Google News Feed Now With Machine Learning & Follow Buttons
Google announced updates to their Google search apps that make the news feed and cards you are presented by Google more relevant to you. Google said they are “making it easier than ever to discover…
Webmasters Have Given Up & Lost Faith In Bing Webmaster Tools
It has been a while since you heard anything at all from Bing, including their Bing Webmaster Tools. So long that it seems the tool is becoming unusable and unstable. As you click around, you get sent to pages that don’t load…
Google Adds Beta Link To Google Search Console For Some
As you know, Google has been beta testing the new Google Search Console. We shared some screen shots of that new interface.
But more people are releasing more and more screen shots of the new beta interface…
Google Search Analytics Report Updated To Better Account For Lower Position Results
The other day, I reported that many webmasters were noticing a decline in their average position metrics in the Google Search Console Search Analytics report. We thought it was a bug, but Google has now told us it is a feature change…
Google Top Voted Tag For Movies In The Search Results
Paul Shapiro spotted a new Google search tests and posted the screen shots on Twitter of the “top voted tags” section. In short, you may be able to replicate this by searching for movies…
Google AdWords Report Editor Now Lets You Compare Two Date Ranges
Google quietly announced both on Twitter and on Google+ that you can now compare two different date ranges within the AdWords Report Editor.
AdWords Report Editor launched in 2015 and wow’ed advertisers…
Google Analytics Adds Ask Intelligence; Ask Google Analytics Questions & Get Answers
Google announced yesterday a major step in their Google Analytics platform. The ability to simply ask it a question about your web site data and it comes back with a report. This feature is called Ask Analytics Intelligence…
Google: We Do Not Penalize For Spamming META Keywords
Everyone here knows that Google ignores the meta keywords tag and content within it. Since Google ignores it and it does not influence your Google rankings, you can spam and keyword stuff it all you want…
Machine Generated Content For Human Consumption Against Google’s Guidelines?
Bryson Meunier asked Gary Illyes of Google on Twitter are tools that generate readable content for humans from data “automatically generated content…
Google Search Console Average Position Metric Broken?
If you go to the Google Search Console and access your average position metric within the Google Search Analytics tool…
Google: No SEO Benefit To Adding Trust Seals To Your Site
Google’s Gary Illyes confirmed on Twitter that Google doesn’t have a ranking signal that looks to see if a site has a trust seal on it and then gives the site a ranking benefit for having one…
Google Doesn’t Care About Crawl Budget For Their Own Sites
Google has explained crawl budget to use several months ago and truth is, the topic has kind of slowed down recently – which I am grateful for. But every now and then…
Google Expands Home Service Ads To East Coast; 5 Metro Areas
Google has expanded the home service ads to 5 metro areas now, including the east coast.
Ginny Marvin at Search Engine Land
New Beta Google Search Console Screen Shots
Last night on Search Engine Land I shared screen shots of the new beta version of the Google Search Console. Alan Bleiweiss sent us the screen shots of the new design.
The new design is not a surprise…
Back Button On Google Loading Blank Page: Bug For Some
It seems there are many searchers complaining in the Google Web Search Help forums that the back button is malfunctioning on Google search. Searchers are saying that when they click it…
Google Tests A Darker & More Bold AMP Logo In The Search Results
Aleyda Solis posted on Twitter a screen shot of the new mobile interface but with yet a new addition, a bolder and darker AMP logo in the search results.
Typically…
Google Can’t Get Away From PageRank, Blame Moz Domain Authority
For years and years, Google has been trying to get away from having webmasters and SEOs focus on their PageRank score. They finally killed off toolbar PageRank a year ago but now, time and time again, people are selling “domain authority…
Google Tests Rate & Review Call To Action In Local Panel
Google is testing a new call to action within the Google local panels to encourage searchers to rate and review local businesses. Sergey Alakov spotted this one, of course, and posted it on Twitter…
Google Tests Fade Away People Also Search For Box
Robin Rozhon shared a screen shot on Twitter of yet another test for how Google displays the “people also search for” search results user interface…
Matt McGee Is Also Leaving The Search Industry
Matt McGee has announced and posted on Twitter he is leaving the search industry, including Third Door Media and its properties, Search Engine Land, Marketing Land and MarTech Today.
After 9 yrs…