Marie Haynes – 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.
Marie Haynes, born in 1973 who joined the industry in 2008, lives with her husband and two young girls in Ottawa, Canada…
Google Hreflang For Mobile First Index: Mobile to Mobile & Desktop to Desktop
John Mueller confirmed today on Twitter that Google’s advice around hreflang implementing when it comes to when the mobile first index has been rolled out is to configure it as a “mobile-to-mobile & desktop-to-desktop…
New Google Finance Has Launched, Dropping The Portfolio Feature
Google announced yesterday, and it is finally now rolled out to searchers, that the new Google Finance is live.
We knew it was coming because Google warned us that the portfolio feature is going away and it did…
Google To Review Obscure Search Results Showing More Ads Than Organic Results
For years Google has sometimes, for very obscure and restrictive queries…
Google Trends Adds News, Shopping, Images & YouTube As Sources
The other day, Google announced that they are adding more sources of data to Google Trends. So now instead of just web search data, Google will pull in data from News, Shopping, Images and YouTube…
Ross Dunn – 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 Dunn, 41 years old, and has been in the industry since 1997 – well before the SEO industry was named “SEO.” He is married for 10 years and …
Google Often Tests Longer Search Results Snippets
Over the past few days or so, since around Thanksgiving time, I’ve been getting emails, tweets, etc from people telling me they are seeing Google showing longer snippets from the typical two line search results snippet…
Google Tests Research Search Carousel
Google seems to be testing a new search feature that shows a “research” search carousel box in the search results for content around your query. I cannot replicate this by Geoff Angell posted a screen shot on Twitter showing the feature in action…
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Google Bug Removes Answers From The Local Q&A Feature
Brodie Clark from optimising.com.au has been tracking the local Q&A feature in depth and noticed the other day that many of his answers have gone missing. He was upset because he spent a lot of time and energy answering questions for Google and those businesses and now they were gone…
Google: Featured Snippets Are Not Losing Their Appeal
We recently reported about the changes in the featured snippets being shown in Google. Yesterday…
Google Will Penalize Your Site For Using Event Markup Incorrectly
Google has had enough of people using the event markup in a misleading way and is now sending out a strict warning that if you use this markup in any other way then its intended purpose…
Jill Whalen – The Search Community Honors You
Jill Whalen, currently 56 years old, was literally one of the pioneers in the SEO industry…
Google: Measure Page Speed To When Users Can Interact With Your Page
There are a lot of tools out there that measure your page speed, numerous tools from Google and many tools from third party developers. But not all of them measure the same thing…
Google: Your Structured Data Should Match Visible Content
Google’s John Mueller said that if you implement structured data on a page, that structured data should match the content visible on your page…
Google Engineer Cites Complexities Around AI Algorithms Explaining Themselves
Google has been saying for a year or so that they are moving from a mobile first world to an artificial intelligence first world but we’ve been told, at least in search, machine learning won’t take over the algorithm – at least not yet…
Google My Business Web Search Dashboard Now Ask You To Create Ads
Sergey Alakov spotted that the Google My Business web search dashboard that launched a couple months ago, now is asking businesses to create ads using AdWords Express…
Google: Most Websites Rank Without Any Link Building
Did you know that most websites listed and ranking on Google rank without building a single backlink…
Google Local Pack Tests Showing Knowledge Panel Tabs
Google seems to be testing merging the local pack with knowledge panel data into tabs across the top of the local pack. Sergey Alakov caught this test, although I cannot current replicate it, here is what he shared…
Google: Anchor Text For Internal Links Do Matter
Some asked Google’s John Mueller if the anchor text you use for your internal links matter for Google. Of course, John Mueller responding suggesting it does. He said “Most links do provide a bit of additional context through their anchor text…
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Search Buzz Video Recap: Featured Snippets, Link Building & My Google World Is Upside Down
This is the special Thanksgiving SEO video recap where I talk about the changes to the Google featured snippets. I also discuss the parameter handling tool in Search Console and how you need to think about that when you migrate to HTTPS…