Google Keyword Planner Showing Data Ranges For Advertisers Without Campaigns, A Bug?
The Google AdWords community is scratching their heads this morning after trying to use the Google AdWords Keyword Planner and to find that it is only giving back data ranges when there is no campaign set up…
SEO Tip: Don’t Ask Google For Advice When You’re Breaking The Webmaster Guidelines
I cover one of these every several months, where a webmaster is knowingly breaking the Google Webmaster guidelines and then seeks help from a Googler…
Google Search Console: Preview AMP Presence Message
As we reported last week, Google began sending notifications via Google Search Console to non-news sites about getting their pages ready for AMP. Now, for sites that are ready for AMP but are not news…
Google Search Analytics Data Bug Extended: July 29th – August 5th
On August 1st, we reported there was a bug with the Google Search Console data in the Search Analytics report. In short, Search Analytics would mislabel the mobile and tablet search traffic as being desktop traffic between the dates of July 29th and A…
Google: Links From Adult Sites Are Not Spammy Or Problematic
John Mueller from Google said on Twitter that links from adult or pornographic sites are not automatically considered spam by Google. In fact, he said they are not always even problematic for your site’s rankings…
Google Local Pack Ad Seen For The First Time
Since June, we’ve been waiting to see the first in the wild example of a Google Local pack ad. Well, Ryan Scollon posted on on Twitter (hat tip @JoyanneHawkins)…
Google My Business Updates User Interface For Editing Business Details
Google My Business, the place businesses can go to update their business details as they are listed on Google Maps and Google Local, has been updated…
Google: 30x Redirect Passes PageRank But 301s Help With Canonicalization
A couple weeks ago we reported that Google said that all flavors of 30x redirects pass PageRank fully, there is no dilution he said. So of course, there was some debate on that but it seems like the way Gary Illyes put it…
Google Rio Olympics Logo: The Doodle Fruit Games
Google announced for the Olympics this year round, they are doing the Doodle Fruit Games…
Search Buzz Video Recap: Google Algorithm, AMP Expands, SEO & Rio Olympics
This week in search we covered a possible Google algorithm update at the top of this week. I posted the monthly Google webmaster report. Google said they are going to expand AMP pages into the core mobile results…
Google Sending Search Console Notifications To Create AMP Pages
As you know, AMP is expanding to core mobile search results in Google. And now…
Google: We Don’t Have Different GoogleBot User Agents For Crawling JavaScript
John Mueller of Google said on Twitter that the GoogleBot user agents do not change based on the type of content they are crawling on the web, specifically…
Google Search Adds Restaurant Reviews From Experts
Google announced yesterday that now when you do a search for restaurants, Google will show you “reviews from top critics and best-of lists from reputable publishers.”
So if you search for [chinese restaurant] or [italian restaurant]…
Google Does Webmaster Outreach & 20% Of Home Pages Have No Clear Purpose
We know Google does webmaster outreach…
Here Is How To Edit Your Introduction Field In Google+
Yesterday I reported how Google Maps dropped the ability to edit your introductory or description business field. It wasn’t showing on your Google Maps listing anyway, and it is hard to find on your Google+ business listing…
Google: How They Treat Subdomains vs Subdirectories In 2016
The SEO debate on using subdomains and subdirectories is one of those things that will never die. But Google’s John Mueller said in a Google Hangout on Google+ the other day that it really doesn’t matter that much…
August 2016 Google Webmaster Report
In this month’s Google Webmaster report we had a lot of unconfirmed updates, specifically signs of an update around July 25th and then maybe a roll back on August 2nd…
Google Analytics Public Demo Account Available To All
Google announced yesterday that they are giving anyone and everyone with a Google account access to a public demo Google Analytics account with solid and useful data, set up correctly…
Google Maps Removes Introduction / Description Field
Google quietly posted in the changelog yesterday that they have removed the ability to edit and see the business listings introduction or description field.
Google said:
The Introduction/Description field is no longer editable in Google My Business…
Google Downgrades AMP Error Report For Structured Data Issues From Errors To Notes
Google posted on the data anomalies page for the Google Search Console that they have downgraded the structured data errors from errors to information notes…