Google Search Console Alerts For Recommended WordPress & Joomla Updates Available
Yesterday, Google Search Console sent batches of alerts and notifications to webmasters operating popular CMS (content management systems) such as Wordpress and Joomla to update their version of their CMS if they were out of date…
Google Maps App Adds One Tap For Real Time Traffic & Destinations
Google updated the Android version of the Google Maps app to add one tap to your favorite destinations within the app. The cool part…
Google Mobile First Index Seen In The Wild?
Last November, Google said they are experimenting with the mobile-first index but recently told us it isn’t launching any time soon.
But now some are seeing the mobile-first index in the Google desktop search results…
Google Says AdsBot Not Used For Web Search URL Discovery
Google has many flavors of crawlers from web search to AdWords to AdSense and app crawlers and more. But which are used for URL discovery to be used in web search…
Google Won’t Tell Webmasters Which Links They Do Not Count For Spam Reasons
As many of your know, the Google link report in Google Search Console, the links to your site report, shows all (most) of the links to your site. It includes followed, unfollowed and discredited links, etc…
Google: URL/Site Moves Are A Pain
No one likes the process of moving; be it moving your home or your web site to a new location. They may like the end result, the…
Moz Skeptical Over Accuracy Of Google Search Console Reports
Russ Jones from Moz wrote a detailed piece named Google Search Console Reliability: Webmaster Tools on Trial. In short, he said SEOs and webmasters should “remain skeptical of this data…
Matt Cutts Hearts His Google+ Followers
A couple weeks after Matt Cutts announced his official resignation from Google he posted potentially a final post on Google+ – it was <3.
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February 2017 Google Webmaster Report
It was not a slow month when it comes to Google webmaster topics. We saw an unconfirmed Google algorithm update that hit spammers for the most part. We saw Google confirm a Japanese algorithm update but we had a couple smaller updates as well…
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Google Local Knowledge Panel Tests Showing Phone Number
Sergey Alakov who watches the local space almost like no other, spotted a small but interesting test where Google is doubling up the phone information in the local knowledge panel…
Google Japan Algorithm Update Lowers Ranking Of Low Quality Sites
We cover many Google algorithm updates here but not all the international ones. A big one hit Google Japan this morning, specifically aimed at targeting low quality web sites and lowering their rankings in the Google Japanese search results…
Google Local Panel Business Owner Promotions Box
Mike Blumenthal posted on Twitter that Google is showing a new feature for at least one business in their local knowledge panel box…
New Google Algorithm Update Targets PBNs & Links, Penguin Tweak?
For the past 48 hours, I’ve been hearing some rumbles around Google algorithm updates and sites dropping. But the chatter was not that drastic…
Google Adds Search Filters Via Carousels For Some Queries
Google has added a new feature that lets searchers filter down the search results by category using a carousel slider. Chris Haines informed me about it on Twitter yesterday…
Search Buzz Video Recap: Google Algorithm Update Hits, Mobile-Friendly Test API, AMP, Local & AdWords
This week was fairly slow until today, when we reported on an algorithm update that seems to have hit links. I go into if it was Penguin or some…
Google Adds Preview Button To Structured Data Testing Tool For Some Types
Google has quietly added a “preview” button to the Google Structured Data Testing Tool for some types of structured data – not all. For example, if you bring up the results for a video post here, such as this, Google will show two types, a NewsArticle…
Google My Business Shows Adds Temporary Closed Status
Mike Blumenthal spotted a new status for businesses in the Google Local panel. Instead of open or closed permanently, there is now a “temporary closed” status for businesses that need to close for some time…
Googlers Express Dislike Towards Read More Button To Expand Content
Google’s John Mueller and Gary Illyes, spokespeople for Google, have expressed their extreme dislike and “hate” towards websites that use “read more” buttons to expand the content to show more. John said “why would a site want to hide their content……
Google Promoting The New AdWords Interface To More Advertisers
In March of last year, Google announced the new AdWords interface and then in August we saw it live and shortly after they began selectively rolling it out to some users to test.
Well…
Google To Host Live Q&A On Hacked & Compromised Site Help Today At 11am ET
Google just updated their hacked site resource guide and now, today at 11am ET…