Google Word Coach: Does It Help Users Expand Their English Or Google Get Smarter?
Almost a week ago, Susanta Sahoo shared with me on Twitter a screen shot of a new feature in Google search named “Google Word Coach.” I emailed Google about it
PSA: Google Mobile First Index Will Crawl Desktop Sites
As you know, the mobile first index is getting ready to expand in the upcoming weeks and some webmasters that still have desktop only sites are a bit nervous. If you still …
Dan Shure – 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.
Dan Shure is 38 years old, lives in Holden, Massachusetts and works in Worcester. Like many others, he works and co-owns the agency with his wif…
Google Not Indexing URLs In Your Sitemap? New Sitemaps Won’t Help
If you have issues with Google indexing specific URLs on your site, Google says putting those URLs into new XML Sitemap files won’t help them get indexed…
Google Caught Selling Bump Stocks Via Google Shopping
There has recently been a lot of talk around bump stocks since the Florida shooting, and even well before it…
Google Search Console Message: Fix Long Page Titles
Casey Markee shared a screen shot of his inbox showing how he had repeated notifications from Google Search Console telling him to “fix long page titles” on a website he has verified access to…
Google Keyword Planner Tool Redesigned
Over the last week or so, I received many tweets from folks in the industry about a new design rolling out for the Google AdWords Keyword Planner tool. I believe @collindaviss was the first to notify me of the change last Wednesday and since then…
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Google: Link Wheels & Web 2.0 Google Tricks Probably Don’t Work
John Mueller from Google told one SEO on a Reddit thread that using “web 2.0 tricks” or “link wheeling” probably doesn’t work with Google these days. To be honest…
Max Prin – 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.
Max Prin is currently only 30 years old and has become one of the most experienced SEOs in the topic of JavaScript and technical SEO in our indus…
Bug? Google Search Console Time Spent Downloading A Page Metric Drops.
If you login to your Google Search Console account, click on the “Crawl Stats” section under the “Crawl” drop down, you will see the last report that shows time spent downloading a page (in milliseconds) shows a huge drop in the metric…
Google Search Console Lets You Filter By Differences
A new feature added to the new Google Search Console is the ability to filter your performance reports to only show differences of X value…
Google: Schema & Structured Data Is Here For The Long Run
If you follow this site, you will see there is a theme with Google – that theme is that they keep investing more and more into schema and markup. They keep adding more support for it and they keep encouraging webmasters and publishers to add it to the…
Google Defends False, Offensive & Fake Search Suggestions As People’s Real Searches
A couple of days ago, Danny Sullivan, who is now tasked with defending Google, or as he likes to put it, explain how Google works so that people understand better when the results out of Google look wrong – same difference right…
Notice: Blog Commenting & Twitter Post Changes
This is a notice sort of blog post about some changes that have happened regarding commenting on this site as well as automated tweeting from this site…
Search Buzz Video Recap: Google Ranking Update, Mobile First Index Expands, News Meta Keyword Gone & More
This week, we reported about a possible Google algorithm and ranking update in search. Google said they will be expanding their mobile-first index over the next several weeks…
Jennifer Horowitz – 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.
Jennifer Horowitz is 42 years old and has been in the online world since she was 23, 19 years in SEO…
Google: Some Old Features Won’t Be In New Google Search Console
Just yesterday, 24 hours ago, we reported that John Mueller of Google said that they will be porting all the old Google Search Console features to the new version…
Google Is Confused As To Who Is Search Engine Roundtable
Go ahead, do a search for [seroundtable] in Google, the domain of this site and you will get a knowledge panel from LeapFroggr. It says LeapFroggr was founded in 2013, ten years after this site’s first blog post and that it is based in Quezon City, Ph…
Google: Content Order, Position & Placement Matters
Yesterday at PubCon, Gary Illyes from Google said something that got attention by the folks in the audience. He said that where you place your content on your page can impact
Google Search Console Blocked Resources Reporting Bug
Google published on their data anomalies page about a new error in the reporting section of the old Google Search Console’s blocked resources report. You may see decreased counts of pages with blocked resources…