Video: Google’s Webmaster Hangout On AMPs & PWAs
Are you considering going AMP? Are you confused about PWAs and if you should consider that route…
First Day Of Winter Logos From Google, Dogpile, Bing & Others
Today is the first day of Winter and with it being under 20 degrees here in New York, it does feel like winter. Google, Bing, Dogpile and others have special logos and themes up on their site for the first day of winter.
Above is the animated Google …
Google Search Console AMP Reports Differentiate Between Critical & Non-Critical Issues
Google launched a small update for the AMP reports in the Google Search Console yesterday where they now differentiate between critical and non-critical issues with your AMP pages. Critical issues would “prevent your page from being served with AMP-re…
Google Changes Search Console Report “Update” Line To “Note”
I cannot tell you how many times people emailed me or pinged me on social when they saw the Google Search Console reports say “update” in them. They thought Google confirmed some sort of algorithmic update and the update line in the reports was proof….
Google Actively Working On Adding A Year Of Search Analytics Data To Search Console
Since 2013 we’ve been hearing Google may extend the search analytics query data from 90 days of data to a full year…
Google Updated Their Algorithm For “Did The Holocaust Happen?” Controversy?
Over the past week or so, Google has been getting some heat around various anti semitic and racist sites ranking well in their search results. One of those queries getting a ton of attention is [did the holocaust happen]…
Google Shopping Display URL Emoji Spotted
Search marketers try anything to get their search listings to stand out and one put an emoji Santa Claus in their Google Shopping display URL to stand out…
Google: We Will Treat Religious Interstitials As Legal Or Policy Interstitials
As you all know, on January 10, 2017 the Google mobile intrusive interstitial penalty is coming and as we explained…
Is Google AdWords Testing Underlining Display URLs?
Ronnie Jones shared a screen shot on Twitter of the Google search results, specifically the AdWords listings…
Google: There Is No One Recipe For Search Rankings Success
Google’s John Mueller spelled it out in a single post on Twitter that there is no one single recipe for success for when it comes to ranking in Google search…
Google Calls Out Sites With Taboola Or Outbrain Links
Nathan Johns, a relatively quiet search quality analysts in the Google Search department posted on Twitter that sites writing about fake news should “think twice” about placing taboola or outbrain links on your site…
Google Search Console AMP & Rich Card Reports May Have Updated
The data anomalies page where Google documents the changes to Google Search Console says that last week, due to infrastructure updates with the tool, both the AMP and Rich Cards reports may have different data in the reports…
Google Local Three Pack Filters
Google has been testing filters in the for some time now and now it seems to be available on the desktop search interface.
Sergey Alakov posted about it on Twitter last week…
Google Gives HTTP/2 GoogleBot Clearance
November 2015, Google said they would let us know if it is safe to go HTTP/2 with your web servers by the end of 2015. That never really came but they did discuss how there is no HTTP/2 SEO advantage later on this year…
Google: Wikipedia Is Ranked By Google Like Any Other Web Site
Gary Illyes from Google said on Twitter that Google ranks Wikipedia just like it ranks any other web site on the internet. In short…
Bing Webmaster Tools New Look
Bing has updated the Bing Webmaster Tools design as of a couple days ago. The new design isn’t that much different from the old one but the icons, layouts and some of the report design have all been updated…
Google Maps Promoted Places Gives Branded Pins & More To Brands
Google announced Promoted Places in Google Maps…
Google Reviews Markup Guidelines Now Disallows Profanity & Vulgar Language
Google’s review markup guidelines now prohibit including profanity and/or vulgar language in your reviews…
Google My Business Insights For Google Maps Photos
Google My Business is now showing a new metric in the insights section of your Google My Business listings for your photos. Google will show you how many views your photos are getting compared to other businesses like yours…
Search Buzz Video Recap: Google Algorithm Update, AMP Images, Schema Reviews & SEO
This week, besides for me feeling pretty lousy, was busy. We had a potential Google update yesterday. Google pushed AMP results into the image search results. Google…