Google Mobile First Index Will Launch When Results Are “Quality Neutral”
Yesterday, at SMX West during the mobile-first index panel…
Google Responds To Allegations Of Former Googler Spamming
Several days ago, rumors started surfacing on Twitter that a former Google representation, a senior one, is now playing for the other team – spamming the search engine. Of course, no names were released but supposedly…
Google Dance 2017 A Huge Success
Last night, Google had an event for webmasters, SEOs and SEMs called the Google Dance. It was an event they ran annually and then stopped doing for some time until last year and has now done again, a second time in a row…
Google Local Business Reviews With Emojis
So we’ve seen emojis in ads, search console, shopping campaigns…
Google My Business Automated Ownership Conflict
Marissa Nordahl, Community & Social Media Manager, Google My Business…
Google Mobile Search Adds Tappable Shortcuts
Google added a new feature on mobile search, including their iOS and Android search apps…
Google: Your Forums Are Likely Not The Reason Your Site Dropped In Search
Are you worried that your discussion forums on your domain is bringing down your overall domain’s rankings in Google…
Google: Phantom Updates Are Core Algorithm Update
Google has been very quiet about what SEOs have been calling the “Phantom update.” The Phantom update has been floating around for the past couple years now, and we’ve covered it multiple times here. In fact…
Google Search Console Incorrect Namespace When Referencing HTTPS URLs
When submitting a sitemap in Google search Console, it seems you need to stick with all HTTP or HTTPS URLs and not mix them. I haven’t tested this myself…
Google Adds Placement Controls For Advertisers
Last week, Google got in trouble, mostly in the EU regions, for allowing their ads, including AdSense, YouTube ads and other display ads, to show up on sites that have “hateful, offensive and derogatory content…
GoogleBot Can Detect If Cookies Are Required
Gary Illyes from Google posted a DYK, did you know, recently on Twitter that said that generally GoogleBot “doesn’t make use of cookies, but it can if it detects it cannot get to the content without them…
Google: Rate Of Hacked Sites Up 32% & Will Continue To Grow
This comes as no surprise to anyone in our field that when Google published their State of Website Security in 2016 they documented that there was a 32% increase year (2016) over year (2015) of sites that got hacked…
Spring Equinox 2017 Logos From Google & Bing
Today on the Google’s home page is a special logo for both the Spring Equinox, the first day of Spring and the first day of Fall in the southern hemisphere. The logo has a mouse picking a flower after spring has sprung…
Google Search Lead: I Can’t Go After Individual Problems In Search Results
We all know how bad some feature snippets in Google’s search results can look but even if you point it out to one of Google’s lead search engineers…
Google’s Top Stories Inclusion Is Algorithmic, No Manual Inclusion
Some think that being included in Google News, which is a human, manual inclusion process, is the same as being included in the “top stories” section in web search. It is not…
Google Image Search Action Buttons Are Missing For Some
Since last week, a bunch of searchers have been complaining that Google Image Search is missing the action buttons, i.e. view image, view page, share this image and other buttons…
Google AdWords Upsets Advertisers By Expanding Meaning Of Close Variants
Late Friday afternoon, Google announced they are changing the behavior of how close variants works in Google AdWords. Google said “over the coming months weâre expanding close variant matching to include additional rewording and reordering for exact match keywords…
St. Patrick’s Day Logos From Google, Bing & More
As you can see, our site today is dressed up in even more green than the typical day to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day. And so are the search engines, Google, Bing, Dogpile and others are all sporting St. Patrick’s day logos…
Google: 404s Are Not A Signal Of Low Quality
For years and years, Google has been trying to communicate that 404s, page not found results, are a normal part of the web. Pages don’t always live forever. 404s are not a bad thing, they are a normal thing…
Google: Again, Site Command Not Going Away
6 weeks ago we covered that the site command is sticking around despite other Google operators going away slowly. But then, a week or so ago…