Google Carousel: Here Are The Best SEO Companies
Google recently began showing list carousels even for top lists and such…
Fun Video: Find Matt Cutts To Fix The Broken Links
As you may remember, Wix is running an SEO her contest where a new site that ranks for the term [seo hero] can win $50,000.
Recently, Wix put together a fun video where an SEO villain named Apocolinks has broken all the links in the world…
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Google Labels Sites As Not Mobile Friendly That Are Mobile Friendly
That issue where Google was labeling pages as not mobile friendly when they are is still maybe an issue…
45% Of Google’s Top Search Results Are HTTPS
Dr. Pete from Moz posted on Twitter that he projects that by June 2017, 50% of the top search results that come up in Google will be of sites over HTTPS, not HTTP…
Search Buzz Video Recap: Google Image Traffic, Mobile Friendly Bug, Emojis & SEO
This week in search, I come back to the February 7th Google algorithm update and show how big it was. Google said no comment on that update…
Google AdWords Displaying More Product Shopping Ads?
I don’t follow the user interface for Google AdWords shopping, product listing ads, too closely but Kurt Leitinger said Google is now showing more product ads in the search results page. He shared a screen shot that almost looks similar to what I see …
Google: Give SEOs 4-12 Months To See Positive Ranking Benefits
Yesterday I reported that Maile Ohye of Google posted a how to hire an SEO video…
Google: We Review Spam Reports Within Hours Or Days
We know Google humans review web spam reports and machines don’t do that…
Google Schema Support Coming For Jobs, Carousels & More
Aaron Bradly, one of the hawks of schema and markup, noticed Google showing early access to schema support for job listings, plus many others on it’s way. The page is at the pilot features section. Currently, I see links to carousels, data feeds…
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Google: Capitalizing Words In URL Doesn’t Help Convey Emotions
Believe it or not, we actually covered the topic of capital letters in URLs and how Google treats them before. But the question was asked again and John Mueller of Google answered it in a fun way…
Google: Read Your Content Out Loud, If It Sounds Strange, It Might Not Rank Well
Google’s Gary Illyes is still on the DYK tweet theme but this last one is a good one to highlight. Gary recommended that you try to reach the content on your web pages out loud. If it doesn’t read nicely and sounds strange…
Google Image Search Traffic Drops Outside The US
A WebmasterWorld thread has SEOs and webmasters upset about a recent drop in traffic from Google Image search. It is the same type of complaints when Google redesigned image search in 2013…
Google: Manipulating Browser Back Button Doesn’t Impact Search Rankings
Google’s John Mueller said in the recent webmaster hangout at the 11:55 mark that those who implement the method of disabling the browser back button will not benefit or be hurt in the Google search results. In short…
Google Video: How To Hire An SEO
Google has released a video named how to hire an SEO and Maile Ohye, a Googler part of the Google Search team for 10 or so years, is the face behind that video. The video itself goes into detail on how to hire an SEO…
Emojis Return To The Google Search Results Snippets
Back in 2015, Google promised to drop emojis from the search results and they did for the most part but something recently changed. Emojis are now showing up again in the search results snippets…
Ammon Johns, SEO Legend & Community Fixture, GoFundMe
For those who have been in the SEO industry and involved in the community for any period of time, they probably know the name Ammon Johns. He has been teaching and helping those who joined the SEO community since the 90s. In fact…
Google Featured Snippets Now Always With People Also Ask?
It appears that whenever a featured snippet comes up in the Google search results that it is now always followed by the people also ask feature. So you have a featured snippet at the top of the results and then right after it is this people also ask f…
Google Search Console Updates Crawl Status/Errors Report For Apps
Google has made a data update to the Google Search Console report specifically for mobile apps…
Google’s Gary Illyes Did You Know SEO Tweets
Over the past week or so, Gary Illyes from Google has been sharing some tips and what he is calling DYK, did you know, tweets about Google, SEO and webmaster topics…
Google: No Comment On The Google Search Ranking Update
As you know, we reported about the February 7th Google update and that it seems pretty big. So I asked Google for a comment and got a no comment from them on the update.