3rd Party Google My Business Guidelines Validator Tool
The folks over at Synup created a Google My Business Guidelines checker tool. Now, this is not a pass or fail tool but it does mark items it thinks are important for you to make sure you meet the Google My Business guidelines…
Pre-Elections: Google News Adds Fact Check Label & Schema Support
This is news from a week or so ago, but Google added a fact check label to the Google News stories. If the site is fact checked…
Google Testing Sitelinks Icons
Sergey Alakov posted screen shots on Twitter of Google testing a new look for sitelinks in the mobile search results.
These sitelinks now contain an icon on the left of the link, in the snippet. The icons can be buildings, person, briefcase, login, c…
Google Maps Updates The Search User Interface
It looks like Google has updated the search results interface within Google Maps. The most noticeable change is that when you move the map around with your mouse cursor…
Google Search Console AMP Filter Only Shows Top Stories
John Mueller of Google made an important distinction on Twitter last week saying that the AMP filter you get in the Google Search Console Search Analytics report only shows you data based on the Top Stories section…
Google: We Launch Many New Search Changes Towards End Of Quarter
Google’s John Mueller said in the webmaster hangout from Friday at the 21:52 mark that Google tends to launch many new changes to the search engine, including algorithm updates and tweaks…
Google AdWords To Show All Shared Reports Within Account By Default
Google announced on Google+ that they are changing the behavior of the reporting section within AdWords to show all shared reports under the account to all users by default.
Google said…
Google AdWords Launches Affiliate Location Extensions
We saw signs of this coming a couple days ago and now it is official. Google announced on Google+ that they are launching affiliate location extensions in the US…
Google: We Have A Bunch Of Original Source Detection Algorithms
Google’s John Mueller said in the webmaster hangout this morning at the 2:40 mark that Google has a “bunch” of algorithms that try to recognize and detect the original source of the content and thus boost that content accordingly…
Google: We Don’t Have A Website Authority Signal Or Score
Another point Google’s John Mueller made in the hangout from earlier this week at the 42:47 mark was that Google does not have a “website authority score.” He said “we don’t have anything like a website authority score…
Search Buzz Video Recap: Google Interstitials, Penguin Droppings, HTTPS, AdWords & More
This week I cover more on the Google mobile interstitial ad penalty. I also discuss cases of Google Penguin 4.0 declines in rankings. Google still only uses HTTPS in the URL as the only qualifier for the ranking boost. Google said sitewide ranking sc…
Google Surveys 360 Replacing Google Consumer Surveys
Google announced yesterday that they are launching Google Surveys 360. It was previously called Google Consumer Surveys…
Google Search Console Advisory Board
Google has launched a Google Search Console Advisory Board, where they ask volunteers to join the board to give feedback on the Google Search Console…
Google On Sitewide Ranking Scores & How They May Be Used
Google’s John Mueller spoke about search ranking algorithms that are applied across the site. He mentioned it at the 42:47 mark into the hangout from Tuesday…
Google: No Need To Disavow Blogroll Or Sitewide Links
Google’s John Mueller said in the Google hangout this week that there is no need to disavow sitewide or blogroll links. He said this at the 2:12 mark of the hangout that if the links are natural and organic…
Google: There Is No Penguin Boost
I need to post about Penguin since it has been almost two days since I didn’t write about it.
This is a short one, just so you all are clear. There is no Penguin boost…
Google Intrusive Interstitials Mobile Penalty Only Looks At Search Click Through The Page
At the 12:10 mark in the Google hangout from yesterday, John Mueller said he met with the team yesterday about the Intrusive Interstitials Mobile Penalty that is coming in a few months and he said that right now…
Google AdWords Click-To-Message Ads To Roll Out In Weeks
In June, Google AdWords began testing click to text ads and then we saw it expanded to the UK – Google announced “in the coming weeks…
Google Keyword Planner Adds Import Keywords From Existing AdWords Campaigns
The Google AdWords keyword planner tool added a feature to get forecasts for campaigns or keywords from your existing accounts. Google announced this on Google+ saying you can now automatically import your existing campaigns into Keyword Planner…
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Google AdWords Testing Affiliate Location Extensions
George Bates shared a screen shot with me on Twitter of a new location extension named “affiliate location extensions” in AdWords. It shows the “relationship type”, the country and the available chains you can pick from…