Google: Less Crawl Rate Isn’t Necessarily A Bad Thing
Google’s John Mueller said in the pas that crawl frequency and ranking higher are not directly related and you can rank high without a high crawl frequency…
Google: We Penalizes Egregious Link Manipulation; Otherwise Ignores The Link
As you know, Google treats links from spammy sites vs unnatural links differently. But Google also treats different types of unnatural links differently as well. Unnatural links …
Google Tests A More Colorful Black Search Results Design
Google is testing yet another black search results design, after testing over a dozen or so thus far. This one is a bit more colorful with a four colored dotted top right action button, light blue links, rounded corners…
Google & Bing On World Environment Day
Today on the home pages of Google and Bing are special logos and themes for World Environment Day. Google has a simple Google logo that grows into a green plant, whereas Bing’s home page was revamped into the Mooserboden Reservoir near Kaprun…
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Google Search Console Rewords “Other Resources” To “Web Tools”
Google has changed one of the menu items within the Google Search Console. They changed what was listed last as “Other Resources” to “Web Tools.” This came with the launch of the ad experience report that we covered on Friday…
SEO: The Movie – A Movie About Our Industry Coming Soon
John Lincoln, who we have cited her a few times, has spent the past several months producing a movie about our industry named SEO: The Movie. I saw a full draft of the movie and it was done very well. John released the trailer and will be releasing t…
June 2017 Google Webmaster Report
Over the past month we had a very volatile Google search ranking landscape. The whole month, the rankings and algorithms seemed to have not kept still at all. It wasn’t a massive update in my opinion, but the shuffles have kept the SEO community unne…
Google Logo For Gilbert Baker, Designer Of The Rainbow Flag
Today on the Google home page is a special Google logo, Doodle, for the the designer of the rainbow flag, Gilbert Baker. He was an American artist, gay rights activist who designed this flag in 1978…
Google Stops Support For NOODP Robots Directive & Taking DMOZ Description
Google announced this morning that they are no longer supporting using the description and title from DMOZ, the Open Directory Project. Why…
New Google Shopping Feed Specification Requirements Coming June 26th
Google mentioned in the Google AdWords Help forums and on Google+ that starting on June 26, 2017 Google will be enforcing new Google Shopping feed specification requirements.
The new requirements touch on Minimum Order Value, Shipping-related attribu…
Google: No Plans For Mobile-First Index Test Sandbox Preview
Before Google made a massive index change in 2009 or so named Caffeine, Google released a public sandbox for you to preview the changes in the search results based on this index change…
Google Ad Experience Report Tools Detect Annoying Ads On Your Site
Google announced last night a new initiative to block annoying ads on the internet. That means two things (a) new tools for publishers to improve their ad experience and (b) Chrome can stop showing ads to users automatically…
Google AdWords Seller Ratings Takes 12 Months Of Data
Google AdWords offers seller ratings for shopping related ads…
SEOs Try To Help Google Rank For Google
Most of you know that one of the most searched on words in Google is actually the name [google]. It happens way too often where someone will go to Google and then search for Google to bring up Google…
Google Local Pack Double Listings
Did you ever see Google show in their local pack the same listing, for the same company for a single query…
Take Our Poll: How Were You Impacted By Google’s March 16th Update?
Back on March 16th it seems Google started an algorithmic search ranking update that continued on for a week or so…
Poll: Many SEOs Say They Were Hit By The Google Fred Update
Last month, we asked you all to fill out a poll around the Google Fred update. We covered this update in extreme detail dating to March 7th or so and you can find many more…
Google Doodle For Zaha Hadid, Iraqi-Born British Architect
Today on the Google home page, at least it should be worldwide but I am offline so I can’t verify, is a special Google logo, Doodle for Zaha Hadid. Zaha Hadid was an Iraqi-born British architect who died last year on March 31, 2016 at the age of 65 in…
Google: Dynamic Breadcrumb Trails Isn’t Spam
Having breadcrumbs on your site is good for usability and is also a good SEO check item to have on your internal pages. But what if your breadcrumb was defined based on user click behavior and not based on where the page might be situated on your web…