Google Publicly Calls Out Company For Selling Links
Normally, Google isn’t so public about their shaming of those who go against their webmaster guidelines. But last week…
Google: Machine Learning Won’t Take Over The Google Algorithm
Last week, during the AMA with Google at SMX West, Google’s Gary Illyes said he doesn’t see machine learning and artificial intelligence taking over most of the Google ranking algorithms because it is too hard to debug…
Google Fred Algorithm Confirmed & Cites Overall Quality Issues
As you know, we finally received real confirmation this past Friday on the March 7th/8th update named the Google Fred update, which I believed targeted low value content sites…
Google On How They Index & Rank 360° Images
Google’s John Mueller was asked about how Google indexes and ranks images that are in 360° format…
Advertisers Continue To Drop Google Ads Even After Google Makes Changes
The other day, I reported that Google added ad placement controls for advertisers to help prevent their ads from showing up on hateful, offensive and derogatory content sites. But I guess those assurances were not enough for some of the bigger U.S…
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Google Tests Larger Product Listing Shopping Ads
Google is testing larger images for their product listing ads, shopping ads, in the Google search results. Ramesh Singh shared a screen shot with me on Twitter showing the before and after with these ads…
Google May Have Confirmed The Fred Algorithm Update
Yesterday, during the AMA with Google session at SMX West, Google’s Gary Illyes may have confirmed the Fred algorithm update that targeted low value content on March 7th/8th…
Search Buzz Video Recap: Google Confirms Fred, Mobile First Hold Up & Google Spammers
This week in search, we covered how Google practically just confirmed the Fred update at SMX. Google explained that those Phantom updates are basically core algorithm…
Google Local Reviews With Guardian Top Ten Icon
Glass Digital shared a screen shot on Twitter of Google showing extra local review data from the popular UK paper, The Guardian. In fact…
Google Mobile First Index Will Launch When Results Are “Quality Neutral”
Yesterday, at SMX West during the mobile-first index panel…
Google Responds To Allegations Of Former Googler Spamming
Several days ago, rumors started surfacing on Twitter that a former Google representation, a senior one, is now playing for the other team – spamming the search engine. Of course, no names were released but supposedly…
Google Dance 2017 A Huge Success
Last night, Google had an event for webmasters, SEOs and SEMs called the Google Dance. It was an event they ran annually and then stopped doing for some time until last year and has now done again, a second time in a row…
Google Local Business Reviews With Emojis
So we’ve seen emojis in ads, search console, shopping campaigns…
Google My Business Automated Ownership Conflict
Marissa Nordahl, Community & Social Media Manager, Google My Business…
Google Mobile Search Adds Tappable Shortcuts
Google added a new feature on mobile search, including their iOS and Android search apps…
Google: Your Forums Are Likely Not The Reason Your Site Dropped In Search
Are you worried that your discussion forums on your domain is bringing down your overall domain’s rankings in Google…
Google: Phantom Updates Are Core Algorithm Update
Google has been very quiet about what SEOs have been calling the “Phantom update.” The Phantom update has been floating around for the past couple years now, and we’ve covered it multiple times here. In fact…
Google Search Console Incorrect Namespace When Referencing HTTPS URLs
When submitting a sitemap in Google search Console, it seems you need to stick with all HTTP or HTTPS URLs and not mix them. I haven’t tested this myself…
Google Adds Placement Controls For Advertisers
Last week, Google got in trouble, mostly in the EU regions, for allowing their ads, including AdSense, YouTube ads and other display ads, to show up on sites that have “hateful, offensive and derogatory content…
GoogleBot Can Detect If Cookies Are Required
Gary Illyes from Google posted a DYK, did you know, recently on Twitter that said that generally GoogleBot “doesn’t make use of cookies, but it can if it detects it cannot get to the content without them…