Google: Wikipedia Is Really Good At Getting Links To Internal Pages
Stemming off my story named Google: We Don’t Have “Overall Domain Authority” In Our Rankings – Alan Bleiweiss said “if an overall authority didn’t exist…
Bing, Dogpile & Other Halloween Search Home Pages
While Google came out with their Halloween Doodle early and it really is an awesome and addictive game to play – Bing and Dogpile also have themes out as of last night.
Bing’s home page is really spooky and fun. It has tons of tricks and some treats (…
Google Halloween Game Doodle Goes Live Early
Google has launched their Halloween Doodle, aka Google logo…
Google AdWords Managed Access Levels To Get Administrative Access In Weeks
This is a PSA, Google is going to be upgrading all the managed access levels, i.e. “Managed-Read only” and “Managed-Standard” access levels in AdWords to “Administrative” access level on November 14…
Bing Ads Shared Budgets
Bing Ads announced they now have shared budgets in their ad platform. This lets advertisers in Bing Ads to distribute a “single daily budget across all campaigns or a subgroup of campaigns…
Google Tests Another New Layout
Google is always testing user interfaces – we cover a lot of them but not all of them.
Last week, Sergey Alakov shared screen shots of another Google search results user interface test…
Google: We Don’t Have “Overall Domain Authority” In Our Rankings
Last week, we quoted Google’s John Mueller as saying Google doesn’t have a website authority score. Well, now, Gary Illyes from Google got into it by saying “we don’t really have overall domain authority…
Bug: Google Emails AdWords Partners, You’ve Lost Your Search Ads Specializations
Google has sent out emails to many Google Partners last night saying they’ve lost their AdWords search ads specialization and they have to retake their exams to become certified again…
Search Buzz Video Recap: Google Rankings, SEO, Penalties, HTTPS, AMP, AdWords, Maps & Bing Ads
This week in search, I covered a possible Google update earlier this week – it is unconfirmed. Google said they donât have an overall domain authority…
Manage Your Business Attributes In Google My Business
Google My Business posted an update that says you can now manage your business attributes in the Google My Business dashboard. So if you’ve uploaded these attributes using the spreadsheet method…
Google Maps Tests Showing Local Businesses Names
Florent Abaziou posted screen shots on Twitter of Google Maps showing the local version of the business name under the English version of the business name in the maps description. He said this is “great for global businesses” and shared several examp…
Moz: 40% Of Google’s Top Search Results Are HTTPS, Up From 25% Earlier This Year
In January, Moz reported that 25% of the Google search results were HTTPS. Meaning of the top search results Moz tracks, 25% of those were listed as HTTPS in the snippets. Well, now that number is up to 40% according to the Mozcast features tool…
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Google’s John Mueller: Image Links & Text Links Are Pretty Different
We’ve covered the topic of having links based on anchor text versus images for many years but I don’t know if we covered Google on them. John Mueller said on Twitter this morning that obviously an image link versus a text link are “pretty different……
Some Google Search Ranking Update Chatter
Over the past couple days I’ve been seeing some signs of a Google update, most from forum and social chatter within the community…
Google Search Console Is Now Down – 404 Not Found
You are not alone, the Google Search Console is now down – there is a 404 not found error when you try to access it at google.com/webmasters/tools/.
I did give it about 10 minutes before reporting about the issue, hoping it would come back within minu…
Google Fixes Hidden Manual Actions Bug
When I went offline (which is hard to do) I got notified (which I didn’t see until I came back) that some webmasters were not being notified of manual actions they received in the Google Search Console…
Google Search Console Has An hreflang Reporting Bug?
There seems to be a number of webmasters complaining that the Google Search Console’s hreflang international reporting tool is showing errors and a drop in “known tags” in the report. Webmasters who have implemented them correctly are seeing ‘no retur…
Google Support Forum Now Ready For Google Assistant
We are all very excited for the Google Assistant and devices that utilize it. Including the Google Home and other devices such as the Pixel phone.
Tanya S. from Google posted the first official Google thread on the Google assistant at Google Web Sear…
Google Tests Different Green Color For Snippet URL In Search Results
Google seems to be testing a different shade of green for the URLs listed in the search results, the snippets. Ronnie Jones shared a screen shot with me on Twitter of a side by side, showing the slight subtle difference in the color…
Google Tests Map Toggle Expansion Button In Local Pack
Here is a small but interesting change Google is testing for the local pack map in the search results. Sergey Alakov posted a screen shot of it on Twitter showing a small toggle button in the map image that lets you expand the map fully…