Google Search Adds Hijri & Hebrew Date Conversions
You can now go to Google and ask it to tell you the current Hijri and/or Hebrew date, as well as ask it to convert the dates for you. I tested some examples and for the most part is works pretty well.
Google Showing Fewer Videos In Their Search Results
According to STAT Search Analytics and RankRanger, Google is showing significantly fewer video boxes or carousels in the search results then it did just a week or so ago. It seems Google is showing about 30% fewer videos or so.
Google Does Not Index Redirected Pages
This is probably obvious to most of you but Google’s John Mueller said on Twitter that Google does not index redirects. Meaning, if you redirect page A to page B, any content that might be on page A is not indexed, instead GoogleBot just does a hop, s…
Google Launches New Hotel Web Search Results Pack
Google has begun rolling out a new design for their hotel results local pack in web search. So if you search Google for hotels near X, Google will show you a new look for hotel results in that area, one that looks more like the hotel search results por…
Google My Business Insights Improves Data Latency
Kara from Google posted in the Google My Business Help forums that Google “made improvements to ensure that your Insights data is more up-to-date.” So the Google My Business Insights reports can “now see Insights data up to yesterday.”
Domain Name Registration Expire Date Or Length Not A Google Ranking Factor
We’ve covered this numerous times but hey, Google had to chime in again about the topic of domain name registration length and the expire date of a domain name not being used as a ranking signal by Google’s search algorithms once again.
Google Local Services Ads Tests Showing Number Of Bookings
Google seems to be testing showing the number of bookings that happened through a local services ads directly in the Google ads. Tom Waddington posted a screen shot that shows Google displaying “booked 870+ times near you.”
Google Discovered But Currently Not Indexed Help
In Google Search Console, did you ever see the “discovered but currently not indexed” notice regarding your index coverage status report? Google says in their help document that it might be related to an overloaded server, but Google’s John Mueller sa…
Google’s Internal Search Quality Docs Kind Of Mirrors The Manual Actions Help Docs
Back at SMX East, Fili Wiese spoke about Google manual actions. He said while he was at Google years ago, he was tasked in writing Google’s internal documents around search quality. He said based on his memory, those docs are a mirror on some level to…
Google: Trust Associations & Memberships Are Not Used As Direct Ranking Factors
Since I posted about the the story the other day that Google does not use the BBB, Better Business Bureaus score or reviews as well as other third-party trust sites in their ranking algorithm it caused a lot of interesting and unexpected debate in the…
Google: Quality Raters Guidelines Are Not One-To-One With The Ranking Algorithm
I feel like Google has to spend more time telling SEOs to stop obsessing about specific details then helping with technical SEO issues and I called it with this one. Google’s John Mueller had to say in this mornings hangout “quality rater guidelines i…
Early Signs Of A Google Search Algorithm Update
I am seeing some early signs that there may be a Google search algorithm update rolling out this morning. There is some early chatter in some of the forums and some, not all, of the automated tracking tools are also showing changes.
Search Buzz Video Recap: Google Update, News Publishers Ranking, BBB & Trust Signals & Google Audit Tools
This morning there may have been a new algorithm update impacting search rankings in Google. Google confirmed there is an issue they have fixed or are still fixing around news content not being indexed and ranked fast enough…
Google My Business Breaks Out Primary & Additional Business Categories
Google My Business made a small but useful change to the Google My Business dashboard where you edit your business listing. Now Google will show and let you edit your primary and additional (secondary) categories instead of lumping them into one big ca…
Google Tool Scores Your SEO: Should Google Be Scoring Your SEO?
The other day, Google launched a new portal named web.dev that pretty much has lighthouse, another Google tool, results for your audit. One of the lighthouse results is an SEO score. So I asked SEOs, should Google be scoring their SEO this way?
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Google Search Console Performance Reports Get Event Listings & Detail Filters
Google has added to the Google Search Console performance reports a filter under the “search appearance” filter for both event listings and event details. This is a new filter to help you see how well your event markup is performing in search.
Google Dance Going Away But Events Around The World To Continue
Google is sunsetting the Google Dance, well, at least the name Google Dance. Instead, Google is going to rename the Google Dance to something else and continue to host “dozens” of events like it across the world – like they have been doing in the past …
Google My Business Apps Gains Messaging, Posting, Photos & Much More
Google announced a revamp of the Google My Business app to help businesses create and manage their local listings in Google Maps. The new features in the app include a review management section, insight analytics, profile management, Google Posts mana…
Google: We Fixed Web Indexing Issues With Google News Publishers
Google’s Lisa Wang said yesterday, about 12 hours ago, that they fixed the indexing issues some news publishers were experiencing. In short, news publisher’s content would not show in the web search results, for hours and sometimes days, after the con…
See How Google Will Show Publishers URLs For AMP Results In Search
As Google promised, they are working on a solution to show the publishers URL instead of the AMP cache URL in Google’s search results after you click on an AMP page. Yesterday Google posted a demo of how it works and how you can try it yourself.
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