Google AdWords Can Now Spend Twice Your Daily Budget
Google announced on Google+ that they can now automatically spend twice your average daily budget in order to help you reach your goals. This will not result in you spending over your monthly budget…
Google Crawl Stats Report Includes HTML, Images, PDFs & Even AdBot Crawler
Mihai Aperghis asked Google’s John Mueller about the Google Search Console crawl stats report asking if it includes data on just HTML pages or also images, PDFs, etc…
Google: Grammar Does Not Impact SEO & Search Rankings
Just in case you were worried about how well or poorly this site might rank because of the grammar…
Google Ignores Symbols For Rankings
John Mueller of Google said that Google, for ranking and SEO purposes, ignores all symbols – including the registered trademark symbols such as ® and ┢…
Google Says They Are Not Done Announcing Future Algorithms
For about almost 14 years now, I’ve been reported on Google algorithm updates. We’ve been through different levels of communication with Google regarding…
Search Buzz Video Recap: Google Flexible Sampling, Mobile First Index Tests & Bing On Links
This week in search I cover the big monthly Google webmaster report. Google has dropped the first click free program for a new flexible sampling program. Google confirmed they are testing the mobile first index in the wild…
New Google My Business Go-To Guides
Google’s Marissa Nordahl from the Google My Business team announced in the Google My Business Help forums that they launched a new section called Go-To Guides. The Go-To Guides provides “short articles will help you and your business build a successfu…
Bing Not Demoting Importance Of Links For Search Rankings
The other day…
Google: No Limit On Hreflang Attributes; Consider Using Sitemaps
Google’s John Mueller said on Twitter that technically there is no limit to the number of hreflang attributes you can use on the same URL…
Google May Message Webmasters With Mobile First Indexing Issues
So we know Google is testing that mobile first index and that the rollout will be done in batches and now John Mueller has explained how they think they might roll this mobile first index out…
Programming Note: Offline For Sukkot
I will be offline completely for the holiday of Sukkot/Succos on October 5th and October 6th and the following week, October 12th and October 13th. Any stories published here will be scheduled and written beforehand and not posted live…
Bing Ads Dynamic Search Ads Expanded
Bing Ads announced they have now opened up their Dynamic Search Ads, DSAs…
Google Tests Blue Instant AMP Label In Search
Google is testing a new look for the AMP label in the search results. Instead of the typical gray AMP logo with AMP written next to it…
Google: Got AMP & Desktop But No Mobile Page? Google Will Index The Desktop Page.
Gary Illyes may have been misunderstood or may have misspoke at the Brighton SEO conference a few weeks ago when people said he said that when the mobile first index rolls out…
Google Tests Another Variation Of Topics Refinements
Google is testing another user interface for the topics refinements we saw them testing a few months ago. This new layout and design was spotted by Paul Shaprio and posted on Twitter…
Google Testing Mobile First Index In The Wild
Google’s John Mueller confirmed yesterday in a hangout at the 15:38 mark that Google is indeed testing the mobile first index in the live search results. He did not explain what percentage of searchers are seeing these live test results but I have to …
Google Sitelinks Search Box Is Back
Last week we reported that the Google sitelinks search box disappeared – well…
Google Autocomplete Showing 10 Suggestions Again
In July, Google dropped Google Instant Search and with that, the autocomplete suggestions scaled back to show 4 suggestions instead of 10. Well, in the past 24 hours or so…
Google Ignores rel=shortlink Link Attribute
Google’s John Mueller said on Twitter that Google ignores the rel=shortlink link attribute.
Th proposed usage of this is by adding rel=”shortlink” to a hyperlink…
Should Google Label Content Served Through Flexible Sampling?
As we covered yesterday, Google is launching flexible sampling as their new more relaxed method of the first click free program. So basically publishers have more control…