Google: The First Expedition To The South Pole Doodle
Today on the Google home page in many countries, no the US (although initially it was set to launch globally) is a special animated Google Doodle, aka special Google logo…
Google Image Search Now To Use Product Schema Markup
Aaron Bradley posted on Google+ that the product schema page has added that it can be used not just in the web results but also in Google image search results.
I checked the old and new page and he is indeed right…
Google Warns: Automated Queries On Google Is Against The Terms Of Service
Everyone knows that tools that scrap and do automated queries are against Google’s terms of service. In fact, Google has blocked tools in the past from doing them. But many many tools continue to do it…
Google AdWords Tests Capitalizing First Letter In Display URL?
Gordon Campbell posted images on Twitter of Google testing making the first letter of the display URL in the AdWords ad results capital. He said that in the AdWords backend, ad management area, the display URL is completely lowercase…
Google: We Do Take Action On Rich Snippet Spam
Google hosted a special hangout with John Mueller and a colleague from the Dublin office who works on structured data and rich snippets. During the hangout, at the 43:50 minute mark…
Google: Sitemaps Should Contain URLs Of Pages You Want Indexed, Not Variations
Google’s John Mueller said in a Google Webmaster Help thread that you should only include the URLs you want Google to index in your sitemap file, not the other variations. This is probably obvious to many of you, but nowadays I what I think is obvious,…
Google My Business Offering Expedited Verification Until Thursday
If you have a business that is based in the United States or Canada and it isn’t verified on Google My Business…
Google: There Is No Google Sandbox
Google’s Gary Illyes replied on Twitter to an SEO saying there is no Google Sandbox. The Google Sandbox concept dates back to 2004…
Gboard Finally Comes To Android As Google Keyboard
Google has finally brought the Gboard which came to iOS six-months ago, to Android devices. It is named Google Keyboard and should replace…
Google: Only Site Owner Can See If They Have A Penalty; Not Third-Party Tools
Google’s John Mueller said in a Google Webmaster Help thread that any of those third-party Google penalty checker tools are not valid. In fact…
Google Search Console Property Sets Now With More Reports
Back in May of this year, Google Search Console added a feature to combine properties into sets so that you can see a snapshot of your Search Analytics reports for all your canonical versions of your sites…
Google Now Lets Business Owners Control Their Menu Links In Local Results
Google has quietly announced on the features page that businesses can now “add your menu to a listing via the API, according to new menu guidelines for Google My Business.” Well, it seems it can be done also outside of the API…
Google On Measuring Speed: Page Speed Insights & Plain Old Response Time
Gary Illyes from Google was asked on Twitter how SEOs and webmasters should measure their page speed. The question was “when ranking pages on speed does google base it on factors such as those in page speed insights or pure response speed…
Google Shopping Carousel Adds Category Filters
Google seems to be rolling out a new carousel feature set for shopping ads. This was covered by Ginny Marvin back 3 weeks ago, but now it seems more and more people are seeing it…
Google AdWords Adds Audience Lists At Campaign Level
Google announced you can now apply audience lists to the campaign level now. Previously, you were only able to add these audience lists on the ad group level…
Google Home & Assistant Now Allow Developers To Build Voice Commands
Take note SEOs, with Google going more and more towards voice queries, i.e. Google Assistant on your mobile phone, Google Home in your kitchen…
Google AdWords Location Extensions Bringing Back Stars In Ads
Joy Hawkins posted on Twitter that she saw stars in the location extensions part of a Google AdWords ad. Honestly, I have not seen one of these in years and I personally cannot replicate it…
Google Presentation On Internationalization & Search
Google’s John Mueller had an early hangout this morning on the topic of internationalization and Google search. I find the topic to be fascinating…
Search Buzz Video Recap: Google Trust, New Design, News, Charity Links & Holidays
This week, I posted the mostly Google webmaster report. Google launched a new desktop search user interface. Google said you can trust them when it comes to webmaster communication. Yes…
Google Maps Blue Pins Are For Locations You Searched Near; For Example…
For a while, we’ve been wondering what the different colors for the map pins represent. We have seen red, blue, purple, brown and other colors over the years…