Daily Search Forum Recap: April 14, 2017
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web.
Search Engine Roundtable Stories:
Search Buzz Video Recap: Burger King Spams Google Home, Similar Images….
Google Enables Multiple Merchant Center Account & Access
Google community manager, Cassie, announced in the Google Advertisers Help forums that you can now access and manage multiple merchant center accounts…
Google: There Is No CAPS Search Ranking Penalty
We know capital letters in URLs don’t necessarily hurt your rankings and we also know that using caps in your content doesn’t convey emotions and thus impact your rankings.
On the flip side…
Tweeting At Googlers Likely Won’t Land You In The Google Bird House
There are some really paranoid folks out there, those that think if they post anything publicly about their web sites, it might lead to a Google penalty. Of course…
Google Featured Snippets Showing More Images Now
Yesterday we reported that featured snippets can source images from different content sources, so the content they scrape can be on site A, while the image they show in that scraped content can be from site B…
Search Buzz Video Recap: Burger King Spams Google Home, Similar Images, Featured Snippets & Ask.com Privacy Bug
This week in search, I covered how Burger King spammed Google Home devices all across America. Google announced product schema support…
Burger King Spams Google Home With New TV Commercial
There is a new spam game in town, those who try to trigger your Google Home device or Google Assistant to start talking to you. A new Burger King ad, as reported by The Verge aimed at triggering Google Home devices to start talking to you about their …
Google My Business Lets You Enter URL Attributes For Other Business Information
Google quietly added a feature to the Google My Business spreadsheet uploads to enter URL attributes. These URL attributes can be used to link to things like your restaurants menu or other business information that is useful to searchers…
Google: Domain Age Doesn’t Matter For Search Rankings
Google’s John Mueller responded with a resounding “no” when he was asked if domain age matters for ranking in Google’s search results. John responded on Twitter to the question by simply saying “no” and adding no more detail…
Google: Internal Nofollow Links Don’t Devalue The Page They Are On
An interesting question was posed to Google’s Gary Illyes on Twitter asking if “internal nofollow links devalue the page that it’s on…
Google: Use As Many H1 Tags As You Want
Some of the responses I am seeing from John Mueller of Google are funny this week. In response to a question from a novice SEO about how many H1, header tags, should he use on a single page, John said on Twitter as many as he wants…
Google Featured Snippets Now Sourcing Different Image From Content Source
Google’s featured snippets are now capable of using a different image source from the article content source it used for the answer. For example…
Gary Illyes: I Have Better Things In My Tool Belt Than Google Evaluators
Several months ago, yea – I am going way back in my archives…
Google Does Love Me…
Monday, I wrote about how I potentially stress out some Googlers and some of you may have taken it to mean that these Googlers hate me.
While I am confident that some Googlers are not fans of what I write here…
Google Announces Product Schema For Image Search Months Later
Back in December 2016, we reported that Google now uses product schema for image search results. This was discovered by Aaron Bradley and we shared some screen shots of it in action.
Yesterday…
Ask.com Inadvertently Leaked Searcher Query Data Via Server Status Page
Ask.com, last week…
Google: We Update The Featured Snippet Selector Algorithm Often
You and I know that the featured snippets that come up in Google, espesially for the more generic queries, can rotate between different sites often. One day your site might be displayed for a featured snippet and then the next…
Programming Note: Offline For Passover 5777
This is a programming note that I will technically be 100% offline for the next two days for the Passover holiday.
Any story published on Tuesday or Wednesday, April 11th or 12th…
Confirmed: Google Search Console Link Data Bug – No Data Available
On Friday morning, the Google Search Console link report starting bugging out, where it showed “no data available” in the link report for many. Now, that bug spread to virtually all webmasters in their link report. This is not an issue for your site….