New Google Index Report Doesn’t Show Blocked URLs From Sitemaps
Alan Bleiweiss shared a scree shot of how the Google Sitemaps report in Google Search Console shows over 11…
Google’s Fourth of July Doodle Showcases Regional Recipes
The day before July 4th, Independence Day in the United States, Google has a Doodle that showcases and highlights their recipe search features. The Google Doodle turns into a map, showcases popular dishes by state…
Google Speed Update Clarification: Making A Fast Site Faster Won’t Help Your Rankings
The other day I covered how Google’s John Mueller implied there was gradual scale to the upcoming Speed Update. John said then “So the faster you can make your pages the more we can take that into account…
SEO Industry Mocks BuzzFeed Story On SEOs Buying Links At Popular Web Sites
It feels like every six-months or so a new story comes out how SEOs are manipulating the Google search results, or at least trying to manipulate the Google search results, by taking advantage of link drops in popular online magazine web sites like Forb…
Google Data Studio Gains 16-Months Of Search Analytics Data
The Google Data Studio now also has 16-months of Search Analytics data from Google Search Console…
Rumors Of A Google Search Algorithm Update Coming Soon
The SEO industry is a funny place in that we are constantly tracking Google updates as they are happening but at the same time, we are always trying to be one step ahead of them to know before they will happen. Like knowing when bad weather is about t…
Google My Business FAQs & Feedback On Agency Dashboard
As you know, Google has launched a new agency dashboard for Google My Business users who manage a lot of business profiles within Google My Business. The early feedback has been pretty negative thus far around the new agency dashboard…
Google Maps Business Reviews Fraud Checking Tool
There is this new tool at stopcraponthemap.com that looks for suspicious and fake reviews on Google Maps and tells you which one they think they are. “This tool looks for unnatural review patterns from Google users…
Google: Self-Referential hreflang Is Good Practice
Google’s John Mueller said on Twitter that while self-referential hreflang is optional, it is also good practice to implement it…
Google Poll: How Long Have You Been Using Google AdWords?
As you know, Google is rebranding AdWords to Google Ads soon and with that, Google is getting a bit nostalgic. So Google posted on Twitter a poll, asking their users how long have them been using Google AdWords…
Google Tests Making URL In Search Results Snippets Clickable
Eric Hedekar from STAT, a tool that tracks the Google search results, posted on Twitter that he caught Google testing making the URL in the snippet a hyperlink and clickable. The snippet typically only has one clickable location…
Disallowing Robots.txt In Robots.txt Doesn’t Impact How Google Processes It
Google’s John Mueller said on Twitter that even if you try to disallow your robots.txt within your robots.txt, it won’t impact how Google processes and accesses that robots.txt. John said in response to someone asking if you can disallow your robots…..
Google: Google Analytics Won’t Hurt Or Benefit Your Search Rankings
Google’s John Mueller felt the need to explain on Twitter that there is no penalty for using or not using Google Analytics on your web site. Google doesn’t rank a web site any better or worse because you use or don’t use Google Analytics…
Google: Providing APIs Won’t Reduce Search Results Scraping
There was a somewhat fun conversation on Twitter around the new URL inspector tool. Some SEOs are saying that if Google provided an API for this tool, it would reduce scraping of the Google search results…
Google: We Ignores Most Links Within Press Releases
Google’s John Mueller said this morning in a video hangout at the 35:32 mark into the video that Google’s algorithms ignores more links found within press releases…
Google’s New Speed Update Works On Gradual Scale; Small Improvements Matter
Google’s John Mueller spoke about the upcoming new Speed Update that is expected some time in July – so any day now…
Search Buzz Video Recap: Google Rebrands AdWords, Releases Indexing API, URL Inspector Tool & Speed Update New Details
This week we learned that Google is going to drop the name AdWords after 18 years and switch it to Google Ads. Google also released an Indexing API, which right now only works with job posting URLs…
Google Report: We Reduced Link Spam By Almost Half
Google released their web spam report for 2017, the two most shocking numbers released in this report were (a) link spam and (b) the number of people who landed on spammy results.
Bing Ads Automated Extensions Are AI Powered
Bing announced they have launched automated extensions that are powered based off of AI, artificial intelligence…
Google Snippet Shows “Must Include” When Query Doesn’t Match
Over the past week or so, SEOs have been noticing that for really long tail keyword searches in Google, Google may not just show the “missing” label to describe a keyword in your search is missing from this specific result set, but now also includes “m…