No, Google Isn’t Ranking M-Dot Domains Higher Than Responsive Sites
This is a funny one, I spotted John Mueller of Google having to tell a webmaster/SEO that Google is not giving a special ranking boost to m-dot mobile sites…
Daily Search Forum Recap: September 27, 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:
More Google Algorithm & Search Results Shuffling
Yea, yea, yea…
Google AMP URLs With usqp=mq331AQCCAE= Is A Test
Some folks are noticing Google serving two flavors of their AMP URLs to users. One is your normal AMP URL and the other is the AMP URL with usqp=mq331AQCCAE= appended to the end of the URL…
Google Drops Sitelinks Search Box
It looks like Google has killed off the Sitelinks searchbox that launched in 2014 and has been shown for many sites in the mobile and desktop search results…
Is This The Google Shopping Ad Design For The EU?
Bloomberg reported that Google is coming out with a standalone shopping ad unit to comply with the EU regulations, so I guess it would only show in the EU regions…
Google Expands Phone Call Organic Links In Search Results
Back in March 2016, we reported that Google was showing phone number extensions in the organic search results snippets. Well, that seems to now be expanding beyond the US and into other regions…
It’s Google’s 19th Birthday, But Google.com Was Registered Over 20 Years Ago
It might be Google’s 19th birthday today but did you know that Google.com was registered over 20 years ago…
More Google Algorithm & Search Results Shuffling
Yea, yea, yea, more of the same. Google is updating their search results, it is in flux, search results are shuffling around. But I only try to report it when the signals all seem…
Google Logo For Gloria E. Anzaldúa Brings Awareness To Mexican/US Border Politics
Today on Google’s home page in the United States is a Doodle, special Google logo, for the 75th birthday of Gloria E. Anzaldúa. Gloria E. Anzaldúa was an American scholar of Chicana cultural theory, feminist theory…
Apple Switches Back To Google For Search On iOS & Mac
A few years ago, Apple dropped Google and replaced them with Bing results on iOS and Mac. Well now…
Google Supports WebSub & PubSubHubbub
Google’s John Mueller confirmed on Twitter that Google still supports PubSubHubbub, now known as WebSub. WebSub basically pushes content and changes…
Google Movie Reviews Tests Audience Reviews
A few months ago, Google began showing top voted tags for movies knowledge panels, before that like and dislike buttons – now Google is showing in some cases audience reviews…
Poll: Do You Request & Get Log Files For Your SEO Jobs?
There is an interesting conversation on Twitter around SEOs asking and obtaining access log files from their clients. It seems like many SEOs do prefer to have access to the raw log files from the site but many are unable to obtain it…
Google Birthday Surprise Spinner For Google’s 19th Birthday Tomorrow
Google turns 19 years old tomorrow, the last year of its teenage years and to celebrate, Google has a special Google birthday surprise spinner…
Google AdWords Editor Version 12.1 Adds Expanded Dynamic Search Ads, Shopping Showcase Ads & New Bid Options
Google has updated the AdWords Editor program to version 12.1 which brings many changes. New features include Expanded Dynamic Search ads, Shopping Showcase ads…
Google Finance Will Remove Portfolios Section Soon
Google has quietly posted in the Google Web Search Help forums that they are deprecating the portfolios section in Google Finance. It is going away next month…
Export Added To Beta Google Search Console Index Coverage Report
One of the cool new features is the index coverage report that shows you lots of details about your index information within Google.
Now they added the ability to export…
New Merchant Center Tools For Google AdWords
Google announced they have new merchant tools available for their Google AdWords customers for the upcoming holidays…
Google: When Going HTTPS, Migrate Whole Site At Once
Google’s John Mueller said at the 15:36 minute mark into the last Google hangout from Friday that if you are moving to HTTPs, you should move your whole site all at once…
Google My Business Login Broken & 404s
If you try to login to your Google My Business section now, you will probably see a 404…