Google: We Will Treat Religious Interstitials As Legal Or Policy Interstitials
As you all know, on January 10, 2017 the Google mobile intrusive interstitial penalty is coming and as we explained…
Is Google AdWords Testing Underlining Display URLs?
Ronnie Jones shared a screen shot on Twitter of the Google search results, specifically the AdWords listings…
Google: There Is No One Recipe For Search Rankings Success
Google’s John Mueller spelled it out in a single post on Twitter that there is no one single recipe for success for when it comes to ranking in Google search…
Google Calls Out Sites With Taboola Or Outbrain Links
Nathan Johns, a relatively quiet search quality analysts in the Google Search department posted on Twitter that sites writing about fake news should “think twice” about placing taboola or outbrain links on your site…
Google Search Console AMP & Rich Card Reports May Have Updated
The data anomalies page where Google documents the changes to Google Search Console says that last week, due to infrastructure updates with the tool, both the AMP and Rich Cards reports may have different data in the reports…
Google Local Three Pack Filters
Google has been testing filters in the for some time now and now it seems to be available on the desktop search interface.
Sergey Alakov posted about it on Twitter last week…
Google Gives HTTP/2 GoogleBot Clearance
November 2015, Google said they would let us know if it is safe to go HTTP/2 with your web servers by the end of 2015. That never really came but they did discuss how there is no HTTP/2 SEO advantage later on this year…
Google: Wikipedia Is Ranked By Google Like Any Other Web Site
Gary Illyes from Google said on Twitter that Google ranks Wikipedia just like it ranks any other web site on the internet. In short…
Bing Webmaster Tools New Look
Bing has updated the Bing Webmaster Tools design as of a couple days ago. The new design isn’t that much different from the old one but the icons, layouts and some of the report design have all been updated…
Google Maps Promoted Places Gives Branded Pins & More To Brands
Google announced Promoted Places in Google Maps…
Google Reviews Markup Guidelines Now Disallows Profanity & Vulgar Language
Google’s review markup guidelines now prohibit including profanity and/or vulgar language in your reviews…
Google My Business Insights For Google Maps Photos
Google My Business is now showing a new metric in the insights section of your Google My Business listings for your photos. Google will show you how many views your photos are getting compared to other businesses like yours…
Search Buzz Video Recap: Google Algorithm Update, AMP Images, Schema Reviews & SEO
This week, besides for me feeling pretty lousy, was busy. We had a potential Google update yesterday. Google pushed AMP results into the image search results. Google…
December 15th Google Search Algorithm Update Signals
Looks like on Thursday, December 15th there was a Google search algorithm shift. We have some chatter on social media and in the WebmasterWorld forums…
AMP Comes To Google Image Search
Google is now showing AMP results in Google Image Search. Will Barnes notified me of this on Twitter and I was able to replicate it…
Google To Sunset Google Earth API & Google Earth 4 On January 11, 2017
Google posted in the Google Maps Help forums that on January 11, 2017 they will be discontinuing the Google Earth API and also sunsetting Google Earth 4.
Google wrote, “in December 2014…
Bing Ads Expanded Text Ads Editing On Mobile
Bing Ads announced that with the new expanded text ads gaining in popularity, that advertisers can now edit them on mobile devices.
Bing said, “we’re excited to announce that with our new mobile app release…
Do Google AMP Rich Cards Have Drastically Lower CTR?
I’ve been covering Google AMP like crazy here because Google keeps escalating the importance of it. But I also covered at least twice how it appears the click through rate on AMP results are drastically lower than normal results…
Google: Nofollow Attribute May Help With Crawl Budgets For Large Sites
While we wait for Google to educate us more on how crawl budget works at Google, more and more questions and answers are popping up around the topic.