Did Google’s Knowledge Graph Panels Algorithm Change Yesterday?
Yesterday, I did my typical search for a local business to get their phone number so I can call them to place a food order…
Google On Chanukah Is Showing Right Number Of Candles On The Menorah
Google is showing the correct number of burning candles on their holiday decorations for the holiday of Hanukkah/Chanukah when you search for any keyword that triggers the Hanukkah holiday decorations…
Google Plans To Roll Out New Search Console Early Next Year
In July, we first uncovered the new beta Google Search Console and SEOs and webmasters have been eager to get into the beta…
Hallelujah! Google Search Console Adds A Years Worth Of Data On Beta
Google has released a years worth of data in Google Search Console – well the beta version. If you have access to the beta version of Google Search Console and go to…
Bill Slawski – 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.
Bill Slawski lives in Carlsbad, California, which is in San Diego County. Bill is known for sharing so much knowledge for well over a decade, he…
Google Defines Doorway Pages: Pages For Ranking For Keyword Permutations
There is often a lot of confusion around what a doorway page is and since it is specifically against Google’s very own guidelines…
Google’s 2017 Inspirational Year In Search Review: It’s All About How
This morning Google published their annual year in search review, showing the world what the most popular search trends were for the 2017 year. Google’s CEO, Sundar Pichai…
Google Now Recommends Longer Meta Descriptions For New Longer Snippets
Last week, Google confirmed they are rolling out longer search snippets but they also said via Danny Sullivan that you do not need to, nor should you…
Google Finally Updates The SEO Starter Guide After Several Years
Google has finally updated their SEO starter guide after first publishing it several years ago and only updating it once in 2012. Google did recently say the old one is still relevant but promised to update the guide for mobile and markup details…
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Julie Joyce – 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.
Julie Joyce, 45 years old, lives in Greensboro, North Carolina in a house that is 118 years old. Julie is very active on social media…
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Google Search Results By Celebrities Over Selfie Videos
Honestly, this new feature from Google confuses me – these selfie-video answers performed by celebrities to answer questions about them in mobile search. Google said “now in the U.S…
New Quick Links In Google AdWords From Change History Page
This is a small, subtle change in the Google AdWords advertiser console but it can save a lot of you time if you know about it. In short…
Google Search Console Notifying Webmasters Of TLS Upgrade Requirements
Anyone who has been managing website security for the past few years has been following the long phase out period of TLS version 1. We are moving to TLS version 1.2, as TLS 1 is no longer that safe…
Google’s New Map Pin Design
Google has updated and rolled out the new map pin design for the local pack search results. Sergey Alakov spotted the test and then the rollout and I personally see the new map pins myself…
Max Born Quantum Mechanics Google Doodle
On the Google home page is a special Google logo, Doodle, for Max Born, a German physicist and mathematician who helped in the development of quantum mechanics…
John Doherty – 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…
Google Tests Live Blog Progress Bar Divider
Google seems to be testing a variation of their live blog coverage label. Instead of the red label icon in the search results…
New Bing Ads Call Conversions With Offline Conversion Import
Bing Ads announced they now support call conversions through the offline conversion import method.
Bing noted they have an API for offline conversions and now some call tracking solutions are using it to bring in call conversions…
Google: We Don’t Recommend Generic Disavow Files
There are many folks out there that have generic or master lists of disavow files that they bring over from one site to the next. But Google doesn’t recommend using a generic disavow file and goes as far as to call them potentially “unnecessary work…..
Google Photosynthesis Logo On Jan Ingenhousz’s 287th Birthday
Today on Google’s home page is a logo, a Doodle showing off the sun and plants and of course photosynthesis, which Jan Ingenhousz, illustrated in the Doodle…