Google FAQs For HTTP To HTTPS Migration For News Publishers
In February, we covered the general FAQs for HTTP to HTTPS migrations but now Google’s Gary Illyes posted on the Google+ webmaster channel…
Google Releases AdWords Editor 11.5
Google typically doesn’t announce updates to the AdWords Editor but they did announced version 11.5 of the AdWords Editor. The big change is to support expanded text ads which started rolling out already…
Google: Singular & Plural Words Can Be Different Keywords
Here is the basic and obvious post of the day but hey, always good to go back to basics every now and then. One webmaster asked if Google may treat plural and singular words as different keywords and John Mueller of Google said yes, Google can…
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Is Stolen Content Outranking You? Tell Google About It.
If a scraper site, a site that steals your content and posts it almost identically on their own domain with no value add, outranks you, then that is something you might want to tell Google about…
Daily Search Forum Recap: July 27, 2016
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web.
Search Engine Roundtable Stories:
Google Update Brewing…
Google: Any 3xx Redirect Does Not Lose PageRank At All
Google’s Gary Illyes said on Twitter yesterday that any type of 3xx redirect, a 301, 302, or any type, of 3xx redirect…
Google Again Says Penguin Will Be Rolling Out But Won’t Say When
Yesterday morning, in a Google Hangout on Google+, John Mueller again addressed a question about if/when will Google roll out Penguin 4.0. As you know…
Google: We Won’t Penalize For Emojis Or Symbols In Your Snippets
Yesterday, we reported how we saw emojis back in the Google results and as a coincidence, someone asked John Mueller in the Google Hangout on Google+ yesterday if Google will penalize sites that do that. John Mueller said no, they will not…
Google AdWords Expanded Text Ads & Device Bid Adjustments Rolling Out
Google announced on the AdWords blog that they are now rolling out expanded text ads, something they began testing in April. They are also rolling out device bid adjustments…
Google Update Brewing? Some Early Chatter & Signals.
Over the past few days, I’ve been seeing webmasters complain and cautiously rejoice about shifts in their traffic from Google and some of the search results fluctuations…
Google Drops Donald Trump Out Of Presidential Candidates Search Box
If you search in Google for [presidential candidates] you will not find Donald Trump listed. Instead you will find Democrats Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders…
Google Inside Street View & Business Photos Image Viewer Update
Google has updated the design for how you view business photos and inside street view imagery.
Sergey Alakov first spotted this and posted about it on Twitter. The new design seems cleaner and fresher…
Google AdWords To Retire “Converted Clicks” On September 21st
Google announced that on September 21, 2016 they will be retiring the “converted clicks” metrics and replacing it with the “conversion” metrics.
Google AdWords New Machine Learning Based Smart Bidding
Everything at Google is going the way of machine learning, not just the search results…
Google Still Showing Emojis In Search Results
So I thought Google killed off emojis showing in the search results. I mean…
Google AdWords One Page Ad Approvals Sheet
Google released a single page document for understanding ad approvals. The document can be downloaded over here and it contains information about getting your AdWords ads approved…
Daily Search Forum Recap: July 25, 2016
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web.
Search Engine Roundtable Stories:
Verizon To Acquired Yahoo For $4…
Verizon To Acquire Yahoo For $4.83 Billion – End Of An Era
This comes as no surprise, as you know, Yahoo was looking to sell and over the weekend…
Google: First Build High Quality Content Then Worry About Web Spam Issues
So you have a spam issue with your web site and your web site doesn’t rank well in Google. What do you do first…
Google On “Great Post” Comments; Should You Remove Them Or Keep Them?
John Mueller replied on Twitter to someone asking if they should remove comments that pretty much praise the blog post but don’t add any more value. Such as “great post” types of comments or as the user put it “This article really inspired me…
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