New: Google Partners Mobile Sites Certification For Developers
Google has announced they now have Google Partner certification for mobile site developers. Developers can take a 90 minute, 65 questions exam and if they score an 80% or higher…
Google Posts Now Showing More Categories Including The Mets
As Danny Sullivan reported a couple weeks ago, Google has expanded Google Posts into museums, movies…
Google: Good Rule Of Thumb On Quality Content…
Google’s John Mueller was asked about what makes quality content, um, quality. In which, John responded that a good rule of thumb is content that your users will want to come back to even without a search engine…
Google Local Results Showing Query Specific Data, Like Hours, Reviews, Phone & Address
If you search in Google for local businesses and get even more specific, such as ask for their reviews, phone number, address, hours of operation and so on, Google will now give you that information in the local box…
Google Skyscraper Logo For Fazlur Rahman Khan’s 88th Birthday
Today would be the 88th birthday of Fazlur Rahman Khan, the Bangladeshi man who is widely considered the “father of tubular designs” for high-rise skyscrapers. He designed the Sears tower which was the tallest high-res for 22 years…
A Major Google Update On March 30th? I Don’t Think So.
Late last week, most of the automated tracking tools that monitor the Google search results fluctuation reported huge spikes and changes in the Google rankings. Often that would symbolize that there was an algorithm update at Google but this time, I d…
Google: Bulk Quality = Low Quality In Search Rankings
Some of the questions SEOs send to Google seem to always amaze me. Basically people asking Google how can they safely spam Google. The last question was about how to do “bulk submission of quality articles” in a safe way. It was addressed to Google’s…
Google: Sitemap Priority Field Is “A Bag Of Noise”
Google has always downplayed the importance of priority and chance frequency in the XML sitemap files. They have told webmasters to not worry about it and even said they ignore other fields like the lastmod date.
That being said…
Google: There Were Other Updates Around The Release Of Fred
When I reported on the Fred update that hit on March 8th and came up with my analysis, I said several times – there were sites that 100% saw a dive in their Google…
Meet Gary Illyes Of Google In Boston Next Week
Gary Illyes, the Googler we cite here way too often, is going to be in Boston part of next week. He posted on Twitter that he is open to chatting with folks about “internet things” over coffee, lunch and/or dinner.
So if you are in town…
Google Tests Breadcrumbs At Top Of Search Results Snippets
Yet another Google user interface test to add to our list. Google is testing placing the breadcrumb/URL at the top of the snippet…
Google Search Snippets Showing “Tags”
I think I found something new myself that Google is testing or maybe have launched in the mobile search results snippets. A new line called “tags.” I can’t click on them but they show above the description/snippet block and below the title and breadc…
Google: Our Duplicate Detection & Clustering Is Stable
Paul Haahr, a lead search ranking engineer at Google, said on Twitter that there haven’t been many changes to Google’s algorithms around duplicate detection and clustering in the search results. He said “we make improvements to our code over time…
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Search Buzz Video Recap: Google Confirmed Fred, Never Denied An Update, Won’t Use Machine Learning & More
This week in search, I covered how Google confirmed the Fred update and cited quality several times as the issue. Google also said they never denied an update to the algorithm. Google said machine learning wonât take over the search algorithm…
Google Local 3 Pack Removes City Names For Local Results
Sergey Alakov spotted another change to the Google local pack, this one is where Google is removing the city name from the local pack results when the results are nearby your…
Some Chat Boxes Can Be Hit By The Google Intrusive Mobile Interstitials Penalty
Following up on questions around Google’s newish mobile intrusive interstitials penalty. Yesterday we said that store locators that take up the whole screen can be an issue…
Google AdWords Tracked 4 Billion Store Visits & Aims To Improve Accuracy
Google announced yesterday that after two years of tracking store visits in AdWords, they have now reached over 4 billion store visits globally…
Google Warns YouTube Creators: Ad Revenue May Fluctuate Over Next Few Weeks
As you know, Google promised to make ad controls for advertisers as advertisers continue to leave Google over the controversy around their ads being shown on hateful, offensive and derogatory content sites and YouTube videos…
Google Updates Site Status Tool to Make More Precise & Easier
Google announced that they updated the site status tool with a “cleaner UI, easier-to-interpret language…
Google AdWords Dynamic Search Ads Adds Page Feeds, Expanded Ads & More
Google announced that their dynamic search ads solution has gained three new features. These features include page feeds, expanded ads and quality enhancements.
Page Feed:
With page feeds…