Google My Business Action URLs For Online Orders, Reservations & More
Google quietly announced in their release notes for the Google My Business section that some businesses can now add “action URLs” to their business profile specifically for “online orders or reservations” and similar actions…
UK Shuts Down Company Impersonating Google Over Local Listings
I hate it, and I am sure hate it also, when someone calls you and claims they are Google. It happens fairly often, espesially around Google My Business local listings. It is nothing new and it seems like Google can’t do anything to stop it…
Google Maps Updates Options For Reporting Business Photos
This is a small update but Sergey Alakov documented that Google has updated the suggested reasons for reporting an inappropriate business photo. So when you report a photo you see in a Google Local result…
Google: SEOs Help JavaScript Coders
Yesterday, John Mueller from Google posted on Twitter a notice to all SEOs that they should embrace JavaScript and help JavaScript developers learn SEO. In short…
Google: Don’t Use The User Agent Language Setting
Google’s John Mueller said that while GoogleBot generally crawls documents “without an accept-language header” it is not a good idea to use the user-agent language setting to serve content.
This is in response to a webmaster who asked about using it…..
Massive CPC Drops Across Google AdSense Publishers
Over the past 48 hours, there has been a spike in complaints around Google AdSense showing huge CPC, cost per click…
Bing Ads Updates Quality Policy, Will Remove Non Performing Ads
Bing announced new updates to their Relevance and Quality policy yesterday. This is to drive better metrics across the system and “delivering improved ad and network quality…
A Scholarship Business Based On Links Has Shut Down
Marie Haynes (Marie_Haynes) via Jon Cooper (@PointBlankSEO) posted on Twitter a screen shot of a business that banked on getting links from colleges…
Google: CSS Size Generally Doesn’t Hurt Your Rankings
Google’s John Mueller said on Twitter that the size of your CSS file generally doesn’t have a negative impact on your rankings in Google. He said Google can handle ”
WWW vs Non-WWW: Google Says It Does Not Matter
Which is better, to have a www or not to have the www to start you domain name…
When Do Expired Redirects Stop Passing Signals With Google?
We cover redirects here a lot, I mean a lot, and Google has documented a lot of these things for us around redirects but often…
Google: Disavowing A Site Won’t Hurt The Site
Gary Illyes from Google said on Twitter in one word that “no” adding a disavow to a site won’t necessarily hurt that site from ranking…
New Google Rendering & Debugging Docs
On Friday afternoon, Gary Illyes from Google posted on Twitter that Google has published new documents on rendering and debugging. The new docs…
Google Tests Topics For Search Refinements
Andreea Calin shared a photo with me on Twitter of a new Google search feature. The feature looks to pull other topics around your query…
Bing Featured Snippets Direct Answers You Can Edit With Bing Distill
Bing offered their form of direct answers years ago but now I noticed those boxes allow you to actually edit them. Also the answers seem to be coming up more often as a WebmasterWorld thread seems to imply.
Here is one result that has this direct an…
Google: Shadow DOMs Should Work Fine
Carrie Haggerty asked Google’s John Mueller a question I’ve never seen before, asking if shadow DOMs are okay with GoogleBot and if Google can index the content…
More Google Interface Design Testing…
Sergey Alakov has spotted even more Google tests with their mobile search user interface and design. He has captured screen shots of Google testing green hyperlinks, yellow stars, bolder fonts, rounder corners, green AMP logos, rounded green call to ac…
Google Quality Raters Guidelines Updated With Conspiracy Theories & Non-English Results
Google has updated their quality raters guidelines on July 27, 2017. Previously it was updated on May 11, 2017 with some smaller changes and then the bigger changes on March 14, 2017 with the offensive, upsetting…
Google My Business In Search Edit Adds More Features
In June we reported Google began testing in search mini Google My Business dashboards that let business owners see their business profile and edit a lot of their local information right in the search results…
Google Shopping Ads Tests Stores In Carousel Format
Josh Leibner notified me on Twitter of Google testing a out a new format for the Google Shopping Ads. In this format…