SEO: Does Google Treat Content With Quotes Or Brackets Differently?
So let’s say you are a big fan of writing content with quotes or brackets but all of a sudden you learn about this thing called SEO [search engine optimization] and you become paranoid that your “SEO” won’t be “optimal” if you use brackets a lot of quo…
Google SEO Snippets Video: Multiple Sitemap Files
Here is another SEO Snippets video, this one on the basic topic of submitting more than 50,000 URLs via your sitemap file to Google…
April 2018 Google Webmaster Report
A core algorithm update, the mobile-first indexing rollout begins, zero search results tested, image search captions…
Maya Angelou, American Poet, Google Doodle
Maya Angelou American poet, singer, memoirist, and civil rights activist who was born in St. Louis, Missouri has a Google Doodle honoring her today on her would be 90th birthday. She was born on April 4, 1928 and lived until the age of 86, passing on …
Eric Gehler – 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.
Eric Gehler is 52 years old, lives in Richmond, Virginia with his wife and soulmate, Margie. They also have 3 cats and “the best dog ever, Samps…
Google Local Panel Images Not Loading
If you look at any Google local result, the local knowledge panel section, and look at the images section…
John Giannandrea Leaves Google To Join Apple
I didn’t see this coming but it seems the reason Ben Gomes is now head of Google search is because John Giannandrea who replaced Amit Singhal a couple years ago was not necessarily fired or demoted but rather he is going to Apple…
Google: No Set Time Periods For A/B Testing Limits
A good question came in video a Google webmaster hangout, in the video at the 21:30 mark the SEO asked if Google has a recommendation around how long A/B tests…
John Harrison Google Logo Depicts His Marine Chronometer
Today on Google’s home page is a Google Doodle, special Google logo…
Luke Fitzgerald – 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.
Luke Fitzgerald is 34 years old and lives in Dublin…
Ben Gomes To Take Over Search At Google, Giannandrea Steps Down
News broke last night that Google’s current head of search, John Giannandrea, was stepping down and replacing him are two Google veterans Jeff Dean will lead Google’s AI efforts…
Google Rickrolls SEOs With Recrawl Now Button
I cannot tell you how many notifications on email, social media and other methods around Google added a “recrawl now” button that leads to a video, it is a bug, it is weird…
Google: Structured Data Doesn’t Give You A Ranking Boost But Can Help Rankings
John Mueller of Google said on Twitter yesterday that although structured data, by itself, does not give you a ranking boost, it can help Google understand your content and thus help you rank in Google…
Google: Index Status & Index Coverage Reports Are Compiled Slightly Differently
Google’s John Mueller said in a Reddit thread that while the index status report in the old Google Search Console and index coverage report in the new Google Search Console are the same…
Will Scott – 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.
Will Scott is 49 years old, lives in New Orleans with his wife and business partner Angie and two kids Joseph, 15 and Caleb…
More Local SEOs Seeing Google My Business Services Edit Feature
About a year ago, Mike Blumenthal covered how Google added a product and services link to edit what people see in your local knowledge panel around the products and services you sell. Most people did not see it but it seems to be rolling out to more bu…
Google Tests Yellow Map Pin In Search Results Snippets?
Aaron Dicks posted a screen shot on Twitter of a weird Google search result snippet, it shows a yellow map icon/pin in the mobile search results snippets. The query and testing done to spot this was also weird, and I cannot replicate it…
Google Still Plans On Deprecating AJAX Crawling Scheme
Google’s 2009 AJAX crawling scheme solution is still alive today even though Google killed it off in 2015 and then warned SEOs and webmasters to stop using it last year.
John Mueller of Google said in a Reddit thread that he believes “it’s not far awa…
Google Has No Code To Text Ratio Ranking Algorithm
Does Google’s ranking algorithms look at the code to text ratio on your web pages? The quick answer is no and it is one of those old SEO questions people have been asking…
Alexis Sanders – 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…