Google My Business Insights Search Queries Report Coming Still
11 days ago, we reported about the search queries report in Google My Business insights section that some were seeing. The funny thing, Google officially announced it on Friday on Twitter and on Google My Business Help…
Upcoming Events In Google Local Knowledge Panel
Raj Nijjer shared on Twitter a screen shot of Google showing upcoming events within the Google local knowledge panels in search for resorts…
Matt Cutts Asked Mozcon Not To Bring In Black Hat Speakers
Rand Fishkin who ran Moz said on Twitter that back in the day, Matt Cutts (formerly of Google) “tried to get Mozcon not to invite black/gray hats to speak…
Google My Business Agency Dashboard Can Now Sync With AdWords
As you know, Google launched an agency dashboard for Google My Business agencies that manage a lot of local businesses. The overall early response has been…
Google Structured Data Beta Support For Tabular Dataset
Aaron Bradley who follows the schema, structured data, markup world closer than anyone else I know spotted an update to some Google documentation and posted about it on Google+. In short…
Bill Atchison, Loved In The SEO Community, Passed Away
I am incredibly sad to report that the beloved Bill Atchison, known in the SEO community as IncrediBILL, has passed away. He has been sick for some time now and has now moved on…
Is Gary Illyes From Google Leaving Twitter Again?
Back in March, Gary Illyes from Google – one of our most favorite Googlers, said he is no longer checking Twitter – he needed a break. But in the past few weeks or so…
Google Adds People Also Search For Box For Search Ads
The people also ask box which launched in Google organic desktop results in February 2018 has also launched last month for the Google search ads on desktop. This was only recently spotted by John Leo Weber on Twitter and Ginny Marvin got confirmation…
Bing Tests Open In New Tab Button In Search
Bing is testing a new search results feature where they add an icon as you hover either the search ads or organic results. The icon is an open in new window or new tab icon…
Google Posts Adds Call Now Button
As I covered at SEL yesterday, Google Posts has launched a call now button in Google Posts. It basically lets you add your phone number as a call to action in the Google Post for when your local knowledge panel shows up…
Search Console Search Analytics API Increased Max Results / Rows To 25,000
Google announced on Twitter that they have increased the maximum results of results or rows of data you can get per request from the Google Search Analytics API to 25,000 results…
Search Buzz Video Recap: Google Speed Update, Algorithm Shifts, Bing Tests, Google & Bing APIs & More
This week, the much anticipated Google Speed Update began rolling out. We did see some limited signs of people chattering about ranking shifts…
Google Representatives Are People With Feelings
During my morning research for what is going on in the SEO community…
Google Says Pick One Testing Tool For Measuring Page Speed
As you all know very well, the Google Speed Update has begun rolling out and while it is a bit too early to see the impact SEOs and webmasters are super eager to make sure their web pages do not get dinged by this update…
Real-Time Google Trends Excludes Many Countries In Filters
If you go to Google Trends you can filter those trends by country and the list of countries available is massive but when you go to the real time trends section, that list is a small fraction of countries you are able to filter by…
Bing Webmaster Tools API Down For Over 5 Days
Mike Sullivan noticed that the Bing Webmaster API has been down for over five days now. I had him share a screen shot with me of it failing and he did so. In short…
Google Implies Phone Number Formats Don’t Matter
You’ve all seen it, how different web sites and email signatures format their phone numbers. Some do 212-555-5555, some do (212) 555-5555, some do 212.555.5555, some do 212 555 5555…
Google: Google Search Console Reports Are As Accurate As It Gets
People over the years have complained a lot about the reports within Google Search Console. Some don’t trust the reports…
Google & SEOs Mock My Speed Update Rollout Status Question
Yesterday, I asked John Mueller of Google the status of when the Google Speed Update that starting to roll out two days ago – when will it be fully rolled out. I basically asked…
Similar Domain Names Don’t Hurt Your Rankings In Google Search
In a webmaster hangout yesterday at the 1 minute 22 second mark, someone asked if they own bluewidgets.com and then a competitor or two own mybluewidgets.com or ibluewidgets…