Google Search Algorithm Update Currently Mild
Since the roll out of the Google Speed Update – the SEO community has been on high alert to see what type of impact it has on the overall mobile search results. The deal is…
Available For All: Google Search Console URL Inspection Tool
A few weeks ago, Google launched the URL inspection tool within the new Google Search Console. Not everyone was seeing it, it was rolling out slowly but now, according to Google…
Google: Provide Consistent & Clear URL Rewriting
Google’s John Mueller said it is fine using either root relative links (/google.html) vs relative links (google.html) as long as you are consistent on how you do your URL rewrites…
Google: Many 5xx Errors Can Slow Crawling
Google’s John Mueller said on Twitter that serving too many 5xx errors, the internal server types of errors, can cause Google to slow the crawling of your web site…
Google: We Read Contents Within Figure Tag But No Special Treatment
The figure HTML tag or element is often used to represent self-contained content. It is frequently with a caption (figcaption)…
Chrome DevTools Sensors To Check Regional Google Search Results
Aleyda Solis posted on Twitter a tip that SEOs and search marketers will love, to test regional based search results using Chrome developer tools “sensors” feature…
Unwanted Video Showing In Google Search Results?
Since Google starting showing video carousels in the desktop results again, Google seems to have been showing way more videos in search than in the past…
Google Publisher Knowledge Graph Cards: Writes About, Awards & More
Last November Google launched what are called Google News Publisher Knowledge Graph Cards but for some reason, over the past week, I have been getting notifications from the SEO industry that this is new…
It’s Live: Google Speed Update Now Rolling Out
This morning, July 9th, Google has begun rolling out the Google Speed Update that they first announced in January 2018. Google has updated their blog post this morning, as I wrote at Search Engine Land, “Update July 9…
Tell Google About Your Large & Medium Site Moves
Google’s John Mueller posted on Twitter asking about webmasters who have done medium to large web site migrations recently, about their experience…
Search Buzz Video Recap: Google Speed Update, AJAX Crawl, Local Search, & More
It was a slower week than the norm, but that is to be expected with it being the July 4th holiday this week. I published the monthly Google webmaster report, so catch up on the month over there…
Google Updates Their hreflang Official Documentation
Google has recently updated their official documentation for hreflang help. Prior, it only had content around using language annotations, supported language values and a couple of common mistakes…
Google Stops Crawling AJAX Crawling Scheme “For The Most Part”
In May, we reported that by the end of Q2 the AJAX crawling scheme will be going away. Well, Q2 has come and gone and has it gone away completely…
SEO Challenge Google Assistant Quiz
What if you can test your SEO intelligence by asking the Google Assistant…
Wired On Keyword Or Data Voids In Google Search, The Evil Unicorn
A Wired story named The Complexity of Simply Searching For Medical Advice came out yesterday and is getting a lot of attention – in short it talks about how Google deals with returning quality information in search…
Fourth of July Google & Bing Home Page For 2018
Happy Fourth of July everyone! As normal, I won’t be posting stories here on independence day mostly because most of the readers here are off and don’t want….
July 2018 Google Webmaster Report
This month was somewhat typical but we did have a lot of updates to the Google Search Console. We saw the Search Analytics API get 16 months of data…
Google My Business Insights Adds Queries & Keyword Report
The Google My Business Insights, analytics, section has added a new section for showing you keyword or query data that has led to searchers finding you on Google Maps or…
Google Cannot Process Verbatim & Custom Date Range Searches
Go ahead and try to search using Google’s verbatim filter with a custom date range – you’d be out of luck. If you try to use both, Google will remove the other filter…
Google 10 Years Later: Absolute Vs Relative URLs Doesn’t Matter For SEO
I know, I know, this is a basic SEO question – the absolute URLs versus relative URLs. But we covered it literally 10 years ago and back then Google’s John Mueller answered the question and also answered it today…