Chinua Achebe Google Logo For Nigerian Novelist 87th Birthday
Today on Google’s home page is a special Google logo, a Doodle, for the Nigerian novelist Chinua Achebe. He was born on November 16, 1930 in Ogidi, Anambra and passed just a few years ago at the age of 82 on March 21, 2013 in Boston…
Google Tests New Version Of People Also Search For Box
Google seems to be testing a small variation of the “people also search for” box in the Google search results. This one is a box below the search result snippets that lists out related queries to expand you search…
Google Maps To Launch Brand New Design
Google announced they have redesigned Google Maps and will be rolling it out to users over the upcoming weeks across “all Google products that incorporate Google Maps, including the Assistant, Search, Earth, and Android Auto…
Google Messaging Feature Now Shows Wait Times
When Google My Business first launched messaging within the platform, they said they would measure the response time and then show a notification to your customers who are about to message you about the typical wait time…
Mozilla Drops Yahoo For Google As Default Search Provider In Firefox
Three years ago, Mozilla dropped Google as the default search provider in their popular web browser, Firefox…
Google Search Console AMP Report For Content Mismatch Errors Bug Fixed
Google posted on the Search Console data anomalies page that they fixed a bug with the content mismatch errors report within the AMP, accelerated mobile pages, section…
Google News Adds New Referral Source: news.url.google.com
Elena from Google posted in the Google News Help forums that they have made an adjustment to their system and thus to properly track all your Google News referral sources you must add news.url.google.com to the list.
So referrals from Google News will…
Google On Disavow File: Good For Existing Or Preempting Manual Actions & If You Don’t Trust Algorithms
Yesterday, Google’s John Mueller answered a question around Google’s Gary Illyes saying you don’t need to disavow for algorithms. John basically confirmed what Gary said…
Google Job Search Adds Salary Ranges, Location Filters, Saving Jobs & More
Google this morning announced some improvements for job search including the ability to see estimated salary ranges, a better location filter…
Mid-November Google Algorithm Search Ranking Update
Yesterday I saw signs of a spike in webmaster and SEO chatter about ranking changes in Google. That chatter has built up over the past 24 hours and the monitoring tools, most of them…
Hole Punch History: Google Celebrates The 131st Anniversary Of The Hole Puncher
Today on the Google home page worldwide is a special Google Doodle, logo, for the 131st anniversary of the hole puncher. The hole punch dates back to the German inventor Friedrich Soennecken who filed his patent on November 14…
SEMrush SEO Ranking Factors 2017 Report Cites Factors Google Denies As Ranking Signals
SEMrush, the popular SEO toolset company, have released their 2017 study on Google ranking factors, which they believe matter most to rank well in Google…
Editorial Reviews In Google Product Knowledge Cards
Vlad Rappoport shared a screen shot on Twitter of Google now showing a spot in the product knowledge graph cards for “editorial reviews.” I can replicate it on my iPhone for a search on [max trainer m5]…
Google: We’re Still Making Changes To Penguin & Panda Algorithms
Eric Kuan from Google on stage with Gary Illyes and Nathan Johns from Google at PubCon said that Google is still making changes to both the Panda and Penguin algorithms. Just a month ago we reported that Google occasionally tweaks the Penguin algorith…
2017 Google Local Ranking Factors SEO Study
Dan Leibson has published his 2017 local SEO ranking factors study the other day. Andrew said “the data suggests that Google, while attempting to shift to more engagement-based and locally relevant factors for its Local algorithm…
Google: Disavowing Nofollowed Links Does No Harm
Technically, Google does not follow or pass any signals from a link on a page that has a nofollow attribute on them. If you are super paranoid about that link ever dropping the nofollow…
Google: GoogleBot Crawls From The US But Can Crawl Locally In Your Region
This is just one of those reminders that Google’s spider, GoogleBot, mostly crawls from the U.S., Mountain View…
Looking To Get Out Of The SEO Business In 2018?
There is an interesting thread just getting its legs in the WebmasterWorld forums around the topic of SEO and how hard it is to do SEO these days and see results…
Company Name With An Incorrect Space In Google?
I have a company name that people often spell with an incorrect space because it is two different words, that we put together as one. My company name is RustyBrick, one word, but capital R and B. People often break it up, or lowercase the B and it is…
Confirmed: Google Drops Addition Links & Information For Info Command
A week ago we reported that the info command changed and we were unsure if it was a bug or a change on purpose…