Google Keeps Debunking 301 Redirect Dilution Myths
For the past couple years, Google has been trying to communicate that 301 and 302 redirects pass full PageRank…
Does The Time To Fetch & Render Indicate Possible Google Crawling Issues?
Andrew Shotland asked Google’s John Mueller an interesting question around the fetch and render tool in the Google Search Console…
Samuel Johnson Gets A Dictionary Google Logo
Today’s Google logo, Doodle, on the home page of Google.com is for Samuel Johnson, aka Dr. Johnson…
Google: There Is No Top Three Search Ranking Signals
A year and a half ago, Google’s Andrey Lipattsev who has not been in the public eye since, listed off Google’s top three ranking factors as content, links and RankBrain. It was a fun time for us search reporters, as you can imagine…
New Google AdSense Auto Ads Beta
It looks like Google AdSense has launched a new ad code type for publishers named Auto ads. I don’t have much information on this beta outside of this help document and this WebmasterWorld thread.
Now…
Google: Search Algorithm Monitoring Tools Get It Right
At the Brighton SEO conference, Gary Illyes from Google said that the third party SEO or search ranking algorithm monitoring tools tend…
Google Search Algorithm Update On September 16th
I was incredibly tempted to do a special alert news story Saturday night on a Google algorithm update that seems to have touched down Saturday morning or late Friday but I decided to see how the Sunday chatter around it would be…
Search Buzz Video Recap: Click Data Google Signal, Google Search Console & Bing PWAs
This week in search, I covered how the head of Google Brain said that Google uses click behavior, such as pogosticking in their search ranking algorithms…
Breaking: Google AdSense Stops Showing Ads For Many Publishers
The Google AdSense forum has begun lighting up with publishers complaining that their AdSense ads are no longer showing up on their web sites. There seems to be hundreds…
Does Google Ignore HTML ID Attributes?
An SEO asked Google’s John Mueller if HTML ID attributes can help with SEO and John said “no” on Twitter.
To be honest, it is a bit hard to understand the question because of the english…
Google Local Panel Tests Small Map Icon Interface
Google is testing showing a small map icon in the local panel results by the address line. This was pointed out to me recently by @thibaultadda but first noticed by @sergey_alakov months ago…
Bing To Crawl Web For PWAs For Inclusion In Windows App Store?
Ryan Hayes posted on Twitter that Microsoft Bing will be crawling the web for PWAs and will then decide to “auto-ingests quality” PWAs into the Windows store. He posted this based on what Microsoft said at the Microsoft Edge Web Summit…
Google On How To Move Your M-Dot To Responsive Before Mobile-First Index Rollout
As everyone in our space is getting ready for the Google mobile-first index and Google has suggest that you should go responsive before the mobile-first index rollout…
Google Also Allows Advertisers To Reach Jew Haters
Last night, big news came out that Facebook allows advertisers to reach Jew haters via ProPublica. It technically isn’t just Facebook, anyone can try to buy keywords to target Jew Haters on Google – well, maybe…
Google: Malware Cleaned Up, No Long Term Impact On Rankings
One of the most common manual actions a site will receive in the Google Search Console is around malware or hacked website content. It is a growing issue and more and more sites are hit by this every single day…
Google AdWords Phone Number On Click To Text
Sergey Alakov spotted another new feature, this one on the Google AdWords end where Google is testing showing the phone number next to the click to message or click to text feature…
Google: Does Your XML Sitemaps Need To Load Fast?
Many webmasters and SEOs are obsessed with site speed, not just for their users satisfaction but also because Google seems to be obsessed with it as well. But XML sitemaps are not for users, it is for Google…
Google: Faking Article Dates Is An Old Trick
Google’s John Mueller responded to one complaint about a publisher trying to trick Google, saying that technique is “an old trick.” Of course, that implies whatever the trick is…
New Google AdWords Reporting Dashboards
Google AdWords has announced they are going to be rolling out new reporting dashboards that give advertisers a “panoramic” view of their account…
Google Search Console Updates Rich Cards Job Listings Report
As you know, Google has this Jobs for Google feature and officially began supporting job posting schema to markup your job listings in search. Then in July they came out with reports for job listings in the Google Search Console Search Analytics repo…