Google Update & Ranking Algorithm Fluctuations Continue
Update: Google confirmed there was a core update on Monday, more details below…
Search Buzz Video Recap: Google Algorithm & Ranking Update, Job Listings Penalty & Mobile-First Indexing
This week we saw a long going Google algorithm update that has been ongoing for a few days or so now. Google said job listings that are no longer open that have schema can be penalized. Google said do not make your site unmobile-friendly just to stay…
Todd Mintz – 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.
Todd Mintz lives with him family consisting of his spouse and two children in Beaverton, Oregon…
Google My Business Insights Mysteriously Disappears On Friday The 13th
If you login to your Google My Business account, click on one of your business listings and then go to the insights section…
Google: Mobile-First Indexing Switch Is Based On Technical Setup, Not Search Query Volume
As you may know, Google began rolling out the mobile first indexing process a few weeks ago, although…
When Google Assistant First Party Responses Fail, It May Failover To Third-Party App
As I reported yesterday at Search Engine Land, Google Assistant may use a third-party Google Assistant app when their primary first party responses do not return a result…
Google: How To Reverse A Site Move & Go Back To Original URLs
Site moves in the SEO world are always scary, moving from one domain to another or one URL structure to another can be nerve racking. But imagine you go through with…
Tansy O’Bryant – 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.
Tansy O’Bryant is 48 years old and lives in Raleigh, North Carolina with her family. She is a true family woman, telling me she has only one reg…
Google: Keeping Your Mobile Site Not Mobile-Friendly Is A Bad Strategy
I spotted a conversation on Twitter around how some webmasters and SEOs are so afraid of losing their rankings when being switched over to mobile-first indexing that they are intentionally making sure their web sites are not fully mobile-friendly…
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Google Expands Funding Choices To More
Google announced they are now going to expand Google Funding Choices (link my not work for you so go here instead) to more countries.
Google Funding Choices is a program to help publishers recover lost revenue due to ad blockers by having the users …
Google Only Can Judge Site Quality Based On Pages They Index
Google’s John Mueller addressed the topic of page pruning again, but this time explains that Google can only judge the overall site quality based on the pages they have of that site that is in their index…
Google Tests Showing From The Businesses Section Higher
A month ago, Google began allowing businesses to once again edit their business description. Now, people are noticing the box that shows this business description…
Michael Kirchhoff – 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 Kirchhoff currently lives in Tulsa…
Report: Google Featured Snippets Decline & Direct Answers Increase
The folks at RankRanger posted on Twitter that they are seeing less Featured Snippets show up on Google mobile search…
Google: We Don’t Always See Links With OnClick JavaScript Events
We all know how good Google is at understanding and crawling JavaScript, AJAX and complex web pages in many forms, but Google’s John Mueller said, when it comes to discovering links within onclick events in JavaScript…
Google: New TLDs Google Treats Generic, Even .london Is Not Geotargeted
Google treats all those new TLDs that launched a few years ago as generic TLDs, and by default, those are not geotargeted. That includes the new TLDs for popular cities such as .london, .madrid…
Google Algorithm & Ranking Update Kicking Off?
There may be a Google search and ranking algorithm update starting off this morning. I received a couple of notifications via email and some on social media and the chatter in the ongoing WebmasterWorld forums is starting to heat up a bit…
Google Generally Prefers One Stronger Page Versus Many Smaller Pages
Just to be clear, Google said this before – Google: Few Strong Pages > Many Weak Ones but here John Mueller explained it a bit more. He said that when you take one big…
Google Tests Search Ads That Blend into Organic & Can Be Closed Out
Update: As I suspected and wrote below, this seems like something interfering with the ads…
Gianluca Fiorelli – 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.
Gianluca Fiorelli is currently 48 years old and lives in Valencia, Spain for the past 14 years. He was born in Milan…