Google Tests Submitting Question Directly In Search Results
Manashjyoti Athparia posted in the Gulshan Kumar Forums (hat tip to mayank_jee) a screen shot of Google’s search results with a big box letting the searcher submit a question to be answered later by humans…
Google AdSense Reports Spam Percentage Rate Metrics
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Over the past few days, Google AdSense has been displaying various spam percentage metrics in the Google AdSense reports for publishers. You can get page view spam percentage, ad requests spam percentage, ad spam percenta…
First 360 VR Google Video Doodle: Georges Melies The Illusionist
Today, for the first time ever, Google has produced a Google Doodle that plays a 360 degree VR movie and it was done for the French illusionist and film director Georges Méliès…
Purna Virji – 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.
Purna Virji is a name you probably all know already – she is literally at ever digital marketing conference…
Google AdWords Responsive Search Ads Beta?
Google AdWords responsive search ads is not new, there is an old help document on it and it launched back in 2016 but there may be a new beta version of it coming out now or…
Google: Do Not Use 403 Status Codes, Use 404s
Google says it is best not to use a 403 server status code and if you are…
Google: Don’t Change URLs When Replacing Old Content With New Content
So let’s say you decided to update the content on a page on your web site, the content is super out dated and needs a major revamp. When you update the content, it doesn’t mean you need to put that new content on a new URL, you can just update the con…
May 2018 Google Webmaster Report
The past 30-days in Google webmaster land was incredibly busy. The most important things were around a broad core algorithm update that continued on for over ten days or so and we still see some fluctuations today…
Google Maps Highlight Icons Legend
Brad Brewer posted on Twitter a collection of all the Google Maps Highlight Icons he has spotted to date…
Google Recipe Structured Data Updated For Google Assistant & Search
Google announced, as I covered at Search Engine Land, new recommendations for recipe structured data properties. Now, if you want to be included in Google Assistant or Google Home, you need to use the recipeIngredient and recipeInstructions propertie…
Google Featured Snippets Asks Searchers “Is This Helpful”
We’ve seen Google asking searchers to rate the search results before and even ask them if the longer search results are useful or not. Here is an another example of Google asking searchers to rate if the featured snippets are helpful or not…
Search Buzz Video Recap: Google Mobile-First Indexing Rollout, Recipe Update, AdWords Editor & Matt Cutts Stories
This month, we posted our monthly Google Webmaster Report, so catch up there. Google began the second batch of mobile-first indexing, and sent out notices to those sites as well. The thing is, Google is moving over many sites that are desktop only…
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Matt Siltala – 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…
Google My Business Adds Clear Button For Attributes
Allyson Wright from Google announced in the Google My Business Help forums a small but useful feature for those heavily working in Google My Business. There is a new “clear” button in the attributes section to allow you to more efficiently manage the …
Michael Ramirez – 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.
Michael Ramirez is 32 years old and lives in Austin, Texas with his sidekick SEO dog named Rye after Rye Whiskey…
Google AdWords Editor Version 12.3 Released After 6 Months
It has been about 6 months since Google released an update to the Google AdWords Editor, the last update was version 12.2 which launched in November 2017…
Google My Business Releases New API Features, Agency Dashboard & Partner Program
The folks at the Google My Business team announced yesterday new features to the Google My Business API, a new Google My Business agency dashboard…
Google Page Speed Uses Desktop Or Mobile Based On Searcher
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There has been some confusion around page speed recently, espesially around the new Speed Update coming in July. In short, the new one in July, will for the first time…
Why Google Is Moving Non-Mobile Friendly Sites To Google’s Mobile First Indexing
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This week we reported how Google began sending out notices of sites moving to the mobile-first indexing process as part of the second batch of those sites it is rolling out to…
David Szetela – 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.
David Szetela is 63 years old and lives in Fort Myers Beach, Florida with his wife Wils Murphy…