The Google Search Console New Link Report Has A Latest Links Download
Google’s new link report in the beta Google Search Console does have a download latest links button. It was just hard to find as Bryson Meunier said on Twitter. It is on the main links screen, it is not within the external links screen.
Google: Redirecting All Your URLs To Your Home Page Is A Bad Practice
Google’s John Mueller said on Friday in a webmaster video that redirecting all of your URLs to your home page is bad practice. Instead, you should redirect those URLs on a one by one basis to the proper new location.
Google’s John Mueller Is In Regular Contact With Web Spam & Search Quality Teams
Google’s John Mueller has confirmed that he is in regular contact with both web spam team and the search quality teams at Google. There are many people who feel John and others from his webmaster trends analysts team are not in touch with those teams….
Google: We Take Web Site Spam Take Overs In Search Very Seriously
Google’s John Mueller said in a webmaster hangout video that Google’s spam teams take it super serious when a web site is taken over by another one in the search results. If you see that happen, Google wants to jump on those issues and tackle them qui…
New Google Link Report To Get Download Latest Links Feature
Google launched the new link report in the new beta Google Search Console this week. One of the biggest complaints was it was missing the option to download the latest links, like the old version has. Google’s John Mueller confirmed that feature will …
Google Writes Letter Of Recommendations For Agencies?
Did you know Google may have and may be currently writing letters of recommendation for third-party digital marketing agencies? I have confirmed the letter below was uploaded to an agencies web site and the Googler who signed it did actually work at G…
Google Assistant Hopes To Cheer You Up With Good News
Google announced this week a new Google Assistant feature to ask the Google Assistant to tell you about good news. You say “Hey Google, tell me something good” and Google will. It comes from the a network of Solutions Journalism Network that curates …
Google’s John Mueller Recommends SEO Noobs Join Help Forums To Gain Experience
John Mueller of Google answered a question in a Reddit thread about advice on how an SEO noob, a person who is inexperienced in SEO, learn and get good at SEO. John said you should gain experience with the help of webmaster help forums and communities….
Google Search Algorithm Update Starting On August 22
There is new chatter and signals that there may be a Google search algorithm update starting around Wednesday, August 22nd and continuing throughout today. The chatter is not as significant within the SEO community as with the Google Medic Update but m…
Search Buzz Video Recap: Google Algorithm Update, Medic Update Recoveries, Search Console Features & Partner Recommendations
This week, we reported today that Google may have started another Google algorithm update – did you notice ranking changes? Google did think about giving SEOs more…
Google Tests Another Image Search Results Design With Overlay Preview
Google is testing another version of the image search preview window, this one is an overlay that hovers over the image search results after you click on the image. Earlier this week, we saw Google test place this image search preview on the right sid…
Possible Bug With Google Search Console Performance Report Query Filter
There seems to be a lot of complaints in the past day around the Google Search Console performance report, when the query filter is used on that report. Many are saying when used, the report shows a huge drop in impressions and clicks starting on Augu…
Google Analytics Access Will Auto Verify You In Google Search Console
Google announced that they will now begin automatically verifying some users in Google Search Console, which will open up access to Google Search Console to countless (I don’t even know the figure, hundreds of thousands, millions?) of webmasters, site …
Google Search Console URL Inspection Tool Shows More Recent Data Than Indexing Reports
Google’s John Mueller said on Twitter that the URL inspector tool that launched about a month ago shows more recent and up-to-date information that the Google Search Console indexing reports. The indexing reports can be one to two weeks delayed, while…
Hey Google: We Still Want An Automated Action Viewer In Search Console
For years, I’ve been suggesting along with the SEO community that Google think about how to design an automated action viewer in Google Search Console. A report that shows which algorithms, Panda, Penguin, interstitial, page speed, core search, etc has…
Google Local Panel User Suggested Edits Shown On Desktop
Google is now showing user suggested edits on the local panels even on desktop search results. I believe this has shown mostly for mobile local panels and to business owners but now it seems to show on desktop and even for not business owners.
Google Analytics Showing Some New Google Image Search Referrer Data
A month ago, Google announced they are changing the referrer URL for Google Image search so you can better track image search from Google Images traffic to your site. Google Analytics announced how that will appear in Google Analytics and I do see som…
Google’s New Link Report May Show Different Data & Numbers
Yesterday we reported Google came out with a new link report for the new Google Search Console to replace the old link report in the old. The thing is, the numbers might differ when you look at the old and new report because Google has changed how they…
Google: We Strongly Recommend 301 Redirects For HTTPS Migrations
We all know that making HTTP to HTTPS site migrations is unique, it is treated differently by Google. Google said when making such a migration, they strongly recommend you use a 301 redirect (not a 302 or 303) on a URL by URL basis. If you do not, the…
Google: We Looked At How To Give SEOs Advice On The Google Medic Update
I did it, I asked John Mueller of Google to please give additional advice to SEOs and webmasters about the Google Medic Update, the core algorithm update on August 1st. He said there is “not really” any more advice to give.