Google’s Very Own Solar Eclipse Science Logo
If you go to Google.com and you are in the United States, you will see a special Google Doodle, an animated one for the solar eclipse. Google is looking to educate as many Americans about the solar eclipse before it happens this afternoon…
Google Search Console Data Logging Issue Reported
Google has posted a “note” in the Google Search Console of “an internal logging issue” which may cause the numbers in the Search Analytics reports to “see a very slight decrease…
Poll: How Often Do You Check Google Search Console
John Mueller from Google posted on Twitter a poll asking how often you use Google Search Console. The poll currently has over 300 responses, but lets get that poll to over a 1…
Google Tests New First-Click-Free Program & Subscription Tool For News Publishers
Bloomberg reported Friday afternoon that Google is testing a new subscription tool for news publishers in Google News “boost subscriptions for news publishers.” There are three changes coming…
Google May Now Show Video Previews In Search Carousel
Late Friday, Google announced they are showing video previews in the search results carousel for Google app for Android and Chrome on Android by default when on a Wifi connection…
Mass Google Search Console Emails: Chrome Will Show Security Warnings
Last night at around 6pm EST, I received dozens of emails from Google Search Console of site profiles I have access to, notifying me of the Chrome (version 62) will show a âNOT SECUREâ warning…
Google: Google Search Console Data Delayed & Slower Than Normal
If you login to Google Search Console and try to check your Google Search Analytics report, you will notice that the normal two-day delay in that data is now a five-day delay…
Google Ignores Unrecognized Attributes When Parsing HTML
What happens when you have invalid code, or attributes that mean nothing, or you have a typo in your attributes in your code? How does Google handle it…
Google Confirms They Score Internal & External Links Differently
Google’s John Mueller said the other day on Twitter that Google “definitely” scores or has different calculations and formulas for internal vs external links and signals…
Google: On-Page Markup & Data Highlighter Signals Are Equivalent
There are two primary ways to markup your pages with structured data to help Google power your rich cards / rich snippets. The best way is to use on-page code markup, schema, to markup your pages as we discussed yesterday…
Search Buzz Video Recap: Google Ad Exploit, Black Hat Tools, Search Console Updates & Chrome Warning
This week in search I covered one possible answer for how the AdSense and AdWords exploit happened…
Report: Google Showing More Local Packs Internationally
RankRanger is reporting a huge increase in the local packs showing up internationally…
Google Maps Reviews Breaks For 4 Hours Yesterday
Yesterday, at around 10am EST, the ability to write new reviews for Google local results in Google Search or Google Maps stopped working. In fact, it stopped working for about four hours. Many webmasters, SEOs…
Google: More Control With Markup vs The Data Highlighter Tool
In 2012, Google launched the data highlighter tool to give less technical webmasters a way to communicate markup of a page or group of pages …
Google Calls Algorithm Monitoring Tools “Blackhat Scrapers”
Back in the good old days, I use to simply use the chatter in the SEO discussion forums to communicate with you all if I feel there was a major or minor Google Algorithm update…
Google: We Care About URL & Last Modification Date
Google’s John Mueller said on Twitter this morning that Google doesn’t really care much about the priority field in the XML Sitemap…
Google: We Count The Same URL In Different Sitemaps Separately
John Mueller of Google said on Twitter that Google will count the same URL in different sitemap files separately…
Google: Directing Users & GoogleBot To Fasters Servers Is Not Cloaking
A webmaster asked John Mueller of Google if it is cloaking or against Google’s guidelines to direct GoogleBot to the fastest server available to render the content on the web site…
Google: Links From Added URL Parameters, Check The Canonical
Sometimes I get to step back and explain a basic SEO topic…
Google: URL Structure Not So Important For SEO
Google’s John Mueller said on Twitter that URL structure is “not so much” important, rating it a 1 out of 7 – whatever that means. He said the bigger concern is changing URLs can take Google time to pick up on and pass signals from. So stick with yo…