Bing Featured Snippets Direct Answers You Can Edit With Bing Distill
Bing offered their form of direct answers years ago but now I noticed those boxes allow you to actually edit them. Also the answers seem to be coming up more often as a WebmasterWorld thread seems to imply.
Here is one result that has this direct an…
Google: Shadow DOMs Should Work Fine
Carrie Haggerty asked Google’s John Mueller a question I’ve never seen before, asking if shadow DOMs are okay with GoogleBot and if Google can index the content…
More Google Interface Design Testing…
Sergey Alakov has spotted even more Google tests with their mobile search user interface and design. He has captured screen shots of Google testing green hyperlinks, yellow stars, bolder fonts, rounder corners, green AMP logos, rounded green call to ac…
Google Quality Raters Guidelines Updated With Conspiracy Theories & Non-English Results
Google has updated their quality raters guidelines on July 27, 2017. Previously it was updated on May 11, 2017 with some smaller changes and then the bigger changes on March 14, 2017 with the offensive, upsetting…
Google My Business In Search Edit Adds More Features
In June we reported Google began testing in search mini Google My Business dashboards that let business owners see their business profile and edit a lot of their local information right in the search results…
Google Shopping Ads Tests Stores In Carousel Format
Josh Leibner notified me on Twitter of Google testing a out a new format for the Google Shopping Ads. In this format…
August 2017 Google Webmaster Report
This past month, the big items probably was the reveal of the beta Google Search Console amongst a lot of the bugs in the past month with that. Google’s algorithm potentially…
Search Buzz Video Recap: Pinterest Google Spam, Search Console Data, Quality Raters & More
This past week we posted our monthly Google Webmaster Report. Are spammers using Pinterest to abuse Google…
Matt Cutts Still Giving Webmasters SEO Help
Over three years ago, Matt Cutts stepped away from Google eventually joining the government workforce and officially resigning as every one expected to happen over the months.
But Matt is still offering webmasters SEO advice.
Google Crawl Limit Per Page Now Couple Hundred Megabytes
Last time we reported this, I think, was when Google was able to crawl 10 megabytes per page. Well now that is up to a couple hundred megabytes per page.
Google Hints At Data Changes In New Google Search Console; More Of It
As you know, the new Google Search Console beta is in the works and Google actually admitted to it the other day. Yesterday…
Google: Our SEO Starter Guide From 2010 Is Still Relevant
In September 2010, about seven years ago, Google released their “Search Engine Optimization Starter Guide”…
Google Quality Raters Review Algorithms, Not Individual Web Sites
SEOs are somewhat obsessed with the Google quality raters despite Google saying repeatedly that these consultant do not have direct access to change any of the rankings for any of the sites in their index…
Google Tests New Style For Searches Related To
Sergey Alakov caught Google testing a new flavor of the searches related to, similar to the people also search for features. Google is constantly tweaking these user interfaces…
Google Adds Hamburger Menu To Mobile Search
Google has just added a hamburger menu, the three horizontal lines, at the top left of the mobile version of the Google home page and all the mobile search results screens. Go to Google.com on your mobile device and you will the menu at the top left …
Google Replaces Share Button With Save Button In Local Panel
Google has swapped out the share button on the local panel in the search results for a save button. The save button has been on the local panel at the top right in the form of a star icon and that has been brought down to replace the share button…
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Redirecting iOS Or Android Users? Google Says Offer Users Access To Both
Google’s John Mueller said that if you are redirecting users based on them having an iOS device or an Android device…
Google Reveals Details About The Search Console Beta Release
As you know, Google is working on a brand new look and feel and much more in a beta Google Search Console release where we posted screen shots. We even shared the beta URL, if you are in the beta the URL will work, if not, it won’t…
Google AdWords Ads Looking More Like Organic Results
There were a few tweets that caught my eye the other day from @ppchubbub and @dannayroberts that show off Google AdWords ads that really start to look more and more like the organic listings. The only real difference is the ad label…
Google: Structure Your XML Sitemap As You Like
Google loves XML Sitemaps, it gives their bots an easy way to discover all your content. Even better, it gives webmasters a way to see how many of their URLs in their sitemap file were indexed and which URLs were not…