Google: Having Duplicate Meta Descriptions Doesn’t Mean Your Site Is Broken
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Google has a report in Google Search Console that shows you your duplicate meta descriptions…
Google Does Not Use rel=me Microformats
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Back in 2011, Google came out with authorship a way of Google understanding which content was written by which author, no matter what domain they posted their content on…
PSA: Google Is Able To Figure Out Different Languages Without Hreflang
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What if you really don’t want to get into the hreflang game, maybe because it is considered one of the most complex aspects of SEO or maybe because you want Google to figure it out…
Jason Dodge – 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.
Jason Dodge is 36 years old and lives with his wife and two children in Grand Rapids, Michigan…
Google Shows Date Of Content In Search Results From The Future
Many people think Google is able to predict the future now, based on how much data they have and their AI work. But here is an example of Google showing a date snippet a couple weeks in the future from today…
Study: Google Often Doesn’t Use Your Meta Descriptions For Snippets
The folks over at Yoast posted that they researched the before and after affects after Google extended their snippets maximum length a few months ago…
Should SEOs Care About The Updated Google PageRank Patent?
Bill Slawski posted on his blog about the update PageRank patent that was granted today…
Google Ranking Algorithm Update Continues On For Over A Week
As you know, Google confirmed a “broad core algorithm” update that started a week ago Monday. But that update seems to have not died down since it started over a week ago…
Rohan Ayyar – 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.
Rohan Ayyar lives in Ahmedabad, which he calls the SEO capital of India, with his wife of 10 years and his six-year-old son…
Google Test One Line Brief AdWords Ads
Google seems to be testing a new format for Google AdWords ads on mobile, which I personally cannot replicate. The ads show in a box of ads which says “ads: more for [your query]” and then it is followed by an icon (probably a favicon) and the URL of …
Google HTTPS Ranking Boost Is Very Subtle, Per URL & Not Industry Specific
It has been a while since we mentioned the Google HTTPS ranking boost that launched in August 2014. But John Mueller mentioned maybe on new item around it saying that this ranking boost has nothing to do with any specific industry…
Google: Linking To Noindexed URLs Is Not A Problem
You have this large site and you noindex a lot of the parameter, filter, sort, etc types of pages but yet…
Google Doesn’t Use rel=next On a-Elements For Search
Google’s rel=next and rel=prev is to indicate pagination as the help docs explain, it launched in September 2011 to solve the issues with paginated content and what content to rank in search.
But those attributes go in the head of your web page…
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Google Showing Titles On Some Featured Snippets
It looks like Google is showing titles on some of the featured snippets results on mobile. Mordy Oberstein from RankRanger posted on Twitter that he spotted it and shared some screen shots…
Google: Negative SEO Via Canonicals Redirects Don’t Really Work
Bill Hartzer posted about a “new undetectable negative SEO tactic” last week, which was a pretty significant blog post title to use because it is a very strong accusation…
Google Autocomplete Search Prediction Changes
On Friday, Google published a How Google autocomplete works in Search but in that post, as I dug into at Search Engine Land, Google announced they are expanding the types of predictions they remove from autocomplete…
Craig Campbell – 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.
Craig Campbell is 37 years old, is married to his business partner Lauren – they’ve been together for 17 years…
Google Confirmed Last Week Algorithm Update As “Broad Core Update”
Earlier last week we reported on a Google algorithm update that seem to have been kicked off and then on Friday we talked more about how the shuffling has continued throughout the week…
Pete Watson-Wailes – 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.
Pete Watson-Wailes is is 32 years old, married and is expecting their first child in June…
Study: Google Local Pack Intentionally Showing Two Near Results & One Result Further Away?
The folks over at RankRanger published data around a local pack study that they are calling the 2:1 pattern…