Searchmetrics US Files For Bankruptcy After Brightedge Continued Patent Suit
Techcrunch reported that Searchmetric’s US company has filed Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in Delaware because of an ongoing patent legal dispute with Brightedge.
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Google: The Search Console API Uses Same Data As Web Portal
Google’s John Mueller said that the Google Search Console API does not do any data sampling. He said it uses the same backend data as you would get in the web user interface. He did add that the API does have limits but added there is no sampling of d…
Google Not Releasing Featured Snippets Search Analytics Filter?
Back in May 2016, a year ago, we reported some people seeing a filter in the Search Analytics tool in Google Search Console…
Google Teachers’ Day Logo
On Google’s home page in the United States is a special Google logo to thank all the teachers out there. It is a Google Doodle for Teachers’ Day…
Google Image Search Adds Quick Filters For GIFs, Latest, Clip Art & Colors
Google seems to be rolling out a new user interface for image search results on mobile. Specifically they are showing a new quick filter at the top of the image results to let you filter by latest images, GIFs and clipart…
Google Job Search Portal Results Powered By Schema?
The other week, we spotted Google showing a job portal search results set in their web results. It was an experiment that Google would not confirm outside of saying they are always testing things…
Google Search Console Search Analytics Not Getting Advanced Filters Soon
Dan Shure asked Google’s John Mueller on Twitter if the Google might be adding to the Google Search Console’s Search Analytics tool even more advanced filters. Specifically…
Google: Agreeing With Us Doesn’t Equal Good SEO; We’re Often Wrong
A couple weeks ago, Gary Illyes from Google posted on Twitter saying “I’m often wrong.” I let that one slide and decided not to cover it with a title saying “Google says they are often wrong,” or something like that…
Google: Adding Videos To Your Pages Doesn’t Help With Rankings
Gary Illyes from Google said on Twitter that simply adding a video to your web page or web pages won’t help that page rank better. Gary wrote “having a video on your page will absolutely not help you rank better in web search…
Google’s Gary Illyes Says Here Are Six Excellent & Helpful SEOs
You rarely see Google or Googlers that speak on Google’s behalf recommend a specific SEO or SEO company. They give general and abstract guidance on how to hire an SEO but to say…
Google Fixes Website Index Bug Based On Forum Thread
On April 23rd, a webmaster went to the Google Webmaster Help forums because his site’s home page was not being fully indexed and kept on dropping out of the index. The question really baffled a lot of SEOs…
Google May Release Mobile First Index Slowly In Batches
Google’s John Mueller said this week in a Google Hangout at the 25:05 mark into the video that Google may decide to release the mobile first index in batches. As you know…
Google: Crossing Two Affiliate Feeds Into Your Content Doesn’t Add Value
I’ve seen this a lot, where websites will try to add value to their site in tons of industries, be it retail, real estate, medical and so on by taking two or more affiliate data feeds, mixing them together to add different sources of information on the…
Search Buzz Video Recap: Google Mobile First Index Release, Search Quality Raters Hours & SEO & Paid Ads
This week in search, I posted the big monthly Google webmaster report. I covered how Google said they may decide to release the mobile first…
Google Mobile Search Gets Fresh & Viral AMP Carousel
Google seems to be testing or rolling out a new form of the AMP carousel in the mobile search results. This is similar to top news or recipes and the like, but this one is labeled “fresh and viral.” I was personally able to replicate it in one of my t…
Google Home Services Ads Now With 3 Card Design
Google seems to have pushed out a new design for the home services ads. Instead of the linear format, now Google is showing three cards horizontally across the top of the Google home page…
Google Search Console Working On New AMP Features
Yesterday, Google’s John Mueller sent out an email to a number of Search Console beta testers asking if they are interested in trying out some new AMP…
Google: Stop Optimizing For RankBrain; It’s Irrelevant
So we know Google has told us before that you cannot optimize for RankBrain, that there is no RankBrain score. RankBrain is more of a query thing where Google tries to better understand the searcher’s intent with the query and brings back documents ba…
May 2017 Google Webmaster Report
It is that time of the month again, the monthly Google webmaster report where I summarize the more important Google webmaster/SEO related topics of the past 30 days or so. In short, the biggest items that you should be aware of include the Owl update….
Google Doesn’t Forget, They Have Lots Of Storage
Google’s John Mueller responded on Twitter about if Google forgets about links over time, in which he responded “we have a lot of storage.” That, to me…