Matt Cutts Officially Resigns From Google
With no surprise to I am sure most of you, Matt Cutts, the man at Google who helped shaped the SEO community from within the search engine, has announced he has officially resigned from Google. His last date at Google officially was December 31, 2016…
Google Android App Offline Search
Google announced that their new Android search app lets you do searches even when you are offline or have a bad internet connection. What happens is, you search, Google tells you the internet is not working and will try later…
Bing Ad Extensions Scheduling Feature
The Bing Ads team announced the release of a new scheduling feature to schedule your ad extensions.
This feature allows you to “control when your extensions are delivered for the time that’s most ideal for your business, reducing wasted clicks…
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Google Intrusive Interstitials Mobile Penalty Having Minimal Impact
As you know, the Google mobile interstitial penalty began to roll out on schedule on January 10, 2017. Some, but very few sites, got hit hard pretty quickly but truth is…
Google AdWords To Only Allow Add/Edit Extended Text Ads Starting January 31st
Starting January 31st, you will no longer be able to add or edit your Google AdWords ads using the standard text ad format. It will…
New: Google Local Pack Showing Google Shopping Ads
Mike Blumenthal posted a screen shot on Twitter showing Google shopping ads in the local pack results for a query on [engagement rings buffalo] on mobile…
Google: Intrusive Interstitials Mobile Penalty Still Rolling Out Based On Recrawl
Many keep asking, has the Google mobile interstitial penalty fully rolled out yet…
Google Testing Google My Business Web Site Builder Tool
Mike Blumenthal reported on the Google My Business web site builder tool, to enable businesses to create a quick and dirty web site for their business…
Google AdSense Launches Ad Balance Slider To Show Less Ads
Google launched a new feature in the new Google AdSense user interface named “Ad balance.” Ad balance lets publishers use a slider to show less ads on their sites with the drag and click of a button…
Google Maps Highlights Robert E. Lee’s Birthday Instead Of Martin Luther King Yesterday For Some
Yesterday was Martin Luther King Jr. Day in the United States but in some states, instead of Google showing adjusted holiday hours for Martin Luther King…
Tell Google What Technical SEO Topic They Should Write About
Gary Illyes from Google posted on Twitter asking webmasters and SEOs “what (technical) topic would you be interested in reading on the Official Google Webmaster Blog…
Google: Crawl Rate & Crawl Demand = Crawl Budget
Several weeks ago, Google told us crawl budget is not what we think it is and promised to write a blog post explaining what Google defines as crawl budget. Well, Gary Illyes posted on the Google blog What Crawl Budget Means for Googlebot…
Google: The Mobile Friendly Icons Confused Searchers Initially
Google’s John Mueller said in a YouTube hangout on the other day at the 9:20 mark into the video that when Google launched the mobile friendly label in the mobile search results…
Google Algorithm Update On January 16th, MLK Day?
Yesterday was a US holiday, so overall there was less people working, searching and buying online. But…
Martin Luther King Jr. Day – Google Doodle
Today is Martin Luther King Jr. Day – a very important day in the U.S. It commemorates the birthday of Birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr. which was on January 15, 1929. But the day is observed on the following Monday…
Google On Negative SEO: Keeps Competitors Busy While You Get To Move Forward
We’ve covered the topic of negative SEO to exhaustion but hey, Google’s John Mueller had a nice line about it this morning.
Someone asked him what they should do now that their competitor started a negative SEO attack against them…
Google Structured Data Testing Tool Validates Multi-Typed Entities MTE
Brad Brewer posted on Twitter that the Google Structured Data Testing Tool now supports MTE, multi-typed entities.
This can be used for the hotel schema markup said Brad. Here is a screen shot of the tool showing the support for the MTE…
Google Has Search Quality Raters In Tons Of Countries
The Google quality raters are contractors who work to test and judge experiments in the Google search results. They do not influence the rankings but rather give Google’s engineers more data points to judge how well the algorithms are working…
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Google Intrusive Interstitials Mobile Penalty Does Hurt
The Google mobile interstitial penalty began rolling out this week. It seems to still be rolling out as we speak but some sites got hit pretty hard.
Glenn Gabe posted some examples of pages loosing ten or more spots in their mobile rankings because …
Google Jump To Links In Mobile Search Snippets
Google has had links within their search snippets for years, I think it dates back almost ten years. I just can’t find the blog posts where I covered it back then right…