Google: Things Looking Good For Mobile First Index
I asked John Mueller of Google yesterday in a Google webmaster hangout at the 23:18 mark into the video how things are going with the mobile first index and if they have any updates for us all…
Google: When Canonicals Conflict, We Pick One & We Don’t Drop Both
Google’s John Mueller confirmed on Twitter that Google will pick one of the canonicals if the ones you set conflict. Meaning, if you send two or more different canonical signals to Google…
Google Remove URLs Status Expired In Google Search Console
Google Search Console has a remove URL feature that lets you quickly and temporarily remove content from Google search. There is a status column in the tool to tell you if the request was completed (i.e. removed), cancelled…
Google Reminder Feature Bugs?
Some searchers are complaining recently of the Google search reminder feature not working any more. The complaints are in the Google Web Search Help forums where people who actively use this reminder feature are saying it stopped working…
Google’s Gary Illyes: I Don’t Private Webmaster Support
Google’s Gary Illyes, a webmaster trends analyst at Google who is designed to help around the communication between Google and webmasters said on Twitter a few weeks ago that he does not provide private support…
Google Algorithm & Ranking Update Chatter
Starting over the weekend, mostly Saturday and Sunday on August 19th and 20th, there were some chatter in the webmaster channels around Google fluctuations in the search results. The chatter was intense for a day or so and died out a lot since then……
Google’s Very Own Solar Eclipse Science Logo
If you go to Google.com and you are in the United States, you will see a special Google Doodle, an animated one for the solar eclipse. Google is looking to educate as many Americans about the solar eclipse before it happens this afternoon…
Google Search Console Data Logging Issue Reported
Google has posted a “note” in the Google Search Console of “an internal logging issue” which may cause the numbers in the Search Analytics reports to “see a very slight decrease…
Poll: How Often Do You Check Google Search Console
John Mueller from Google posted on Twitter a poll asking how often you use Google Search Console. The poll currently has over 300 responses, but lets get that poll to over a 1…
Google Tests New First-Click-Free Program & Subscription Tool For News Publishers
Bloomberg reported Friday afternoon that Google is testing a new subscription tool for news publishers in Google News “boost subscriptions for news publishers.” There are three changes coming…
Google May Now Show Video Previews In Search Carousel
Late Friday, Google announced they are showing video previews in the search results carousel for Google app for Android and Chrome on Android by default when on a Wifi connection…
Google: Google Search Console Data Delayed & Slower Than Normal
If you login to Google Search Console and try to check your Google Search Analytics report, you will notice that the normal two-day delay in that data is now a five-day delay…
Google Ignores Unrecognized Attributes When Parsing HTML
What happens when you have invalid code, or attributes that mean nothing, or you have a typo in your attributes in your code? How does Google handle it…
Google Confirms They Score Internal & External Links Differently
Google’s John Mueller said the other day on Twitter that Google “definitely” scores or has different calculations and formulas for internal vs external links and signals…
Google: On-Page Markup & Data Highlighter Signals Are Equivalent
There are two primary ways to markup your pages with structured data to help Google power your rich cards / rich snippets. The best way is to use on-page code markup, schema, to markup your pages as we discussed yesterday…
Search Buzz Video Recap: Google Ad Exploit, Black Hat Tools, Search Console Updates & Chrome Warning
This week in search I covered one possible answer for how the AdSense and AdWords exploit happened…
Report: Google Showing More Local Packs Internationally
RankRanger is reporting a huge increase in the local packs showing up internationally…
Google Maps Reviews Breaks For 4 Hours Yesterday
Yesterday, at around 10am EST, the ability to write new reviews for Google local results in Google Search or Google Maps stopped working. In fact, it stopped working for about four hours. Many webmasters, SEOs…
Google: More Control With Markup vs The Data Highlighter Tool
In 2012, Google launched the data highlighter tool to give less technical webmasters a way to communicate markup of a page or group of pages …