Google: We Can Ignore Links On Any Site Including Forbes & Entrepreneur
Yesterday we covered how a link seller was trying to sell links to a Googler and we posted some advice around that not being the best idea. Well…
Search Buzz Video Recap: Sell Links To Google, hreflang, Google Maps & The SEO Movie
This week in search I quickly go through the monthly Google webmaster report. I then discuss how someone sent a Googler an email about selling links to them. But Google tells us they ignore links from all types of sites and only penalizes the worst o…
Google: Use 503 Status Code Only For Hours, Not Weeks
A 503 Service Unavailable server status code is to be used when the server is currently unable to handle the request due to a temporary overloading or maintenance of the server…
Google: Site In In One Language? No Need To Use hreflang.
The purpose of hreflang is to communicate to Google how they can access different language/region variations of a web page. If your page is only in one language, then there is no need to use hreflang…
Tip Of The Day: Don’t Sell Links To Googlers
For the life of me, I don’t get how lazy some of these spammers or link sellers are. Why would you email someone at an @google email address or someone who is a known search quality representative that you are selling links…
Google Hotel Pack Now Shows Number Of Results
Google is now showing the number of hotel listings available in the local pack for your searches at the bottom, where it use to say “more hotels…
Google Tests Hotel Price Slider & Carousel Price Labels In Search
Sergey Alakov spotted yet another hotel search results test in Google and posted it on Twitter. This test includes the price labels in maps and adds (a) a price slider filter and (b) price labels in the carousel listings…
Google: Order Of Language Values In hreflang Doesn’t Matter
Google uses the hreflang attributes to serve the correct language or regional URL in their search results and many sites that use hreflang have multiple variations of their pages. One webmaster asked if it matters which order you place the hreflang in…
Google: Pop Up Style DIVs Better Than Interstitials
Google’s John Mueller said it is generally better to use pop up style DIVs for age verification authentications or gates as opposed to using interstitial forms. He said this on Twitter this morning.
He said when it comes to age verification gates tha…
Google: Hyphens In Search Queries Can Change Results
If someone searches for a word or term with or without a hyphen, Google can show different search results based on the query having a hyphen in it or not. So for example, [popup-style] vs [popup style] or [s-eo] vs [seo]…
Google: No Spring Cleaning On The Search Index
John Mueller from Google said at the 14:08 mark in the webmaster hangout video from Friday that Google doesn’t perform “Spring Cleaning” on their search index. He said “it’s not that we have Spring Cleaning in our index…
Google Local Panels Now Rolling Out Tab User Interface?
Last month we reported that Google was testing a tab user interface to toggle between a local panel’s overview and reviews. Well, it seems like this new user interface is rolling out. Google has not confirmed it yet…
Google: Less Crawl Rate Isn’t Necessarily A Bad Thing
Google’s John Mueller said in the pas that crawl frequency and ranking higher are not directly related and you can rank high without a high crawl frequency…
Google: We Penalizes Egregious Link Manipulation; Otherwise Ignores The Link
As you know, Google treats links from spammy sites vs unnatural links differently. But Google also treats different types of unnatural links differently as well. Unnatural links …
Google Tests A More Colorful Black Search Results Design
Google is testing yet another black search results design, after testing over a dozen or so thus far. This one is a bit more colorful with a four colored dotted top right action button, light blue links, rounded corners…
Google & Bing On World Environment Day
Today on the home pages of Google and Bing are special logos and themes for World Environment Day. Google has a simple Google logo that grows into a green plant, whereas Bing’s home page was revamped into the Mooserboden Reservoir near Kaprun…
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Google Search Console Rewords “Other Resources” To “Web Tools”
Google has changed one of the menu items within the Google Search Console. They changed what was listed last as “Other Resources” to “Web Tools.” This came with the launch of the ad experience report that we covered on Friday…
SEO: The Movie – A Movie About Our Industry Coming Soon
John Lincoln, who we have cited her a few times, has spent the past several months producing a movie about our industry named SEO: The Movie. I saw a full draft of the movie and it was done very well. John released the trailer and will be releasing t…
June 2017 Google Webmaster Report
Over the past month we had a very volatile Google search ranking landscape. The whole month, the rankings and algorithms seemed to have not kept still at all. It wasn’t a massive update in my opinion, but the shuffles have kept the SEO community unne…
Google Logo For Gilbert Baker, Designer Of The Rainbow Flag
Today on the Google home page is a special Google logo, Doodle, for the the designer of the rainbow flag, Gilbert Baker. He was an American artist, gay rights activist who designed this flag in 1978…