Google: Three Reasons Your Rich Snippets Aren’t Showing In Search
An SEO asked Google’s John Mueller why his rich cards (rich snippets) aren’t showing up in search. John responded with three possible reasons over Twitter…
Google Search Console Structured Data Report Gets More Details
Aleyda Solis posted on Twitter that the Google Search Console structured data report now has more detail. She pointed out that in the product report, it has new fields for name, price, brand…
Google On How To Block Your Staging Server
Google’s John Mueller posted on Google+ an overview of how to remove your staging server from Google and then the best way to block it going forward. Some call it a staging server, some a development server, some a testing server or some have all of t…
Google’s India Independence Day Doodle: Vote On Your Favorite Part
Today is India’s Independence Day and Google has a very nice logo on Google.in for it…
Google Adds AMP Testing Tool Box To Search Results
Yesterday we reported that Google added a mobile page testing tool to search, right in the search results page. In April…
Google Voice Recognition Now Supports 119 Languages
Google announced they now have added 30 new languages to their voice recognition capability, bringing it to a total of 119 language varieties, in Gboard on Android, Voice Search and more. And even more…
Google Adds Mobile Friendly Test In The Search Results
You can now search for [mobile friendly] in Google and Google will give you a box at the top of the page letting you test any URL to see if it is mobile friendly. Here is a screen shot:
This is the same as the mobile friendly testing tool but direc…
Google Hotel Search Prominently Adds Number Of Hotel Results
Sergey Alakov shared a screen shot on Twitter of Google showing the number of the hotel results in your search in a very prominent way…
Live: Google Question & Answer Feature In Local Results
About a month ago, we reported Google was testing question and answer sections in the local results. I emailed Google about this three times, Google was radio silent about it…
Test: Fetch As Google Stops At 10,000 Pixels
The other day, Google’s John Mueller was asked by an SEO named Torben what the cut off was for the fetch as Google feature. John Mueller responded on Twitter that he knows there is a cut off but was not sure what the number was. So Torben tested it a…
Details On The Google AdSense/Ad Buyer Exploit
As many of you know, Google confirmed an AdSense exploit where ad buyers were able to manipulate the ad platform to result in many AdSense publishers noticing a huge…
Google Logo For Hip Hop History
Today on the Google home page is a pretty cool hip hop Doodle, special Google logo. It is an interactive Google Doodle that lets you use turntables where you can mix samples of tracks from legends in the hip hop industry…
GoogleBot Doesn’t Pass A Referrer; Generally Directly Hits URLs
Google’s John Mueller confirmed on Twitter that GoogleBot, Google’s web crawler…
How Google Handles Canonical Pages With Noindex On The Page
In a hangout from this morning, Google’s John Mueller was asked how Google handles a page that you applied a canonical to but also has a noindex on it. Does that page pass…
Google Won’t Share The Number Of Search Quality Algorithms
Google’s John Mueller was asked in this morning’s hangout at the 13:05 mark into the video about disclosing the number of quality algorithms they have running in search today…
Google Search Console Sent Verification Emails To Webmaster By Accident
Over the past 48 hours, some webmasters who use Google Search Console may have seen a bunch of new verification emails sent by the tool to their inbox. Some have reported receiving up to a 1…
Here Is Why Google Doesn’t Want To Index Search Results Pages
Back in 2007, Google officially went on record, instructing webmasters to block their search results from being indexed by Google. Ever since then…
Google AdWords Matches New Organic Sitelinks Design With Carousel Buttons
Google AdWords announced they have launched a new design for the AdWords sitelinks. This new design matches the mobile design for organic sitelinks that Google pushed out a few weeks ago. It is a carousel that you can swipe left and right and tap on th…
Google Keyword Planner Showing “Okay Google” Keyword Ideas
John Lincoln shared a screen shot on Twitter of keyword ideas shared by Google’s keyword planner tool. This suggestion he shared showed how Google was suggesting that John bid on the term [okay google]…