Bing Multi-Perspective Answers – Like Two Featured Snippets
Bing wrote about their new Multi-Perspective Answers for their Intelligent Answers set. This is similar to what Google calls “featured snippets,” in case you were wondering.
In this case…
Google AdWords To Crack Down On Ticket Resellers
Google announced they have a new AdWords policy around ticket resellers. Specifically they now “require all event ticket resellers to be certified and to radically increase their transparency…
Google: Even Big Sites Aren’t Allowed To Sell Or Buy Links
Google’s John Mueller said on Twitter that even big sites that do paid links, buying or selling of links to pass PageRank or manipulate the Google search results, can be penalized and it is against Google’s webmaster guidelines…
Joy Hawkins – 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.
Joy Hawkins, 31, lives in Uxbridge, ON…
Google Drops Unused Quick Links From Google Search App
The Google Search App for iOS and Android has removed the top quick links buttons from the screen. I guess it wasn’t used much…
Google Adds SEO Audits To The Lighthouse Chrome Extension
Google announced on the Webmaster blog that they have updated the Lighthouse Chrome Extension to add SEO Audit features.
Google said “you can now do a basic SEO Health-check in Chrome (Canary) DevTools or with the Lighthouse extension…
Google AdWords Missed Call Ad Extension?
Reena Jha shared a screen shot of a weird Google AdWords ad extension that not only shows the call extension but also a “missed call” button…
Google AdWords Impressions & Clicks May Show After Campaign Was Paused
A Google AdWords advertiser complained on Twitter that two days after pausing a campaign, he is still seeing clicks…
Joost de Valk – 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.
Joost de Valk, 35 years old, he lives with his wife Marieke and their four kids live in Wijchen…
Google Showing Content Before It Is Published? Nah… Snippet “In X Hours”
Normally when Google shows new content in the search results, it may show in the search result snippet a section that says “X minutes ago” but Tejas shared a screen shot of Google saying “in X hours” instead…
Google: Don’t Dynamically Change Sitemap File Names Daily
Google’s John Mueller answered a question I never heard before around dynamically generated sitemap files, generating new file names for these sitemap files every single day…
February 2018 Google Webmaster Report
This past month, Google announced the Page Speed update, a new ranking algorithm designed to lower the ranking of mobile pages that are really slow. Google also may have released a few unconfirmed algorithmic updates to core search…
Google Search Console AMP Reporting Error With Major Content Mismatch
Google posted on the data anomalies page a new bug with their Google Search Console reporting…
Ian Lurie – 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.
Ian Lurie, 49 years old, lives in Seattle…
Google Search Console Issues & Validating Email Notifications
As many of you know, Google’s new Search Console was redesigned around helping webmasters discover, fix and validate those fixes…
Google My Business Lets Restaurants Add & Edit Menus
Google announced in the Google My Business Help forums and on Twitter that now restaurants can add and edit their menu listings directly in the Google My Business console…
Google AdWords Adds Insight Cards For Impression Shifts & Changes
Google quietly announced on Google+ and Twitter that they have added two new insights cards to the AdWords overview page that shares when your ad impressions shift significantly from one device to another…
PSA: Google Doesn’t Use Content On Non-Canonical Pages
Google’s John Mueller wrote on Twitter “remember that the content on ‘non-canonical’ versions generally doesn’t get used.” Meaning, if you point page A to page B using a 301 or canonical tag…
Search Buzz Video Recap: Google Updates, Featured Snippets, SEO, AdWords & More
This week in search I covered some search algorithm rumblings. Google’s Danny Sullivan wrote a comprehensive explanation of featured snippets. I explained the confusion around ranking versus indexing. Some SEOs are aligning their content around searc…
Google Logo For Carter G. Woodson, First African-American Historian
Today on Google’s home page in the United States for the kick off of Black History Month, Google remembers Carter G. Woodson. Carter G. Woodson was one of the first scholars to study African-American history…