Google: Mobile First Index Rolls Out On Host Level Per Site
One of the questions about the mobile first index from SMX East last night was about how the mobile first index rolls out. Gary Illyes from Google said he thinks it rolls out at the host level. So www.domain.com vs m.domain.com vs something.domain.co…
New Google AdWords Showcase Shopping Ads & More
Yesterday Google announced some new features at the SMX show, the big one is shopping showcase ads…
Google Measures Server Response Time In Milliseconds, Is 200 Milliseconds The Benchmark?
We’ve talked about page speed here a lot, but page speed and server response time are really two different things. According to Google’s documentation for their PageSpeed insights tool…
Soft 404s For Google Hack Labels Don’t Remove Warning
As many of you know, for years, Google would label hacked content in their search results with the this site may be hacked label. The solution is to patch up the hack and remove the hacked pages if they should not exist…
Google Launches Book A Room For Hotel Search Results
Google seems to have rolled out a feature they have been testing for booking a hotel room directly from the Google hotel search results…
Google Suggests Not To Make Country Specific Pages With Hreflang Just For Currency Changes
Let’s say you have an e-commerce site that sells to multiple countries and all the pages are written in English but you sell the product in different currencies based on the country the user is buying from…
Google My Business Integrates Booking Partners To Book Appointments & More
Google announced that they are rolling out in the Google My Business console a way for some US businesses that have appointments…
Google To Share Revenue With News Publishers, Maybe 30%
The Financial Times reported, which sites like Techcrunch and others have covered…
Google: Stick With ISO 3166-1 For Hreflang, Not 3166-2
Google responded to a webmaster asking if they can use ISO 3166-2 for their hreflang files saying you should probably stick with ISO 3166-1. Google’s documentation specifically says they support ISO 3166-1 and makes no mention of ISO 3166-2…
Google: The Link Report Is Not A Real Time Monitor Of Links
Google Search Console is filled with wonderful tools and reports, including the links to your site report. It is designed to show you a “sampling of links to your Search Console site…
Google AdWords Tests No Side Bar On AdWords Preview Tool
Google is testing a new user interface for the AdWords ad preview and diagnostic tool. The new look drops off the left side bar and shows the preview in a larger view. Avinash Murthy spotted this and posted it on Twitter…
Google Q&A Feature Rolling Out On Desktop?
Last week, we reported Google was testing the local question and answer feature on the desktop search results for the local panel. Well, on Friday, everyone was able to see it from what I could tell. Now…
Google Tests Single AMP Icon In Search Results Again
A month ago we caught Google testing a somewhat awkward layout for showing the AMP icon without the AMP text next to it. Shortly after that Google tested the AMP logo in blue with the word Instant next to it…
Google Disables AdSense Accounts: Bug Or Cleaning House?
There are many complaints in the Google AdSense Help forums of mass AdSense account disabling over the weekend. Most, if not all…
Stop Messaging Danny Sullivan With Your Google Questions, He Is Not Ready Yet.
We all know that Danny Sullivan joined Google in part to help with communication issues with Google internally and the outside world. But that doesn’t mean Danny is yet ready to respond to questions.
Danny already shared stuff no one outside of Googl…
Don’t Break The Google Guidelines Even If Someone Recommends You Do
Sometimes I don’t get how people can simply ask Google questions about how to spam Google…
Google AdWords Rolling Out Support For Parallel Tracking
Google announced they have begun rolling out support for what is called parallel tracking…
Bing Ads Overview Tab Redesign
Bing Ads has revamped their overviews tab for advertisers in the ad platform console. Bing announced it yesterday saying tThe new Overview tab in Bing Ads provides that big picture view of your account…
Google Tests Image Thumbnails In Search Results Snippets, Again
Google is once again testing image thumbnails in the search results snippets. Well, Google has done it for some queries and pushed them out but for standard snippets, Google doesn’t by default show image thumbnails for them…
Say Something Nice About An SEO/SEM
As time goes on, it is inevitable that we lose important people in the search industry – that is life. But too often we are too late to express our gratitude to those people during their living years…