Google: Sharing Same Image On Multiple Pages Is Okay
Google said that it is okay and even normal to have the same image placed on more than one page on your web site. This implies it does not hurt your rankings in Google to share an image, even if the image file name is different but the image is the sa…
Google Local Panel: Browse Some Featured Items Sold Here
Google is showing yet another product/shopping related feature in the local panel. This one says “browse some featured items sold here” and has a link to explore those products in search.
Google Tests New Image Search Results Preview Design
Google seems to be testing a new design for how Google Image search shows you previews of images after you click on the result. The hard thing about tracking Google Images is that different countries and regions have different interfaces, I believe bec…
Google: Indexing API Not Coming Anytime Soon
A few months ago, Google introduced the Indexing API specifically for job posting URLs. It is hopeful to some that Google will open it up for more reasons. But Google’s John Mueller said on Twitter “I don’t think that’s coming anytime soon.”
Google: We Do Not Favor Fresh Content
Google’s John Mueller said that Google does not favor fresh content over I guess stale content. Although earlier this week, Google’s John Mueller said they do crawl fresh content pages more often, but crawling and ranking are separate.
New Google Search Console Finally Gets Link Report
Google has announced that the new beta Google Search Console is now getting the link report. Google said they are moving the Links to your site and Internal Links report from the old interface into the new Google Search Console under a single Links re…
Google Panda & Penguin: The Page Level Differences
Google’s Gary Illyes confirmed on stage at the Search Masters Brazil event that while the Google Panda algorithm collects its data at the page level, it will impact the site at the host level. This differs to the Google Penguin algorithm that both co…
Google Search Answer For What Is My User Agent
If you search Google for [what is my user agent], Google will show you the answer. Just like they do for [what is my ip] or [speed test] and other computer related questions. Google is not linking you to a search result for the answer.
Google: Google’s Medic Update Was Not Designed To Target YMYL Or Health Sites
Gary Illyes said while on stage at the Search Masters Brazil that the Google Medic update, the core search algorithm update on August 1st, was not designed to target YMYL types of web sites. Pedro Dias, who posted this on Twitter, said he said ” It wa…
Reserve With Google Expands: Enables More Bookings, Appointments & Reservations In Google Local
Google seems to be expanding Reserve with Google, a way to integrate your booking, reservation and appointment software directly in your Google local panel or on Google Maps through Google My Business. It launched last October and Sergey Alakov noticed…
Reports Of Some Google Medic Update Recoveries
I am seeing some webmasters and SEOs claim they have seen recoveries over the weekend with some of their sites impacted by the Google Medic update that took place on August 1st. I am not sure if we can trust these reports or if they are confusing this…
YouTube Live Streaming Disabled For Many
I am seeing a huge number of YouTube creators complaining in the YouTube Help forums that their ability to live stream on the platform has been disabled. Google has confirmed there is an issue they are looking into fixing so they restore access to live…
Google Search Console Sends Useful HTTPS Gone Wrong Notifications
Google is now sending useful notifications about issues when you migrate from HTTP to HTTPS. In the example Alan Bleiweiss showed below, Google told him that 80% of the HTTP pages are not showing up on the HTTPS version. That is a useful notification…
Google Launches Expandable Featured Snippets
Google announced they have launched a new form of featured snippets that offer expandable snippets to help a searcher dive deeper into the aspects of a specific query. We actually saw Google testing this this past April and now it is officially live.
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Did The Google Medic Update Make Search Worse? Show Google Examples.
Google is asking you to provide examples of how the search results are now worse off since after the Google Medic update which was released on August 1st as a core broad Google algorithm update. Gary Illyes said let him know examples on Twitter and do…
Google Crawls Pages More Often If They Are More Important & Popular
Google’s John Mueller confirmed that Google crawls pages more often if they are more important and popular. So if a page is not crawled so often, that can be a sign that the page is not that important to Google.
Search Buzz Video Recap: Google Medic Update Advice, SEO Tips, Featured Snippets, Search Console, Manual Actions & More
This week in search, I covered what SEOs are doing about the Google Medic update, and how you can report issues to Google around it. Google said taking old content and relabeling it as new is not a good SEO hack…
Google: Avoid Change URLs Unless You Really Have To
For years and years, Google has been telling people to not change URLs unless they have to. Google’s John Mueller said it again in a Reddit thread, strongly encouraging the webmaster to avoid changing the URLs on his site.
Last Chance: Share A Story About How Matt Cutts Has Helped You
For the past 113 days, over 16 weeks, there has been a story posted each day at mattcutts.org about how he has helped an individual person. This is your reminder, if you missed the first announcement, that we have about two weeks left of stories and y…
Google Adds Troubleshooting Section For Job Posting Structured Data
Google has added to the developer documents around job posting structured data a whole new troubleshooting section. This section gives developers access to more tips on how to properly implement this type of schema.