December 15th Google Search Algorithm Update Signals
Looks like on Thursday, December 15th there was a Google search algorithm shift. We have some chatter on social media and in the WebmasterWorld forums…
AMP Comes To Google Image Search
Google is now showing AMP results in Google Image Search. Will Barnes notified me of this on Twitter and I was able to replicate it…
Google To Sunset Google Earth API & Google Earth 4 On January 11, 2017
Google posted in the Google Maps Help forums that on January 11, 2017 they will be discontinuing the Google Earth API and also sunsetting Google Earth 4.
Google wrote, “in December 2014…
Bing Ads Expanded Text Ads Editing On Mobile
Bing Ads announced that with the new expanded text ads gaining in popularity, that advertisers can now edit them on mobile devices.
Bing said, “we’re excited to announce that with our new mobile app release…
Do Google AMP Rich Cards Have Drastically Lower CTR?
I’ve been covering Google AMP like crazy here because Google keeps escalating the importance of it. But I also covered at least twice how it appears the click through rate on AMP results are drastically lower than normal results…
Google: Nofollow Attribute May Help With Crawl Budgets For Large Sites
While we wait for Google to educate us more on how crawl budget works at Google, more and more questions and answers are popping up around the topic.
Google: The First Expedition To The South Pole Doodle
Today on the Google home page in many countries, no the US (although initially it was set to launch globally) is a special animated Google Doodle, aka special Google logo…
Google Image Search Now To Use Product Schema Markup
Aaron Bradley posted on Google+ that the product schema page has added that it can be used not just in the web results but also in Google image search results.
I checked the old and new page and he is indeed right…
Google Warns: Automated Queries On Google Is Against The Terms Of Service
Everyone knows that tools that scrap and do automated queries are against Google’s terms of service. In fact, Google has blocked tools in the past from doing them. But many many tools continue to do it…
Google AdWords Tests Capitalizing First Letter In Display URL?
Gordon Campbell posted images on Twitter of Google testing making the first letter of the display URL in the AdWords ad results capital. He said that in the AdWords backend, ad management area, the display URL is completely lowercase…
Google: We Do Take Action On Rich Snippet Spam
Google hosted a special hangout with John Mueller and a colleague from the Dublin office who works on structured data and rich snippets. During the hangout, at the 43:50 minute mark…
Google: Sitemaps Should Contain URLs Of Pages You Want Indexed, Not Variations
Google’s John Mueller said in a Google Webmaster Help thread that you should only include the URLs you want Google to index in your sitemap file, not the other variations. This is probably obvious to many of you, but nowadays I what I think is obvious,…
Google My Business Offering Expedited Verification Until Thursday
If you have a business that is based in the United States or Canada and it isn’t verified on Google My Business…
Google: There Is No Google Sandbox
Google’s Gary Illyes replied on Twitter to an SEO saying there is no Google Sandbox. The Google Sandbox concept dates back to 2004…
Gboard Finally Comes To Android As Google Keyboard
Google has finally brought the Gboard which came to iOS six-months ago, to Android devices. It is named Google Keyboard and should replace…
Google: Only Site Owner Can See If They Have A Penalty; Not Third-Party Tools
Google’s John Mueller said in a Google Webmaster Help thread that any of those third-party Google penalty checker tools are not valid. In fact…
Google Search Console Property Sets Now With More Reports
Back in May of this year, Google Search Console added a feature to combine properties into sets so that you can see a snapshot of your Search Analytics reports for all your canonical versions of your sites…
Google Now Lets Business Owners Control Their Menu Links In Local Results
Google has quietly announced on the features page that businesses can now “add your menu to a listing via the API, according to new menu guidelines for Google My Business.” Well, it seems it can be done also outside of the API…
Google On Measuring Speed: Page Speed Insights & Plain Old Response Time
Gary Illyes from Google was asked on Twitter how SEOs and webmasters should measure their page speed. The question was “when ranking pages on speed does google base it on factors such as those in page speed insights or pure response speed…