Google Will Tell You If They Are Up Or Down
Do a search for [is google down] and Google will return an answer telling you if the search engine is currently working or not. The ironic thing is that if Google was down, it wouldn’t be able to tell you if they were up or down…
Google Tests Gray Review Stars In Search Results
Google is once again testing gray colored stars in the search results, where you would typically see orange stars for the rich results review snippets. Google did a lot of testing on the colors of the stars in 2014 including green, yellow, gray…
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Upcoming Google Speed Update Will Look More Closely At Page Speed Variations
So John Mueller of Google spoke a bit about page speed in this mornings Google webmaster video hangout at the 1:58 mark. He said the current page speed factor, which is desktop only…
Recapping The Say Something Nice About An SEO/SEM Series
In October, I thought it would be nice to say something nice about the folks in our industry and I started a daily post about how specific individuals in our SEO/SEM…
Google Search Tests New Tab Bar Navigation
Reena Jha from India shared with me on Twitter a new search interface being tested by Google, maybe only in India, I do not know. The new interface puts the navigation in tabs in the footer of the page…
Google: Crawl Budget Optimization Is Overrated
Google’s John Mueller said on Twitter that he believes that crawl budget optimization is overrated in his mind. He said for most sites…
Bing Crawl Consumption Not Showing Return On Investment
Joost de Valk, the founder of Yoast, posted some interesting data on Twitter yesterday around crawlers and how much they consume of their site, how active they are and if there is any return on investment. The big one is that Bing crawled ~84…
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Google Asks For Photo Of Business Hours
Ben Fisher noticed and posted on Twitter that if you try to edit a business’s hours in Google search under the local knowledge panel…
S.P.L. Sørensen Google Logo For pH Scale
Today on Google’s home page is a fun interactive pH scale, a scale for measuring acidity and alkalinity, remembering S.P.L. SÃ’rensen. He was a Danish chemist born on January 9, 1868 in Havrebjerg, Denmark and died at the age of 71 on February 12, 1939 in Copenhagen…
Dido Grigorov – The Search Community Honors You
This is part of the say something nice about an SEO/SEM series – feel free to nominate someone over here.
Dido Grigorov is 30 years old and lives in Varna, Bulgaria. He has been in the SEO industry for over a dozen years and is an avid speaker…
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New Google Search Console Adds Quick Site Navigator
The new Google Search Console has added a quick drop down menu to navigate from verified site to site within the new version of the Google Search Console…
Google Structured Data Testing Tool Not Working With Google Tag Manager
For the past several tags the Google Structured Data Testing Tools has stopped working with Google Tag Manager. If you use Google Tag Manager it might mean that the Structured Data Testing Tool won’t be able to validate some of your markup…
Google Dropping Anonymous Local Reviews?
Google Maps and Local might be removing anonymous reviews, sometimes shown as reviews by a Googler Users…
Steve Morgan – The Search Community Honors You
This is part of the say something nice about an SEO/SEM series – feel free to nominate someone over here.
Steve Morgan 32 years old, lives in Cardiff, South Wales, United Kingdom with his wife Emma, who works in insurance and their two young boys…
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Is The Google Related Search Box Replacing Top Carousel?
I saw several tweets in the past 24-hours or so from people about a new Google search feature, well, not new, but maybe a new treatment, where the related searches show in a box, with icons, towards the bottom of the search results page…
New Google News Search Results User Interface?
Google News on mobile, the search results, maybe have launched a new user interface. This might be from the new version of Google News from a few weeks ago…
Google: PDFs Are Not Mobile Friendly
Well, this is one of those no-brainer posts, but hey – I’ll say it anyway, PDF documents are simply not mobile-friendly. They require you to pinch and zoom to really see the content and images in the PDF and thus, are not optimized for mobile devices….
Google On GDPR Pop Ups Notices With Search & SEO
How would these GDPR notices impact SEO and your Google search rankings? Well, Google doesn’t have any exception for the intrusive mobile interstitial penalty for GDPR requirements
Josh Bachynski – The Search Community Honors You
This is part of the say something nice about an SEO/SEM series – feel free to nominate someone over here.
Josh Bachynski is 43 years old, lives in Victoria BC…
Fourth Batch Of Google Mobile First Index Notices
The fourth batch, I believe that is what we are up to now, of notices that sites have been moved over to the mobile-first index has gone out over the weekend…