Google Assistant Gets More Natural “Continued Conversation”
Google announced yesterday that they have upgraded the Google Assistant to hold a conversation with you in a more natural way with “Continued Conversation…
Google: Using The Meta Keywords Tag Won’t Cause A Search Penalty
We know that Google says you can spam and stuff the meta keywords tag all you want, it won’t cause a penalty because Google simply ignore the meta keywords tag…
Google John Mueller: Keyword Stuffing Should Not Warrant Removal From Index
Google’s John Mueller said on Twitter that he doesn’t believe things like keyword stuffing should lead a site or page to be removed from the Google search index. He said “IMO keyword stuffing shouldn’t result in removal from the index…
Google Summer Solstice Logo & Bing Summer International Yoga Day Theme
Today is the first day of summer in the Northern Hemisphere, places like the United States, Europe, etc and the first day of winter in the Southern Hemisphere, places like Australia. It is also International Yoga Day or as some call it World Yoga Day…
The Google Dance Is Coming To Osaka & Singapore
The Google Dance at the GooglePlex, at Google’s California headquarters, did not happen in 2018 but they did bring it back to the US the two previous years but did not do so this year…
Google Search Console Crawl Errors For News Publishers Gone
Google told us earlier that two News publisher features is going away. Specifically the ability to highlight mobile apps in the Google News Publisher Center and News crawl error tool on Search Console…
Google PageSpeed Insights Now Aggregates Speed Data For Origin Site
Google PageSpeed Insights can now tell you how fast your whole site is as a whole because it now lets you see the aggregated page speed data across your whole domain name. All you need to do is either (a) search using the syntax origin:https://www.do…
Google Search Console Internal Link Report Feedback Wanted
Google is actively reaching out, asking webmasters and SEOs what they use the internal link report in Google Search Console for. This is Google trying to think how they can improve and build out a more productive…
Google Shutting Down Old AdWords Interface On July 10th?
Some Google AdWords advertisers are getting notices that the old AdWords interface will be completely unreachable starting on July 10, 2018…
Google Search Console May Consolidate Properties Automatically
John Mueller of Google said it again, yes we covered this back in March 2018, that the new Google Search Console may simply consolidate all your properties altogether into one property without having you to verify each one…
Google: data-href Attributes Are Not Links, Do Not Pass PageRank
Google’s John Mueller said that data-href attributes are not links and thus do not pass link signals or PageRank. If you want it to pass link signals then use simple href link attributes…
Google Launches Islamic Prayer Times Answers Again
Gary Illyes from Google posted on Twitter about a new one box, smart answer…
More Google Search Console APIs May Also Get 16-Months Of Data
Other and additional Google Search Console APIs may get 16 months worth of data as well as the Search Analytics API.
Google Adult Filter Reclassification Can Take Many Months
Google said it can take many months for Google to reclassify a web site that was classified as being adult, to not being adult anymore…
Bing Ads With Enhanced Targeting Settings & Dimensions Tab
Bing Ads announced yesterday they launched enhancements to the targeting settings and dimensions tab. Specifically it now allows you to manage your targeting in bulk and shows you performance metrics inline through new location targeting, ad schedule …
Google: Web Light Does Not Impact Your Google Rankings
Google’s John Mueller said on Twitter that Web Light has no impact on your search rankings in Google. It is just a way for Google to display your content to those with slow devices…
Google AdWords Tests AMP Label On Search Ads
Ginny Marvin at Search Engine Land covered Google testing AMP labels on search ads…
Google Search Console URL Removals Take Less Than A Day
Everyone knows Google Search Console has a removal tool, they launched it back in 2007…
Search Console Search Analytics API Gets 16 Months Of Data
We heard this would be coming back 6 months ago and now it is finally here – 16 months worth of data not just in the Google Search Console beta user interface but now also in the Search Analytics API within Google Search Console…
Google Hosting In-Person Webmaster Hangout In Zurich On June 29
Google’s John Mueller does webmaster hangouts all the time, it is a wonderful thing and a great way for webmasters and SEOs to speak to a live Googler about their issues. However…