Google On Reading Level: Write On The Level Of Your Audience
Google’s John Mueller broached on the topic of reading level again and this time he answered it a bit differently. A couple months ago he explained that Google doesn’t have reading levels in their algorithms. You should read that story to see what he…
Google: Meta Refresh Redirects Work Fine But Not Recommended
I literally have several blog posts here that has Google saying not to use the meta refresh redirect type. That you should use a 301 or 302 redirect instead and not the meta refresh version…
Google Algorithm Update Brewing? Depends Who You Ask.
Over the past couple days or so, the ongoing WebmasterWorld thread has some folks passionately yelling there was a massive update, while some are saying it looks all static and fine from their point of view…
Google Search Update, Multifaceted Featured Snippets, Search Console Changes, AdWords & More
This week we noticed a possible Google update starting on March 1st through March 2nd. Google is now rolling out what they called multifaceted featured snippets. Google said they will make property sets smarter in the new Search Console…
Google Page Speed Update & Mobile First Index Are Separate
There still seems to be confusion about ranking versus indexing. As you know, Google has the mobile first index that is rolling out and then in July we have the Google Page Speed Update for mobile…
Google SEO Snippets: How Often Google Reindexes A Web Site
Google has posted their first SEO Snippets video since announcing it back in December. This is a basic SEO question on how fast and often Google recrawls and reindexes a specific web site…
Google: GoogleBot Can’t Crawl CSS Custom Properties
Eric Bidelman from Google posted a PSA, public service announcement, that since GoogleBot is based on Chrome 41…
Chrome Starts Filtering Ads Yesterday – Examples, Observations & The Path Forward
I probably post a guest post here on average once a year and I really wasn’t in the mood to cover how Google Chrome ad blocking works in detail. I saw Glenn Gabe posting tons of examples on his Twitter account…
New Google Search Console To Make Property Sets Easier
One specific feature that Google plans on migrating over but vastly changing seems to be the property sets feature that let’s you combine multiple properties…
New Google Multifaceted Featured Snippets Focuses On Multi-Intent Queries
Google has announced they are now rolling out a new form of featured snippets they are calling “multifaceted featured snippets…
Shari Thurow – 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.
Shari Thurow lives in the Chicago, Illinois area and has been at the forefront of the SEO community since before it was named SEO…
Michael Martinez – 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 Martinez lives in the metro Atlanta area with his family and is currently in his 50’s. Michael may be one of the few people in our indu…
Rand Fishkin Has Now Left Moz, Starts SparkToro
We knew this day was coming, he announced he was leaving the company he founded with his mother and that day has come. He posted about it last night on his new company blog…
Google’s How Search Works Portal Available In 40 Languages
Google’s Search Liaison account on Twitter announced they have translated the how search works portal into an additional 17 languages…
Google To Clarify How To Make Lazy Loading Images & Content SEO Friendly
Google has said before that they can’t see lazy loaded content on mobile but said it is a tricky situation. That was back in 2015, about three years ago…
Google Fetch As Google Tool Renders Hash Bang URLs
In 2014, Google’s Fetch as Google, the fetch and fender tool in the Google Search Console stopped working with hashbang URLs, URLs that have the #…
Linda Buquet – 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.
Linda Buquet is 65 years old…
Google Posts Note Of Crawl Stats Report Bug
Last week we reported that the crawl stats report seemed to be buggy. Well, Google confirmed the bug by posting both on Twitter and the data anomalies page about the issue…
Google AdWords Speed Scorecard Estimates Revenue Impact Of Speed
Yesterday Google announced their Speed Scorecard, a tool for website owners to measure the impact of their site speed on their earnings and revenues. This is aimed…
Google Tests Third-Party Shopping Engines In Carousel In EU Again
Last week we spotted a different interface test for showing third-party shopping search engine services in that carousel but now we are seeing Google test or maybe begin roll …