Google My Business Expands Requesting Ownership Help Page
Google has updated the help document around how to request ownership of a business listing in the Google Maps and local area. Google wrote on Twitter “we’ve updated our Help Center article on requesting ownership of a verified business…
Google: We Never Index All Known URLs
Google’s John Mueller said on Twitter that they “never index all known URLs” and calls that “pretty normal.”
This comes after a complaint that the URLs the webmaster submitted to Google via Google Sitemaps were not all indexed by Google according to…
Google Search Algorithm Update Tweaks Continue Into January
It seems that while it may have kind of quieted down a bit over the first few days of the new year – starting around January 5th and 6th throughout the past couple days…
Google Discounts Hidden Text For Search Rankings But…
This morning, Google’s John Mueller said on Twitter that Google discounts hidden text for search rankings. John said “we discount hidden text for ranking…
Google AdSense Publishers Reporting Ads Not Displaying Again
I am now seeing an uptick in complaints from Google AdSense publishers that their ads, their AdSense ad units…
Google: Too Many Subfolders Doesn’t Hurt Your Search Rankings
A webmaster asked Google if having too many subfolders on your site, in your site architecture, could that hurt your rankings. Google responded to the question on Twitter saying no, it does not hurt your rankings…
Unusual Keywords In Google Search Analytics Reports Might Be Knowledge Graph Related
Every now and then you hear complaints or questions from SEOs that the reports in the Google Search Analytics report is wrong…
Search Buzz Video Recap: Google Voice Guidelines, SEO Tips & AdSense Display Issues
This week I published the monthly Google webmaster report, this past December was the busiest December in history. Google published their Google Assistant…
Elisabeth Osmeloski – 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.
Elisabeth Osmeloski, 40 years old, lives in Salt Lake City, Utah with her husband and 82 pound lap dog…
Wil Reynolds – 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.
Wil Reynolds, 41 years old, lives with wife and two children lives mostly in Philadelphia, but also in San Diego and does travel a lot for speaki…
Google Image Search Can’t Find Images From Before April 2008
So apparently if you try to filter out images in Google Image search to show images from April 2008 or earlier, Google will tell you that you are out of luck. If you change it to May 2008, sure, but something about April 2008 or earlier…
Google AdWords Social Support Team Says Expect Delayed Responses
It looks like there are staff and personnel changes happening within the Google AdWords support team. Specifically the folks that are managing the social media accounts…
Google Featured Snippets Showing “According To” Above Some Results
If you search Google for [top online marketers] Google will show you a featured snippet that is a bit different than any other featured snippet layout that I think I’ve ever seen.
First, it shows the source…
Google My Business Adds Videos For Some Businesses
Colan Nielsen reports via Local Search Forums that some businesses are now seeing the option to add videos to their Google My Business listings in the photos section…
Pamela Lund – 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.
Pamela Lund is 38 years old and lives in Orange County, California with her boyfriend for 9 years, CK Chung…
Google: GoogleBot Doesn’t Make Up URLs To Crawl & Index
There is this long run theory in the SEO world that Google will sometimes make up URLs with the attempt to try and discover, crawl and index pages they can’t find otherwise. If you think of that theory, it kind of seems inefficient and un-Google like …
Google: Mobile Internal Link Structure Doesn’t Have To Be The Same
Google said back in June that when thinking about the mobile first index that you should try your best to make your mobile pages equivalent to your desktop pages…
Danny Sullivan: I Was Not Hired By Google To Keep Quiet
As you know, after Danny Sullivan retired from the search space, he was hired by Google a few months later. I was honestly shocked but I was optimistic for both parties…
January 2018 Google Webmaster Report
December, normally a pretty slow month in the Google organic SEO world, at least in 2017 was super busy, again…
Ross Hudgens – 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.
Ross Hudgens, 32 years old, is married and splits his time between his two offices in San Diego, CA and Austin…