Google Launches Domain Property In Search Console; Replacing Property Sets
Google has officially launched Domain Property in Google Search Console the day after they announced the closure of the Property Set feature. Overall, the concept behind Domain Property is similar to Property Set, it lets you combine multiple propertie…
Google Ads To Sunset Average Position Metric In September
Google announced that they are going to be sunsetting one of the oldest AdWords (Google Ads) metrics – average position. They are sunsetting it in September 2019 and it has been replaced by four new metrics they launched last November named Impression…
Google SEO: American English vs British English vs Australian English
Jeffrey Cammack asked Google’s John Mueller if it matters if someone uses American English versus Australian English. John Mueller said “it doesn’t play any role for SEO” and added it might impact users “but not directly for SEO.”
Google Moves Ved Parameter In Search Results
Eagle eye Dave Davies spotted that Google has moved the ved parameter that has been in the source code of the Google search results since at least 2013 from the href link section of the code. It is unclear why Google moved it but Google does change th…
How To Check Country Specific Rankings In Google
Every now and then, espesially if you do SEO for a living, you want to see how a site ranks in Google within a specific country or region. Of course you can try to use the Google Ad Preview and Diagnosis tool. But you can also use special URL paramete…
End Of March: Property Sets No Longer Supported In Google Search Console
This should come as no surprise as we covered it here a couple times already but this morning, Google emailed those using property sets in Google Search Console that it is going away by the end of March. Google is shutting it down and may replace it wi…
Google Image Search On Mobile Adds Swipe To Next
Google Image Search on mobile search has added a “swipe to next” notice when you look at specific images in the search results. So when you click on a specific image, it will overlay for a second or two a message that tells you that you can swipe to se…
Google: Don’t Stuff Content At The Bottom Of Your E-Commerce Category Pages
I am sure you all see it all the time when you are checking out e-commerce sites – content stuffed at the bottom of the product listings category pages. It is an easy way to get content on to the page and also not distract the user from seeing the pro…
Google “Found On The Web” Featured Snippets Spark Debate
Let me start off saying that I covered this at Search Engine Land, so if you read it there, there isn’t much new here. But I should add, I was wrong about the original featured snippets in 2014 and because of that, I am giving Google the benefit of th…
Google Test My Site Tool Adds New Features & Improvements
Google announced this morning that they have rebuilt the Test My Site tool from top-to-bottom. They added a whole set of features that can help developers build a faster site. You check check out the tool over here.
Venues Can’t Turn Off Confirm Your Visits On Google Maps
The other week, I had a customer ask me if there is a way to stop Google from asking their customers or visitors to confirm their visits in Google Maps. As far as I know, there is no way to do that from the Google My Business venue end.
Google Search Algorithm Update Signals On Friday February 22nd
Over the weekend I have been tracking a lot of chatter within the SEO community on WebmasterWorld and other channels of a Google update. Many of the automated tracking tools also show significant changes in the Google rankings starting on Friday, Febr…
Google Ads Tests Large Image In Search Ads
Google is back at it, testing large images in their search ads. Glenn Gabe posted about this on Twitter on Friday and Search Engine Land received a comment from Google on it. Google has done this for automative ads starting in 2016 but they started te…
Google Search Console New Products Report & Merchant/Manufacturer Center Upgrades
Google announced on Friday some upgrades to products in Google search. Specifically, Google Search Console added a new enhancements report like I covered at Search Engine Land, to show you how your product market is doing. They also added the ability …
Google Updates Hotel Reviews Experience
Kara from Google announced in the Google My Business Help forums that they’ve updated how reviews work for hotels within the desktop search results. “We’ve updated how Reviews look for hotels on Desktop Google Maps. Now, Desktop Google Maps displays re…
Google Adjusts Algorithms For Categories Of Queries But Not For Industries
Google’s John Mueller addressed a long time topic of interest in the SEO industry around does Google have specialized ranking algorithms for different industries, niches, categories and so on or not. So for the adult industry, or pharmaceuticals, healt…
Study: Google Featured Snippets Are More Consistent Than I Thought
The folks at RankRanger came out with a study around Google’s featured snippets that shows that on average a featured snippet from a specific site will only be swapped out with a different site but it is rare for it to be swapped out to a third site. E…
Nope. Google Does Not Use CTR For Core Search Rankings
I am so so so tired of covering this topic, we’ve covered it for well over a dozen years and I just covered it a week or so ago. Google doesn’t use CTR, click through data, to rank their search results. But of course, Google posted something that is…
Bing: Only Few People At Bing Understand How Core Ranking Works
Frédéric Dubut from the Bing search team posted on Twitter about the CTR spectacle but in that he said a statement that said “Even within Bing there are relatively few people who truly understand how core ranking works.”
Search Buzz Video Recap: Google & Bing Search Ranking Changes, Query Dependent Rankings, CTR & More
This week, we covered both a possible Google search and Bing search algorithm update. Bing said only a few people at Bing really understand how core ranking works there…