Google Home Beauty & The Beast Was A Developer Integration
Bryson Meunier spotted that when he asked his Google Home device “what is my day like…
Search Buzz Video Recap: Google Fred Update Analyzed, Google Targets Fake & Hateful Content & Google Home Ads
This week in search, I dug deeper into the Google Fred update and discovered it targeted low value sites monetized via ads, affiliates and lead generation…
Are Google Search Snippets Showing False Dates?
The other day, Bill Hartzer posted that he saw Google showing inaccurate and false dates on his articles within the Google search results. Now I see a WebmasterWorld thread started by the administrator there, with a similar complaint…
Does Google Patrol The Black Hat Forums & Communities?
For as long as I can remember, I believe Googlers, including folks like Matt Cutts back in the day, used to regularly visit the black hat forums and communities – including the ones that were private…
Paul Haahr From Google Explains Offensive Vs Inaccurate
Yesterday we covered the new quality raters guidelines and how it targets and flags offensive, inaccurate and hate content in the search results. Tons of people took it to mean that Google is censoring the internet. That is not really the case, inste…
Google Helps An SEO Try To Land A Job At A Large Publisher
In the Google webmaster hangout last week, an SEO who is going on a job interview at a really huge web site, a news publisher he said…
Bing Ads Removes Trademark Policy For Keywords Globally
Bing announced they have dropped their trademark policy to disallow the bidding on trademarks globally, like they have in the US…
Google: Page Layout Algorithm/Penalty Is Still Important
The Google page layout algorithm/penalty which originally launched in 2012 and has been updated a few times since is still an important algorithm says Google’s Gary Illyes.
Gary was asked about it on Twitter and said, “yes…
Google: You Can Rank For Medium Competitive Keywords Without Links
We’ve seen Googlers say time and time again that you can rank without links because Google will look at the content but most SEOs know that without links, you cannot rank for anything somewhat competitive…
Google Algorithms Now Target Offensive, Upsetting, Inaccurate & Hateful Results
Yesterday, Google released a new quality raters guidelines PDF document that was specifically updated to tell the quality raters how to spot and flag offensive, upsetting, inaccurate and hateful web pages in the search results…
Google Local Pack Removes Call/Directions Button For Featured Image
Google seems to be swapping out the call and directions button in the local pack and replacing it with a featured image from the local business. I was personally able to replicate both user interfaces for the same query and screen shot it as Google …
Google AdWords Tests 6 Ads At The Bottom Of Search Results?
Over the past couple days, I saw at least three people report that they saw six or more AdWords ads at the bottom of the search results. So as many as 10 ads on a single search results page…
Google Mocks PBNs, Suggests They Don’t Work
Gary Illyes and John Mueller from Google both mock a tweet about PBNs, private blog networks. The tweet contains a screen shot of a private Facebook message saying that he was able to block the PBNs by using robots.txt and “it worked…
Google’s Gary Illyes Latest Tweet Reference Fred?
So yesterday, in an effort to try to help a lot of people, I posted my theory on what type of sites/content the Google Fred update targets. I said low value content aimed at revenue generation over helping their users. I unintentionally upset a lot of…
Google: Revoked Manual Actions Have No Leftover Effects
Google’s John Mueller said on Twitter that when a Google manual action is revoked via Google Search Console…
SEO Sends A Message To Google Via Robots.txt
Rishi Lakhani posted on Twitter a link to an awesome robots.txt file he wrote at fastfwd.com/robots.txt which says “DEAR GOOGLE, SINCE THIS IS THE ONLY TIME YOU COME TO ME, LET ME TALK TO YOU…
Holi Festival Google & Bing Colorful Logos & Themes
Today on both Google and Bing’s home page worldwide are special themes and logos for the Holi festival…
Bug: Google Search Analytics Report Missing A Day Of Data Again
The SEO community seems pretty upset that if you go into your Google Search Analytics report within the Google Search Console, you will be missing a day, specifically March 9, 2017…
Google Search Console Low Quality Page Report Not Happening
Wouldn’t it be nice if Google told you which pages on your site are low quality and then you had an action list of pages that need more love and attention from you…
Google Fred Update Targets Ad Heavy, Low Value Content Sites
The Google Fred Update which we first spotted rolling out early morning on March 8th seems to be fairly big. After reviewing well over 70 sites that were hit by this update, 95% of them share two things in common…