Google Analytics Adds Ask Intelligence; Ask Google Analytics Questions & Get Answers
Google announced yesterday a major step in their Google Analytics platform. The ability to simply ask it a question about your web site data and it comes back with a report. This feature is called Ask Analytics Intelligence…
Google: We Do Not Penalize For Spamming META Keywords
Everyone here knows that Google ignores the meta keywords tag and content within it. Since Google ignores it and it does not influence your Google rankings, you can spam and keyword stuff it all you want…
Machine Generated Content For Human Consumption Against Google’s Guidelines?
Bryson Meunier asked Gary Illyes of Google on Twitter are tools that generate readable content for humans from data “automatically generated content…
Google Search Console Average Position Metric Broken?
If you go to the Google Search Console and access your average position metric within the Google Search Analytics tool…
Google: No SEO Benefit To Adding Trust Seals To Your Site
Google’s Gary Illyes confirmed on Twitter that Google doesn’t have a ranking signal that looks to see if a site has a trust seal on it and then gives the site a ranking benefit for having one…
Google Doesn’t Care About Crawl Budget For Their Own Sites
Google has explained crawl budget to use several months ago and truth is, the topic has kind of slowed down recently – which I am grateful for. But every now and then…
Google Expands Home Service Ads To East Coast; 5 Metro Areas
Google has expanded the home service ads to 5 metro areas now, including the east coast.
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New Beta Google Search Console Screen Shots
Last night on Search Engine Land I shared screen shots of the new beta version of the Google Search Console. Alan Bleiweiss sent us the screen shots of the new design.
The new design is not a surprise…
Back Button On Google Loading Blank Page: Bug For Some
It seems there are many searchers complaining in the Google Web Search Help forums that the back button is malfunctioning on Google search. Searchers are saying that when they click it…
Google Tests A Darker & More Bold AMP Logo In The Search Results
Aleyda Solis posted on Twitter a screen shot of the new mobile interface but with yet a new addition, a bolder and darker AMP logo in the search results.
Typically…
Google Can’t Get Away From PageRank, Blame Moz Domain Authority
For years and years, Google has been trying to get away from having webmasters and SEOs focus on their PageRank score. They finally killed off toolbar PageRank a year ago but now, time and time again, people are selling “domain authority…
Google Tests Rate & Review Call To Action In Local Panel
Google is testing a new call to action within the Google local panels to encourage searchers to rate and review local businesses. Sergey Alakov spotted this one, of course, and posted it on Twitter…
Google Tests Fade Away People Also Search For Box
Robin Rozhon shared a screen shot on Twitter of yet another test for how Google displays the “people also search for” search results user interface…
Matt McGee Is Also Leaving The Search Industry
Matt McGee has announced and posted on Twitter he is leaving the search industry, including Third Door Media and its properties, Search Engine Land, Marketing Land and MarTech Today.
After 9 yrs…
Google Tests Rounded Buttons For People Also Search For
Google is testing yet another user interface variation for the people also search for function in the search results. This new test is showing rounded corners for the button…
Google Maps Suggest An Edit Works Fast
As many of you know, when you search for a local place, the local panel will come up with information on that place. This is also the case with searching in Google Maps…
Google’s John Mueller More Sarcastic With His SEO Advice?
As many of you know, at least the ones who read here daily, you know I am a very sarcastic person, even in my writing. You might also know that Gary Illyes from Google can also be fairly sarcastic. John Mueller…
Rand Fishkin To Leave Moz, The SEO Company He Founded
By now, most of you heard the news that Rand Fishkin is transitioning out of Moz, the company he founded 16 years ago. I’ve known Rand since 2005 or so, when he and I were moderators back at some old SEO forums…
Search Buzz Video Recap: Google Featured Spam, Google Local Messaging, Bing Popular Content & Rand Fishkin Leaving Moz
This week in search we saw a possible Google update over the weekend which died down a lot since. We saw our first case of image based featured snippet spam. Google Images now shows videos and recipe data in the results. Google published an FAQ aro…
Google AdWords Now Supports YouTube Video Views In Remarketing Lists
Google announced on Google+ and Google AdWords Help forums, quietly…