Google Doodle: Eva Ekeblad, Swedish Scientist For Her Work With Potatoes
On Google’s home page is a special Google logo, aka Doodle for Eva Ekeblad…
Bing Search Results Snippets Adds “Popular Content” Box
David Iwanow shared with me on Twitter a new feature from Bing that shows a new search result snippet box named “popular content.” It looks like an expanded and more visual version of sitelinks in the search results. The weird part…
Google Restaurant Local Panel Gets A Tab For Menu
Sergey Alakbov spotted yet another new tab being added to the local panel box. This one is for restaurants showing a “menu” tab where you can quickly load the menu.
Google recently added the tabs to the local panel and expanded it to hotels and now…
Google: We Use ccTLD & Google Search Console Setting For Geotargeting
Back in the old days, Google used the location of the server and ccTLD to figure out if your site should be ranked in a specific localized version of Google. So if you had a .fr and your server was based in France…
Signs Of A Google Search Algorithm Update Over Weekend
There are some early signs of a Google search algorithm update over the weekend, around Saturday and Sunday. The chatter is still very quiet but it was the weekend and that might kick up over the next day or so…
Google: Exact Match Domains Don’t Get Magic Ranking Bonus
John Mueller of Google said on Twitter that if you have an exact match domain, aka EMD, it doesn’t give you a magic ranking bonus in Google. John said “there’s no magic EMD bonus…
Google: Exact Match Domains Don’t Get Magic Ranking Bonus
John Mueller of Google said on Twitter that if you have an exact match domain, aka EMD, it doesn’t give you a magic ranking bonus in Google. John said “there’s no magic EMD bonus…
Google: Embedding YouTube Videos Doesn’t Help With Search Rankings
John Mueller of Google had to say in a Google Webmaster Help thread that adding a YouTube video to your page will not make the page high quality by itself. Videos from YouTube on your pages won’t give you a ranking boost or show Google that the page i…
Google: Embedding YouTube Videos Doesn’t Help With Search Rankings
John Mueller of Google had to say in a Google Webmaster Help thread that adding a YouTube video to your page will not make the page high quality by itself. Videos from YouTube on your pages won’t give you a ranking boost or show Google that the page i…
Search Buzz Video Recap: Google Update, Mobile Hidden Content, AdSense, Posts & More
This week in search, I admitted I could not find an obvious pattern from the Google June 25th algorithm update. I did publish my monthly Google webmaster report. Google said in the mobile first index…
Search Buzz Video Recap: Google Update, Mobile Hidden Content, AdSense, Posts & More
This week in search, I admitted I could not find an obvious pattern from the Google June 25th algorithm update. I did publish my monthly Google webmaster report. Google said in the mobile first index…
Google: Publishing 100,000 Pages At Once Is Not An SEO Issue
I have heard time and time again from SEOs that they don’t like to push out too much new content on a web site all at once…
Google Confirmed Again: Content Hidden In Tabs With Mobile-First Index Is Okay
Back in November of last year, Gary Illyes from Google said content hidden in tabs is okay in the mobile-first world. Well…
Google AdWords Adds Feature For Dynamic Search Ads In Ad Group
David Zagury sent me a screen shot on Twitter of AdWords launching a new feature in the new AdWords interface to create dynamic search ads as groups in standard campaigns…
July 2017 Google Webmaster Report
It was a pretty hectic month in the Google SEO/search world. Despite Google claiming they would confirm major updates – we did have a major update on 6/25 which they call random chatter and won’t confirm. I did try to analyze the update but came up …
Google AdSense New Native Ads Goes Against Webmaster Guidelines Principles
Yesterday, Google announced a new AdSense format named “native ads.” The native ads come in two forms, (a) In-feed, In-article…
Google: Bots Might Like Bold Text But…
Since the early days of SEO, SEOs have been looking for anything to tweak on page to impact their rankings – including using the bold tag on your text. If you want to emphasis words on your page…
New Google AMP Video Error Notifications
Yesterday, Google began sending out new AMP errors for video embeds done wrong with AMP. The errors read “Missing embedded video on AMP page for” and listsYesterday, Google began sending out new AMP errors for video embeds done wrong with AMP. The erro…
Google Posts Expire In About 7 Days
I don’t see the information currently in the help documents but it appears the Google Posts you make in Google My Business expires around seven days later…
Google Search Console Index Status Takes 4-6 Days To See Data
You and I know that Google Search Console is often a few days lagged but did you know that it can take 4-6 days for a new verified profile to start showing data in Google Search Console. Often I see that happen in less than three days but sometimes no…