Beau Graves – 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.
Beau Graves lives in Payson, Utah with his family including his wife of 11 years (who he met when he was 18) and his two children. He is the SEO…
Google My Business Insights Heatmaps For Directions Now More Useful
Google My Business has updated the directions heatmaps, which they originally launched in 2014 to make them more useful…
Google Tests People Also Search For Feature On Cursor Hover?
Google may be testing a feature in the search results where the people also search for box not only shows up when you click back from the web site, into the search results again but also when you hover your mouse cursor over the snippet…
Google Will Update How Search Works Portal
Under a year ago Google updated the how search works portal which is over here. Before that, it was launched in 2013 and was not updated that much since.
Danny Sullivan said Google is currently working on updating the portal again…
Google Promises To Review Feedback On Zero Results
As you know, Google is now sometimes showing no search results on the search results page – instead, Google is just showing answers for queries related to time, conversions and calculations…
Search Buzz Video Recap: Google Core Algorithm Update, Google�s Zero Search Results & Image Search Captions
It was a pretty busy week with a confirmed Google core search algorithm update that happened last weekend. I spend significant time discussing the update in this video. I also discuss that Google is showing no search results on the search results page…
Kirk Williams – 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.
Kirk Williams is 33 years old, lives in Montana with his family…
Google Won’t Say If AMP Web Standards Move Was Triggered From Media Backlash
Last week, Google said they are going to work with the open web standards to bring the benefits of AMP to the web standards. Most of us were thinking this move was done…
New Google Search Console Doesn’t Use The Mobile First Index, It’s One Index
Tuesday, while I was on stage on the mobile-first Google panel I heard a rumor that Google’s Gary Illyes may have said that the new Google Search Console shows data only …
Bing Search Results Now Showing JSON-LD Support
The other week we reported that Bing added JSON-LD support for schema and markup. Well, now if you look at some of the Bing search results and see the markup…
You Can Edit Your Business Description In Google My Business, Again…
Google is bringing back the feature to edit your business description for your local listings. Back in 2016, Google removed the feature but now people are seeing it coming back into Google My Business and in the local panel…
Stephen Hawking Memorial Link On Google Home Page Goes To Google UK?
Many of you are probably aware of the passing of Stephen Hawking yesterday. It is all over the news and Stephen Hawking was an instrumental figure to the whole world. You can read about his contributions and life at the NY Times or in hundreds of oth…
Pi Day Google Doodle Celebrates 30th Anniversary
The Google Doodle on the home page today on March 14th celebrates the 30th anniversary of Pi Day. The day is celebrated every year on March 14th (3.14). The day is dedicated to the mathematical constant. 30 years ago today is was recognized by physic…
Greg Gifford – 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.
Greg Gifford is 45 years old and lives in Allen, Texas with his wife, sons ages 13 and 8, and daughter age 4…
Google Shows Answer Without Any Search Results
Google is showing answers in the search results without showing any organic listings or ads or anything but the answer. Yehoshua Coren posted on Twitter a screen shot of him going to Google and Google returning the answer and a button to show search …
Google Sets Aggressive Limits On Request Indexing Fetch Tool
As many of you know, Google has set new quotas for the Fetch as Google submit to index feature because of spam and abuse. But it still seems there is a cat and mouse game…
Google Automatically Ignores Many Links Including Amazon Affiliate Links
Google’s John Mueller said on Twitter that Google does not “pass signals through a lot of different kinds of links,” when asked if Google automatically nofollow Amazon affiliate links.
He added “so I wouldn’t be surprised if that were the case here……
Google Image Search Adds Captions To Search Results From Your Page Titles
Google announced yesterday they have added captions to the image search results in Google Image search. They get the captions by using the title attribute from the web page the image is on…
Sir William Henry Perkin Google Logo
Today on Google’s home page is a special Google logo, a Google Doodle, for the British Chemist who accidental discovered the first aniline dye: the purple mauveine…
Eli Schwartz – 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.
Eli Schwartz lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with his wife and three boys. He is not related to me despite sharing the same last name :)…
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