Google Maccabees Update Analysis: Sites Targeting Many Keyword Permutations
By far, the biggest bulk of sites that I saw got hit all had tons and tons of landing pages target massive arrays of keyword permutations. So for example…
December Global Festivities: Google Kicks Off Year End Holiday Doodles
From today, December 18th, likely all the way through January 1st, Google will have a series of Google Doodles, special Google logos, for the next 15 days or so on Google’s home page. It looks like this one, at least today…
Doc Sheldon – 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.
Doc Sheldon, 65 years old, with his wife and daughter in San Diego, California. Doc has been in the marketing world for over 40 years…
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Google Tests Favicons In Search Results Snippets Again
Google is testing favicons in the search results snippets again…
Google: We Didn’t Find Crawling From Outside Of The United States Useful
Back in 2015, Google announced they can now crawl locally better and said again not long ago that they are able to crawl locally if necessary. But do they do that that often…
Survey: Hit By Google Maccabees Update?
Last week, we reported about an interesting unconfirmed Google update that touched down on Tuesday, December 12th we named the Google Maccabees Update. Since then…
Google Finally Posts Webmaster Tips On Mobile-First Index
After months and months of promises, Google has finally published on the Google webmaster blog their tips to getting ready for the mobile-first index.
Michelle Robbins – 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.
Michelle Robbins lives in the greater Los Angeles, California area with her family…
Google Search Analytics Bug With AMP Non-Rich Results
If you have a site that supports AMP, you may notice that in your Search Analytics report within the Google Search Console…
Google AdWords Tests Placing Landing Page Image Into Ad Block
Sergey Alakov spotted another Google test, this one is around Google AdWords ads showing an image in the ad block pulled from the landing page’s content. Ginny Marvin has a statement from Google about this…
Google On Trailing Slashes & How It Impacts SEO & Search Rankings
It has been a while since we last talked or written about trailing slashes in your URLs and how it may or may not impact your rankings with Google. But hey, since Google’s John Mueller brought it up both on Google+ and Twitter, let’s get into it again….
Google Moves AMP Icon To Top Right In Top Stories Carousel
Google has moved the AMP icon from the bottom left position to the top right position of the Top Stories carousel cards. I am not sure exactly when it was moved, but for as long as I can remember…
Alan George – 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.
Alan George, 47 years old lives with his family in Portland, Oregon. He is very instrumental in the SEMpdx organization…
Google Rolls Out Travel, Flight & Flight Search Features
After much testing, Google has rolled out a bunch of features around travel, trips, flights, hotels and more. In short, Google confirmed rolling out the price slider for hotels…
Google: Watch Your Log Files To See If You Moved To The Mobile-First Index
Google’s John Mueller said this morning on a Google hangout at the 3:40 mark into the video that you can pretty clearly see if your site has been moved over to the mobile first index by looking at your log files…
Bing Adds Intelligent Answers, Reddit & More Conversational Features To Search
Bing announced they added some new search features to their search engine including intelligent answers…
Google Search Ranking Algorithm Update: The Maccabees Update
There is currently both a lot of chatter in the SEO forums and many of the tools are lighting up around major changes in the Google search results…
Search Buzz Video Recap: Google Maccabees Update, Search Console More Data, Longer Meta Descriptions & Bing Updates
This week in search, we covered a large Google search algorithmic update that we named the Maccabees update. Google added over 12 months of data to the beta version…
Melissa Fach – 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.
Melissa Fach, 43 years old, lives with her husband and two beautiful sons in Sarasota…
Google: Outdated TLS Won’t Hurt Your Rankings
The other day we reported Google started sending out new security notifications via Google Search Console around TLS upgrade requirements…