Google Can Combine URLs Before Crawling
Google’s John Mueller has said that Google is able to determine when to combine URLs together even before crawling the page. They can do this with many web sites based on their site structure.
Google’s John Mueller Hasn’t Read The Updated Quality Raters Guidelines
Google’s John Mueller said in this morning’s webmaster hangout at the 6:18 mark that he has not yet reviewed or read through the updated search quality raters guidelines PDF…
Search Buzz Video Recap: Google Algorithm Update, Quality Raters Guidelines, AdWords Now Google Ads & Speakable Markup
This week was pretty busy, we had an unconfirmed Google algorithm update. Google updated their search quality raters guidelines, removed them from being downloaded, added them back – oh, and John Mueller hasnât read them yet…
Google AdWords Officially Redirects To Google Ads
A month ago, Google told us they are rebranding AdWords to Google Ads after 17+ years of using the brand name AdWords for their search ad product. That has happened…
Google Speakable Annotations With Structured Data For Publishers
Google announced yesterday new structured data annotations named Speakable. These annotations let you mark up sections of your news content that “are best suited for audio playback using text-to-speech (TTS)…
Google Updated Quality Raters Guidelines On July 20th
Google has updated the search quality raters guidelines PDF document on July 20th. Jennifer Slegg, who always does an awesome job digging into what has changed, published the changes once again with this update…
Google: Some SEOs Make Up Theories To Fit Their Agenda
I was recently having a conversation with someone about why I find it valuable that I don’t do SEO services even though I write about SEO…
Google “People Also Ask” Search Feature Jumps 35%
The people also ask feature in Google that began showing back in 2015 has seen a huge increase in the time it shows in the Google search results. The increase is reported at around 35%…
Google To Drop Public Submit To Index Tool
Google announced on Twitter that they are or have dropped “the public submission feature” to submit URLs to Google. Google said instead…
Screen Shot: Google Chrome Now Labels HTTP URLs As Not Secure
We knew this was coming, Google Chrome, specifically when you upgrade to version 68, it will mark any URL you go to that is not HTTPS as “not secure…
Search Community Heart Broken Over Loss Of Jordan Kasteler
Yesterday the search community got the gut wrenching news that Jordan Kasteler has passed away. Everyone was floored, shocked, saddened, and deeply upset by the news. Jordan Kasteler has been part of our industry since he was a kid…
Google Shows Their Dictionary Widget For Branded Free Dictionary Query
If you do a search for the popular [free dictionary] in Google, first Google will show you their dictionary box and then Google will show you the result for The Free Dictionary search result…
Google My Business Showing Competitors Google Posts
As a way to encourage businesses to use Google Posts more, Google is now showing some businesses the Google Posts from their competitors in the Google My Business dashboard. Google is playing on the fear of missing out, FOMO, emotion…
Google Image Search Tests White Tiled Design & Layout
I am seeing reports of Google testing a new look for their image search results. This one looks more white and tiled format then the other. A Google Web Search Help thread that started back on May 29th was the first to spot this and now more and more…
Google: Word Count Isn’t Indicative Of Quality
One of the things I see so often in the SEO space is that SEOs say you need your pages to have a word count of X for Google to want to index and rank it well. The truth is, that is not true – if it was…
Google: We Do Not Recognize Sentiment In Search Ranking
Danny Sullivan from Google has said on Twitter that there is no search operator for sentiment simply because Google does not recognize sentiment in search…
Google Hotel Search Tests Price Insights
It is like every day now that Google is testing some new feature with their hotel search results. Now…
Google Wants SEOs To Interview In Zurich This Thursday, July 26th
Google’s John Mueller posted on Twitter that Google is specifically looking for local SEOs, those based near Zurich, Switzerland to interview about their help and developer documentation…
Google: Having Rel Canonical Doesn’t Guarantee Google Picks Up That Page As Canonical
Back to the advice of providing clear and consistent signals to Google – Google’s John Mueller had to tell someone on Twitter that Google won’t always recognize rel=canonical as the ultimate decision on which pages should be the canonical page…
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Google Search Algorithm Update Saturday July 21st?
Starting maybe late Friday and into Saturday there were signals of a possible Google search algorithm update. The chatter is a bit limited, more than the normal chatter, but the tracking tools mostly saw signs of an update…