When Google Maps Shows Embarrassing Business Photos Over Your Photos
There was a post on Twitter that caught my eye and I wanted to share it with you all:
Thank you for uploading logos and photos of employees &…
Google: Showing Structured Data Markup Just To GoogleBot Is Cloaking
Did you know that if you decide to just show your structured data markup to GoogleBot, Google’s spiders/crawlers, and hide it from normal users in the source code…
Christmas Day Holiday Decorations From Google, Bing, Baidu, Sogou & More
Merry Christmas everyone! I hope those that celebrate the holiday are doing so with family and friends and are really enjoying the special day.
December Global Festivities: Some Upset Google Doesn’t Say Merry Christmas
If you go to Google’s home page and check out the Christmas logo today, unlike the other search engines, theirs is way more generic to the holiday season as opposed to Christmas, which is today…
John Mueller Helping Webmasters On Christmas Eve Year After Year
It is like a Christmas tradition for John Mueller, a Google webmaster trends analyst, where he comes in on Christmas, sometimes Christmas eve, sometimes Christmas day and sometimes both…
Google Logos For Winter Solstice 2017 & Summer Solstice 2017
Google has their Doodles up for the new season, specifically both the winter solstice and the summer solstice depending on which side of the world you are on. If you are up north, like me…
Cindy Krum – 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.
Cindy Krum, lives in Denver, Colorado with her amazing dog Barkley and two cats…
Eric Schmidt To Step Down As Executive Chairman At Google & Alphabet
Eric Schmidt, the former CEO of Google and current Executive Chairman of the Board of Directors of Alphabet, the parent company of Google…
SEO Snippets: Google Starts Up The Short Webmaster Videos Again
I am so happy to see the announcement that Google is now starting up these short SEO/webmaster videos to answer one question at a time within a few minutes. Yes…
Google’s John Mueller: Nofollow All Guest Posts Links
Google’s John Mueller said that if it was him, he would nofollow all guest blog posts links – even if you are a regular contributor to a site and you write very high quality content, just nofollow the links out to your own site…
Search Buzz Video Recap: Google Algorithm Update, Guest Blog Posts, Rich Results & Eric Schmidt
This week in search, Google confirmed they did many minor updates around the time of what I called the Maccabees update. I analyzed it and it seemed to target keyword permutations and low quality, high ad web sites and more…
Mary & Dave Davies – 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.
Mary & Dave Davies, our first couple nomination, live together in Victoria, BC…
Google: IPv6 & HTTP/2 Works But You Should Also Support IPv4 & HTTP/1.x
Google’s John Mueller said Google can handle sites on IPv6 & HTTP/2 all just fine with Google web search. But John also recommends that the set up also supports the older infrastructure, IPv4 & HTTP/1…
Google: Progressive Web Apps (PWAs) Have No Advantage In Search
A Google Webmaster Help thread has someone saying that his vendor is pitching him on making a PWA, progressive web app, for his web site, over responsive because Google prefers PWAs and will thus rank them better…
Report: Google Overtakes Facebook In Referral Traffic
A week or so ago, a report came out via Recode that Facebook is no longer the top site for referral traffic, Google has overtaken them to reclaim that as the top site in that category again.
Parse…
Google Confirms Search Ranking Updates But Calls Them Minor & Many
That update we’ve been tracking for over a week that I nicknamed the Maccabees Update, well, Google somewhat confirmed it…
Jim Boykin – 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.
Jim Boykin, lives on Ballston Lake, New York…
Google Chrome To Block Ads Not Complying With Coalition For Better Ads
Google has confirmed that they will begin blocking ads from being served on their Chrome browser that does not comply with the Coalition For Better Ads standards. Google said this starts on February 15…
Google “Rich Results” Testing Tool
Google announced yesterday that they (a) decided to rename all the “rich” related names into one name, Rich Results and (b) launch a new rich results testing tool…
The New Google SEO Starter Guide Missing Speed & HTTPS?
As you know, Google finally updated their SEO starter guide the other week after several years of it being stale. But one SEO wants to know why there are no direct…