Google Local Edits May Ask If You Are An Employee Or Customer
Sergey Alakov spotted something, I honestly thought I’ve seen before but I can’t find that I covered it, that when you make an edit as a normal user to a local panel on Google, Google is asking if you are a customer or employee of that business that y…
Dr. Virginia Apgar Gets A Google Logo For Her Apgar Score
Today on Google’s home page is a special Google logo, Doodle, for the woman who invented the first test you were ever given in this world – the Apgar score…
Google Tests Video Carousels In Desktop Search Results Again
Once again, Google is testing video carousels in desktop search – we saw it a bit over a year ago…
Google Posts Adds Product & Offer Options
Google quietly announced on Twitter that they added two new Google Posts types within Google My Business. Now you can post about products and/or offers including the what’s new and event posts…
Google Site Command Searches Return Definitions & Knowledge Panels
Do a site command search and add either a normal query after it or another search operator after it…
Google: Sometimes We Pick Up Wrong Dates & Display Them Wrong In The Snippets
Google’s John Mueller addressed the ongoing issues and complaints about how Google displays dates in the search results snippets and how sometimes, maybe more often than anyone wants, the dates in the snippets are wrong…
Bing Ads To Disallow Recreational Guns & Gun Accessories
Bing announced they are not going to be allowing advertisements on the Bing Ads search network for recreational guns or any sort of gun accessory after July 1, 2018…
Google Posts Interactive Stories For Stanley Cup
So you all know Google Posts, but do you remember AMP Stories – the two may have been merged or I might be confused. In any event, Google has one upped the Google Posts for a search for the [stanley cup]…
Google: Algorithm Updates Impact Sites Quickly, Technical Changes Take A While To Impact A Site
Google’s John Mueller said in a hangout with webmasters at the 47:47 minute mark that if a site sees a big drop in a day or so in their Google rankings and others are complaining about a Google update then that is probably related to a change on Google…
Google: Regular Crawling Not Required For Ranking In Google
There is this SEO myth that more GoogleBot crawler activity translates to more Google organic traffic. That is not always the case…
New Google AdWords Add-On For Google Sheets
Google quietly announced on Twitter a new tool for AdWords that lets you quickly import your Google AdWords data into Google Sheets. It is a Google Chrome app that you can download and use…
April 2018 Google Webmaster Report
The past month in the Google webmaster and SEO sphere, relatively, was a slow month in terms of big changes. We had maybe two algorithm shifts this month that are still…
Tom Longboat Google Runner Logo
Today on the Google home page in the United States and Canada is a Doodle, Google logo, for Tom Longboat’s 131st birthday. For almost all of his professional career he was the dominant long distance runner of the time. In fact…
Google Tests New User Interface In Search For Google Posts
Google seems to be testing multiple variations of how Google Posts show up in the Google search results recently. In the past week or so…
Google Search Shows “Get Latest” Results Refresh Button
Imagine you do a search in Google, get pulled away from it because of more important matters…
Google Search Console Job Posting Data Now Pulls From Web Light Search Results
Google posted on the data anomalies page under the search analytics section that the data for the job posting report may differ after May 29…
The Yoast Plugin To Blame For Google Large Scale Ranking Drop? Probably Not.
Remember the Google update I reported in early March? One thing I left out of that story, intentionally, was some chatter that the those noticing a ranking decline around then may have had a bug with the popular Yoast plugin.
Search Buzz Video Recap: Google Mobile First Index, GDPR, TLS PCI, Speed & Honoring
This week was a tad slower in the search and SEO news front. We had a fourth batch of notices about the Google mobile first indexing. Those sites moved over have issues with the Google cache, but no worries there. Googleâs rich results testing tool now supports movies…
Google Search Console Crawl Stats Stopped Updating On May 23rd
If you try to check your Google Search Console report for crawl stats…
Google Search Supports TLS 1.1 & 1.2 With Upcoming PCI Compliance Requirements
On June 30, 2018, the PCI Council is suggesting that all web sites migrate from TLS 1.0 to TLS 1.1 or higher…