Google AdWords Medical Ads Replaces Ad URL With Web Site Type
Glenn Gabe shared a screen shot on Twitter yesterday showing how for a query on [migraine symptoms] one of the ads listed had the green URL replaced with the type of web site it is…
Google: Panda Still Rolls Out Over Months After Refreshing Scores
Gary Illyes from Google said at SMX Advanced that although Google’s Panda algorithm is continuously updating, it still takes months and months to roll out after grabbing the new Panda scores…
Google’s Gary Illyes: Implement AMP & Pay Attention To Assistants & Bots
In the closing remarks from Google’s Gary Illyes at SMX Advanced last night, which you can watch on Facebook…
Google: We’re Still Working On Mobile Only Index
More news out of the SMX Advanced AMA with Google with Gary Illyes, which you can watch on Facebook, was that Gary said they are still working on the mobile only index.
Previously…
AdWords Ads Coming To Google Local Pack
At SMX Advanced yesterday, Google announced that ads are coming to the local pack. That means one of the three local results in the local pack will be an ad and local SEOs need to make sure their clients show up in the top two local results…
Hack Notifications Come To Google Analytics Alerts
Google announced that Google Analytics is now getting some of the messaging features from Google Search Console. This one is about hacked site alerts…
Google: Structured Markup Not Used For Featured Snippets
Back in early November, Google’s John Mueller implied you may be more likely to get featured snippets if you use structured markup on those pages. Then shortly after, Gary Illyes from Google said Google does not use structured markup for featured snip…
Google Search Analytics Get Rich Result Filter In Search Console
Google has quietly added a “rich result” filter in the Google Search Console’s Search Analytics report…
Google Launches AMP Validator Web Tool
Google has announced that they launched not just a chrome extension to validate your AMP pages are correct but also a web validator version…
Google Featured Snippet Says Don’t Vote For Donald Trump
If you search for [should i vote for donald trump] on Google, Google will tell you not to vote for Donald Trump. Well, at least the featured snippet says that…
Google’s John Mueller Replies More Reports Of Zombie Traffic
We’ve been covering the phenomenon of Google Zombie traffic since October of last year and covered it several more times in the past.
So John Mueller from Google asked on Twitter for specific examples and then when he got some…
See The New Google Search Console Mobile Usability Report
Conrad O’Connell @conradoconnell reported on a new Google Search Console Mobile Usability report user interface. It looks a lot like the new mobile testing tool interface which they released a few weeks ago…
Google Expands Your Health Search Queries To Related Queries
Google announced yesterday that they are expanding the search queries for health or medical symptoms to show you related queries…
Matt Cutts Temporarily Joining The Pentagon’s Defense Digital Service
Matt Cutts, who joined Google in January 2000 and lead Google’s web spam efforts, announced on his blog he is leaving Google for a short period of time to help the US Digital Service department…
Google AdWords Click To Text Ads
As I reported at Search Engine Land late Friday, Google is testing a new AdWords ad extension that allows searchers to text information to the advertiser through the AdWords ad…
Google: Links Found In Google Search Console Are In Google’s Index
In Google Hangout on Google+ from last week, Google’s John Mueller said at the 54:15 mark that links found within the link tool in the Google Search Console are within Google’s index.
Simon in the hangout asked about it because he believed that ofte…
Watch The Google AMP Hangout & Give Feedback
We’ve written about Google AMP a lot here and I wanted to share a recent hangout from last week with Googlers such as John Mueller, Emeric…
Google PSA: Not In Google’s Cache? It Can Still Rank.
This is an obvious point for most of you, but Google’s John Mueller explained on Twitter that even if a page isn’t in Google’s cache, it can still rank just as well as other pages.
He wrote, “pages can rank without an accessible cache…
Father’s Day Logos & Themes From Google, Bing & Dogpile
Today is Father’s day and the day is now over for me at 7:30pm ET, I am exhausted, I have a lot of young kids. :)
In any event, the search engines, at least some of them, have special logos and themes for the day. Google and Bing and even Dogpile have…