Google Doesn’t Decode MD5 Hash URLs For Keywords
I love seeing Google SEO related questions I’ve never seen before and this one, I never saw before. Does Google decode md5 hash values in URLs to extract hidden keywords within them for image search or web search. The answer is no but I am sure that …
Google: Link Spam In Forum Comments Work Very Badly
Google’s John Mueller wrote in a Reddit thread that link spam in forum comments work “very badly.” He posted this based on after someone asked if Reddit comments are dofollow…
Google Ad Grants Agency Pilot Program Underway
Over the past few months or so, Google has been working with a dozen or so advertising agencies that focus most of their work with non-profit companies…
Google Adds Similar Hotels Carousel To Local Panel
Brad Brewer who follows Google’s hotel search results really closely spotted Google now showing a “similar hotels” carousel in the local knowledge panel of a hotel result in Google Maps…
Hreflang Attributes In Sitemaps & HTML Code Treated Equally By Google
Google’s John Mueller said on Twitter that they treat hreflang found in your XML Sitemaps file and HTML code markup equally. We know it is more efficient and manageable for larger sites to use Sitemaps for hreflang…
Google Images Does Not Pick Up Images In Div Tags
Will Google pick up images you include in a div tag? The answer, at least from Google’s John Mueller, is likely no – Google Image search will not pick up those images. John did…
Garden Gnomes Game Google Logo
Today on Google’s home page, it was also up yesterday, so this is a rare two-day running Google Doodle, is a special interactive Google Doodle, logo, for Germany’s Garden Day, Celebrating Garden Gnomes…
Google Local Panel With In Store Savings & See What’s In Store
Google is showing in store savings and see what’s in this store in the mobile version of the local knowledge panel…
Google’s Lead Ranking Engineer Talks About Philosophy Behind Search Ranking
Paul Haahr, who has been with Google for over 16 years, working on core search problems and solutions posted a 20 tweet thread on why Google ranks what they rank. It…
A Google Algorithm Update On Friday, June 8th?
There is some chatter starting around Friday, June 8th, in the ongoing WebmasterWorld thread about a possible Google algorithm update or shift starting Thursday night into Friday and throughout the weekend…
Google Search Spam: Over 6 Million Manual Actions Last Year
Late on Friday, which is common for Google on spam topics, posted on the Google blog about how they fight against spam in their search results. Not much in that blog post is…
Search Buzz Video Recap: Google Meta Descriptions, News Publishers, Algorithm SEO Impacts & Yoast Plugin
This week, I covered the big monthly Google webmaster report. Also, Google told us the meta descriptions HTML improvements section in Google Search Console will go away…
Google: Changing Word Order In Title Tags Shouldn’t Impact SEO
Google’s John Mueller said on Twitter this morning that he doesn’t believe that changing the word order of your title tags would impact your SEO and ranking. “If you’re swapping the order of keywords in a title, I wouldn’t expect that to have an effect…
Google Posts For Products Has Its Own Tab
Yesterday we covered how Google Posts now supports products and offers, a way to highlight more items when people search for your company on Google. Well, if you post a product Google Post…
Google Maps Timeline Data Disappears
There is this feature in Google Maps called Google Maps Timeline, which we covered before here, that lets you keep track of where you’ve been…
Google: Using HTML5 Properly Has No SEO Downside
We’ve been talking about how Google deals with HTML5 in terms of SEO and ranking since 2010. While there can be issues with some elements, for the most part, HTML5 is fine for Google…
Google Search Decorations For Gay Pride Month
If you go to Google and search for keywords such as [gay], [pride month], [homosexual], [lgbt] and other variations of those keywords, you will get the Gay Pride Month decorations in the Google search results…
Google My Business Agency Dashboard Now Live
As I reported at Search Engine Land, the expected new Google My Business Agency Dashboard is now live for those marketing agencies that need to manage their client’s local listings. No longer are you limited to a 100 listings to manage…
Google News Confirms Killing Off Several Publisher Features
Lisa Wang from the Google News team posted in the Google News Help forums last night that they are deprecating a bunch of publisher specific features within Google News. Some we already reported…
Google Search Console Meta Descriptions HTML Improvements May Go Away
With all the debate around the changes to how Google displays snippets in the search results in May…