Google Basics: One URL = One Piece Of Content
I often speak to a lot of SEO newbies when I do talks or travel or even via emails and other communications. I find myself telling people in this space the same thing over and over again. Each page, each URL…
July 2016 Google Webmaster Report
This past month was actually fairly slow with Google Webmaster big news. The biggest topics we had were two possible Google updates to their ranking algorithm that went unconfirmed…
Google Doodle For Juno Probe Reaching Jupiter After Five Years
Today on Google.com globally is a special Google logo, aka Doodle, for the Juno probe finally reaching planet Jupiter after traveling for about five years and five-hundred million miles…
Google Testing A New Home Service Ad Without Location?
Pete Meyers posted on Twitter a screen shot of what looks like a new format for the Google home service ads…
Google: Changing Sitemap URL Location Has No Impact On Ranking Or Crawling
Google’s John Mueller said in a Google Hangout on Google+ last Friday that changing the URL or location of your XML sitemap has no impact on your crawling or indexing of your web site…
Google AdSense Bug Cancels Massive Number Of Accounts
Over the past 24 hours or so, Google seems to have cancelled a massive number of Google AdSense accounts. Emails are going to these publishers that read “Your Google AdSense account was recently cancelled.”
Of course, this is causing major panic in t…
Fourth of July Celebrations From Google, Bing & Dogpile
Today is the Fourth of July, America’s Independence Day, birthday, and to celebrate, the search engines have special logos and themes.
Google has a Doodle, which you can see above which has a true American theme to it…
Google Search Console App Crawl Report May Show Drop In Index Count & Errors
Google quietly posted on the data anomalies page that there was a “bookkeeping error” on Google’s end that may result in a drop in the number of pages indexed and number of indexing errors for your apps…
Search Buzz Video Recap: Google Algorithm Update, RankBrain, Authorship, Keyword Planner & AMP
This week in search, I covered a potential Google quality search algorithm update that happened earlier this week. RankBrain is cited as being used in virtually all searches now and impacts the search results âa lot…
Google: With Authorship Gone; It Doesn’t Mean We Know Who Wrote An Article
Last week, we reported that it is safe to remove authorship markup from you site, citing Gary Illyes who said Google now completely doesn’t use authorship anymore.
Google AdWords Promises To Make Dynamic Search Ads More Relevant
Google announced quietly on Google+ that they are going to be making the Dynamic Search Ads feature in AdWords more relevant…
Google My Business New Navigation Experience
Google has added a new view to edit your business information in the Google My Business login area. Google calls this the “navigation experience” and has updated their change log to say “edit your business information using the new Google My Business …
eBay Tries AMP: Google Encourages All Web Sites To Try Out AMP
Yesterday, eBay announced they are experimenting with AMP pages for their massive auction e-commerce site. They had many hiccups but overall…
Official: Google India English & Hindi Flip View Now Live
After testing a feature in Google India to tab between English and Hindi results for 6 months now, Google has announced it is now officially live for mobile users in India.
In short…
25,000 Google Engineers Commit 16,000 Code Changes Per Day
Google’s John Mueller shared on Twitter a story at ACM named Why Google Stores Billions of Lines of Code in a Single Repository.
It says that of the Google employees, 25,000 Google software developers have access to some or all of the Google code repo…
Google Tests Larger Font Sizes In Search Results & Expands Card Style Test
Google doesn’t stop testing different interfaces, in fact…
Google: Product Pricing Is Not A Ranking Factor
Google does not look at how expensive or cheap your products are for organic search rankings. They don’t rank better deals higher in the search results. They don’t downgrade the rankings of rip offs either…
Google Maps Testing Video Verification For Businesses
As you know, you need to verify your business on Google My Business to be listed as a verified business in Google Maps results and the local pack nicely. You can do that via snail mail verification, phone verification, Google Search Console verificat…
Google AdWords Won’t Let You Upload Flash Ads Starting Tomorrow
As you already know, Google is removing the ability for advertisers to use Flash format for their ads in the Google Display Network and DoubleClick Digital Marketing. Well, starting tomorrow…
Google Keyword Planner Drop Exact Match: Keyword Volumes Increase
There are several advertisers complaining that the Google Keyword Planner is showing higher search volumes now than in the past. It seems Google has dropped the ability to see exact match search volume and now lumps all variations in the same search v…