Google Won’t Share The Number Of Search Quality Algorithms
Google’s John Mueller was asked in this morning’s hangout at the 13:05 mark into the video about disclosing the number of quality algorithms they have running in search today…
Google Search Console Sent Verification Emails To Webmaster By Accident
Over the past 48 hours, some webmasters who use Google Search Console may have seen a bunch of new verification emails sent by the tool to their inbox. Some have reported receiving up to a 1…
Search Buzz Video Recap: Google Algorithms Count, Search Console Bug, SEO, AdSense & AdWords Exploit & More
This week is a shorter one where we covered how Google wonât share the number of algorithms they run. Google Search Console had a bug where they sent tons of verification emails to webmasters. Google published new documents on rendering and debugging for GoogleBot…
Here Is Why Google Doesn’t Want To Index Search Results Pages
Back in 2007, Google officially went on record, instructing webmasters to block their search results from being indexed by Google. Ever since then…
Google AdWords Matches New Organic Sitelinks Design With Carousel Buttons
Google AdWords announced they have launched a new design for the AdWords sitelinks. This new design matches the mobile design for organic sitelinks that Google pushed out a few weeks ago. It is a carousel that you can swipe left and right and tap on th…
Google Keyword Planner Showing “Okay Google” Keyword Ideas
John Lincoln shared a screen shot on Twitter of keyword ideas shared by Google’s keyword planner tool. This suggestion he shared showed how Google was suggesting that John bid on the term [okay google]…
Google My Business Action URLs For Online Orders, Reservations & More
Google quietly announced in their release notes for the Google My Business section that some businesses can now add “action URLs” to their business profile specifically for “online orders or reservations” and similar actions…
UK Shuts Down Company Impersonating Google Over Local Listings
I hate it, and I am sure hate it also, when someone calls you and claims they are Google. It happens fairly often, espesially around Google My Business local listings. It is nothing new and it seems like Google can’t do anything to stop it…
Google Maps Updates Options For Reporting Business Photos
This is a small update but Sergey Alakov documented that Google has updated the suggested reasons for reporting an inappropriate business photo. So when you report a photo you see in a Google Local result…
Google: SEOs Help JavaScript Coders
Yesterday, John Mueller from Google posted on Twitter a notice to all SEOs that they should embrace JavaScript and help JavaScript developers learn SEO. In short…
Google: Don’t Use The User Agent Language Setting
Google’s John Mueller said that while GoogleBot generally crawls documents “without an accept-language header” it is not a good idea to use the user-agent language setting to serve content.
This is in response to a webmaster who asked about using it…..
Massive CPC Drops Across Google AdSense Publishers
Over the past 48 hours, there has been a spike in complaints around Google AdSense showing huge CPC, cost per click…
Bing Ads Updates Quality Policy, Will Remove Non Performing Ads
Bing announced new updates to their Relevance and Quality policy yesterday. This is to drive better metrics across the system and “delivering improved ad and network quality…
A Scholarship Business Based On Links Has Shut Down
Marie Haynes (Marie_Haynes) via Jon Cooper (@PointBlankSEO) posted on Twitter a screen shot of a business that banked on getting links from colleges…
Google: CSS Size Generally Doesn’t Hurt Your Rankings
Google’s John Mueller said on Twitter that the size of your CSS file generally doesn’t have a negative impact on your rankings in Google. He said Google can handle ”
WWW vs Non-WWW: Google Says It Does Not Matter
Which is better, to have a www or not to have the www to start you domain name…
When Do Expired Redirects Stop Passing Signals With Google?
We cover redirects here a lot, I mean a lot, and Google has documented a lot of these things for us around redirects but often…
Google: Disavowing A Site Won’t Hurt The Site
Gary Illyes from Google said on Twitter in one word that “no” adding a disavow to a site won’t necessarily hurt that site from ranking…
New Google Rendering & Debugging Docs
On Friday afternoon, Gary Illyes from Google posted on Twitter that Google has published new documents on rendering and debugging. The new docs…
Google Tests Topics For Search Refinements
Andreea Calin shared a photo with me on Twitter of a new Google search feature. The feature looks to pull other topics around your query…