Rand Fishkin Tells Us When & How To Interpret Google’s Statements
Much of what I cover here are the statements made by Google. Some in the community have issues with how Googlers respond to SEO related questions. Some have issues with how those statements are interpreted. And some have issues with how one interpre…
Google AdWords Enables Campaign Drafts & Experiments For Display Ads
In November 2015, Google beta tested what eventually went live in February known as campaign drafts and experiments for AdWords. It basically is a way to “propose and test changes to your Search Network and Search Network with Display Select campaigns…
Google Confirms They Are Rolling Out The New AdWords User Interface To Users
Last week we reported folks were seeing the new AdWords interface in the wild. Well it is not just a few advertisers seeing it, Google keeps on rolling it out to more and more advertisers. The shocker…
This Googlers Jokes About The HTTPS Ranking Signal
Roberto Bayardo, a research scientist at Google, who works specifically on computational advertising, joked on Google+ that his web site no longer ranks on the first page of Google for [bayardo].
He said shortly after that maybe he needs to go HTTPS t…
Moz Fires 28% Of Staff Including The Community Team To Realign With Search
Many of us have really good friends and colleagues at Moz. In fact, I’ve known Rand Fishkin since before there was a Moz/SEOMoz…
Google Trends Updates Design & Features Earlier This Month
Earlier this month both @johndefeo and @Honhaar posted on Twitter that Google Trends updated their design and features. Honestly, I barely use the tool, so I had to wait for Google to tell me what changed…
Bing Ads Upgraded URLs Now Supported
Bing Ads announced they now have added support for “upgraded URLs.” Upgraded URLs lets you separate the destination URLs from your tracking parameters…
Google Schedules Last Few Webmaster Hangouts Using Google Hangouts
As you all know, I am a big fan of the Google webmaster hangouts mostly done by John Mueller. We learn a lot of new tidbits from there and also start a bit of controversy after covering things he may or may not mean to say…
Google: Rel Canonical Not Supported For Images
Here is a quicky, just in case you didn’t know. Google doesn’t support the rel=canonical tag for redirecting images from one URL to another.
Not Provided Count Hits Over 96% Since Google’s HSTS Switch
Earlier this month, Google went HSTS with Google.com, which means it is hard to get to a non-HTTPS version of Google search…
Google AdWords Ad Preview Tool Lets You Share This Result
Google added a new feature to the Google AdWords ad preview tool that lets you share the result with your colleagues.
After you run a search in the tool, there is a new button at the top right that says “share this result…
Google Showing AMP Errors In Desktop Search Results To Site Owner
Jon Henshaw posted a screen shot of Google showing him and only him a message in the desktop search results that his pages have AMP implementation errors. He spotted the error when doing a search and noticed that in the snippet…
Google: MCC AdWords Accounts Not Safe From New Keyword Planner Restrictions
As you know, Google AdWords is restricting the keyword data found within the keyword planner tool for advertisers who have low ad spend. Some thought that MCC (my client center) accounts were immune from this restriction…
Google Local Pack Tests New Design
Sergey Alakov posted screen shots on Twitter of Google testing a new design for the local pack.
The most obvious change in the design is a big white space and line separator between the web site icon and the directions icon…
Google AdWords Adds Open In Report Editor Feature
Kim Clinkunbroomer shared a screen shot on Twitter of a small but really cool new feature added to the AdWords reports that lets you open a report in the AdWords Report Editor instead of just downloading the report or opening it in Google Sheets…
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United Airlines Employee May Have A Role In Matt Cutts Helping Webmasters With Google
The last company I would have thought been any type of influence on Matt Cutts wanting to spend time helping webmasters with their Google questions would have been United Airlines.
But in a Quora thread, Matt Cutts, who is now with the U.S…
Google To Support Schema.org Version 3.1
In the Google+ hangout from Friday morning at the 28:45 mark into the video, John Mueller said Google is indeed working on supporting the latest version of Schema.org…
Google Testing AMP For Web Pages In Live Results
As you know, Google said they will be expanding AMP beyond news stories but also into all types of pages. But they did not give a timeline…
Google AdWords Quality Scores Reports To Show Null Values
Google quietly announced on Google+ that starting September 12, 2016 the Google AdWords report may start showing null values in the quality score columns when the keywords are new or have insufficient impression or click data…
Google Keyword Planner Removes Valuable Data For Potential Advertisers
Remember last Tuesday we reported that Google Keyword Planner Showing Data Ranges For Advertisers Without Campaigns – in short, they were showing less traffic estimate data to some advertisers. I was hoping it was a bug, but it was not…