How To Join The Last Google Webmaster Hangout Of The Year
As you all know, I do try to join as many Google webmaster hangouts as possible live. But I always make an effort to listen to them after the fact as well…
Google Search Console Notifications: Nonsecure Collection Of Passwords In Chrome
Google is now sending mass messages via the Google Search Console about making sure your login box is served over HTTPS. Many sites have logins on HTTP, non secure pages…
John Mueller Of Google Helping Webmasters On Christmas Day Again
Some people give charity, some people go to a soup kitchen, some people spend more time with family as a Christmas day tradition. Well…
The Google Throttle: Does Google Limit Traffic To Your Web Site?
The topic of Google throttling traffic to a web site has been around since 2008 or earlier…
Google Tests New Mobile Search Results Interface?
Looks like Google is testing yet another Google user interface for the mobile search results. Tejas Thakkar posted a screen shot of the test on Twitter showing search snippets showing the URL (or breadcrumb) at the top, then the title/headline, follow…
Is It Safer To Spam Google Search During The Holidays & New Years?
If you follow Google like I do, you’d notice that it is like a ghost town there. Almost everyone is off, on vacation, spending time with family and friends. If you send an email to a Googler, it is almost guaranteed you’d get a vacation response……
Google ‘Tis The Season! Holiday Doodles For Cold & Warm Locations
Google has started their series of holiday logos for the 2016 holiday season. Christmas and Chanukah start the same day, December 25th – which is rare and Kwanzaa starts the day after…
Google: Similar New URLs Won’t Pick Up Old URLs Signals
I honestly never heard of this but Google’s John Mueller told someone that they do not need to worry that Google will consider new URLs that are close to the same URL name as an old URL to transfer signals from the old URL to the new URL…
Google Reiterates There Is No Penalty For Not Linking Out
In May 2016, Gary Illyes from Google said he is angry with sites that don’t link out – he called it stupid. But John Mueller later explained that there is no penalty…
Search Buzz Video Recap: Google Holocaust Denial, Featured Snippets, Bing Webmaster Tools & Search Console Updates
This week in search I covered the controversy around Google’s Holocaust denial results and did they actually update their algorithm to prevent those results…
Google Featured Snippets Now Displayed On More Queries
It seems Google is showing more featured snippets for more queries than they have even done before. Both RankRanger and Mozcast show a significant uptick in the percentage of queries that Google is showing these featured snippets…
You Can Beta Test New Versions Of The YouTube App
Marissa from Google posted in the YouTube Help forums that if you want to beta test new versions of the YouTube app before they are released, you can.
They opened a method for iOS users to test new versions of the app using TestFlight…
Google Asks SEOs To Describe Themselves In A Word
So Gary Illyes from Google posted a request on Twitter last week, asking his followers to give a “one word synonym for SEO or webmaster.” I wanted…
Video: Google’s Webmaster Hangout On AMPs & PWAs
Are you considering going AMP? Are you confused about PWAs and if you should consider that route…
First Day Of Winter Logos From Google, Dogpile, Bing & Others
Today is the first day of Winter and with it being under 20 degrees here in New York, it does feel like winter. Google, Bing, Dogpile and others have special logos and themes up on their site for the first day of winter.
Above is the animated Google …
Google Search Console AMP Reports Differentiate Between Critical & Non-Critical Issues
Google launched a small update for the AMP reports in the Google Search Console yesterday where they now differentiate between critical and non-critical issues with your AMP pages. Critical issues would “prevent your page from being served with AMP-re…
Google Changes Search Console Report “Update” Line To “Note”
I cannot tell you how many times people emailed me or pinged me on social when they saw the Google Search Console reports say “update” in them. They thought Google confirmed some sort of algorithmic update and the update line in the reports was proof….
Google Actively Working On Adding A Year Of Search Analytics Data To Search Console
Since 2013 we’ve been hearing Google may extend the search analytics query data from 90 days of data to a full year…
Google Updated Their Algorithm For “Did The Holocaust Happen?” Controversy?
Over the past week or so, Google has been getting some heat around various anti semitic and racist sites ranking well in their search results. One of those queries getting a ton of attention is [did the holocaust happen]…
Google Shopping Display URL Emoji Spotted
Search marketers try anything to get their search listings to stand out and one put an emoji Santa Claus in their Google Shopping display URL to stand out…