Google Search Console Beta Sends Invites To More Webmasters & Adds Features
As you know, the new Google Search Console beta is rolling out to more people and yesterday…
Google: Site Splits Or Merges Take Longer Than Site Moves
Google’s John Mueller said on Twitter that site splits or merges take longer that one-to-one site moves to adapt and transition in Google’s index and ranking.
That means that if you move lets say from domainA.com to domainB…
Google Makes It Harder To Join The YouTube Partner Program
The big news over night was that Google announced changes to the eligibility requirements to join the YouTube Partner Program (YPP). Previously, the requirement was 10,000 lifetime views…
Google’s John Mueller: Be Yourself & Not Your Keywords
John Mueller, Google’s Search Trends Analyst said something meme worthy the other day in a Google webmaster hangout…
Annie Cushing – 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.
Annie Cushing lives in the Philadelphia region and has been one of the more well-known faces within the SEM community for ages…
Google Tests Showing The Number Of Views On Reviews
Google is testing showing the number of views or impressions on reviews within Google Maps and local results. Thilo Corneille posted a screen shot of this on Twitter…
Google: Spectre & Meltdown Patches Shouldn’t Impact Your Search Rankings
Spectre & Meltdown patches which were introduced over the processor bug that most major cloud services and other providers have issued patches for already are slowing down servers…
Google AdSense To Publishers: AdSense Impressions From URLs Not Yet Crawled
We’ve been covering the significant drop in Google AdSense earnings from some publishers for over a month now…
Google: You Can’t Judge Index Size By One Or Two Sites
Back in 2005 Google and Yahoo would compete over the size of their search engine index. That competition somewhat ended at the end of 2005…
Possible Google Algorithm Update January 15th
I am starting to see some early chatter within the webmaster and SEO community around a Google search algorithm update. It is pretty early but the ongoing WebmasterWorld thread has some chatter as of yesterday afternoon through today…
Martin Luther King Jr. Day 2018 With A Google Logo & Bing Theme
Today is Martin Luther King Jr. Day, the day America honors the American Baptist minister and activist who became the most visible spokesperson and leader in the civil rights movement. Google honors Martin Luther King Jr. every year, it is an America…
Larry Markovitz – 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.
Larry Markovitz lives in Miami, Florida with his family and is the CEO of Markati Group…
Google Reverse Image Search Matching Images Bug To Be Fixed
Last week we reported on a possible bug or change with reverse image search in Google. Well, it is a bug…
Google Confirms AdSense Earnings Drops, Blames Issue To Crawler Access
We have been reporting on the ongoing issues of AdSense publishers complaining about drops in earnings and ad display issues, resulting in drops in earnings.
Well, finally…
Google My Business Videos Now Live
About 10 days ago we reported some businesses and merchants were seeing video upload features in the Google My Business dashboard. Well, Google’s Allyson Wright announced in a Google My Business Help thread on Friday that this feature is now fully li…
JP Sherman – 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.
JP Sherman, 45 years old is a native Californian but lives now in the Raleigh…
Google Search Result Snippet With Embedded Image Carousel
Shobhit Saxena shared with me on Twitter what may be a new feature in the Google search results – although, it does not feel 100% new. We’ve seen images in the organic search results snippets, we have even image carousels on mobile and of course…
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Facebook Will Show Less Content From Publishers & Brands In News Feed
I try hard not to cover Facebook or social media topics here but this is a big one, Facebook announced they are going to be updating the news feed algorithm to show more content from your friends and less content from publishers and brand pages…
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Is Your Site Still Not Listed In Google News After Bug?
If you are not back in the Google News index, chances are, you were not removed due to this bug. But if you believe you were, Valerie Streit from Google gave those publishers advice.
Google Image Search Does Not Index Images From CSS
Google’s John Mueller said this morning in a webmaster hangout at the 20:55 mark that Google Image search does not index and rank images from CSS background code…