Google Posts Video Upload Feature Now Working
Last week we reported how Google said you can now upload videos to your Google Posts so they show up in your local panel. I, along with many local SEOs, have been trying this feature daily and has been sporadicly working on and off…
Google: Shared IP Addresses Are Fine For Search
Google’s John Mueller once again said on Twitter that using a shared IP with other web sites, even if some of those sites are slummy or considered bad neighborhoods, is fine. “Shared IP addresses are fine for search…
Google: Personalized Search Results Is “Very Light”
Danny Sullivan of Google has just posted officially about this on Twitter saying “personalization of results is very light.” Most people searching in the same…
Tamara de Lempicka, The Polish Painter Gets A Google Doodle
Today on the home page of Google.com is a special Doodle, a Gogole logo, for Tamara de Lempicka…
Nick Leroy – 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.
Nick Leroy is 31 years old and lives with his wife and three kids (he has four year old twins) in St Paul, Minnesota…
Google Rich Snippets Not Impacted By Shorter Search Result Snippets
As you know, Google has cut down the snippet length in the search results significantly from when they increased them in December. But this should have zero impact on your rich snippets and rich cards…
Google News Drops Editors’ Picks & Standout Meta Tag
The new version of Google News has launched last night and with that, Google has ended support for the Editors’ Picks feeds and the standout meta tag in Google News…
Jesse McDonald – 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.
Jesse McDonald is 29 years old and lives with his wife Jennifer in Austin, Texas…
Google Video Answers From Deadpool 2 Stars
Remember Google announced in December that Google Posts now supports selfie style video answers from celebrities…
Google: The Faster We Can Crawl, The More We Can Crawl
This seems logical, but I’ll say it anyway, since Google’s John Mueller said it on Twitter. The faster your server responds to GoogleBot, the faster GoogleBot can crawl through your site. Google’s John Mueller said “the faster we can crawl…
New: Google Dynamic Rendering To Help With JavaScript In Search
Friday I mentioned something new that Google introduced named Dynamic Rendering. Google has still not come out with anything official about it, outside of what was mentioned in the video I posted last week…
Google’s Danny Sullivan Defends Reducing Length Of Search Snippets
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Yesterday we reported that Google cut down the search snippets length by about half just a few months (December) increasing it to 320 characters…
Tejas Thakkar – 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.
Tejas Thakkar is 35 years old, he was actually born on April 1st, which can be fun. He lives in Mumbai…
Google Maps To Notify Customers When Businesses Respond To Reviews
Google announced on Twitter a small feature in the Google Local space that they will soon begin notifying via email when a business responds to a review you left them on Google Maps…
Google Forums Has Private Replies
Google posted a very generic how we help webmasters blog post the other day during Google I/O. One thing Danny Sullivan pointed out on Twitter that the forums has a way for people to reply privately without others seeing it…
Google Cuts Down Search Snippets By Half
Google increased the max characters shown in the search results snippets box to 320 characters but now it seems Google has cut it down to 160 or less characters over the past week…
Google: 15% Of All Queries Are Still Never Seen Before
Since 2013, Google has been saying 15% of queries are new and never seen before by Google. The interesting part, this is five years later and the stat has not changed…
Is A Google Search Algorithm Update Brewing?
I am seeing some very limited and niche chatter around a possible Google algorithm and search ranking update starting over the weekend. There is chatter at both WebmasterWorld and Black Hat World Forums with folks noticing ranking changes and traffic …
Damon Burton – 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.
Damon Burton is 36 years old and lives in Salt Lake City…
WordStream Sells To Gannett For $150 Million
As I covered at Search Engine Land, we got big industry news, the company Larry Kim founded in 2007 named WordStream has been acquired for $150 million. WordStream is a software service that helps digital marketers manage their Google AdWords campaign…