests Search Box For Local Business Reviews
Google seems to be testing a search box in the reviews section for a local business listing in Google Maps and web search. I personally do not see this yet but Ben Fisher posted a screen shot of this on Twitter.
Fixed: Google Search Results Bug Prevents Clicks To URLs With + Characters
Google fixed a bug that prevented some searchers from viewing some search results over the past five or so days. It seemed to impact URLs that contained + signs in them or other special characters. Google confirmed the issue and fixed it as of yester…
Google Finally Releases Dynamic Rendering Documentation
Google has released the documentation around dynamic rendering. This was first announced back in May of this year and about five months later, SEOs and Webmasters now have something detailed and comprehensive to reference if they want to implement dyn…
This Is What Google Is Saying About The Google September Updates
So we had a nice number of updates to the Google search ranking algorithm in September. Google is honestly not saying much but they did confirm some of these updates, including the Google Birthday update. John Mueller from Google has commented about t…
Google My Business “Located In” Feature For Address Information
We know Google Maps can list businesses as being in a mall or other locations. But did you know some businesses can set that information by editing their information in web search. When you see a local result in Google, and you click suggest an edit…
Google Feed Is Now Google Discover
Google has renamed the Google Feed in the Google Search app to Google Discover. This was announced a week ago Monday at the search event and with it, more features are coming to the feed. The features include new topic headers with follow feature, more…
Poll: Most SEOs Feel Bad Links Can Hurt Your Google Rankings
Cyrus posted a Twitter poll asking even without a manual Google penalty, bad/toxic/manipulative backlinks can (a) are 100% ignored, (b) can damage your rankings and (c) can’t hurt, might help!. The results said most people think it can damage your Goo…
DuckDuckGo: Links From Wikipedia Help You Rank In Search Engines
A WebmasterWorld thread points to a DuckDuckGo, a search engine that competes with Google, help document that says that to rank well in all search engines can be done by getting good links from sites like Wikipedia. I guess no one told DuckDuckGo that…
Google Tests Navigation Slider For Mobile Search Results
Google is testing a scroll navigational slider for the mobile search results. Valentin Pletzer spotted this one showing screen shots of the slider in action. He told me the navigation tool slides in from the right once you begin scrolling and disappe…
Google Birthday Update: Google Confirms Small Algorithm Update On September 27th
On Friday we reported on a possible Google update that touched down on September 27th. Google’s Danny Sullivan confirmed on Saturday that Google did do a “smaller” update this past week but would not classify it as a big update like the Medic Update …
Google Lens Coming To Google Images
Google announced that they will be bringing Google Lens features directly to the Google Image search results. You will be able to pull up an image in image search, highlight an area of the image and have Google Lens zoom in and locate that information…
Google Dance Zurich Quick Recap
Mihai Aperghis, an SEO Specialist from Romania, attended the Google Dance in Zurich and has shared with us his recap of the event. Mihai is super active in the SEO community and it is an honor to have him contribute here.
Google Moves Google Posts At Bottom Of Search Results
Google is apparently moving the Google Posts in the knowledge panel down a bit, to the bottom area of the local knowledge panel. This was first spotted by Mike Blumenthal and Ben Fisher and posted by Joy Hawkins in the Local Search Forums.
Can A Site Killed By Google Panda Come Back From The Dead
An SEO said they had to kill off a site because after Google Panda had its way with it, it wasn’t earning enough money to maintain it. Now that site owner is asking if he can bring the site back to life and if Google will treat it any differently.
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