Google: We Review Spam Reports Within Hours Or Days
We know Google humans review web spam reports and machines don’t do that…
Google Schema Support Coming For Jobs, Carousels & More
Aaron Bradly, one of the hawks of schema and markup, noticed Google showing early access to schema support for job listings, plus many others on it’s way. The page is at the pilot features section. Currently, I see links to carousels, data feeds…
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Google: Capitalizing Words In URL Doesn’t Help Convey Emotions
Believe it or not, we actually covered the topic of capital letters in URLs and how Google treats them before. But the question was asked again and John Mueller of Google answered it in a fun way…
Google: Read Your Content Out Loud, If It Sounds Strange, It Might Not Rank Well
Google’s Gary Illyes is still on the DYK tweet theme but this last one is a good one to highlight. Gary recommended that you try to reach the content on your web pages out loud. If it doesn’t read nicely and sounds strange…
Google Image Search Traffic Drops Outside The US
A WebmasterWorld thread has SEOs and webmasters upset about a recent drop in traffic from Google Image search. It is the same type of complaints when Google redesigned image search in 2013…
Google: Manipulating Browser Back Button Doesn’t Impact Search Rankings
Google’s John Mueller said in the recent webmaster hangout at the 11:55 mark that those who implement the method of disabling the browser back button will not benefit or be hurt in the Google search results. In short…
Google Video: How To Hire An SEO
Google has released a video named how to hire an SEO and Maile Ohye, a Googler part of the Google Search team for 10 or so years, is the face behind that video. The video itself goes into detail on how to hire an SEO…
Emojis Return To The Google Search Results Snippets
Back in 2015, Google promised to drop emojis from the search results and they did for the most part but something recently changed. Emojis are now showing up again in the search results snippets…
Ammon Johns, SEO Legend & Community Fixture, GoFundMe
For those who have been in the SEO industry and involved in the community for any period of time, they probably know the name Ammon Johns. He has been teaching and helping those who joined the SEO community since the 90s. In fact…
Google Featured Snippets Now Always With People Also Ask?
It appears that whenever a featured snippet comes up in the Google search results that it is now always followed by the people also ask feature. So you have a featured snippet at the top of the results and then right after it is this people also ask f…
Google Search Console Updates Crawl Status/Errors Report For Apps
Google has made a data update to the Google Search Console report specifically for mobile apps…
Google’s Gary Illyes Did You Know SEO Tweets
Over the past week or so, Gary Illyes from Google has been sharing some tips and what he is calling DYK, did you know, tweets about Google, SEO and webmaster topics…
Google: No Comment On The Google Search Ranking Update
As you know, we reported about the February 7th Google update and that it seems pretty big. So I asked Google for a comment and got a no comment from them on the update.
What Is A Pangolin – Google Valentine’s Day Logo
Today on Google’s home page is a series of Google logo Doodle games…
Google Fast Track Indexing Vs. Normal Indexing
Google’s John Mueller in a video hangout last Friday at the 1:04 mark into the video addressed the common question of why does a page or URL show up in Google’s index for a couple days or so and then drop out…
Google Launches Dynamic Loading People Also Ask
Last November we reported Google was testing a dynamic loading people also ask feature. Well…
Google Analytics Starts Rolling Out New User Interface
Last week, I personally saw my Google Analytics user interface flip from the old user interface to the new one they announced was coming back in October. I then started getting emails and tweets…
February 7th Google Algorithm Update Was Big
Last week, I reported about a Google update that touched down on Tuesday, February 7th. Well…
US Court Sides With Google Over Penalizing Web Sites For Spam & Guidelines Violations
Eric Goldman reports that a United States District Court sided with Google over a lawsuit issued by e-ventures Worldwide…
Google Tests Method To Report Autocomplete Suggestions
Google has said they are testing a way to report offensive autocomplete suggestions. You know, the search suggestions Google gives searches as they type their query.
Here is a screen shot Google sent us of the method they are deploying…