Google Expands Phone Call Organic Links In Search Results
Back in March 2016, we reported that Google was showing phone number extensions in the organic search results snippets. Well, that seems to now be expanding beyond the US and into other regions…
It’s Google’s 19th Birthday, But Google.com Was Registered Over 20 Years Ago
It might be Google’s 19th birthday today but did you know that Google.com was registered over 20 years ago…
More Google Algorithm & Search Results Shuffling
Yea, yea, yea, more of the same. Google is updating their search results, it is in flux, search results are shuffling around. But I only try to report it when the signals all seem…
Google Logo For Gloria E. Anzaldúa Brings Awareness To Mexican/US Border Politics
Today on Google’s home page in the United States is a Doodle, special Google logo, for the 75th birthday of Gloria E. Anzaldúa. Gloria E. Anzaldúa was an American scholar of Chicana cultural theory, feminist theory…
Apple Switches Back To Google For Search On iOS & Mac
A few years ago, Apple dropped Google and replaced them with Bing results on iOS and Mac. Well now…
Google Supports WebSub & PubSubHubbub
Google’s John Mueller confirmed on Twitter that Google still supports PubSubHubbub, now known as WebSub. WebSub basically pushes content and changes…
Google Movie Reviews Tests Audience Reviews
A few months ago, Google began showing top voted tags for movies knowledge panels, before that like and dislike buttons – now Google is showing in some cases audience reviews…
Poll: Do You Request & Get Log Files For Your SEO Jobs?
There is an interesting conversation on Twitter around SEOs asking and obtaining access log files from their clients. It seems like many SEOs do prefer to have access to the raw log files from the site but many are unable to obtain it…
Google Birthday Surprise Spinner For Google’s 19th Birthday Tomorrow
Google turns 19 years old tomorrow, the last year of its teenage years and to celebrate, Google has a special Google birthday surprise spinner…
Google AdWords Editor Version 12.1 Adds Expanded Dynamic Search Ads, Shopping Showcase Ads & New Bid Options
Google has updated the AdWords Editor program to version 12.1 which brings many changes. New features include Expanded Dynamic Search ads, Shopping Showcase ads…
Google Finance Will Remove Portfolios Section Soon
Google has quietly posted in the Google Web Search Help forums that they are deprecating the portfolios section in Google Finance. It is going away next month…
Export Added To Beta Google Search Console Index Coverage Report
One of the cool new features is the index coverage report that shows you lots of details about your index information within Google.
Now they added the ability to export…
New Merchant Center Tools For Google AdWords
Google announced they have new merchant tools available for their Google AdWords customers for the upcoming holidays…
Google: When Going HTTPS, Migrate Whole Site At Once
Google’s John Mueller said at the 15:36 minute mark into the last Google hangout from Friday that if you are moving to HTTPs, you should move your whole site all at once…
Google My Business Login Broken & 404s
If you try to login to your Google My Business section now, you will probably see a 404…
Google To Find E-Books At Your Public Library
Google shared a new feature in search quietly on Twitter this week…
Googlebot Still On Hold On Supporting HTTP/2
John Mueller of Google said the other day in his hangout at the 1 hour and 13 minute mark that Googlebot still is not crawling in HTTP/2…
Google Tests White Knowledge Panels
Google is now testing white knowledge panels for local results. This was first spotted by our man Sergey Alakov and he posted a screen shot on Twitter of the white look. Typically there is a blue interface for the knowledge panels but here, as you can …
Google: Responsive Sites Don’t Need To Worry About Mobile First Index
Gary Illyes from Google said at the BrightonSEO conference that those with responsive sites don’t really need to worry about the upcoming mobile first index. I was not at the event where he said that but Greg Gifford was there and he posted it on Twitt…
Google: Fetch & Render Preview Not Used In Search
If you thought Google uses the preview you see in the fetch and render for search purposes…